Christa Schnitzler-Runge

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Christa Schnitzler-Runge (born December 25, 1938 in Delmenhorst ) is a German performing artist .

Life

She grew up rural among farmers and craftsmen in the Oldenburger Land . From 1959 to 1961 she was trained in performing arts at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. One of their teachers was Otto Wernicke . Afterwards she was engaged at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus until 1964. In 1962 she married Conrad Schnitzler . Their three children were born in 1963, 1964 and 1966. The family moved to Berlin. After the separation in 1972, she took on social responsibility for their children and worked for the Deutsche Bundespost as an express deliverer. Her life partner was Folke Hanfeld (visual artist). She still lives in Berlin.

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In the years 1970/71 she developed drama with children in children's shops and on public playgrounds. It should be a development of words, voice, movement, drums and the common in general. She wrote plays / concepts for a permanent, but constantly redesigned theater group on playgrounds, everything was influenced by the Living Theater from New York.

She was also involved in the work of the electronic music groups Kluster / Eruption at the side of her husband Conrad Schnitzler. In 1970 the record "Klopfzeichen" was recorded. For the event Klang-Szene 2 in 1971 with Günther Uecker (visualization) and Friedhelm Döhl (composition), she took over the percussion for “Kluster”. She was involved in the music improvisations in the René Block Berlin gallery . In the meantime, she has repeatedly worked with visual artists (voice, body, texts) and wrote literary works.

Performances

  • 1997: “White headscarf songs”, voice and body in the Bremen-Hemelingen community center. She realized her plan to design her poem text, frozen in a sculptural attitude, speaking from the inside
  • 1999: "Inadequacies of the economy", voice and drum integrated into Mackie-Messer-Songs / Brecht, the morality pictures show the self-interest of the economy, their songs challenge consumers to recognize their power through buying behavior. Sqm Magdeburger Platz and for Attac, Berlin May 1st (2002)
  • 2001: “Friendship”, voice and percussion in “Bahnhof Westend”, the attempt to develop a friendship between voice and percussion, UdK Berlin
  • 2001: “between | city ​​| raum “voice and body, up to heaven / white, in the middle is life / red, downwards is earth / black, project Gropius Stadt Berlin 2006 (Klaus Eisenlohr / Johann Zeltler).
  • 2007: “of love…. of suffering ”voice, body and drum, presented poems alternating with Brecht's“ literary passions ”, Flurtheater Weimarschmieden

Musical work

  • "Knock sign" (voice) with clusters (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1970)

literature

  • Ruth Nickel (ed.): Playing with children. Theater with children. K. Thienemann-Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-522-40020-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SM: sound scene with nails. An evening in the National Gallery . In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 15, 1971.
  2. ↑ Archive of the University of the Arts Berlin , Volume 239, No. 19, 2001.
  3. ↑ “between | city ​​| raum ", event on July 14, 2006 , accessed on November 26, 2015
  4. ↑ Songs about love and suffering. In: Mainpost Würzburg. July 25, 2007; Retrieved November 26, 2015
  5. ^ Poems, read by Christa Runge .
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzler stake, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitzler Runge, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German performing artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst , Germany