Christina Schönfeld

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Christina Schönfeld (* 1955 in Berlin as Christina Apelt ) is a deaf German director, actress and sign soloist in the fields of opera, music theater, concerts and film productions.

Live and act

Schönfeld was born as the daughter of the teacher Werner Apelt and the insurance clerk Irmgard Apelt. She is deaf from birth. She has been an actress and sign soloist since the 1990s. She has been married to Uwe Schönfeld since 1981, their daughter was born in 1979. She lives with her family in Mahlow, Brandenburg.

education

Between 1961 and 1971 Schönfeld attended the Albert Gutzmann School for the Deaf in Berlin and completed a three-year training as a dental technician at the Dresden Vocational Training Center. After completing a specialist qualification in the field of orthodontics, she worked as a dental technician at the Charité Berlin since 1974. From 1987 to 1989 she completed an external course to become an educator at the teachers' institute in Berlin and at the same time worked as an educator in the apprentice dormitory for the deaf in Berlin. From 1990 to 2002 she was a librarian at the Berlin State Library.

In 1995 she began her training as a sign language lecturer through an external course in the state of Brandenburg, followed in 2003 by further training in the department of linguistics in Frankfurt / Main and from 2005 to 2008 training as a state-recognized sign language lecturer.

Engagement within the deaf culture

In 2002 Schönfeld became a project manager in the performing arts department at the Center for Culture and Visual Communication of Deaf Berlin / Brandenburg e. V., from 2005 to 2009 project manager at Deafcom gGmbH. Since 2010 she has been deputy head of the education institute for the hearing impaired in Brandenburg and head of the culture and education department at the Center for Culture and Visual Communication of the Deaf Berlin / Brandenburg e. V. She is the first chairwoman of the Professional Association of Sign Language Lecturers Berlin / Brandenburg e. V., board member in the board of the regional association of the deaf Brandenburg e. V., board member in the board of the Center for Culture and Visual Communication of the Deaf Berlin / Brandenburg e. V., education officer of the State Association of the Deaf Brandenburg e. V. and 1st chairwoman of the professional association of sign language teachers in Berlin / Brandenburg

Work as an actress, director and sign soloist

Schönfeld has been on the theater stage in Berlin since she was a child, first with appearances in the school theater, then with the GDR pantomime ensemble. This was followed by collaborations with the German Deaf Theater, the Berlin stage club and roles in television films. Since 1995, she has directed stage productions that received awards at the DEGETH Festival in Munich and festivals in Livorno - Milano. As a film director, she produced several films and played a key role in setting up the first professional film studio, which is now run by the deaf. Since 1993 she has been working closely with the composer Helmut Oehring, who she has played in leading roles as a sign soloist in many of his operas, music theater and concert works. She worked in many world premieres at opera houses in Europe in productions a. a. by Claus Guth, Joachim Schlömer, Maxim Dessau, Ulrike Ottinger, Michael Simon, Helmut Oehring or Paul Esterhazy as well as in concert halls under conductors such as Ingo Metzmacher, Lothar Zagrosek, Roland Kluttig, Johannes Kalitzke, Emmanuelle Haim and others. a.

Awards

  • 2010 Berlin Culture Prize
  • 2015 Golden Crown of the Association of the Deaf of the New Federal States

Works (leading roles sign soloist)

World premieres of musical theater and opera

  • 1994 Helmut Oehring: "Documentary Opera", music theater based on texts by Helmut Oehring (WP Witten Days for New Music, director: Maxim Dessau, with KNM Berlin, conductor: Roland Kluttig)
  • 1996 Helmut Oehring: "THE D'AMATO SYSTEM", dance opera based on texts by Helmut Oehring (premiered in the Carl-Orff-Saal Munich, director: Maxim Dessau, with the KNM Berlin, conductor: Roland Kluttig)
  • 1999 Helmut Oehring and Iris ter Schiphorst: Bernarda Albas Haus, dance theater based on Fédérico Garcia Lorca (premiere November 1999 Theater Basel / Hebbeltheater Berlin, choreography: Joachim Schlömer)
  • 2000/01 Helmut Oehring and Iris ter Schiphorst: “Effi Briest”, music theater based on texts by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Theodor Fontane; Commissioned by the Bonn Opera (Premiere March 2001 Kunsthalle Bonn with the ensemble musikFabrik NRW, musical direction: Wolfgang Ott, staging: Ulrike Ottinger, with Ingrid Carven, Salome Kammer)
  • 2001/02 Helmut Oehring: "BlauWaldDorf" (days far apart), opera based on texts by Hans Christian Andersen and Helmut Oehring, commissioned by Theater Aachen (premiere April 2002 musical director: Jeremy Hulin, staging: Claus Guth)
  • 2003/04 Helmut Oehring: “Wozzeck returns”, audio snapshot in three copies (12 contacts) based on texts by Georg Büchner, Theodor Fontane and Helmut Oehring using music by Carlo Gesualdo, commissioned by the Aachen Theater (premiere June 2004, musical director Jeremy Hulin, production: Michael Simon)
  • 2005/06 Helmut Oehring: "Invisible Land (or Der Sturm)", opera using music by Henry Purcell, commissioned by Theater Basel (premier in May 2006, musical direction: Jürg Henneberger and G. Parunuzzi, staging: Claus Guth)
  • 2012/13 Helmut Oehring: “SehnSuchtMEER or Vom Fliegende Holländer”, opera using music by Richard Wagner with texts by Heinrich Heine, Richard Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonck and Hans Christian Andersen; Commissioned for the Wagner Year of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf (premier March 2013, musical direction: Axel Kober, staging: Claus Guth)
  • 2012/2013 Helmut Oehring: “AscheMOND or The Fairy Queen”, opera using music by Henry Purcell with texts by William Shakespeare, Adalbert Stifter, Heinrich Heine and Helmut Oehring; Commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin in the Schillertheater (premiere June 2013, musical direction Staatskapelle: Johannes Kalitzke / Michael Boder, staging: Claus Guth)
  • 2013/14 Helmut Oehring: "Orfeo14. (vol. 1) ”, music theater based on Claudio Monteverdi's“ Orfeo ”and Joseph Conrad's“ Heart of Darkness ”for 6 soloists and two ensembles (16 instrumentalists); Commissioned by the Opéra de Lille (premiere June 2014 musical direction Emmanuelle Haim / Francois Deppe, staging: Stefanie Wördemann and Helmut Oehring)
  • 2014/15 Helmut Oehirng: "JONA, JONAS and the WAL", a scenic concert adventure for the hearing and the non-hearing, children, adolescents and adults with live electronics and sound generation, sign poetry, singing, drama, dance and instrumental ensemble freely based on the book Jona and Hans-Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" (Premiere December 2014 Volkstheater Rostock, musical director: Manfred Hermann Lehner, staging: Stefanie Wördemann and Helmut Oehring)
  • 2015 Helmut Oehring: "The Löwenherz Brothers", music theater for children, young people and adults for soloists, choir, orchestra and live electronics based on the novel of the same name by Astrid Lindgren (premier March 2015 Semperoper Dresden / Lucerne Festival, musical director: Eric Ona, Production: Walter Suttcliffe)

World premieres concert

  • 1993/94 Helmut Oehring: "Wrong SCHAUKELN - ESSEN - SAFT (from: Irrenoffensive)" for solo voice and ensemble (premiere 1994 Konzerthaus Berlin, KNM, conductor: Roland Kluttig)
  • 1998 Helmut Oehring: "Mischwesen" for sign soloist and ensemble (premiere November 1998 Kunstcentrum Gent, Asko Ensemble, conductor: Roland Kluttig)
  • 2000 Helmut Oehring: "Verlorenwasser (from: Der Ort / Musikalisches Opfer)" for a sign soloist, sign choir and orchestra (premier at Liederhalle Stuttgart with the orchestra of the Stuttgart State Opera, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek)
  • 2013 Helmut Oehring: "Seemed like waves in long eyes (Saf Haki / words in the air)" for a vocal soloist, sign soloist, solo electric guitarist, choir and orchestra; Commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013 (premiere October 2013 with the SWR Sinfonieorchester and SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, conductor: Rupert Huber)

Premieres / new productions opera (leading roles sign soloist)

  • 2015 Luciano Berio: "Un re in ascolto", musical plot in two parts, libretto: Italo Calvino (production by Paul Esterhazy at the Staatstheater Kassel, premiere: 23 May 2015)

Premieres / new productions (main roles acting)

"Wechselspiele", director: Volkmar Otte (GDR pantomime ensemble) "Im Park", director: Volkmar Otte (GDR pantomime ensemble) "Antigone" (German deaf theater) "The game of love and chance" (German deaf theater)

Filmography

Films (Director / Screenplay)

  • 1997 "Mondays early ...", director: Christina Schönfeld, screenplay: Uwe Schönfeld, camera: Olaf Birkenstadt
  • 1998 "The Birth of Language", director: Christina Schönfeld / Uwe Schönfeld, screenplay: Uwe Schönfeld, camera: Olaf Birckenstaedt
  • 1999 “Crazy”, director: Christina Schönfeld / Uwe Schönfeld, script: Uwe Schönfeld, camera: Olaf Birckenstaedt
  • 2015 “Die Deaf-DDR”, parts 1 and 2, director: Marco Lidski, script: Christina Schönfeld, camera: Jan Sell

TV films (roles)

  • 1996: Silent Screams - A Woman in Danger, Director: Erwin Keusch
  • 2002: Tatort - protégés , directed by Martin Eigler

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personal data
SURNAME Schönfeld, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apelt, Christina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaf director, actress and sign soloist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany