Grace Yoon

Grace Yoon (* 1952 in Busan , South Korea ) is a director , actress , performance artist , writer of radio plays and radio features . Since 2015 she has been working as a lecturer in the media department at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. She lives in Munich.

Awards

2014 Grand Prix Nova, International Radio Drama Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2004 Prix Marulić at the Int. Radio Festival Croatia
2000 German Camera Prize
2000 Prix Chasseurs de Sons, France
2000 Best Essay Award at the Montreal World Film Festival
1993 Prix Futura of the BBC

Radio plays and features

Radio feature & audio piece

2020: “How children can learn several languages from an early age” SWR
2019: “The Cabinet of Poetry” Where the poems live SWR
2019: "Between Karthum and Konstanz" The green local politician Mohamed Badawi SWR
2019: "Where language ends, music begins" SWR
2019: “Who makes big out of small things. The poet Jan Wagner . “ORF
2017: "About letters and ears" literacy courses for migrant women SWR
2017: "The Beauty of the Ephemeral" - Georgi Gospodinow ORF
2016: "Before DADA was there, DADA was there" rbb / WDR
2015: "The publisher leaves, the poet stays - Michael Krüger " rbb
2015: “Dear Progress” A radio play with students from the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf SWR
2015: “My generation can change something” SWR
2015: "What was big turned out to be small" - Czeslaw Milosz DLF
2014: “Can poetry save the world? / Can poetry save the world? " Garry Snyder . A portrait of the DLF
2014: "LIECHTIS HASEN - Peter Liechti " rbb / ORF
2013: "Black on Black" DLF
2013: "Theater and Revolution - Judith Malina " DLF
2012: “Meditation” attention in the here and now rbb, BR
2012: "The Mirror of the Orient: Friedrich Rückert " West-Eastern Divan DLF
2012: “ Miriam Makeba : The Life of Mama Africa.” WDR
2011: "Resistance to Disappearance" or: "Memory is appetite" DLF
2011: “Revolution on the Nile” rbb, SWR
2011: "Because of the chord we don't hear" Jorge Luis Borges and Maria Kodama rbb, SWR, ORF
2010: "Lucia Joyce - A story that shouldn't really be told" rbb, DLF, ORF, SWR
2010: “Ausfart” with Hartmut Geerken DLR Culture
2010: “In the beginning there is music” BR-Klassik, DLF
2009: “Life after the Fall” SWR
2008: "The women of 68" SWR, NDR
2008: "Music on quiet feet" Rupert Huber ORF
2008: "The Myth of UMM Kulthum " WDR, rbb, DLF, ORF
2007: "Lady Day, The Life of Billie Holiday " with Alfred Koch, Prix Italia 2007 Work on Music / Short lists DLF, ORF, rbb, NDR 2007
2006: “The Suez Canal / Mirror of Egyptian History” rbb
2005: "Route 181 / Eyal Sivan & Michel Khleifi " rbb
2005: "Cut Up / J. Ploog “SWR
2004: "Words stay on the coast - Sufis" rbb, SWR, DLF (Prix Marulic 2004)
2003: "Frauenbrücke" ( Marusa Kresse ) DLR, rbb, ORF
2002: "Afghanistan Readymade" SWR
2002: " Allen Ginsberg - a homage" rbb, SWR
2002: "Citylight / Lawrence Ferlingghetti " WDR
2001: "Performing Body / Marina Abramovich " SWR
2001: "Beat-No Beat / Ira Cohen " SWR
2001: "Sana`a, the gateway to Yemen" rbb, SWR
2001: "Not in my name / Judith Malina -Living Theater" SWR
2001: "None of your own a stranger / TBJellon" SWR
2000: "A book is like a stone / Mohamed Mrabet " SWR
2000: "Aleppo" RBB 2000 (Prix Chasseurs de Sons 2000)
1999: "If the world were a village" SWR
1999: "From fireplace to microwave" SWR
1999: "Tick-Tack" SFB / ORB
1999: "Ramadan" (co. U. Kannenberg) DLR, SWR, SFB
1998: "Experimentum Mundi" SWR
1997: "Bomb Beats" SFB
1997: "Ahlan Cairo" SWF
1997: "Al Nour Wal Amal" SFB
1996: "Donuts: Phil Minton " SWF, SFB
1996: "Animalia" SFB, SWF, Deutschlandradio Berlin
1995: "Hertz-ripping: Demetrio Stratos " WDR
1994: "Sitgim-Kut in Mu-Wo-Li" SWF

