Andreas Georg Berg

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Andreas Georg Berg (born May 23, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) is a German television journalist and poet. One of his main focuses is the topic of Jewish history and religion. In collaboration with Peter Waldmann, he also wrote the text on the roll of the foundation stone for the new synagogue in Mainz .

Life

Andreas Georg Samuel Berg studied German, philosophy and art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . Since 1987 he has been working as a television journalist for SWF - today SWR - in Mainz . In addition to his work as a cultural editor, the topics of Jewish religion and Jewish history are among his main areas of work. As a feature author and director, he has produced documentaries for SWR, but also for ARD, including the creation of the new Mainz synagogue and mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanckand about the early Wild West cinema productions in the Palatinate. Andreas Berg has also emerged as a poet since his student days, and four volumes of poetry have been published since 1980. In 1979 he founded the group Lyrik & Musik, with which he developed a musical recitation program for his texts and in which he also participated as a pianist. Until the ensemble was dissolved in 1984, the group's programs were presented in concerts, including on television. A record was released in 1981. He also published poems in various anthologies and literary yearbooks. In 2015, after a long literary break, his first novel was published.

Andreas Berg is a member of the Jewish-Arab peace initiative Givat Haviva and was a participant in German-Israeli-Palestinian authors' meetings organized by the State Center for Civic Education in Rhineland-Palatinate. Today he lives in the Rheingau and has a second home in the Northwest Palatinate.

Literary work

His poems reflect life with its existential questions, the own writing process, but also deal with its roots in Judaism. Typical of his style are irony and laconicism and playing with literary quotations. In the epilogue to his last volume of poetry, Herr Dudens Klangkurtisanen or Die Dichter go up and down and silent , written by the professor of German studies Hermann Kurzke , he is described as a connoisseur of German literature, whose work is permeated by allusions and characterized by a cryptic and radically shortened language . During a reading at a German-Israeli-Palestinian writers' meeting in Israel, the poet Hilde Domin praised Andreas Berg's texts as deeply felt and made intelligent. After a long pause literary publication appeared from Andreas Berg in July 2015 the issued at Luxbooks anthology area designs his narrative Jerusalem Blues or, as if by a tune piano in an apartment in Haifa was a poem , which he dedicated to Hilde Domin. His first novel, Shabbat Shalom on the Seine, followed in August 2015 - flashback of a missed love . In various newspaper reviews on the novel, the discussion of the topic of religion, the critical examination of the modern media landscape, but also the descriptions of the setting in Paris are positively highlighted.

Prices

  • "Madamer Krab" - Culture Prize (2002)
  • Probst Reinhard Becker Prize (2005)
  • "Culture Prize of the Rheingau-Taunus District in the Literature Section" (2019)

Publications

  • "The broken footbridge" (1980)
  • "Schallloch in der Nebelwand" (1982)
  • "Poetry Emphasis or No Elegies in General" (1985)
  • "Herr Dudens Klangkurtisanen or The Poets go up and down and remain silent" (1992, epilogue Hermann Kurzke)
  • "Shabbat Shalom or Flashback of a Missed Love", E. Humbert-Verlag (2015)
  • "Jerusalem blues or: how an out of tune piano in an apartment in Haifa created a poem that was dedicated to Hilde Domin", in Michael Au / Alexander Wasner (ed.): "Area drafts", Luxbooks (2015)

In addition, regular and numerous publications in anthologies and literary yearbooks such as "Mainzer Anthologie", "Rhineland-Palatinate Anthology", "Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature", "Chaussée - Journal for Culture and Literature in the Palatinate".

Filmography features and longer documentaries (selection)

  • "News from the robber Schinderhannes - Organized crime around 1800" (SWR 2019)
  • "The lost homeland - art as a way of remembrance" (SWR 2019)
  • "Heaven on Earth: St. Stephan in Mainz" (SWR 2019)
  • "Art is like war - the painter prince Max Slevogt" (SWR 2018)
  • "Mute, but not a bit quiet - the organ dynasty from the Hunsrück" (SWR 2017)
  • "On the German Wine Route - people and traces along a German holiday route" (SWR 2017)
  • "Clemens Wilmenrod - One toast Hawaii there and back" (SWR 2017)
  • "Edith Stein - Jewish woman, religious saint" (SWR 2016)
  • "Ernst Bloch - Hope made in Rhineland-Palatinate" (SWR 2015)
  • "Little Jerusalem on the Rhine - A Medieval Jewish Association of Cities to Become a World Heritage Site" (SWR 2012)
  • "Hebrew letters as architecture - the new synagogue in Mainz" (SWR 2010 and Phoenix 2011)
  • "The Colossus of Böchingen - the XXL work of art by the sculptor Volker Krebs" (SWR 2010)
  • "Five books and a festival of joy - how the Jewish communities celebrate the Torah" (ARD 2009)
  • "From Hamman ears and royal brides - the Purim Festival in Mainz" (ARD 2009)
  • "The old cathedral is completely new - the Mainz church is built as a model" (SWR, HR and 3-Sat 2009)
  • "A church is moving - from Hackenheim to Mainz in 30 days" (SWR 2003)
  • "The last journey - alternative paths in bereavement" (SWR, RBB 2001)
  • "Abel stand up - German-Israeli-Palestinian authors' meeting in Jericho" (SWR and school documentation for the State Center for Political Education, 2000)
  • "The aerial acrobats - film flight specialists from Mainz" (SWR 1999)
  • "Between white intoxication and the abyss - the extreme director Arnold Fanck" (SWR, 3-Sat 1998)
  • "Where I am a stranger is my home - Israeli-Palestinian-German writers' meeting" (SWF 1997)
  • "Wild West on the Rhine - on the trail of early Hollywood" (SWF 1996)
  • "The block of Gunsenum - the eventful life of the painter Hermann Schmidt-Schmied" (SWF 1995)
  • "On the mainmast of triumph - German-Spanish poetry meeting in the Palatinate" (SWF 1990)

swell

  • Brigitte Schellmann: Who's Who in German. 1999/2000, ISBN 3-931230-09-0 .
  • Josef Zierden: Literature Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate. 1998, ISBN 3-86099-458-1 .
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar [Edition ?!]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Epilogue to Herr Dudens Klangkurtisanen or Die Dichter go up and down and remain silent. 1992, ISBN 3-925192-81-6 .
  2. ^ "Literature and Reconciliation" - Second German-Israeli-Palestinian authors' meeting Givat Haviva (Israel). State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate, 1995.
  3. ^ Area drafts. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939557-86-9 .
  4. ↑ Shabbat Shalom or Flashback of a Missed Love. E. Humbert-Verlag, Neu-Bamberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-939285-10-6 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Berg presents his novel “Shabbat Shalom on the Seine”. Wiesbadener Kurier, July 2, 2016
  6. ↑ Death does not suit him. In: Die Rheinpfalz, November 24, 2015
  7. ↑ On the trail of a love in Paris. In: Die Rheinzeitung, No. 86, April 13, 2016
  8. ^ BDZV: Industry news. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Sabine Stemmler-Heß: From the Rhine to the Seine - The culture award winner Andreas Berg . In: Yearbook Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis 2019 . Rheingau-Taunus District 2019.
  10. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Culture Prize goes to Walluf - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ program ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam Germany: Known in the country. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ program ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam Germany: Landesart Plus. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ program ARD: Heaven on Earth: St. Stephan in Mainz. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  14. ^ Art is like war: The painter prince Max Slevogt. June 12, 2015, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "Mute, but not a bit quiet - The organ dynasty from the Hunsrück" in the SWR media library
  16. ↑ "On the German Wine Route" at SWR.de
  17. ↑ "Clemens Wilmenrod - One toast Hawaii there and back" at SWR.de
  18. ↑ Program entry at ARD.de
  19. ↑ Program entry at LandesArt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.swrfernsehen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Andreas Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Andreas Georg Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden