Alexander Shoemaker
Alexander Schuhmacher (* 1965 in Heidelberg ) is a freelance radio play author and director in Berlin.
He studied politics and history in Stuttgart . Before he became a radio play director, he worked as an assistant director at Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) with Heinz von Cramer .
His first radio play of his own pen was homage to John Coltrane (SDR 1994). Since then, Alexander Schuhmacher has received numerous prizes for his radio plays and his directorial work , including the Civis Prize in 2003 , the Silver World Medal of the New York Festival in 2004, the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2005 , several awards for radio play of the month and in 2008 for the audio book of the Year.
The first audio book publication of one of his radio play adaptations ( The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ) was awarded the Golden CD in 2005 and the Platinum CD in 2009 for over 250,000 copies sold.
Radio plays
- 1997: Brian Moore : Chase . Translated from English by Bernhard Robben; Editing and direction, production: SWR .
- 2009: Oliver Bukowski : In Grund und Boden - Director (radio play - SWR)
- 2010: Hans Henny Jahnn : Nacht aus Blei - adaptation and direction ( DKultur )
- 2013: Oliver Bukowski : Primtime (DKultur)
- 2013: Renate Görgen : The Limping Dog ( NDR )
- 2013: Jakob Arjouni : Brother Kemal - adaptation and direction (NDR)
- 2013: Joy Markert : Bello e impossibile or Die Dohmsche Verführung (DKultur)
- 2013: Oliver Bukowski: Primetime (DKultur)
- 2014: Oliver Bukowski: Snaps (DKultur)
- 2014: Andra Joeckle : The tango animal or friction generates heat (DKultur)
- 2014: Joy Markert : The Mendelssohn Crack (DKultur)
- 2015: Daniel Guthmann / Stepan Gantrlyan : "And my heart burns for days". The Armenian poet Yeghische Tscharenz (NDR / SWR )
- 2015: Agnieszka Lessmann : Monologue of an ugly woman (SWR)
- 2016: Heiko Daniels: Stylites - 37 years / 18 meters. A hagiophony ( HR )
Web links
- Official website
- Alexander Schuhmacher in the Rowohlt media agency (biography and list of his radio plays)
- Agnieszka Lessmann : Green Border (for the first broadcast of the radio play on Deutschlandfunk, from February 8, 2014)
- Behind the scenes of "Bischoff gegen BRD" ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (NDR picture series for the production of the radio play, February 19, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ WDR5 Krimi am Saturday: Hetzjagd ( Memento from September 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shoemaker, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio play author and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |