Dietmar Schünicke

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Dietmar Schünicke (born May 9, 1944 ) is a German choir director .

Act

In 1971 Dietmar Schünicke founded the Rellinger Kantorei. From 1970 to 2008 he worked at the Christianeum in Hamburg, where he led the school choirs, of which the A choir has been one of the largest school choirs in Germany with around 400 members for many years. The lower school choir, made up of single-level choirs with students from the 5th to 7th grade, also has a total of approx. 450 members, approx. 95-97% of all students sing in the choir at least in the 5th grade.

In 1988 the choir took on the musical design of the central ceremony on the day of national mourning in the then federal capital Bonn in the Beethoven Hall with Mozart's Missa solemnis , with a direct broadcast by the ZDF and subsequent reception by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

Under Schünicke's direction, the Christianeum's A choir went to China in March 2005, where it performed Carl Orff's " Carmina Burana" in six different schools and universities in Beijing and Shanghai . In 2007 there was a trip with the lower school choir to Prague and Theresienstadt ; the children's opera Brundibár , written in Theresienstadt, was performed there. A performance of this work in Altona was recorded and published on CD. Dietmar Schünicke retired in summer 2008. Michael Jan Haase succeeded him in 2008; Timo Sauerwein has directed the choir since 2010.

After his retirement, Schünicke founded an alumni choir of the Christianeum, with which he performed the German Requiem by Brahms in Rellingen and Altona in 2012 and in October 2014 in Beijing and at the Tongji University in Shanghai under the patronage of Helmut Schmidt .

Honor

On December 5, 2005 Dietmar Schünicke received the ' Medal for Faithful Work in the Service of the People ' in silver from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from Hamburg's Senator for Culture, Karin von Welck, for services to the school .

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  1. ^ Website of the Rellingen parish
  2. ^ Website of the A choir
  3. ↑ Sandra-Valeska Bruhns: With Orff in the satchel to China . Die Welt, March 2, 2005
  4. ↑ Luciano Lodi: Brundibár performance in Theresienstadt . In: Christianeum , volume 62, issue 2. Hamburg 2007. pp. 14–21
  5. ↑ Link to the DNB
  6. ↑ Farewell: He built up the choirs from the Christianeum . Hamburger Abendblatt, December 11, 2007
  7. ↑ Article in the Pinneberger Tageblatt
  8. ↑ Press release of the Elbe Wochenblatt with photos ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elbe-wochenblatt.de
  9. ^ Homepage of the Christianeum: History of the school
personal data
SURNAME Schünicke, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1944