Dietmar N. Schmidt

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Dietmar N. Schmidt (born April 23, 1938 in Oels ( Silesia ); † August 14, 2007 in Wuppertal ) was a German cultural manager, theater critic, author and director, in particular of documentaries on cultural topics. He became known for his commitment to an art that moves beyond mainstream and event. Schmidt was a co-founder of internationally significant cultural initiatives.

Life

Schmidt initially worked as a theater critic for the Frankfurter Rundschau, among others, and as a publicist. In 1975 he took over the management of the Ruhr Festival . For the 1980/81 season he was appointed drama director at the Staatstheater Kassel , from 1983 to 1985 he was artistic director of the Würzburg Festival. From 1989 to 2004 Schmidt headed the Wuppertal-based NRW KULTURsekretariat , a culture promotion initiative of numerous North Rhine-Westphalian municipalities.

In 2001 he set up the New Music Theater Fund to promote contemporary opera. Schmidt was also a co-founder of the only German-language playwright competition , the Mülheimer Theatertage NRW 'Pieces' in Mülheim an der Ruhr . The Impulse theater festival founded in 1990 as a competition for independent theaters from Germany, Austria and Switzerland is also to be thanked for his initiative .

Dietmar N. Schmidt was a founding member of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, elected member of the International Theater Institute and the German Academy of Performing Arts , of which he was television commissioner from 1982 to 1988 and vice-president since spring 2000. In addition to his publication activities, numerous documentaries of theater and opera productions were also made under Schmidt's direction.

Most recently, Schmidt was a member of the Theater Commission for Vienna , which was supposed to reorganize the city's stages. According to his family, he died of a cerebral haemorrhage after a serious illness . He leaves behind a wife and grown children.

Works

literature

  • Rolf Finkelmeier: Dietmar N. Schmidt: a non -rest-founder is going into non -retirement. In: Pure theater. 11, 4, 2004, pp. 16-17.

Films (selection)

  • Burning for art. With Christine Mielitz at the opera. Documentation, 60 min., 2003, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: WDR
  • Giuseppe Verdi's “ Othello ”. Scenes from the National Welsh Opera. Documentation, 1995, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: Hessischer Rundfunk
  • Humor as wisdom of the soul. The director George Tabori . Documentation, 1996, written and directed by Dietmar N. Schmidt, HUMOR AS WISDOM OF THE SOUL - DIRECTOR GEORGE TABORI - summary ( memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) by ZDF
  • Antonio Salieri . Memories of a genius. Scenes from the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt. Documentation, 44 min., 1994, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: Hessischer Rundfunk
  • Love, death and passion. Scenes from the Glyndebourne Festival. Documentation, 27 min., 1994, moderation: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: Hessischer Rundfunk , staging: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, conductor: Andrew Davies, music recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic ( Giuseppe Verdi ), camera: Manfred Lowack.
  • Oper-Off or The Scene Kills. Documentation, 60 min., 1991, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: N3 , first broadcast: September 11, 1991, (experimental theater)
  • Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky . Pictures from a composer's life. Documentation, 1989, interpreter: Gennadi Pinjaschyn, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: ARD , first broadcast: November 1, 1989
  • Peter Zadek in conversation with Dietmar N. Schmidt. TV broadcast: ARD 1 plus, August 24, 1989
  • The young Brecht . Documentation, 79 min., 1988, script and director: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: ZDF , with excerpts from: Baal ( Berliner Ensemble ), Drumming in the Night ( Schauspielhaus Bochum ), Man is Man (Schauspiel Frankfurt)
  • Georg Büchner . His plays today, his letters. Documentation, 80 min., 1987, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: ZDF , with excerpts from: Dantons Tod (Bremen Theater, production: Günter Krämer), Leonce and Lena (Burgtheater Vienna, production: Claus Peymann ), Woyzeck (State Theater Stuttgart, production: Jossi Wieler )
  • Wolfgang Rihm and Götz Friedrich in conversation with Peter Wapnewski about “ Oedipus ”. Documentation, 44 min., 1987, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: SWF
  • The Greek tragedy. Insights into three productions. Documentation, 90 min., 1986, written and directed by Dietmar N. Schmidt. Music: Klaus Buhlert, with excerpts from: Thalia Theater Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele , stages of the city of Bonn in the Academic Art Museum
  • Minetti . Lear : a movie. Documentation, Germany, 67 min., 1985, script and direction: Dietmar N. Schmidt, production: ZDF

Dietmar N. Schmidt Prize

  • 2011: Anna Mendelsohn - for outstanding individual artistic achievement for her solo Cry Me A River

Quote

“ Promote what is difficult. "

- Dietmar N. Schmidt

proof

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 15, 2011, p. 12.
  2. ↑ Dietmar N. Schmidt: Support what has a hard time: the NRW culture secretariat in Wuppertal. In: Karsten Rudolph (Ed.): Reform on the Rhine and Ruhr: North Rhine-Westphalia's way into the 21st century. Bonn 2000, pp. 111-113.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Dietmar N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager, publicist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2007
Place of death Wuppertal