Hermann Bohlen

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Hermann Bohlen (born April 4, 1963 in Celle ) is an author and producer of radio plays and radio plays . Bohlen studied Sinology in Hamburg , Berlin and Shanghai from 1986 to 1992 . His first radio plays were written during his studies and he has been working as a freelance radio play maker since 1995.

Life

Bohlen's early pieces like Chewed !! (Until it runs down by itself) (1990) and Die Wauwautheorie (1995) play with the sounds of language and show a pataphysical interest in the philosophy of language. Chewed !! portrays the life reformer Horace Fletcher in an artificial language made up of German, Low German, English, Chinese and French; Wauwautheorie is about onomatopoeia .

With Procedure 7.7.0 (1996), Bohlen uses  the original audio play as a fake, following the tradition of the radio play War of the Worlds staged by Orson Welles as a radio report . Bohlens play introduces a world in which those who refuse to communicate are implanted with transponder chips for identification . As in almost all of his radio plays, this one speaks exclusively to laypeople. "Although the manipulation effort is enormous, Bohlen goes beyond some attempts at apparently transparent truth-finding in the documentary original audio play, with whose genre-specific requirements he plays with virtuosity."

In 'Sack hau'n (1996) works “as a simulation (or as a fake) of interactivity. (...) characters from (the) story as well as literature telephone users comment and criticize (the) story ”.

In Say it, too, or Das Luxurieren der Bastarde (1998), Bohlen assembles private sound recordings found elsewhere on flea markets and creates a “fascinating, 50-minute panorama of a transition period between the slowly fading war and the slowly emerging pop”. He proceeds in a very similar way in Onager (2004), even though he creates more intimate situations here.

Since procedure 7.7.0 all of his pieces were improvised according to the author's instructions, he only rarely works in Grasses Flying (2005) for the first time again with a production manuscript . The Süddeutsche Zeitung called this radio play the “high point of his work so far”. Bohlens "first-person narrator seems like a revenant Robert Walser who walks through George Orwell's 1984".

In 2000, Bohlen designed and presented the plop competition for independent radio playmakers at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , of which he was appointed a member in 2009.

His radio play Lebensabend in Übersee , WDR 2014, was nominated for the Prix ​​Italia 2015 and the radio play award of the war blind .

Works

List of radio plays and radio plays:

  • Percy Stuart escapes the hand grenade , Radio 100 , 1988, 55 min. (Together with Stefan Ripplinger and Holger Wilke)
  • Dialogs from the Hell of Corporate Identity , Radio 100 , 1989, 45 min. (Together with Stefan Ripplinger)
  • Chewed !! (Until it runs down by itself) , Radio 100 , 1990, 52 min. / Südwestrundfunk , 1998, 20 min.
  • Scaffolding & Crime , RIAS , 1991, 30 min.
  • Die Wauwautheorie , Deutschlandradio Kultur , 1991, 34 min. (Together with Frieder Butzmann , also released as CD)
  • Procedure 7.7.0 , Sender Free Berlin , 1996, 33 min.
  • Rin in the potatoes, out of the potatoes (supplement to procedure 7.7.0 ), Deutschlandradio Kultur , 1996, 22 min.
  • In 'Sack haun , WDR , 1996, 54 min.
  • Radio plays and other sounds in pop music. A research , in-house production, 1997, 24 min.
  • Do you train yourself? , Südwestrundfunk , 1997, 24 min.
  • Say something too! Or The Luxuring of the Bastards , DLR Berlin , 1998, approx. 50 min. Also available as LP.
  • Everything under control , Saarländischer Rundfunk , 1999, approx. 13 min.
  • Deer call hunters, hunters deer , in-house production, 2001, approx. 35 min.
  • Deer in conversation (Supplement to deer call hunters ... ), in-house production, 2001, 28 min.
  • In expert mode (system savings bank) , in-house production, 2002, approx. 4 min.
  • Not only in southern Germany , in-house production, 2003, 12 min. (Together with Jürgen Eckloff)
  • Onager. A three-part journey of discovery into the world of the fifties , part 1: sad animals , part 2: Maria begins , part 3: question number one , Radio Bremen / Rudolf-Alexander-Schröder-Stiftung , 2004, 60 min.
  • Grasses only rarely fly , Südwestfunk 1949–1954 / Südwestrundfunk 2005, approx. 53 min.
  • I am not against reality at all, on the contrary , in 2007, four-hour program on Günter Eich broadcast simultaneously by all ARD stations .
  • I don't say anything anymore. Günter Eich in conversation , Deutschlandradio Kultur , 2008, approx. 29 min.
  • Alfred C. From the life of a grain dealer , Deutschlandradio Kultur / Hessischer Rundfunk , 2012, approx. 57 min.
  • Retirement in Übersee , WDR 2014, length 52'58 min.
  • The language of the wild boars: Schwein-Heinz , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2017, 49'37.
  • Blind Spot - On the track of the madness of road traffic , WDR 2019, 51'20.

Awards

literature

  • Christian Deutschmann : Sitting up straight. The ' week of the radio play ': not just for the ear . In: epd Medien , No. 92, November 26, 1997, pp. 7-10.
  • Frank Kaspar : The lovable hedgehog rumbles in the thicket. Please don't bend: 'Deer call hunters, hunters deer' (WDR) . In: FAZ , August 14, 2001, p. 49.
  • Frank Kaspar .: Wrong tone. Radio play week: is the radio the haven of authenticity? . In: FAZ , November 13, 2003, p. 44.
  • Frank Kaspar: Animal. Bernhard Grzimek, not as a nice uncle: "Onager" (RB) . In: FAZ , July 26, 2004, p. 34.
  • Eva-Maria Lenz : The escape. 'Grasses only rarely fly' by Hermann Bohlen (DLF) . In: FAZ , April 25, 2006, p. 44.
  • Jochen Meißner : The unsortable . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 7, 1998, p. 31.
  • Jochen Meißner: Assembled with virtuosity. Hermann Bohlen: Procedure 7.7.0 . In: Funkkorrespondenz , No. 29–30, July 19, 1996, p. 29.
  • Jochen Meißner: Fake of interactivity. Hermann Bohlen: In 'sack haun . In: Funkkorrespondenz , No. 51, December 20, 1996, p. 36.
  • Jochen Meißner: Hermann Bohlen . In: Thomas Kraft (ed.): Lexicon of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 . Nymphenburger, Munich 2003, pp. 141-143
  • Frank Olbert : Whoever fakes it. Unsortable at 'Antonio': The 'Week of the Radio Play' . In: FAZ , November 18, 1997, p. 44.
  • Antje Vowinckel : About radio play material, authenticity on the radio and a piece by Hermann Bohlen . In: Material Re Material. Remix & Copyright - published by the Berliner Festspiele. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2004 (MaerzMusik series), pp. 56–69
  • Pictures are bad, sounds are good . The authors Hermann Bohlen and Christoph Kalbitzer talk about the art of writing radio plays. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 11, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Vowinckel : About radio play material, authenticity on the radio and a piece by Hermann Bohlen . In: Material Re Material. Remix & Copyright . Edited by the Berliner Festspiele. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 56-69, here pp. 66f.
  2. ↑ Jochen Meißner: Hermann Bohlen . In: Thomas Kraft (ed.): Lexicon of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 . 2 vols. Nymphenburger, Munich 2003, p. 142
  3. ↑ Ulrich Stock: audio film, sound collage, radio play, opera ... Annotated discography . Zeit-Online, December 11, 2003
  4. ↑ Tobias Lehmkuhl: The sound tinkerer: The compositions of the radio play maker Hermann Bohlen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 7, 2006
  5. ↑ Planks. Academy of Arts, members
  6. ^ Future for Retirees - Retirement in Übersee , Deutschlandradio Kultur from September 30, 2015
  7. ↑ Radio play: Die Sprache der WildschweineSchweine-Heinz , deutschlandfunkkultur.de December 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bohlen, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play author and producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle