Dietmar Guth

Dietmar Guth (* 1959 in Königsbronn on the Swabian Alb) is a German radio play author and writer .

life and work

Dietmar Guth studied German , literature and philosophy in Münster and Freiburg . After various activities in industry, from 1987 onwards he worked regularly on night duty in a surgical intensive care unit in Freiburg. In the 1990s he wrote numerous radio plays, including for Radio Bremen and Bayerischer Rundfunk . In his radio play Introduction to Kitsch. Deaths - voted radio play of the month for May in 1991 - he processed his experiences in an intensive care unit. The radio play tries to depict a central experience of dying and death and to make it understandable.

In his third radio play A Bronchial Carcinoma Coping Radio Play - produced in 1991 by Radio Bremen under the direction of Gerhard Willert - a man monologues about his death for 35 minutes.

In his short stories, novels and stories, published since 2012, invention and autobiographical memory mix.

Dietmar Guth, father of two children, has lived and worked in Rostock since 2012 .

Radio plays

• 1990: Piece 1 / Piece 2 , directed by Gottfried von Eine ; Speaker: Friedhelm Ptok , Horst Bollmann , Gisela Johannson ; RB, 61 minutes, first broadcast: November 27, 1990.
• 1991: Introduction to Kitsch. Deaths, director: Norbert Schaeffer ; Speakers: Margit Carls, Kornelia Boje , Esther Hausmann , Angelika Steils , Andreas Wimberger , Christa Berndl , Helmut Stange , Steve Karier, Felix von Manteuffel , Christin Marquitan , Hans Wyprächtiger , Ilse Neubauer , Horst Raspe and Maria Singer ; BR / RB, 60 minutes, first broadcast: May 24, 1991.
• 1991: A bronchial carcinoma coping radio play, director: Gerhard Willert ; Speaker: Fritz Lichtenhahn ; RB, 35 minutes, first broadcast: September 24, 1991.
• 1992: Boulevard, director: Stefan Hardt; Speaker: Dieter Hufschmidt , Erika Skrotzki and Burghardt Klaußner ; RB, 33 minutes, first broadcast: March 31, 1992.
• 1992: Six stations with Karl Erich Maier, director: Rüdiger Kremer ; Speaker: Dieter Hufschmidt; RB, 12 minutes, first broadcast: May 18, 1993.
• 1993: The Said and the Unsaid, Director: Irene Schuck ; Spokesperson: Marion Breckwoldt and Jens Wawrczeck ; RB, 18 minutes, first broadcast: April 26, 1993.
• 1993: The characters assert themselves , director: Rüdiger Kremer; Spokesperson: Hille Darjes and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger ; RB, 37 minutes, first broadcast: May 18, 1993.
• 1993: Dressage, director: Christiane Ohaus ; Speaker: Helmut Winkelmann , Thomas Kylau and Jürgen Elbers; BR, 12 minutes, first broadcast: May 5, 1993.
• 1993: Proust, director: Christiane Ohaus; Speaker: Friedhelm Ptok; BR, 13 minutes, first broadcast: May 12, 1993.
• 1993: Still life with music box, director: Christiane Ohaus; Speaker: Thomas Kylau and Gustl Halenke ; BR, 11 minutes, first broadcast: August 11, 1993.
• 1993: Forest landscape with walkers, director: Dieter Hufschmidt; Speaker: Gerald Alexander Held , Matthias Brandt and Wolfgang Kaven ; RB, 32 minutes, first broadcast: September 21, 1993.
• 1994: Stinging nettle story, director: Rüdiger Kremer; Speaker: Stephan Bissmeier ; Music: Keith Jarrett ; RB, 22 minutes, first broadcast: February 6, 1995.
• 1995: Old Stories - Ein Kammerspiel, director: Christiane Ohaus; Speaker: Gerd Wameling , Ulrich Tukur and Irene Kleinschmidt ; RB, 81 minutes, first broadcast: July 11, 1995.
• 1995: soap opera, director: Gottfried von Eine; Speakers: Judy Winter , Gerd Kunath , Ulrich Wildgruber , Hermann Lause , Marion Breckwoldt, Gerd Wameling, Susanne Schrader and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger; Music: Ulrich Beckerhoff ; RB, 59 minutes, first broadcast: November 14, 1995.
• 1996: Telephone counseling, directed by Gottfried von Eine; Speaker: Hermann Lause and Ulrich Wildgruber; RB, 6 minutes, first broadcast: March 11, 1996.
• 1996: As in speaking, directed by Gottfried von Eine, Christiane Ohaus and Rüdiger Kremer; Speaker: Barbara Frey , Trudel Wulle , Christel Körner , Joachim Nottke , Walter Schultheiß , Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, Stephan Bissmeier, Sebastian Dominik , Friedhelm Ptok, Otto Sander , Christian Redl , Tina Engel , Donata Höffer , Monika Hansen , Irm Hermann , Irene Kleinschmidt , Sebastian Hufschmidt and Wolfgang Kaven; RB, 104 minutes
• 1998: Poet's dream. Farce, director: Christiane Ohaus; Speaker: Leslie Malton , Friedhelm Ptok and Christian Redl; RB, 59 minutes, first broadcast: December 29, 1998.
• 2008: The soft throbbing in the heart of the ant , director: Christiane Ohaus; Composer: Michael Riessler ; Speakers: Bernhard Schütz , Michaela Caspar , Astrid Meyerfeldt , Traugott Buhre and Regina Lemnitz ; RB, 53 minutes, first broadcast: October 10, 2008.

Awards and grants

• 1991: Radio play of the month May for an introduction to kitsch. Deaths
• 1993: Kurt Magnus Prize
• 1996: Scholarship holder in Worpswede
• 1997: Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in the literature section
• 1998: Working grant from the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg e. V
• 2009: Funding of the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
• 2014: Scholarship from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Publications

• Basalt. Novella. edition m, Weimar and Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-933713-40-7 .
• Three stories of untouchability . Novel. edition m, Weimar and Rostock 2014, ISBN 978-3-933713-44-5 .
• Ways away . Narrative. Grünberg Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-933713-49-0 .
• In other words . freiraum-verlag, Greifswald 2017, ISBN 978-3-943672-98-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietmar Guth in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual proof

1. ↑ Dietmar Guth: Biographical. In: HspDat.to Hörspielatenbank. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Dietmar Guth: Biographical. In: HspDat.to Hörspielatenbank. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Dietmar Guth: A bronchial carcinoma coping radio play. In: HspDat.to Hörspielatenbank. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .