Heinz von Cramer

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Heinz von Cramer (born July 12, 1924 in Stettin ; † March 24, 2009 at Viterbo , Italy ) was a German author and radio play director . He is considered a leading director of experimental radio plays, in which he has often used his own compositions and various noises as background music and as a supplement to spoken texts.

Life

Heinz von Cramer grew up as the son of Baltic parents in the garrison town of Potsdam . Instead of becoming a farmer or reserve officer according to his parents' wishes, he studied music in Berlin from 1938 to 1943 , with Boris Blacher , among others . In 1944 he deserted and went into hiding in Berlin. (According to other sources, he had to live hidden in Berlin because of his Jewish origins.) After the Second World War , von Cramer worked as a dramaturge , director and later as a radio play author at RIAS . During this time he also wrote opera libretti and ballet texts for Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze and Gottfried von Eine .

In 1953 von Cramer emigrated to Italy and lived as a freelance writer on the island of Procida in Italy. In 1975 he received the war blind radio play award for his production of the Goldberg Variations by Dieter Kühn , and in 1985 for Nightshade by Friederike Roth .

Works

Novels

  • Empress Soraya. Love and intrigue in Persia. Freely edited from contemporary sources by Heinz Cramer. Berlin / Düsseldorf: German book distribution and publishing company, 1954
  • San Silverio Cologne, Berlin; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1955
  • Heaven's concessions . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1961
  • The fictional character . Hamburg: Hofmann and Campe 1961
  • Excerpt from the second book The Color of Freedom , in: Adalbert Keil (ed.): Die Prophezeiung. Gypsy stories. Row: Goldmanns Yellow TB # 1622. Munich 1965. (Anthology, first with Kurt Desch, ibid. 1964) pp. 17–34.
  • The parallel thinker . Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1968
  • The savages of the Cape . Cunning. 1968.

stories

  • Life like in paradise . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1964

Television films

  • 1967 That was Urmuz. Documentation of a case of poetry. Prod .: SFB . (Director)
  • 1967 This man and Germany. Prod .: WDR (script, director: Hans Jürgen Pohland)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1959 The Slap in the Face (RIAS / BR)
  • 1964 The Slap in the Face - Director: Hans Knötzsch (Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1967 Records of an Ordinary Man (HR / SDR)
  • 1974 Lobster Quadrille (BR)
  • 1975 readings (BR)
  • 1978 Barzaz Breiz - singer Bretagne (HR / BR / SR)
  • 1980 Heretic Chronicle (SFB / BR / HR)
  • 1981 Sergei Diaghilew and the classical ballet (DRS)
  • 1983 Popol Vuh (WDR)
  • 1984 exit to Cythera (WDR)
  • 1988 October nights - Les nuits d'Octobre (WDR)
  • 1991 Lacenaire or Die Schurkenehre (BR)
  • 1991 The stone is the stone is the stone is the ... - Four aspects of one and the same phenomenon (SDR)
  • 1992 Isabella or The New Order (SDR / SFB)
  • 1992 The Wrath of God and Man - Attempt at a festival on the threshold of the Age of Unreason (SDR)
  • 1993 That's it, Elvis! or The American Way of Death (NDR / HR)
  • 1994 Landscape at War (YLE / WDR)
  • 1994 Yorik's final words at the turn of the century (WDR)
  • 1995 Alfandar or The People of the Night (BR)
  • 1996 Marivaux or The Execution of Love (WDR)
  • 1996 Night Play with the Dead (HR)
  • 1997 Haydn's head or Der Irrsinn der Welt - A fantasy piece based on a true story and texts from ETA Hoffmann's "Kreisleriana" (WDR)
  • 1999 Jane Austen or Portrait of a Lady writing a novel (WDR)
  • 1999 Underkarls Travel (DLR / WDR / MDR)
  • 2004 Every page is the beginning, every page is the end or states like in ancient Rome (based on sonnets by Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli ) - also directed (NDR)
  • 2006 broadcast 80: "Kruscht"
  • 2008 Lovecraft - Attempt to bring the image of a writer back to life using excerpts from his work (HR)
  • 2008 Flicker, Intoxication and Chainsaws - A Fata Morgana with Michi Herl, Peter Liermann (DLR)
  • 2008 Maeterlinck or Echoes of a Forgotten World (SWR)
  • 2012 Unexpected events A black comedy , director: Burkhard Schmid, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis , radio play of the month May 2012

Radio play director (selection)

Opera libretti

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary SWR , March 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Radio play calendar , April 18, 2009 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Heinz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2009
Place of death near Viterbo , Italy