Helmut Kopetzky

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Helmut Kopetzky (2007)

Helmut Kopetzky (born September 4, 1940 in Mährisch-Schönberg ) is a German radio feature writer .

Life

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Kopetzky began his journalistic career as a newspaper reporter and editor in Fulda . From 1972 to 2007 he worked as a freelance writer and director mainly in Berlin.

Kopetzky was a co-founder of the campaign "Journalists warn of nuclear war" (1983). He organized feature workshops in Germany, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Kenya, Poland, Romania, Moldova, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. 2002–2008 he also works as a coach for the Master School of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Helmut Kopetzky has been living in Fulda again since 2005, where he and his wife set up a digital audio production studio.

Kopetzky produced over 100 long features and feature series for radio. The focus was on the First and Second World War, social life in the Federal Republic, the Soviet Union / Russia (historical accounts and everyday reports), South America, the Middle East (Syria, Israel), and the unification of the two German states.

In February 2008, Helmut Kopetzky was the first feature author to receive the Axel Eggebrecht Prize for his life's work. The Kopetzky private archive (120 digitized programs and extensive context material) was transferred to the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt / Main (location: Potsdam-Babelsberg) in 2017 .

Working method

The trade magazine Cut reported on the production of the Fulda radio portal Ein Tag in der Stadt (Hessischer Rundfunk, 2001): “Kopetzky's work starts where Big Brother and the webcam leave off. The material is sifted, processed and compacted. He shifts the individual takes over and over again and mixes the recordings until they sound authentic and best reflect the impression he got on site. "With regard to the question of the authenticity of his radio features, Kopetzky says:" We may have to recreate the original sounds in the studio - what seems typical to us; what we still have 'in our ears' as the sum of our impressions. Montage and sound mixing are acoustic retelling of what we heard and experienced on the spot. Good radio, especially a feature, is reconstruction ”.

Awards

Works

Radio features
  • Marriage to the enemy. Bundeswehr takes NVA. Prod .: SFB / BR / Funkhaus Berlin / NDR / WDR, 1991.
  • Night talks in Damascus. Prod .: SFB / BR / hr / NDR / SR, 1995.
  • Big kids. Days and nights at nineteen. Prod .: SFB / BR / hr / NDR / SR, 1996.
  • Lenin returns . Prod .: DLR Berlin, 2000.
  • One day in Europe , 16 hours (hr2 1999)
  • A day in the city , 16 hours (hr2 2001)
  • Ernst Schnabel. A man in a race against time. Prod .: MDR, 2003.
  • Monkey theater in Epidaurus. About faded sound spheres and the acoustic perception of the world. Prod .: DLR Berlin, 2004.
  • The stone and the consciousness. Close-ups from the autonomous scene. Prod .: BR / HR / DLF, 2005.
  • Men in the motherland. Post-war children on the couch. Prod .: RBB, 2006.
  • Crucifix. The logo of the Abendlandes Prod .: NDR, 2008.
  • The radio as a world teller - obituary for the magnetic tape time , Prod .: DLF / SR (2009)
  • The Unteachable - Why Mackie Messer Jumped Out the Window , Prod .: NDR (2010)
  • Love and other incidents - growing up with Down's syndrome , Prod .: DLR / RBB (2011)
  • Enemies like us - youth on the battlefields of the First World War , NDR / RBB 2014
  • The artificial head man , NDR / DLF 2017/18
Fonts
  • Objective Lies - Subjective Truths: Radio in First Person . A workshop report , 2013. Free web link on the homepage www.helmut-kopetzky.de.

literature

  • Catalog raisonné in: Michael Lissek (Ed.): History and aesthetics of the radio feature. "Something is there, unmistakably stubborn, which lies beyond the meaning of the words ...". Contributions to the first Rendsburg Feature Symposium 2010. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-0385-7 , pp. 220–226.
  • Patrick Conley: Event Radio. In: Cut. Vol. 5, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 36-38, (About Helmut Kopetzky and the hr2-Radiotag).
  • Elke Thiele: On the method of the radio feature. An examination of selected works by Helmut Kopetzky. Diploma thesis, Leipzig 1993.
  • Udo Zindel , Wolfgang Rein (ed.): The radio feature (= practical journalism series. 34). Including CD with audio samples. 2nd, revised edition. UVK Verlags-Gesellschaft, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-499-7 , (short biography, p. 389).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.helmut-kopetzky.de/vita/vita-kurz/
  2. ^ Jan Kopetzky: About me. In: Jan Kopetzky. Retrieved December 20, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ a b Radio feature: Helmut Kopetzky honored with the Axel Eggebrecht Prize. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Radio is sound - and how we make sounds speak . swr radio blog from February 25, 2015, accessed on 20. December 2019

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kopetzky, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German feature author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Schönberg