Christoph Buggert

Christoph Buggert (born June 17, 1937 in Świnoujście ) is a German writer , radio play dramaturge and was head of the radio play department of the Hessian broadcasting company .

Life

Christoph Buggert, the son of a Protestant pastor, grew up in Stargard in Pomerania , Halle (Saale) and Bremen. After studying at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he received his doctorate in 1967 in Munich with a thesis on Adalbert Stifter . In 1973, together with Martin Gregor-Dellin , Jürgen Kolbe , Michael Krüger , Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr , Inge Poppe , Günter Herburger , Tankred Dorst and Peter Laemmle, he founded the first cooperatively organized author's bookstore in Munich . From 1972 to 1976 he was radio play dramaturge at Bayerischer Rundfunk and from 1976 to 2002 head of the radio play department of Hessischer Rundfunk; At times he also headed the culture wave hr2-kultur .

In addition to his professional activity, he has been writing literary texts and contributing to radio history since the 1960s. While still studying and during a period of several years as a freelance writer, he mainly published original radio plays, as they were a good way to earn a living at the time. He later preferred to be able to act as editor-in-chief. In 1990 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. His debut novel Das Pfarrhaus , dedicated to literary fantasy, was later republished under the new title In the fourth room of time .

Buggert is a member of the Presidium of the German Academy of Performing Arts , which awards the radio play of the month / year. He was also chairman of the jury of the Günter Eich Prize from 2007 to 2013 .

Christoph Buggert lives today in Oberursel (Taunus) .

Awards

In 1978 he was for his radio play before smothering a cry to the Radio Play Prize of War Blind awarded, in 1983, he received the Drama Award of the British Theater Association , 1985 to Jean-Thevenot Prize and the 1991 Morishige Award of Television and Radio Writers' Association of Japan . His radio play Domino was voted Radio Play of the Month for June 2012 by the Academy of Performing Arts .

Works

Fonts

• Character and narrator. Dissertation LMU Munich, Lerche, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-87478-011-2 .
• The rectory. The book of delight. Novel. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-492-03206-0 .
• Long travel. Novel. Kindler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-463-40433-8 .
• Visit to Germany. Novel. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-379-00860-5 .
• In the fourth room of time. Novel. Nachttischbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-937550-23-7 .
• Uncertainty. Novel. Nachttischbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-937550-25-1 .
• German sick. Novel. Nachttischbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-937550-26-8 .
• Cobblestone. Novel. Nachttischbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-937550-27-5 .

Radio plays

• 1961: The Blue Bird , directed by Hermann Wenninger (BR)
• 1963: Icarus on the cloud , director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (BR)
• 1965: Travel to Macedonia , directed by Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz (WDR)
• 1967: Foreign Talk , Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (BR / WDR)
• 1968: international call , director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (WDR)
• 1971: The bump on the poet's forehead , director: Otto Kurth (BR)
• 1971: Soft faces , director: Manfred Marchfelder (BR / HR)
• 1973: Boomerang , director: Ulrich Lauterbach (HR / BR)
• 1977: A scream before suffocating. Trilogie des bürgerlichen Wahnsinns 1 , directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (WDR), awarded the war blind radio play award
• 1982: My Midsummer Night's Dream , Director: Walter Adler (WDR / SFB)
• 1987: Nullmord (trilogy of bourgeois madness 2), director: Walter Adler (WDR)
• 1989: Blauer Adler - Roter Hahn (Trilogy of bourgeois madness 3), directed by Walter Adler (WDR / BR / SWF)
• 1990: visit to Germany. German Trilogy 1 , directed by Norbert Schaeffer (WDR / SWF)
• 1997: cultural program , director: Norbert Schaeffer (WDR)
• 1998: Day of German Unity. German Trilogy 2 , directed by Norbert Schaeffer (MDR)
• 1999: Obsession , director: Norbert Schaeffer (WDR)
• 2012: Domino , director: Walter Adler (MDR / WDR)
• 2014: Four attempts over time , director: Bernadette Sonnenbichler (SWR)
• 2015: The Whole Truth About My Father , Director: Stefan Kanis (MDR)
• 2016: Chess evening - crime opera , composition and direction: Helga Pogatschar (BR)
• 2018: An afternoon in the museum of unforgettable noises , composition and direction: Liquid Penguin Ensemble (SR)
• 2020: Einstein's tongue , composition and direction: Liquid Penguin Ensemble (SR)

Processing (word):

• 1969: Dylan Thomas : Under the Milk Forest - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (BR / WDR)
• 2016: Helga Pogatschar : Chess evening , crime opera , libretto by Christoph Buggert

editor

• Seismography of the radio play: 40 years of radio play of the month 1977-2017, 30 years of radio play of the year 1987-2017 , Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste / Belleville Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-946875-21-5 .

Contributions to the discussion

• The murmur in the head. An interjection to the development and status of the radio play . In: media correspondence . June 6, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Buggert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Current publisher's website for Christoph Buggert
• Audio sample: Christoph Buggert reads from "Sommernacht", July 30, 2014

supporting documents

1. ↑ see long interview in Deutschlandfunk “Zwischenentöne” from 23 August 2020
2. ↑ chess evening , crime-opera for voice and woodwind quintet , helgapogatschar.de, accessed August 23, 2020