Dietrich Mack (dramaturge)

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Dietrich Mack (* 1940 ) is a German author and film producer as well as a former dramaturge at the Bayreuth Festival and head of the TV film and music department at Südwestrundfunk (SWR).

After studying philosophy, theater, music and art history in Cologne and Vienna, Mack worked in the 1960s and 1970s as assistant director, dramaturge and press manager of the festival and later co-editor of Cosima Wagner's diaries in Bayreuth .

Until 2005 he worked for Südwestfunk (SWF) and its successor Südwestrundfunk (SWR). As a producer and editor he was responsible for films such as Lenz or Die Freiheit (1986), Alone Among Women (1991), Goebbels and Geduldig (2002) or Heimat 3 - Chronicle of a turning point . With the merger of the SWF and SDR in 1998, Mack became head of the TV games and music department at SWR. He had to resign in 2002 as head of the film and series department. He has been a freelance writer and producer since 2005. He also held various teaching positions, for example at the Universities of Erlangen and Mainz, at the Danube University Krems and at the Research Institute for Music Theater at the University of Bayreuth.

Mack was married to Gudrun Armann from 1970 to 1975 .

Publications

  • Views on the tragic and tragedy: a compendium of German theory in the 20th century. Munich 1970.
  • Bayreuth Festival: the idea, the construction, the performances. Festival management publisher, Bayreuth 1974.
  • Wagner: a documentary study. Comp. and edited by Herbert Barth, Dietrich Mack, Egon Voss . Preface by Pierre Boulez . Documents translated by PRJ Ford and Mary Whittal. Thames and Hudson, London 1975, ISBN 0-500-01137-0 .
  • Bayreuth Festival: the idea, the construction, the performances. 4th edition, supplemented by Oswald Georg Bauer. Festival management publisher, Bayreuth 1976.
  • A Lustrum - research institute for musical theater at the University of Bayreuth Schloss Thurnau 1976-1981. Thurnau 1981.
  • Wagner's women (= Insel-Bücherei 1373). Insel, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-19373-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography as Scientific Advisory Board at the Austrian Center for Film and Choreography at Danube University Krems, accessed on August 10, 2013
  2. ↑ All kinds of personal details . In: Kress.de from April 20, 1998, accessed on August 11, 2013
  3. ↑ message in Kress.de of 15 April 2002, accessed on August 11, 2013
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Messner: Highnoon in Baden-Baden In: taz.de of October 29, 2001, accessed on August 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1940