Günter Schmitz (speaker)
Günter Schmitz (* 1923 ; † January 11, 1996 ) was the first speaker at SWF as well as author , director and speaker for mainly Christian radio plays and audio books such as Five Siblings , The Settlers or Adventures Between Heaven and Earth .
Works
Radio play series
Five siblings
The radio play series about the five siblings (spelling mostly stylized as 5 siblings ) based on the books of the same name by Dieter B. Kabus was published between 1989 and 1990 by Gerth Medien in coproduction with Bella Musica . The cassettes were also released on CD in 2006. Günter Schmitz plays the father of the siblings in the series. The main roles include the voices of Justine Seewald and Katrin Landau , who also worked for radio play authors such as Hanno Herzler and Johannes Osberghaus .
| episode | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five siblings in the adventure castle | 1989 |
| 2 | Five siblings solve the mystery of the adventure castle | |
| 3 | Five siblings in the eerie castle | |
| 4th | Five siblings in the mysterious palazzo | |
| 5 | Five siblings in the enigmatic mansion | |
| 6th | Five siblings in the abandoned monastery | |
| 7th | Five siblings in the strange villa | |
| 8th | Five siblings in the unusual rectory | |
| 9 | Five siblings in the strange hunting lodge | 1990 |
| 10 | Five siblings in a strange patrician house |
The adventure class
Die Abenteuerklasse is a four-part Christian radio play series that was released on cassette by Gerth Medien in 1991 and 1992 . The series is based on the first four books in the book series of the same name by Damaris Kofmehl . Kofmehl wrote the first book in the series in 1986 at the age of 15. The radio play series, which is now out of print, can be heard online on the Kofmehl website.
| episode | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conny runs away | 1991 |
| 2 | The bank robbery | |
| 3 | The treasure on the island | 1992 |
| 4th | Danger in the tent camp |
Adventure between heaven and earth
Günter Schmitz ran the series Adventures between Heaven and Earth with Biblical Stories from 1992 to 1996. He also plays a father himself who, in conversation with his daughter Katrin, played by Katrin Landau, comes across the stories of the Bible, which is then heard in the listening scene rise up. After his death, Hanno Herzler completed the New Testament series with seven more episodes from 1998, and from 2003 also the stories of the Old Testament with eight additional episodes.
| episode | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samson | 1992 |
| 2 | Esther | |
| 3 | Jonah | 1993 |
| 4th | Abraham | |
| 5 | Moses in Egypt | |
| 6th | Moses in the desert | |
| 7th | Elijah | 1994 |
| 8th | Joseph | |
| 9 | David as a young man | |
| 10 | David becomes king | |
| 11 | Samuel | 1995 |
| 12 | Joshua |
| episode | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus - His birth and youth | 1996 |
| 2 | Jesus - the first disciples, the first miracles |
The greatest adventure in the world: the Bible
The radio play series with Dagmar Berghoff was published by Bella Musica in 1988 . Günter Schmitz took part not only as a director , but also as a speaker and author alongside Herbert Martin .
| episode | title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Old Testament 1: Creation story, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the great flood |
| 2 | Old Testament 2: Abraham, Sarah and Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Isaac |
| 3 | Old Testament 3: Jacob and Esau |
| 4th | Old Testament 4: Joseph and his brothers |
| 5 | Old Testament 5: Moses |
| 6th | Old Testament 6: Gideon, Ruth, Samuel |
| 7th | Old Testament 7: David's Youth, David and Goliath |
| 8th | Old Testament 8: David and Saul, David as King |
| 9 | Old Testament 9: Absalom, Solomon, Elias, Elisaeus |
| 10 | Old Testament 10: Jonas and the shark, Babylon, Daniel, homecoming to Israel |
| episode | title |
|---|---|
| 1 | New Testament 1: Joseph and Mary, birth of Jesus |
| 2 | New Testament 2: Herod, flight into Egypt |
| 3 | New Testament 3: Childhood of Jesus, John the Baptist, The First Disciples |
| 4th | New Testament 4: Wedding in Canaa, fishing, leper / paralyzed, youth in Nain |
| 5 | New Testament 5: daughter of Jairus, feeding the five thousand, Jesus walks on the sea |
| 6th | New Testament 6: Good Samaritan, The Prodigal Son, Let the little children come to me, Lazarus |
| 7th | New Testament 7: Mary anoints Jesus, Bartimaeus, entry into Jerusalem, Judas |
| 8th | New Testament 8: washing of feet, communion |
| 9 | New Testament 9: Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus before the Sanhedrin, Pontius Pilate, Peter and the cockcrow |
| 10 | New Testament 10: Crucifixion, Resurrection, Jesus appears to the disciples |
Audio books
The settlers
Günter Schmitz read and produced four audio books in the series Die Siedler by Janette Oke . Other speakers include Renate Renken and Baldur Seifert. The audio books were published in 1990 as double cassettes in coproduction by the publishers Gerth Medien and ERF-Verlag .
| episode | title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Love grows like a tree |
| 2 | Love carries through joy and sorrow |
| 3 | Travel to a new world |
| 4th | Joy remains above everything |
More radio plays and audio books
Other productions by Günter Schmitz include the Christian audio book classic Psalm 23 from the point of view of a shepherd by Philipp W. Keller, a radio play version by Max and Moritz and Kasperle's adventure .
He can be heard as a speaker in the Karl May radio plays by Kurt Vethake .
Non commercial productions:
- 1956: A Prisoner - Director: Gert Westphal (SWF)
- 1964: The Door (based on Georges Simenon ) - Director: Gert Westphal (SWF)
Web links
- Literature by and about Günter Schmitz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Five siblings in the DNB
- ^ Damaris Kofmehl: radio plays. (No longer available online.) In: newchanceinternational.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012 ; Retrieved May 21, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ The greatest adventure in the world: the Bible in the DNB
- ↑ Settlers series in the DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio play director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1923 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1996 |