Albrecht Surkau

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Albrecht Surkau (* 1941 in Berlin ; † March 9, 2018 in Munich ) was a German director . He is best known for his over 130 radio play productions .

Life

Surkau studied theater studies at the University of Leipzig and came to the radio of the GDR in 1968 , where he directed mainly international plays and experimented with early stereo and artificial head recordings. He also worked as a theater director.

In 1984 the GDR radio fired him and his wife for political reasons. A year later, she was expatriated from the GDR. After moving to West Germany, Albrecht Surkau worked as a freelance radio play director for the ARD broadcasters . His staging of Tacheles with Dr. Klaun (text: Rainer Puchert ) was voted radio play of the month in July 1997 . His last directorial work for radio was the detective radio play Mordio XY , which was produced in 1999 by DeutschlandRadio Berlin (now Deutschlandfunk Kultur ).

Works

Features
Radio plays

literature

  • Frank Schröder: The Albrecht Surkau case . DS Culture 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. HörDat
  2. ^ Mordio XY . First broadcast on May 17, 1999 (DeutschlandRadio Berlin)
  3. Analysis of the feature about Angela Davis in: Patrick Conley: Der Parteiliche Journalist. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-050-9 . Pp. 188-193.