Andreas Ammer

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Andreas Ammer (born March 23, 1960 in Munich ) is a German writer , television producer and radio play maker .

Life

Andreas Ammer was born to Albert Ammer (1916–1991) and Jutta-Regina Ammer , née Lau (1931–2019). Albert Ammer was a film cameraman , Jutta-Regina Ammer a photographer . Andreas Ammer studied German, philosophy and history of natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he did his doctorate on the subject of horror graphics: The writing of fear and the horrors of writing as the micromechanics of meaning in the classical period of German literature . First working as a lecturer at the University of Munich, he then became a freelance writer, director and television journalist. Since 2003 he has been responsible for the realization and design of the ARD literature show hot off the press .

Ammer has become known on the one hand as a documentary filmmaker and cultural journalist, but above all through his radio play and theater productions. As a designer of TV programs, he began his career as an employee of Alexander Kluge in the legendary "Hour of the Filmmakers". His collaborations with musicians are famous. He has worked with FM Einheit from Einstürzende Neubauten and Ulrike Haage from Rainbirds , among others . His first radio play "Orbis Auditus" was voted "Radio Play of the Year" in 1990. In 1993, Andreas Ammer directed the radio play Radio Inferno for Bayerischer Rundfunk based on Dante's Divine Comedy . At that time, he was one of a number of authors and directors who fundamentally changed the radio play by incorporating pop elements and live performances. (“Apocalypse live”, “Frost”, “Marx Engels Works”). Further stage works followed: At the Bonn Opera, Ammer realized the opera Alzheimer 2000 / Toter Trakt about Ulrike Meinhof and the RAF with FM Einheit . For WDR , Andreas Ammer and Console (Martin Gretschmann) produced the documentary / musical radio play Spaceman '85 in which the sound material of a space flight from 1985 was used. In these recordings, the German science astronaut Reinhard Furrer describes his personal thoughts before and during his stay in space. Most of these radio plays were not only broadcast on the radio, but mostly also performed live on tours and distributed as CDs. The production "Apocalypse live" was invited to the 1995 Salzburg Festival.

Between 2003 and 2006 Ammer realized productions for the Bavarian State Opera together with cellist Sebastian Hess such as Unser Oskar (about Oskar Maria Graf ), Heimspiel (a language opera for Karl Valentin and a football stadium) and Dido & Aeneas - the baroque opera stripped of its lovers ( after Henry Purcell ). In 2009 he realized the mammoth project "13", a radio play in 13 episodes of 13 minutes each, with Console based on a manuscript by crime novelist Heinrich Steinfest .

For Apocalypse Live , Ammer was awarded the renowned war blind radio play award in 1995. In 2001 he received it again for Crashing Airplanes, which is based on original recordings of black boxes from crashing planes. This makes him the only author to have received this award twice. As in this piece, he does not primarily work with his own texts, but with found, historical original sounds. This is also the case in the "Tonträgeroper" " German Warriors ", a trilogy that was composed from sounds from the 1st and 2nd World War, as well as from the German RAF terrorism and only 20 years after the CD was released for the first time in 2017 in the House of Cultures the Welt Berlin was performed live. The work " You speak with the Stasi " (with FM unit), which consists of original tapes and interrogation recordings from the GDR Stasi authorities, also dates from the same year .

Ammer is the only director who has received the highest awards on radio and television (German TV Prize 2011 as "Special Achievement Information") at the same time.

In 2017 he realized with Andreas Gerth and Martin Gretschmann (alias Acid Pauli) the internet project "Infinite Game", which became known as the "biggest radio play in the world". It consists of an almost 80-hour reading of the novel "Unendlicher Spass" by the American author David Foster Wallace, in which each of the almost 1,400 pages of the novel was read in by a different speaker via the Internet, the readings then by an analog computer that "Golden Machine", were set to music. The final result, which was completed after a year, can still be accessed via the network at any time.

Also in 2017, Andreas Ammer, together with FM Einheit, reconstructed Arsenij Avraamov's experimental noise opera "Symphony of the Sirens" from 1923 at the Philharmonie in Brno with over 200 participants in a live performance .

Ammer lives in Berg (Starnberger See) , where he is co-founder of a free voter association "QUH (across - independent - connected to home)".

