Claus Spahn

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Claus Spahn, Cologne 2005
In 1996 Claus Spahn moderated the TV show Schach der Großmeister with Viswanathan Anand and Wladimir Kramnik , photo WDR.

Claus Spahn (born May 15, 1940 in Bottrop ) is a German journalist and author . He is also a former television editor for WDR , presenter and producer, who was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2001 . He has been married to communications specialist Renate-Beatrice Piesker since 1990 . He has a daughter Christiane Spahn-Rempen. His brother is the television presenter and journalist Thomas Spahn .

Life

Spahn studied theater history, German, philosophy and art history at the University of Cologne and was established in 1969 with a thesis on the theater history of the Ruhr until 1933 Dr. phil. PhD . From 1969 to 2005 he was television editor for WDR. He produced numerous series, portraits, documentaries and programs on culture and cultural policy.

He made a name for himself nationally and internationally with chess programs . From 1983 to 2005 he hosted the annual live program Chess of the Grand Masters , in which Anatoli Karpow , Viswanathan Anand and Wladimir Kramnik played for a television trophy. Due to his initiative and under his direction, West German television regularly broadcasts from the World Chess Championships and the Dortmund Chess Days .

TV series / films (selection)

Silver medal of the German Cancer Aid (1978)
The parents' license , July 1976

Spahn wrote and produced, among other things, the series The Parents Driving License (1976) and Nobody Should Be Next (1978), for which he received the silver medal of the German Cancer Aid from Mildred Scheel . With Lida Winiewicz , Spahn wrote the twelve-part television series When Love falls (1978), with Ruth Maria Kubitschek , Brigitte Mira , Dirk Dautzenberg and Gudrun Landgrebe in one of her first television roles.

For the television series on the Federal Data Protection Act, Computers Can't Forget , Spahn received the German Industrial Film Prize in 1978 . With the series No fear of flying (1979), Spahn and Rainer Pieritz founded the seminars in Germany to reduce the fear of flying. In this series Rudolf Braunburg worked as a flight captain.

In the TV series Finally 18 - and what now? - with Thomas Gottschalk - which Spahn wrote with Hansjörg Martin for WDR, Dietmar Bär had his first television appearance in 1982. With Hansjörg Martin, Spahn also wrote and produced the series Und die Moral von der Geschicht , with u. a. Achim Strietzel . This is where the later Lindenstrasse stars Georg Uecker and Christian Kahrmann had their first television appearances.

Heinz Edelmann's poster for the series Being against it is always easy (Claus Spahn, WDR 1981).

With Eckart Hachfeld , Spahn wrote the game series The False Fuffzger , with Dieter Hildebrandt , Achim Strietzel , Jutta Kammann , Günther Jerschke and others. v. a. Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth . Semmelroth also directed the series of Spahn / Winiewicz Dagegensein is always easy with u. a. Dirk Dautzenberg.

Djerassi and Spahn 2000 while filming, in front of a sculpture by George Rickey that Djerassi gave to the library in San Francisco.

With Thomas Woitkewitsch Spahn wrote the game series Mensch ärgere dich noch , with Elisabeth Volkmann , Helen Vita , Inge Wolffberg , Karl-Michael Vogler , Gerd Vespermann and others. v. a. Spahn published the accompanying television book of the same name with Rainer Pieritz in Kösel-Verlag . Günter Pfitzmann , Günther Jerschke and Brigitte Mira were the main actors in the multi-part game series Everyone can do something for themselves , from Spahn / Woitkewitsch. The companion book of the same name by Werner Thumshirn was published by Goldmann Verlag .

In 1988/1989 Claus Spahn also developed and was responsible for the WDR Sunday TV show WDR Publik ; the later WDR summer show Hollymünd . In this information and entertainment show, interesting personalities and singers were presented live in Cologne-Bocklemünd in front of an audience for years and was above all an experimental stage for young talents and presenters.

With his 26-part series Puzzle - A Brain Game for 3xKluge , Spahn designed and wrote a completely new kind of quiz show. Here three candidates - Brigitte Hamann , Franz Herre and Paul Naredi-Rainer - were able to discuss and finally answer questions about politics, music, literature, humanities, technology and painting in front of the studio audience. The six questions were demonstrated, made music or played by various artists and related to a period of 20 years each, such as 1750–1770 or 1910–1930. After an hour, the 3xKlugen had “puzzled out” a picture / painting from the twenty-year era.

In 1991/1992, Spahn produced the multi-part series Funny Girls and Funny Boys with Nina Hagen and Dirk Bach as presenters, in which stars like Grethe Weiser , Trude Herr , Evelyn Künneke , Helen Vita , Brigitte Mira , as well as Harald Juhnke , Theo Lingen , Diether Krebs , Georg Thomalla , Otto , Willy Millowitsch and others were entertainingly portrayed. The moderator's texts were written by Thomas Woitkewitsch .

As an author and director, Spahn produced two impressive portraits of Carl Djerassi , the chemist, author, art collector and "father of the pill", as well as the Schubert researcher Otto Erich Deutsch - Deutschverzeichnis - among others .

Producer / Director WDR (selection)

Awards

Gold Merit Award from FIDE

In 1992 Claus Spahn was awarded the honor plate of the German Chess Federation . Twice he received the German Chess Prize (1983/2001) of the German Chess Federation , the medal of the European Chess Union ( ECU ) and in 2002 the Gold Merit Award of the world chess organization FIDE for his commitment to the sport of chess .

In 2001 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Federal President Johannes Rau "for his many years of outstanding journalistic and editorial work" .

Chess player

Chess - move by move

Grandpa, Aunt Bernie and Emil, the puppets for the TV series Chess - Ticket to Ride

Chess for everyone. From beginner to tournament player

With the 30-part television series Zug um Zug ... Chess for Everyone , Claus Spahn designed and produced a successful chess learning program on WDR in 1983, which, with his dolls - Grandpa, Aunt Bernie, Emil - and the chess grandmaster Helmut Pfleger as moderator, attracted many viewers to learn chess and invited to play chess.

After taking part in the program train to train for Bauer diploma , train to train to the tower diploma and train to train to King diploma could and viewers can gain a "diploma" at the German Chess Federation. The accompanying book for the programs Chess - Zug um Zug with the examination tasks for the diplomas of the German Chess Federation is today the official textbook of the German Chess Federation. The series is repeatedly broadcast by the various broadcasters of the ARD.

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Claus Spahn - Erwin Peters (Cologne)
Spahn mated in four moves.

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Hobby player

Claus Spahn never played chess in a club, but is considered a good hobby player. His enthusiasm for the game formed the basis of his commitment to the sport of chess. Spahn is an honorary member of the Karpow Chess Academy Rhein-Neckar .

In a free game with Erwin Peters (Cologne) opposite position arose in the Spahn on the train in the latest four trains Matt sat .

Heinz Edelmann's poster for the television series One must talk to one another (Claus Spahn, WDR 1982).

Literature and works (selection)

