Bernd Rump

Bernd Rump (born June 1, 1947 in Dresden ) is a German theater maker and author , poet and songwriter .

Life

Rump was born as Bernd Walter Tschirner and immediately afterwards given up for adoption by his mother. After two years in the Oelsnitz children's home, he was adopted by the Rump family, who originally came from Bukowina , and grew up in Klingenthal and Bad Blankenburg . In 1965 he graduated from high school in Rudolstadt and joined the SED . After an internship at the Hirschfelde power plant in 1965, he began studying energetics at the TU Dresden until 1970 and then worked as an engineer in power plant construction. He wrote the first poems influenced by the wave of poetry at that time in 1963. From 1967 he worked in various song groups as a song and lyric writer, singer and instrumentalist. He had been a member of the Pasaremos group in Dresden since 1967 and founded the TU Dresden song group in 1970 . In 1972 Rump left his job, did cultural work in Dresden and studied poetry and songs at the Leipzig Institute for Literature . This was followed by participation in poetry seminars of the FDJ and entry into the GDR writers' association .

Theater work

In 1975 he founded the group “schicht ”, which received a professional status in 1976 with the establishment of the Political Stage at the Kulturpalast Dresden (later“ Shift Theater ” ). In the official role of chief dramaturge until 1989, Rump wrote songs, pieces, adaptations and collages. He had his own concerts as a songwriter, in some productions also as an actor or director, and went on tours with the group or solo abroad (Helsinki, Havana, Luanda, Brazzaville). In addition, until 1983 he was a consultant in the singing movement of the GDR, seminar leader at the poets seminar, mentor of the songwriting seminars of the writers' association in Petzow and initiator of the Lieder und Theater workshop in Dresden. When shift programs from 1984 onwards triggered offense at the highest level, the Dresden SED District Secretary Hans Modrow made it possible to continue the work in Dresden. The shift theater was dissolved during the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Politician

On December 10, 1989, after the dissolution of the Politburo and the Central Committee of the SED, he was unexpectedly elected as a cultural politician to the party executive committee of the SED / PDS (until 1993 and again from 1998 to 2000, both on a voluntary basis) and initiated the PDS cultural forum. From 1994 in the state board of Saxony of the PDS, he formulated the state program and led the election campaign until 1999. From 1995 to 1998 he was an employee of MP Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel . From 2000 he advised the parliamentary group of the PDS and Peter Porsch and the left in the Saxon state parliament . He initiated and managed the Alternative State Development Concept (Aleksa) and other projects. In 2004 he co-founded the WASG , before completely retiring from politics in 2009.

Artistic and journalistic work after 1990

He wrote theater reviews for Dresden daily newspapers, was a freelance radio employee (Coloradio), received his doctorate in 1994 on the novel The Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss and was a lecturer at TUD. In 1994 he co-founded the Rocktheater Dresden, directed the debut production "Jesus Christ Superstar" and worked on other projects ("Megille", "Bonzje Schweiger", "Train of Life", "The Ordinary Miracle").

• Fellow of the Yiddish Music and Theater Week in Dresden, solo performances with Detlef Hutschenreuter
• 2007: CD "The Old One"
• 2010: Author / director "Play sweet death" after Paul Celan for the Rocktheater Dresden, political publications as author and editor

author

He strove for an art / culture that included the political. His lyric poetry reveals inspiration from international pop culture (Beatles, Bob Dylan), which he sought to combine with those from the avant-garde from Mayakovsky to French modernism. He understood the song as an artistic-political statement. Influences from Brecht, Biermann, Beranger and Rimbaud can be traced right down to the diction, as well as influences from Eastern European cultures. Socialist realism, on the other hand, was of less interest to the avowed socialist. Due to his origins in the song scene, Rump's pieces were characterized by multimedia from the start. Mostly literary adaptations, they are located in the balance between Dionysian and Apollonian theater (Nietzsche). Important teachers (and some friends too) were Reinhard Weisbach , Ralf Schröder , Christel and Walfried Hartinger, Peter Gosse and Volker Braun . Jürgen Magister (composition), Karin Wolf and Heinz Drewniok (direction) were important partners for him .

Awards

• 1977: Erich Weinert Medal
• 1977: Art Prize of the FDGB

Works (selection)

• Rainbow songs. LP (group shift 1976)
• P16. Libretto (WP 1977)
• Poetry album 141st poems (Verlag Neues Leben 1979)
• Sing poems. Poems and songs (Verlag Neues Leben 1983)
• The seventh proof. Piece (premiere 1985)
• Macra. Drama (WP 1987)
• Mycenae. Piece (premiere 1989)
• Domination and resistance. Dissertation. (Shaker Verlag Aachen 1996)
• Müller in Mommsen's mask. Texts (Verlag Die Scheune Dresden 1999)
• Spring fairy tale 1983. Poem (Verlag Die Scheune Dresden 2006)
• The old. CD (Wunderbuntd-Verlag 2007)
• Departure to new shores. Essay (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony 2008)
• The train trip. Prose (SIGNUM magazine 2010)
• Play death sweeter. Theater text (WP 2010)

Literature (selection)

• Astrid Volpert: Insights. Bernd Rump songs of life. In: Junge Welt . November 7, 1979.
• Karin Großmann: Bernd Rump Lebenslieder. In: Saxon newspaper . 4th July 1980.
• Frank Stübner: The development of subjectivity in the songs of the songwriters Reinhold Andert, Gerhard Gundermann and Bernd Rump. In: Problems of the singing movement of the Free German Youth in the seventies. Diploma thesis, Leipzig 1981.
• Bernd Langnickel: Songs of Life from Dresden. In: songs and people. Berlin 1982, pp. 201-213.
• Henry-Martin Klemt: The songs Bernd Rumps or It's good to have worries. Essay. Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" , Leipzig 1985.
• Ralf Schröder: Go, go your way, Iwan Hauslos. To the Bulgakov reception in the GDR. In: Soviet literature. 1988. No. 7, pp. 166-174.
• Petra Schwarz: Bernd Rump. Never a songwriter on a business trip. In: song people. Berlin 1989, pp. 177-186.
• Tomas Petzold: End of the Transfiguration. For the world premiere of Bernd Rump's play Mycenae at the Shift Theater. In: Saxon Latest News . October 11, 1989.
• Lutz Kirchenwitz: Folk, Chanson and Songwriter in the GDR. 1993, ISBN 3-320-01807-8 .
• Tomas Petzold: Off-theater and independent scene. In: Hans-Peter Lühr (Ed.): In the crisis of the system: Dresden in the eighties. Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-910055-98-8 , pp. 37-45. ( Dresden booklet 101)
• Peter Zacher : Black Milk of the Morning ... Paul Celan's death fugue as a template for a multimedia project. In: DNN . October 20, 2010.
• Film: It works. Discussions January 12, 2011. Discussion leader Stefan Körbel, Production Stefan Paubel. Song and social movements e. V. (2 DVD)

Web links

• German Literature Institute