Radio plays (selection)

1990-1999

  • 1990: Orbis Auditus - Das Lautlexikon together with Carl-Ludwig Reichert , realization: the authors, production: BR . Awarded radio play of the year .
  • 1991: Kaiser Wilhelm Overdrive , director: the author, composition: FM Einheit . With Detlef Kügow, Lars Kurz, Production: BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 1992: Die Benjamin Loops , director: the author, composition: Roman Bunka , production: BR.
  • 1993: Radio Inferno together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: BR. Awarded the Prix Futura, Morishige Award, Gold Medal at the New York Festivals in the "Best Drama Special" category.
  • 1994: Apocalypse Live (with FM Einheit and Ulrike Haage ) - live radio play. Production: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel-Marstall / BR. Guest performances and a. at the Salzburg Festival. Awarded the 1995 War Blind Radio Play Prize ; CD at Rough Trade.
  • 1995: Deutsche Krieger - Tonträgeroper together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: BR. Video & CD at Rough Trade.
  • 1997: Odysseus 7 - Radio Space Opera together with FM Einheit and Ulrike Haage, director: the authors, production: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel-Marstall / BR / HR / WDR. Live radio play, CD from Rough Trade. Nominated as a German entry for the Prix ​​Futura Berlin .
  • 1998: Loopspool together with Martin Gretschmann , alias Console, director: the authors, production: BR radio play and media art ; CD at code.
  • 1998: Frost - Robert F. Scotts Tod im Eis together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, commissioned production for WDR / funded by the Filmstiftung NRW 1998. Live radio play and stage production. Oberhausen theater; CD, various guest performances: Dresden Schlosstheater, Frankfurt TaT.
  • 1999: 7 Dances of the holy ghost together with Ulrike Haage, director: the authors, production: BR. CD at sans soleil. Nominated as a German entry for the Prix ​​Italia 1999.
  • 1999: Bugs & Beats & Beasts - Musica Entomologica, Natural Techno together with Console , Production: BR. CD at code / Hausmusik. Radio Play of the Month October 1999; Silver Medal at the New York Festivals 2000.
  • 1999: IS&DN Interleaved Songs and Dancefloor Narration together with Martin Gretschmann, director: the authors, production: WDR. First performance Pop-Komm 1999. CD at code 2002.
  • 1999: Callanetics - Code together with Robert Lippok and Console. Direction: the authors, production: BR / HR / DLR / SWR. Live from the audio lounge of the intermedium 1 festival at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin

2000-2009

  • 2000: The Official Olympic Bootleg together with Martin Gretschmann, director: the authors, production: WDR. Funded by the Filmstiftung NRW. Premiere Wuppertal, guest performances. CD at code / Hausmusik.
  • 2001: Home and Technology - The Heidegger Bootleg together with Console. Directed by the authors. Production: BR. Live at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. CD at intermedium 2001. Guest performance at the ZKM / Karlsruhe.
  • 2001: Marx Engels works together with FM Einheit and Sebastian Hess , director: the authors, production: BR / Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel-Marstall / Steirischer Herbst Graz / Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
  • 2001: Crashing Airplanes (Fasten your seat belts) together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: EBU / WDR / DLR. CD at 451 / indigo; awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize 2002; 1st place in the HR audio book best list June 2002.
  • 2002: Alzheimer 2000 / Toter Trakt together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: WDR / RB / Oper Bonn.
  • 2002: On The Tracks together with Console, director: the authors, production: WDR. CD at code; awarded the 1st ARD Online Award 2003.
  • 2003: Sweet Surrender - Still on the Tracks together with Console, Director: the authors, Production: WDR. CD at code.
  • 2003: Our Oskar - a language opera for Oskar Maria Graf together with Sebastian Hess, director: the authors, production: BR / Bayerische Staatsoper Live from the Cuvilliés-Theater in Munich. CD edition: intermedium records.
  • 2004: Heimspiel - voice opera for Karl Valentin and a football stadium together with Sebastian Hess, director: the authors, production: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Bayerische Staatsoper.
  • 2004: Lost & Found: Das Paradies - Oratorio after John Milton's ' Paradise Lost " together with FM Einheit. Direction: the authors, With Anita Lane, Alexander Hacke , Günter Rüger, James Blood Ulmer. Production: BR / intermedium. As a podcast / Download from the BR radio play Pool.
  • 2004: Friedrich Miles von Schiller Davis together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: SWR.
  • 2005: Spaceman '85 live - space documentary music feat. Reinhard Furrer together with Console and Axel Fischer. WDR / RB. CD at code. Awarded as radio play of the month April 2005, nominated as a German contribution for the Prix ​​Italia . First Germany-wide tour of a radio play Nov. 2005 / Feb. 2007 (premiere in Cologne / WDR November 19; guest performances in Berlin, Oberhausen, Frankfurt, Munich, Leipzig, among others).
  • 2007: Ownership of the curriculum vitae - everything in the work of Alexander Kluge , director: the author, production: BR. CD at intermedium records.
  • 2008: On the road ... to Mendocino together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: WDR.
  • 2008: See you Istanbul, my eyes closed - Field Recordings Istanbul together with Saam Schlamminger , director: the authors, production: BR. CD at intermedium records. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool. CD edition from Intermedium records.
  • 2009: Have You Ever Heard Of Wilhelm Reich ? together with Console / Die Bairische Geisha. With Stefan Kastner, Marcus Calvin, Judith Huber, Eva Löbau . Director: the authors, production: BR (WP ZKM September 26, 2009). CD edition: intermedium records, ISBN 978-3-939444-70-1 . As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool. Film for the radio play
  • 2009: Heinrich Steinfest : 13 - radio play in 13 parts of 13 minutes each, realization: Andreas Ammer together with Console, production: WDR.

From 2010

  • 2010: Die Vögel ... based on Oskar Sala together with Console, director: the authors, production: WDR / Deutsches Museum München (premiere July 16, 2010 Deutsches Museum München), CD / DXD at code. Radio play of the month July.
  • 2011: LiMo on Tape - Modernism to take away together with FM Einheit, Direction: the authors, Production: SWR / Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach
  • 2012: Schliersee together with Gerhard Polt , composition: Console, Nu with Landlergschwister and Kofelgschroa, director: Andreas Ammer. Production: BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 2012: Neuschwabenland - Symphonie together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: WDR.
  • 2013: GOD . Composition: Console / Nu / Karl Ivar Refseth . Director: Andreas Ammer, with Katharina Franck , Andreas Ammer, Carl-Ludwig Reichert. Production: BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 2014: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus . The radio play together with Console, additional compositions: Nu. Directed by Ammer & Console. With Oswald Wiener , Moritz Eickworth , Lars Freikorn . Production: BR. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 2014: Everest , together with FM Einheit, director: the authors, production: WDR.
  • 2015: The King is Gone. The Bavarian King's Revolution Days based on a contemporary text by Josef Benno Sailer . Composition: Markus Acher / Micha Acher Music: The wedding chapel: Evi Keglmaier (viola and children's piano), Mathias Götz (trombone, percussion and glockenspiel), Alex Haas (banjo, double bass and harmonium), Micha Acher (tuba and organ). Director: Andreas Ammer. With Friedrich Ani , Eva Löbau , Judith Huber, Wowo Habdank. Production: BR. CD edition: intermedium rec. 065, Belleville. ISBN 978-3-943157-65-9 . As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool. Awarded the ARD Online Award
  • 2016: You speak with the Stasi , original audio play together with FM Einheit. Based on the original tapes of the East German State Security Authority. Director: the authors, production WDR. CD edition: Hörverlag
  • 2017: David Foster Wallace Infinite Game together with Andreas Gerth and Acid Pauli . Radio / Internet project based on the novel Infinite Fun To download and as a CD edition: Hörverlag [1]
  • 2018: Arsenij Avraamov : Symphony of Sirens using texts from "Ein Packen von Ordern" by Alexeij Gastev together with FM Einheit, translation: Cornelia Köster, director: Ammer & Einheit, production: BR / Philharmonie Brünn / DLF Kultur. Live performance at the exhibition center in Brno / Czech Republic on October 21, 2017. Film for the radio play
  • 2018: The Dead of Tierra del Fuego together with Ulrike Haage, director: the authors, production: NDR / DLF Kultur.
  • 2019: Facts series - How Brecht and Benjamin wanted to write a crime thriller together with Andreas Gerth and Martin Gretschmann, director: the authors, production: WDR.
  • 2019: This is Ben Hecht… reporting live from the Revolution together with Markus Acher and Micha Acher, director: the authors, production: BR.

Awards

Selection:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Ammer / FM unit: Radio Inferno (BR 2) . ( medienkorrespondenz.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Andreas Ammer / FM unit: Apocalypse Live (BR 2) . ( medienkorrespondenz.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Studiozeit radio play - radio play of the month: Spaceman '85 . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Robert Mießner: Berlin Festival “War singing”: A bit of bombast, a lot of contrast . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 15, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  5. ↑ detektor.fm: radio play | "You are talking to the Stasi" - listening to the Stasi at work | Culture | detector.fm . In: detektor.fm . May 4, 2017 ( detektor.fm [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: “Infinite Fun” becomes the greatest radio play of all time . In: THE WORLD . May 31, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: "Infinite Fun" as an audio book: The Swarm . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Video of the live performance in Brno: "Symphony of Sirens". Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  9. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer, Kaiser Wilhelm Overdrive
  10. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / FM unit, Lost & Found: Das Paradies
  11. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / Schlamminger, See you Istanbul, my eyes closed
  12. ↑ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / Console, Have You Ever Heard Of Wilhelm Reich?
  13. ^ Film for the radio play Have you ever heard of Wilhelm Reich
  14. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / Polt, Schliersee
  15. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer, GOTT
  16. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / Console, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus. The radio play ( Memento from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ammer / Markus Acher / Micha Acher, The King is Gone
  18. ^ Film of the live performance of the "Symphony of the Sirens"
personal data
SURNAME Ammer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, television producer and radio play maker
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich