Christine Lemke-Matwey

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Christine Lemke-Matwey is a journalist , columnist and radio presenter specializing in classical music and opera . She has also emerged as a librettist and director of an opera.

Training and activities

Lemke-Matwey studied German, philosophy, theater and music sciences in Cologne and Munich up to the master’s degree. After working at various theaters, she switched to journalism. She worked for the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, since 2000 for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin, and in 2012 went to ZEIT in Hamburg, for which she had been writing for a long time. Some of her pointed texts sparked heated debates.

In addition, she worked or works for the radio, especially for BR , RBB , SWR and WDR . There she produces music features and moderates talk shows and classical programs. From 2002 to 2014 Lemke-Matwey was one of the moderators of the Klassik-Forum show on the radio program WDR 3 .

Controversy

In 2011 Lemke-Matwey claimed in the ZEIT that the few sopranos in the world who had mastered the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Walküre at a high level rushed from premiere to premiere and broke down in the process. This prompted the opera director Christof Loy to reply, in which he described the article as disrespectful and hurtful.

In May 2014, her collaboration with the WDR was terminated with immediate effect due to "disloyalty". The occasion was a contribution at the time in which she was critical of the program policy of directors of public broadcasters, especially WDR director Tom Buhrow , who "all come from the first generation of the post-68ers" and "from the former do-gooders especially the militant disinterest in high culture ”.

Because of their 2017 in the TIME published commentary for the premiere of the opera Edward II (Music: Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini , libretto by Thomas Jonigk ) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin accused the President of the German Theater Association , Ulrich Khuon , Lemke-Matwey in an open letter homophobia ago . This open letter received criticism from various quarters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Open letter from the President of the German Stage Association, Ulrich Khuon, on the ZEIT commentary by Christine Lemke-Matwey. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Kevin Clarke: The Power of Minorities. Or: who can talk about whom and how? In: Queer.de . ( queer.de [accessed on July 27, 2018]).
  3. ^ Giuseppe Verdi - A series in 21 episodes by Christine Lemke-Matwey. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Topic Music Live - Sound and Space - A discussion concert. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ SWR2 Meeting Point Classical - New CDs. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b http://www.nmz.de/online/wdr-3-kuendigt-moderatorin-christine-lemke-matwey-die-zollerarbeit-auf
  7. ↑ On the Crash of the Windsbrides , Die Zeit No. 23 of June 1, 2011.
  8. ↑ http://www.christof-loy.de/zeitartikel.htm , accessed on May 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey: Public broadcasting: Without Mozart? In: The time . No. 19/2014 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Berlin: Better a cruise then! In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on July 27, 2018]).
  11. ↑ "Conspiracy of the Opera Gays": About homophobia in the classical music business. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  12. ↑ The failed attempt of the German stage association to say something about homophobia - . In: I have nothing against gays, but . February 25, 2017 ( nollendorfblog.de [accessed July 27, 2018]).
  13. ↑ "Schwule Kreativwirtschaft" by Peter Laudenbach - tip berlin . In: tip berlin . March 13, 2017 ( tip-berlin.de [accessed July 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Lemke-Matwey, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist, columnist and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century