Gerta Stecher

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Gerta Stecher with the "Sailor Song" by Bertolt Brecht (May 2010)

Gerta Stecher (* in today's Chemnitz ) is a German author , journalist , director , dramaturge , camerawoman , photographer and diseuse .

Career

Gerta Stecher grew up in Magdeburg and Fürstenwalde / Spree . At the age of four she was already on the catwalk and had her first costume appearance. From the age of 8 to 15 she received intensive training in children's ballet. From the age of 17 she worked as a photo model and mannequin. She has lived in Berlin since she was 18 .

Gerta Stecher studied cultural theory / aesthetics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Her academic teachers included Dietrich Mühlberg , Walter Hofmann , Wolfgang Heise and Karin Hirdina . She finished her studies with a diploma .

activities

After graduating, Gerta Stecher was employed as a dramaturge at the DEFA studio for documentary films . Her colleagues, whose films she accompanied dramaturgically, include the directors Roland Steiner , Ernst Cantzler , Jochen Kraußer , Andreas Voigt , Günter Jordan , Helga Porsch , Petra Tschörtner , Christiane Hein and the cameramen Hans-Eberhard Leupold and Gunter Becher .

From 1983 to 1989 Gerta Stecher was a member of the Berlin Literature Center under the direction of Petra Grande . At the same time, literary works, especially short stories and radio plays, were published .

In 1990 she received a working grant for Berlin writers. In the same year she was a participant in the final reading of the fourth “Tuttlinger Literature Prize for Unpublished Prose”.

After all DEFA studios (feature film, documentary film, animated film) had been closed in the course of reunification , Gerta Stecher switched from unemployment to self-employment .

From then on she worked, interrupted by an ABM position at the Potsdam College (1991–93) and an ABM / LKZ position in the regional association for cultural youth education (1995–1998), as a freelance writer and journalist for radio and television stations as well as for print media.

She worked for the broadcasters Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), 3sat , Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), Deutschlandradio Berlin , Deutschlandradio Kultur , Deutschlandfunk and various print media such as the cultural-political ver.di magazine Kunst & Kultur . Her preferred work topics are art and culture , women and Latin America .

From 1992 to 1998 she was a member of the New Society for Literature.

From 1997 to 2001 she worked on television programs for the broadcast series “Ungeschminkt” on the Brandenburg radio on indigenous women in Bolivia and Honduras, on mulatto women in Peru (such as María Elena Moyano ) and in the USA, on statues of women in cemeteries, on partnership-relevant women Social issues (with Rita Süssmuth , former President of the German Bundestag ), about the first female police force in Prussia , about the southeast Europe culture association in Berlin.

By 2012 she had produced around 60 radio and television programs and features, also as an author, camerawoman and director.

In 2003, the opera “Das Beben” was premiered in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich under the direction of Ekkehard Klemm , for which Gerta Stecher wrote the libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist's novella The Earthquake of Chili . The composer is the Armenian Avet Terterjan . The opera was recognized as a sensational success in the press: Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

In the years from 1995 to 2008 she published several books in documentary prose. To do this, she undertakes research-intensive preparatory work both at various theater and opera stages in Germany for the book “Only the young King Lear has something to laugh” and in Latin America for “True Stories from the New World” or in Brandenburg history books, files and archives for "The Unserious History of Brandenburg" (together with Hans-Otto Dill ). The handling of research is thanks to her experience as a documentary filmmaker and journalist.

The writing of the cultural biography "Karl Richter - A long life for 'black art' and its unions", in which the life of a person is written down from an artistic or cultural perspective, probably the first of its kind, is methodologically based on the Findings from your university studies (Karl Richter, former state district chairman IG Druck und Papier Berlin / West). This book is the first volume of the Karl-Richter-Edition of the Karl-Richter-Verein Berlin.

Gerta Stecher at a reading ( Leibniz Society , 2013)

She organizes various readings from her books and her collage " Lise Meitner - 'Amazone' of atomic science".

As a photographer

She also works as a photographer and illustrated some of her print media articles as well as two of her books or book covers with photos.

She has published photos in various magazines and journals in Germany as well as in Mexico and Cuba and in 1998 in the illustrated book “Photographs from Brandenburg”.

As a photographer, she works thematically and has thirteen photo exhibitions that she shows across Germany. For some of them it offers lectures accompanying the exhibition, paired with its own radio or television reports.

As a diseuse

In 1998 Gerta Stecher took a performance / pantomime course at the NoTechFest in Berlin with Tadashi Endo .

From 2005 to 2013 she was a member of ver.diChor Berlin eV under the direction of Natalya Chaplygina .

From 2006 to 2011 Gerta Stecher attended Johanna Arndt's annual chanson workshop . Arndt is one of Gisela May's first students and like her, an experienced Diseuse, is also a chanson teacher. In addition to her chanson training, Gerta Stecher performed her own chanson program.

Since 2013 she has been working mainly as a diseuse and is on the road with six programs in which she not only develops the concept as a singer, but is also her own director , costume designer , choreographer and presenter / commentator . This multifunction is particularly evident in the programs “SOLO in DUET”, “ALLES THEATER” and “WAR, hurray”.

Her three favorite song genres, all from the 1920s to 1950s, are the German chanson, songs by Bertolt Brecht and, finally, titles from film, comedy and revue.

In addition to these five solo programs, she organizes the talk concert “Mulattin” together with Hans-Otto Dill .

And as the “CHANSONETTAS” she appears together with Heidi Riehm in the programs she developed “Berlin, crazy thing” and “KRIEG, hurra”.

Your program-bound pianistic companions are Christiane Obermann, Andreas Wolter , Wolfgang Panwitz, Christian Zacker, Michael Letz. She also worked with Uwe Streibel, Karin Coper and Tobias Bartholmeß.

Linking their diverse activities

She successfully creates a link between the results of her various activities, two examples here:

First: As a journalist, she sat in on Gisela May's chanson workshop , condensing this into one of the texts in her book “Only King Lear has something to laugh” and this is part of her musical-literary program “ALLES THEATER”.

Second: As a journalist she produced the television report “Statues of Women in Cemeteries”, as a photographer the photo exhibition “Women for Eternity”, as an actress the photo-text performance “Poses of Eros and Eternity” and finally the combination of photo exhibition, film screening and song titles from their chanson program "WEIBERLIEDER" to an independent evening event.

Artistic creation

Filmography

Narratives (selection)

  • 1984 to 1989, 4 volumes of poems and stories , published by the Berlin Literature Center
  • 3/1981, 2/1984, 4/1985 TEMPERAMENTE , Verlag Neues Leben Berlin
  • 32nd year / May 1984 and 36th year / January 1988 new German literature , published by the Writers' Association of the German Democratic Republic
  • 1987, issue 41 and 1988, issue 45 LITFASS, magazine for literature , series Piper, R. Piper GmbH & Co.KG, Munich
  • 1988 PARTNERSHIPS. Change in love. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle – Leipzig
  • 1989, issue 5 literature at 11. Hitzeroth, Marburg

Radio plays and features (selection)

  • 1981 The singer. Broadcasting of the GDR
  • 1988 Eremischin. Broadcasting of the GDR
  • 1988 No adventure story. Broadcasting of the GDR
  • 1992 I am the main prize. Radio Brandenburg
  • 1992 Sixt Enderlein in paradise. Radio Brandenburg
  • 1992 Private by Regine Hildebrandt , Brandenburg Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women in the first Brandenburg state government after reunification. Radio Brandenburg
  • 1996 marble, stone and iron. Radio Brandenburg
  • 1997 ... the dreamland with the most beautiful city in the world. Radio Brandenburg
  • 1999 Mestizo Baroque. Germany Radio Berlin

Books (selection)

  • 1995 The un serious history of Brandenburg. (with Hans-Otto Dill ). Weymann Bauer Verlag Rostock
  • 2007 True stories from the New World - people from everyday life in Latin America. edition tranvía-Verlag Walter Frey Berlin
  • 2007 Only the young King Lear still has something to laugh about - from the inner workings of the theater and stage world. trafo Verlag Berlin
  • 2008 Karl Richter - A long life for 'Black Art' and its unions. VSA Verlag Hamburg
  • 2013 Collage on Lise Meitner , “Amazone” of atomic science.

Photo exhibitions (selection)

  • Effi kisses Fontane Literary traces in and around Potsdam
  • Uckermark crosses Beautiful prospects, slightly damaged - the lyrical Uckermark landscape confronts the evidence of fatal car accidents
  • Women for Eternity Statues of women in cemeteries in eight countries on two continents
  • Cholitas of La Paz From domestic slaves to domestic servants - Bolivian indigenous people founded a maid union
  • The real wonder - the thousand faces of Latin America “Humanity in miniature on one continent”, the coexistence and coexistence of Indians, mestizos, whites, mulattos, blacks and Asians gives the Latin Americans their special human flair
  • Houses and hats The small town of Washington, the first city of that name in the USA, in the state of Georgia.

Musical programs (selection)

  • 2008 Lecture Concert MULATTIN!
  • 2009 literary-musical program ALLES THEATER!
  • 2011 chanson theater program SOLO in a DUET
  • 2012 WEIBERLIEDER chanson program
  • 2013 CHANSONETTA program Berlin, crazy thing
  • 2014 chanson program BRECHTs left and right
  • 2014 song program ROT to ROSAROT
  • 2014 CHANSONETTA program WAR, hooray
  • 2017 chanson program BY BERUF DAME
  • 2018 literary-musical program Bertolt Brecht - Love does not winter - songs & poetry
  • 2019 song program Das BLAU der Welt or The whole world is sky blue

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ own spelling preferably with capital letters , especially on its website: GERTA STECHER.
  2. ↑ Gerta Stecher in the culture foundry. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Danuta Kisiel: INSELGALERIE Berlin | Reading and discussion: "Lise Meitner - an Amazon of Atomic Science". Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Film Details: Youth Time (1978). Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 1994 TV report, culture magazine "Querstraße" Radio Brandenburg, about the Italian painter Gabriele Mucchi .
  6. ↑ 2003 Heilbronner Kleist-Blätter 15, pp. 31–33, Kleist-Archiv sembdner Heilbronn.
  7. ↑ 1999 "Photographs from Brandenburg", Edition Fotografie in Marianne-Verlag Berlin
  8. ↑ Photo exhibitions (selection)
personal data
SURNAME Engraver, Gerta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author, director, dramaturge, photographer and diseuse
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz