Andreas Knaup

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Andreas Knaup (born October 29, 1954 in Dresden ) is a German actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

Andreas Knaup is the son of the actor Heinz-Dieter Knaup .

Career

Knaup was a student at the Berliner Ensemble and played José Carrar in Brecht's Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar , directed by Ruth Berghaus . From 1975 to 1978 he studied at the state drama school "Ernst Busch" in Berlin and from 1978 to 1989 he was engaged as an actor at the Leipzig Theater (director: Karl Kayser). His work as an author began in Leipzig with the libretti and song texts for the fairy tale musicals “From one who went out to learn to be afraid”, “Sixes come through the whole world” and “Marie and a Hans in luck”. The composer was Thomas Bürkholz .

The two musicals for actors "Rockballade" and "Carmagnole" were also created together with Bürkholz. Knaup also appeared as a playwright - “M. Wie Meister ”, a piece based on the novel by Michail Bulgakov's “ The Master and Margarita ”and the adaptation of a novel“ The House on the Embankment ”by Yuri Trifonov under the title“ House of Remembrance ”.

From 1981 onwards, Knaup wrote tabloid comedies for the "cheerful drama" section of GDR television . In 1989 one of the last TV series in the GDR - “Klein, aber Charlotte” - was broadcast for which Knaup wrote all seven episodes. There were also a number of crime radio plays on Deutschlandradio Kultur .

From 1990 Knaup worked as chief director of the Leipzig Opera on the musical comedy in Leipzig. The staging of the musical “Grand Hotel” and the staging of Anatevka , which ran in the theater's repertoire for over ten years, attracted attention . From 1996 to 2000 Knaup was engaged both as opera director and theater director at the state theaters of Saxony in Radebeul. This was followed by an engagement at the Eisenach-Rudolstadt theaters as theater director. Knaup has been a freelance screenwriter since 2002. He has been writing for years for the series In allerfreund and the crime series SOKO Stuttgart . He also wrote the films "Wet Things" and " Fainting " for the Tatort television series .

Occasionally, Knaup worked as a voice actor for the DEFA studio in Leipzig at the time and what is now the Synchron- und Tonstudio Leipzig GmbH. He spoke u. a. Oldrich Kaiser in Sagarmatha - Risk in Eternal Ice, Marek Vasut in The Hospital on the Edge of the City - 20 years later and Dick York in a guest role in the series Thousand Miles of Dust.

Filmography as a screenwriter (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

  • 1995: Schlachthaus - Director: Joachim Staritz ( DLR / SDR )
  • 1996: Black Sabbath - Director: Patrick Blanc (social criticism, crime thriller - DLR)
  • 1997: RadioNapping - Director: Robert Matejka (detective radio play - DLR)
  • 1999: Remembering - Forgetting - Director: Robert Matejka (detective radio play - DLR)
  • 2002: Genopoly - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - DLR)
  • 2004: Wash and Kill - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (detective radio play - DLR)
  • 2005: Kuckuckskind - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (radio play - DLR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Schmidt: What on the ear? -> Full display: Knaup, Andreas: "Black Sabbath". In: www.was-aufs-ohr.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ ARD audio game database. In: hoerspiele.dra.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
  3. ↑ - RadioNapping. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Knaup, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden