Dieter Kranz

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Dieter Kranz (born March 23, 1934 in Berlin ; † October 17, 2011 ibid) was a German opera and theater critic .

Life

Kranz was born as the son of the sausage maker Richard Kranz and the flat maker Gertrud Schattschneider. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Saxony. After the end of the war, the family lived in Schkeuditz near Leipzig. There he graduated from the Leibniz Oberschule in the summer of 1952. He studied acting at the German Theater Institute in Weimar, Belvedere Palace, but was de-registered after a short time due to a lack of talent.

From 1953 to 1956 he studied German at the University of Leipzig and attended courses with Hans Mayer and Hermann August Korff . He wrote his diploma thesis on the Viennese poet and publicist Karl Kraus . From 1956 to 1991 he worked for the Berliner Rundfunk, where he reported on the East German theater and opera scene every Sunday in the program “Atelier und Bühne”.

From 1961 to 1991 he designed a monthly one-hour program Berlin - Weltstadt des Theater , each of which presented a production with excerpts from scenes and workshop discussions. His interlocutors in the approximately 300 programs were theater greats such as Walter Felsenstein , Ruth Berghaus , Götz Friedrich , Joachim Herz , Harry Kupfer , Christine Mielitz , Tom Schilling , Benno Besson , Adolf Dresen , Wolfgang Heinz , Siegfried Höchst , Alexander Lang , Matthias and Thomas Langhoff , Heiner Müller , George Tabori , Erich Wonder , Manfred Wekwerth , Giorgio Strehler , Christoph Schroth , Friedo Solter and many others. It is thanks to Dieter Kranz's efforts that the Art Union of the FDGB consented to complete audio recordings of the dress rehearsals, of which a maximum of 20 minutes could then be published for radio purposes.

After the GDR broadcasting was closed, Dieter Kranz worked freelance for Deutschlandradio, RBB , SWR , MDR and NDR -kultur. He also wrote for the magazines Theater der Zeit and Theater heute .

From 1988 to 1993 and 1995–98 he was a member of the jury of the Theatertreffen, a festival of German-speaking theater, where he conducted discussions with the audience. In 1989 he received the Lessing Prize of the GDR . Kranz suffered from Parkinson's and spent the last four months of his life in bed after an accident. He died on October 17, 2011 at the age of 77.

Works (selection)

  • Wolfgang Langhoff - actor, director, artistic director (with Christoph Funke, 1969)
  • Gisela May - actress and Diseuse (1973)
  • Angelica Domröse (with Christoph Funke, 1976)
  • Conversations with Felsenstein (1977)
  • Theater City Berlin (with Christoph Funke, 1978)
  • Positions - Conversations with Directors of European Theater (1981)
  • Berlin Theater - 100 performances from three decades (1990)
  • On the trail of the present - Harry Kupfer , the opera director (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Kranz magnetic anomaly - From the treasure chest of a theater enthusiast radio man , Matthias Thalheim in Triangel, 3/2004
  2. ↑ In Memoriam - DIETER WREATH was born in Berlin on 23 March 1934 He died on October 17, 2011 in Berlin - Berlin directors trembled in front of him, by Evelyn Rosar in the Berliner Zeitung, November 15, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kranz, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and theater critic and book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2011
Place of death Berlin