Georg Kostya

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Georg Kostya (born March 8, 1935 in Brno ; † January 25, 2011 in Munich ), actually Johann Gerhard Kosteletzky , was a German radio and television presenter at Bavarian Radio .

Life

Kostya was a trained carpenter, but took up acting training after completing his apprenticeship. After his first stage appearance, he switched to the drama school in Munich. He was first seen as a film actor in 1957, but a year later he fell ill with polio . After that he could no longer walk and remained in a wheelchair . It meant the end of his acting career, even if he had a few smaller film appearances afterwards, including in the feature film At 17 you don't cry or in the television series Die Schnell Gerdi .

In 1965 Georg Kostya became a freelancer at Bayerischer Rundfunk, where he worked as a program designer and spokesman for Club 16 , a weekly program with changing moderators. From the establishment of the third radio program in 1971, he was employed as a radio presenter at Bayern 3 . His specialty was rock 'n' roll of the 1950s and 1960s. In allusion to his wheelchair, he was nicknamed "Rolling Schorsch", with which he always said goodbye at the end of his programs.

For decades, he moderated the program Out of my Rocktasche, which was discontinued several times due to the change in music taste and station formats and was reintroduced on new program slots or other stations. With 1112 episodes in 33 years, Die Rocktasche was the longest-running music show on Bavarian Radio. It was first broadcast on December 25, 1972 and ran on December 18, 2005 on Bayern 2 Radio for the last time. Georg Kostya retired for reasons of age and health.

Other well-known programs with him in the 1980s were the popular daily oldies show The Beat Goes On , which alternated with Julia Edenhofer , and Rockhouse, which was broadcast on the first Sunday of each month . The latter was related to the Rock House e. V. , which Kostya founded in 1979 to promote the Bavarian music scene and to help up-and-coming bands to perform. He also brought the Spider Murphy Gang on the radio, who sang a rock and roll song in Bavarian dialect for the first time for his show, which was also the title song of Rockhouse . Kostya is considered to be the discoverer of the band that made their breakthrough throughout Germany in the early 1980s. In her autobiographical feature film he led in 1983 even directed and wrote the screenplay. Another band that he brought to a big stage for the first time were the Continentals .

He also continued with the campaign steps away for Disabled concert halls one. Among other things, he was also involved in the establishment of the Alabama Hall in 1981 .

He also moderated the Saturday Club on Bavarian television and commented on numerous documentaries and reports with his distinctive voice.

Georg Kostya, who last lived in Graefelfing , died in January 2011 at the age of 75. His son is the actor Matthias Kostya .

Radio plays

Radio features / documentation

  • 2001: The little girl and the big hero - From the correspondence between Marie Hannes and Karl May - Bayern2Radio - history and stories, 25 min.

literature

  • Heide Stockinger: amateur play and stage art. Post-war theater in Linz using the example of the “headlight” 1949–1954. Linz 2006, p. 81 ff. ( Online ; PDF file; 2.13 MB).
  • Draw a trace. In a wheelchair to a rock concert: The Munich "Rock House" integrates the disabled . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1980, pp. 181 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28, 2011, accessed on February 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Pophistory BR , Magnetofon-Forum ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Schwabinger Ehrenpreis , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Holger Stürenburg Forever Young: The Sounds of the Cool Decade 2001, pp. 189, 194
  4. ↑ History of Continental
  5. ^ Obituary Augsburger Allgemeine ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
  6. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Mourning for Georg Kostya , accessed on January 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kostya, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosteletzky, Johann Gerhard (real name); Kosteletzky, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio host
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2011
Place of death Munich