Children's radio play adaptation and director

2007: with Katrin Zipse “The Giant Girl and the Minipops 1 & 2” SWR Director: Grace Yoon

Audio art, radio drama

2017: "Love after Love" by Ilma Rakusa radio play adaptation , rbb, ORF

2015: "Murmel" by Dieter Roth radio play adaptation, DLR, SWR

2014: "Anna Livia Plurabelle / Finnengans Wake " rbb Kulturradio 2012, Grand Prix Nova

2011: “The Scream of Silk” DLR Culture

2009: "Step by Step" SWR

2008: “Pannonica / The jazz musicians and their three wishes” SWR

2007: "Stein-Time" SWR

2007: "Access only through wall 2" DLR

2006: "Access only through wall 1" SWR

2005: “Sonnentango” composition: Luis Borda , Roman Bunka , Jost Hecker, vocals: Stella Maria Adorf SWR

2005: "Paper Opera - Fluxusradio 1" SWR

2005: "Paper Opera - Fluxusradio 2" SWR

2004: "The Veloren Räuber" (G.Yoon and Michael Wogh) SWR

2004: "From whom about it / listening time for the moment" SWR

2003: “Welt Markt” art radio / 6-channel installation HR

2002: "Orbis" SWR

2001: “Family Affair” string quartet: Ernst Reijseger , Xizhi Nie, Roman Bunka, Vladimir Volkov Choir: Susanne Abbuehl, Lauren Newton, Oded Ben-Horin, Bertl Mütter SWR, DLF

1999: "Illusion of the End" WDR, live radio play with Mal Waldron, Jeanne Lee, Serguei Letov, Youri Parfenov, A. Alexandrov, Roman Bunk a, Blixa Bargeld , Peter Dicke, C. Jungbauer (Internet mix) Talking Heads: Oskar Pastior , Ulrike Trüstedt, Herman de Vries , Marusa Krese , Bernhard Waldenfels , Doris Dörrie , Malachi Favors with Blixa Bargeld, Kyoto Monks, Ensemble Muchen SWR, WDR

1998: "Boxerpoet" / Arthur Cravan (G.Yoon and Roman Bunka) with Martin Wuttke a . David Murray BR

1996: "Grace Im Drachenland" BR

1995: "Earborn" (G.Yoon and Roman Bunka) with Greetje Bijma , Trinovox, Albert Kuvezin BR, SR

1994: "Koreagraphie 1-3" Life radio play with Jeanne Lee, Monty Waters , Sainkho Namchilak , Conelia Melian, Christian Burchard , Limpe Fuchs, Martin Umbach, Peter Bear, Maren Strack, Valeri Scherstjanoi , Shirly Hirsch, 25 ..... BR, NDR, SWF

1992: "Less than the sea" (G.Yoon and Hans-Jurgen Schmidt) BR

1991: "Tunguska-Guska" (Grace Yoon, Sainkho Namchilak and Iris Disse) with Sunny Murray a . Hartmut Geerken Director: Grace Yoon u. Roman Bunka BR (Prix Futura 1993)

Discography

1993 Tunguska Guska / A Meteorite Opera (Snowball)
1996 Earborn (Jaro)

Filmography

2000 Experimentum Mundi by Grace Yoon and Doris Wedemeier
1991 Tatort: The Chinese Method

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Yoon, Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South Korean director, actress, performance artist, writer of radio plays and radio features
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Busan , South Korea