Gerd Buurmann

Gerd Buurmann (2017)

Gerhard "Gerd" Buurmann-Burkert (born May 22, 1976 in Haren an der Ems ) is a German author , blogger , presenter , director and actor .

Life

According to his own statements, Gerd Buurmann is the son of a seaman and a seamstress.

In Emsland he staged the play Haren (Ems) und Ich (1997) and, in collaboration with the amateur theater group stage fright, the verse drama Sometime you have to pay! (2000) by Martin Gliebe.

After a stay abroad in the USA in 1998/99, where he attended the preparatory community college of Lake County and courses of the Jewish community Congregation Solel , he moved to Cologne . There he studied at the University of Cologne and later became self-employed as an actor, presenter, author and director. He is married.

Buurmann has been a member of the FDP since mid-2011 .

Act

Gerd Buurmann (2015)

Buurmann was an actor in Cologne a. a. in the art heater with The Company of Fish by Richard Aczel , in the theater im hof with Die Insel by Athol Fugard , in the Arkadaş Theater - Stage of Cultures with Celia and the Vampire by Laura Bravo, in the Solana Theater with Macbeth , in the Theater Tiefrot with Die Curve by Tankred Dorst and in the Severins-Burg-Theater as Shylock in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice .

On November 8, 2001, he founded the literature event Literatur at eight , which he moderated weekly for seven years until November 4, 2008 in the Café Duddel in Cologne. In 2003 he played the leading role in the world premiere of Elsa Bernstein's drama Wir Drei in a production by Viktoria Burkert, which was performed in the Piccolo Theater in Cologne , among other places . He has been traveling in Germany with Nikola Müller and Isabel Rohner since 2006 in order to bring Hedwig Dohm's work to life again in staged readings that are enriched with theatrical recordings .

On January 1, 2007 he played for the first time under the name of art against cash . From January 2008 to the beginning of 2011 Buurmann was artistic director of the Severins Burg Theater in Cologne. Since October 2010 he has been working as a presenter and director for ARTheater in Cologne. In March 2011 he opened his theater concept An Evening Without Barbra Streisand in the First Cologne Living Room Theater .

In 2012 he started an initiative whose aim is to name an unnamed intersection in Cologne-Sülz after the theater director Ingund Mewes Ingund-Mewes-Platz. Since 2012 he has played regularly in front of the Cologne Cathedral as part of an event by Colonia Prima Heinrich Heine and presents a large number of the poems that Heine has composed about Cologne.

Since 2015 he has been writing regularly for the Jüdische Rundschau , since April 1, 2018 regularly for Tichy's insight . He is also a regular guest author at the Axis of Good .

controversy

Gerd Buurmann filed several charges against the activist Walter Herrmann , who was active in Cologne and who died in 2016, on suspicion of sedition . The initial suspicion was based on a caricature of the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2010 , which was displayed on the Cologne Wailing Wall . A photo from the FAZ was shown, on which a protester held up an illustration of a headless man who ate a small child and feasted on its blood. In Buurmann's opinion, it uses anti-Semitic clichés in the style of the striker . The Simon Wiesenthal Center subsequently praised Buurmann for the advertisement. In 2011 Buurmann again filed a complaint. The public prosecutor's office in Cologne did not recognize any incitement to hatred in either case and closed the investigation. In 2014 Herrmann was acquitted again, but in April 2015 he was sentenced to a suspended sentence by the Cologne District Court for violating the protection of minors.

Roles in world premieres

• The fool in Sometime you have to pay by Martin Gliebe in the Forum Haren (Ems) (WP 1999)
• Richard in Wir Drei by Elsa Bernstein (staging: Viktoria Burkert) at the Solana Theater in Cologne (premiere 2003)
• Gregor Munori in Der Vorsager by Arndt Kremer (production: Laura Bravo) at the Pailou Theater in Cologne (premiere 2005)
• A Man in The Company of Fish by Richard Aczel at ARTheater in Cologne (premiere 2006)
• Ernst Zacharias in Insomnia by Vayhinger / Fechner at ARTheater in Cologne (premiere 2006)
• Hein in Two Queens by Caroline Bliemel at the Severins-Burg-Theater in Cologne (premiere 2009)
• Salomon in Morgen still here by Viktoria Burkert in the Severins-Burg-Theater in Cologne (premiere 2010)
• Donny Winkler in Broken Hearts City by Joseph Vicaire at Arkadas Theater in Cologne (World Premiere 2014)
• Martin Kern in Night with Bär by Viktoria Burkert at the Theater aus Glas in Cologne (premiere 2016)

Staging of world premieres

• Haren (Ems) and Me by Gerd Buurmann in the Forum Haren (Ems) (WP 1998)
• At some point you have to pay by Martin Gliebe in the Forum Haren (Ems) (WP 1999)
• After September 11th, the world is no longer what it was before! by Viktoria Burkert and Gerd Buurmann at the Solana Theater in Cologne (premiere 2002)
• Inside by Gerd Buurmann at the Solana Theater in Cologne (WP 2003)
• Gerd Buurmann's pen freely based on ideas by Klaus Mann and Erika Mann in the Solana Theater in Cologne (premiere 2003)
• The Black Monk by Gerd Buurmann based on a short story by Anton Chekhov in the Solana Theater in Cologne (world premiere 2004)
• Schmitze Schäng un dat Gerti by Holger Hegemann in the KGB in Cologne (premiere 2007)
• Brains on the Beach by Gerd Buurmann in the Severins-Burg-Theater in Cologne (World Premiere 2008)
• Star hunt by Rumjana Zacharieva in the Severins-Burg-Theater in Cologne (premiere 2009)
• Love or not ?! by Martin Cordemann in the Severins-Burg-Theater in Cologne (premiere 2010)
• But only in a contingent! by Gerd Buurmann in the synagogue community Cologne (WP 2013)
• Höpker and Buurmann have a row from Buurmann / Höpker / Vicaire in the Theater Tiefrot (premiere 2014)

Establishment of theater concepts

Gerd Buurmann was involved in the founding of several theater concepts

• Literature at eight. First performance on November 8, 2001 in Cologne's Café Duddel
• Art for cash first performance on January 1st, 2007 in the Eifeturm theater
• An evening without Barbra Streisand First performance on March 1, 2010 in the First Cologne Living Room Theater
• SUCK - Stand Up Comedy Cologne First performance on January 23, 2013 at ARTheater, Cologne

Works

• The elephant. In: Fair copy 1 - Cologne anthology. van Aaken Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-938244-00-3 .
• In the beginning . In: Fair copy 2 - Cologne anthology. van Aaken Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938244-07-4 .
• "DrinneN" and "Brains on the Beach". Two pieces. (Ed .: Gerd Bedszent ). trafo Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86465-022-2 .

Web links

Commons : Gerd Buurmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gerd Buurmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of Gerd Buurmann
• Brave in nowhere , blog by Gerd Buurmann

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater group stage fright ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of Emskultur eV
2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Schoolinfo on studyillinois.siuc.edu .
3. ↑ http://www.fdp-koeln-innenstadt.de/koepfe/gerd-buurmann/
4. ↑ neon.de
5. ↑ ksta.de ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2007 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. 
6. ↑ dradio.de
7. ↑ Colonia Prima
8. ^ Articles by and about Gerd Buurmann in the Jüdische Rundschau
9. ↑ Gerd Buurmann at Tichy's insight
10. ↑ Short profile and articles by Gerd Buurmann at the Axis of the Good
11. ^ Scandal at the "Wailing Wall": Anti-Israeli agitation remains unpunished in Cologne . World online . Retrieved October 8, 2010
12. ↑ Benjamin Weinthal: Germany starting to grasp nature of modern anti-Semitism . In: The Jerusalem Post . February 24, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2010; Benjamin Weinthal: Cologne tolerates 'anti-Semitic' exhibit . In: The Jerusalem Post. March 2, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
13. ↑ Kirsten Serup-Bilfeldt: "The hatred in the heart of the city" Chronicle of an anti-Semitic scandal: The "Wailing Wall" in front of Cologne Cathedral. Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 10, 2010, accessed on June 10, 2011 . 
14. ↑ Wiesenthal Center Applauds Gerd Buurman for Demanding the Close of Cologne "Wailing Wall" Antisemitic Exhibit ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2011 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. . Simon Wiesenthal Center website , April 19, 2010. Accessed October 8, 2010. 
15. ^ New complaint against Walter Herrmann ( memento from February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Blog Gerd Buurmanns. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
16. ^ Public prosecutor: No sedition . Website of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Retrieved October 8, 2010; Jews for the Public Prosecutor ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2011 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. . Blog Gerd Buurmanns. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
17. ↑ Claudia Hauser: Kölner Domplatte: acquittal for the initiator of the Western Wall , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 12, 2014
18. ↑ Uri Degania: Condemnation of the "Wailing Wall Operator" , HaGalil , April 13, 2015
19. ↑ ksta.de ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2010 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. 
20. ↑ ksta.de