Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil

Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil (* 1944 in Pleismar ) is a German dramaturge , writer and radio play author .

Live and act

Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil was born as the son of a Protestant pastor and grew up in Lodersleben . After the wall was built and immediately before graduating from high school, he was evicted from Schönebeck for political reasons. Numerous submissions from the father finally made a study of Protestant theology a. a. possible in Naumburg . Since 1967 he has written articles for the features of various newspapers and magazines such as Neue Zeit , Theater der Zeit , Die Weltbühne and Das Andere Theater . The state examination in Greifswald was followed in 1968/69 by a master class with Wolfgang Heinz at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , to which Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil had applied on the recommendation of Adolf Dresen with an essay on the two different heavens in Goethe's Faust I and Faust II .

Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil then worked as a production assistant in the Oberspree cable factory in Berlin, as a theater director in Magdeburg , Neustrelitz and Zittau , as a press assistant in the VEB Robur-Werke, as head dramaturge in Prenzlau and as a book seller in East Berlin.

With the support of Peter Gugisch , whom Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil and Adolf Dresen had known since his student theater days in Greifswald, he began working as an audio dramaturge for the GDR radio in 1976 . He devoted himself to radio play facilities for plays by Sternheim , Barlachs and Matusches . In 1980 his first own radio play The Clear Word of Scripture was published - a dispute between Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer , which has seen numerous repetitions and European adaptations with great success up to the present day. For example, through Werner Grunow's guest productions in Finland and Norway or also in Italy and Romania.

The original staging of the radio play by Joachim Staritz was not broadcast in 1980, because the direction and cast conception of Luther placed the figure of Luther in a clearly critical light. The official Luther honor due for his 500th birthday in 1983 was, however, endeavored to upgrade the previous image of Luther, and therefore the text was staged again by the director Wolfgang Schonendorf .

In 1982 Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil switched to freelance work as an author, dramaturge and director. From January 1990 to July 2009 he worked as a full-time teacher at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , including for the history of puppet theater. Since then he has been a freelance writer again.

Radio plays and radio play adaptations (selection)

• Der Blaue Boll , radio play adaptation of the play by Ernst Barlach , director: Peter Groeger , Rundfunk der DDR 1978
• Die Hose , radio play adaptation of the play by Carl Sternheim , director: Werner Grunow , Rundfunk der DDR 1979
• On both banks , radio play adaptation of Alfred Matusche's play , director: Peter Groeger, Rundfunk der DDR 1980
• The clear word of the script , music: Volker Bräutigam , director: Joachim Staritz , with Alexander Lang (Müntzer), Günter Zschäckel (Luther) and Fred-Arthur Geppert, discarded first production from 1980, retained as a home tape copy, first broadcast: 27. October 1998, MDR CULTURE
• The clear word of the script , music: Volker Bräutigam, director: Wolfgang Schonendorf , with Kurt Böwe (Luther), Dieter Mann (Müntzer) and Horst Hiemer , second production, first broadcast: November 9, 1980, Radio DDR II
• Public singing in front of two electric chairs , radio play adaptation of the play by Armand Gatti, in German by Gerda Scheffel. Music: Ralf Hoyer , director: Fritz Göhler , Rundfunk der DDR July 12, 1981
• A conversation in the Stein house about the absent Herr von Goethe radio play adaptation of the stage play by Peter Hacks , directed by Werner Grunow, Rundfunk der DDR 1981
• If you love a nutcracker , radio play adaptation based on ETA Hoffmann's Nutcracker and the Mouse King , director: Christa Kowalski , Rundfunk der DDR 1982
• A house to ourselves , 28th episode of the series ` ` Offenses '' , technical assistance: Public Prosecutor Dieter Plath, director: Walter Niklaus , Radio DDR I, July 6, 1983
• The king and his smith ; Radio play adaptation of the legend "Wieland the blacksmith", directed by Christa Kowalski, Rundfunk der DDR 1984
• Saplings radio play processing after Suliko Shgenti, directed by Norbert Speer
• Farewell to Freudenheim , director: Werner Grunow, Rundfunk der DDR 1985
• Bettine and Clemens or Nahe goes to divorce , music: Reiner Bredemeyer , director: Horst Liepach , Rundfunk der DDR 1987
• The Odyssey of Odysseus , radio play adaptation in six parts based on Homer, music: Wolfram Bodag , director: Werner Buhss , Rundfunk der DDR 1988

Radio essays and features (selection)

• Jan Hus - burned, but undefeated , Radio DDR II 1982
• The Allstedt experience , reading and conversation with Karin Köbernick, broadcast on November 26, 1989, Berliner Rundfunk
• Views and Fate of Jan Hus , Feature, DS-Kultur 1990
• Luther's only church consecration - 1544 in Torgau , MDR FIGARO 2015
• Lucas Cranach the Middle, number two of the painter dynasty , MDR FIGARO 2015

Books

• The clear word of scripture. , Radio plays, edited by Christa Vetter , Henschelverlag Berlin 1982, therein E.-F. Kratochwil's radio play text, pp. 15–40
• The clear word of the scriptures , German-English radio play script for submission to PRIX ITALIA 1982, Rundfunk der DDR
• Le clair message des ecritures , German-French radio play script for submission to PRIX ITALIA 1982, Broadcasting of the GDR
• The Allstedt experience , narration in fictitious documents, 221 pages, Union-Verlag Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-372-00291-1
• German puppet and mask theater since 1900 , 228 pages with illustrations, Schibri-Verlag Berlin, Strasburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86863-089-3
• German puppet and mask play up to 1900 , 385 pages, with picture section and appendix of pieces and scenes, Book on Demand by PRO BUISINESS Berlin 2015; ISBN 978-3-86386-815-4

Stage plays

• Der Mut des Evariste Galois , play, in: Theater der Zeit, issue 3/1987, pp. 52–64

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil in the catalog of the German National Library
• Radio essay: Luther's only church consecration - 1544 in Torgau , MDR FIGARO 2015 for listening
• Feature: Lucas Cranach the Middle, number two of the painter dynasty , MDR FIGARO 2015 to listen to

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The clear word of Scripture. Henschelverlag Berlin 1982, p. 199