  • Claus Spahn (Hrsg.): The Parents Driving License - A course for raising toddlers . The book for the television series. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-11132-3 .
  • Jochen Aumüller: Nobody should be next . The book on personal cancer screening - Based on the television series of the same name. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-10794-6 .
  • Rainer-J. Pieritz; Claus Spahn: Partnership course - when love falls . Based on the television series of the same name. Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00767-7 .
  • Rudolf Braunburg and Rainer-Joachim Pieritz: Don't be afraid of flying . The companion book to the television series of the same name. Falkenverlag, 1979, ISBN 3-8068-0463-X .
  • Werner Thumshirn: Everyone can do something for themselves . The book on personal cardiovascular prevention - based on the television series of the same name. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10847-0 .
  • Joachim S. Hohmann: Opposition is always easy - the art of overcoming prejudices . Based on the television series of the same name. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-430-14757-3 .
  • Richard Rathgeber: Finally 18 and now? Rights and obligations with the age of majority . Based on the television series of the same name. Falken Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-8068-0646-2 .
  • Rainer-J. Pieritz; Claus Spahn: You have to talk to each other - contact is the key to personal happiness - companion book to the television series. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-430-17478-3 .
  • Rainer-J. Pieritz; Claus Spahn: Man, get angry! Relaxed life with anger, anger, and aggression . Based on the television series of the same name. Kösel Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-466-34083-7 .
  • D 795 or Die Schöne Müllerin Otto Erich Deutsch - A life for music, with HC Robbins Landon . Film by Claus Spahn, WDR 1983.
  • Günter Kunert and Saxon Switzerland , Production: Claus Spahn, WDR 1993.
  • Franz Schubert's New Notes The International Schubert Society. Film by Claus Spahn, WDR 1997.
  • A German on withdrawal - Hans Mayer on the 90th film by Claus Spahn, WDR 1997.
  • In the beginning there was the pill The Three Lives of Carl Djerassi. Film by Claus Spahn, WDR 2000.
  • Not the note, but the spirit - Mozart's autograph of the Fantasy KV 475 back in Salzburg . Film by Claus Spahn, WDR 2001.
  • Interview Viswanathan Anand by Claus Spahn ( WMV ; 10.8 MB), Dortmunder Schachtage 2004 (video by Gerhard Hund ).

Web links

Commons : Claus Spahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wedding announcement Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger 118/11, 1990.
  2. ↑ See: Theater im Ruhrgebiet 1871–1945 by Anselm Heinrich , where Claus Spahn's dissertation is quoted several times (examples on pages 5 and 8).
  3. ↑ To the last broadcast, Schach der Großmeister , August 24, 2005
  4. ↑ Helmut Pfleger: Chess Knockouts . tape 69 . Edition Olms, ISBN 978-3-283-00456-9 .
  5. ↑ Industry Film Prize 1978 , donated by the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs.
  6. ↑ Computerwoche Heft 7/1979 Article on the German Industrial Film Prize , on computerwoche.de, accessed on April 6, 2018
  7. ^ WDR (ed.): Direct Access - 165 ideas and 55 posters for the West German Broadcasting Corporation Cologne by Heinz Edelmann. H. Schmidt, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-87439-273-2 .
  8. ^ WDR television archive
  9. ↑ Honors in the area of ​​the DSB
  10. ↑ Certificate for the Media Prize 1983 of the German Chess Federation (signed Heinz Hohlfeld) , awarded to Claus Spahn (Westdeutscher Rundfunk).
  11. ↑ Media Prize of the DSB 1977–1998 / German Chess Prize from 2000
  12. ↑ Awarded the German Chess Prize 2001
  13. ^ Certificate for the Silver Medal of the European Chess Union (signed Boris Kutin) , awarded to Claus Spahn (Cologne, August 18, 2002).
  14. ↑ Gold Merit Award for Dr. Claus Spahn ( Memento from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Report on ChessBase
  15. ↑ WDR press release on the Federal Cross of Merit
  16. ^ Book accompanying the television series Chess - Zug um Zug . Orbis Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-572-01414-9 .
  17. ^ SV 1930 Hockenheim - Karpow Chess Academy Rhein-Neckar
  18. ↑ Helmut Pfleger: Chess Knockouts . Edition Olms, Volume 69, p. 16, ISBN 978-3-283-00456-9 .
  19. ↑ Honor for Dr. Claus Spahn ( Memento from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Report on ChessBase
  20. ↑ 1. Ne5 – f7 + Rb7xf7 2. Qd5xd8 Bf6xd8 3. Re1 – e8 + Rf7 – f8 4. Re8xf8 mate. Alternatively 1. Ne5 – f7 + Kh8 – g8 2. Nf7 – h6 Kg8 – f8 3. Qd5 – g8 mate. The best mate comes after 1. Ne5 – f7 + Kh8 – g8 2. Nf7xd8 + Kg8 – f8 3. Qd5 – g8 + Kf8xg8 4. Re1 – e8 mate.
  21. ^ On the death of Hans Mayer on May 19, 2001, WDR television, May 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Spahn, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop