Holger Münzer

Holger Münzer (2005)

Holger Münzer (born February 14, 1939 in Meßkirch ; † May 14, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German composer , actor and rhetoric trainer .

Life

Münzer was born in 1939 as the son of the senior teacher and musician Artur Anton Münzer (1904–1992) and his wife Luzia Meta Luise Flörke (1908–1975) in Meßkirch. His older brother is the actor and director Michael Münzer .

Holger Münzer was married to the singer and book author Penny McLean from 1967 to 1972 . He lived and worked in Berlin and was a resident of the Berlin artists' colony for a while . Soon after moving in, in January 1988 he founded the association KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, whose director and chairman has been for many years. He worked as a cultural politician in the SPD , of which he was a registered member. He died in Berlin in 2017 and was buried there.

Artistic and professional creation

In the master class of Professor Wilhelm Nauber in Freiburg, Holger Münzer learned to play the violin and the vibrato “from the hand”. In the field of music, in addition to orchestral music, he also created chamber music using the twelve-tone principle for various instruments, film and theater music as well as numerous settings of poetry cycles ( chansons ). His settings of around 45 texts by Erich Kästner and his gutter songs set to music and staged as chansons became particularly well known . In 1969 Münzer worked as a composer on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Love is colder than death with and after 1971 on seven feature films by Rosa von Praunheim , as well as numerous short films and documentaries.

Holger and Gertrude Münzer as Duo Holger & Tjorven (1966)

Among other things, Münzer was the founder of the duos with his wife as Holger & Tjorven and MTH Singers (MTH for M ünzer T jorven H olger) of the jazz-rock band Overground and the musical-literary cabaret Wilde Bühne (1971)

As an actor, he was seen regularly in major roles on German television after 1968, after having worked regularly in theaters in Munich since the 1960s and in Berlin after 1971. Münzer taught from 1991 to 2006 as a rhetoric trainer at the Berlin University of the Arts in the Faculty of Social and Business Communication (GWH).

publication

Holger Münzer: Handbook of Rhetoric. From the craft of rhetoric. First edition, Berlin 1989.
- Handbook of Rhetoric. From the craft of rhetoric. Online as a course since 2002.

Filmography

as an actor

1968: The Careless One (TV film; role: Kurier)
1984: Delitto al Blue Gay (role: Kurt Linder )
1992: Good times, bad times (role: caretaker )

as a composer

1969: Do you play with weird birds (Director: Gustav Ehmck )
1969: Love is colder than death (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder )
1971: Haytabo - False Suspicion (Direction: Ulli Lommel , Peter Moland)
1974: Axel von Auersperg (TV film; director and screenplay: Rosa von Praunheim based on a novella by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam )
1974: Con la música a otra parte (Direction: Fernando Merino)
1975: Berliner Bettwurst (Director and Screenplay: Rosa von Praunheim)
1983: City of Lost Souls (Direction and screenplay: Rosa von Praunheim)

literature

Elisabeth Kiele: Holger Münzer - an obituary - after a year. KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV (publisher), Berlin 2018.

Web links

Commons : Holger Münzer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Holger Münzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Website www.holger-muenzer.de, including u. a .:
- (short descriptive biography) Holger Münzer. ( Memento from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Sad News: RIP Holger Münzer (February 14, 1939 - May 14, 2017). Entry on the Facebook page of The Penny McLean Official Tribute Page. Hans R. de Vries (Ed.), June 1, 2017, accessed on July 21, 2018.
↑ List of residents. In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, undated, accessed on July 21, 2018
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Elisabeth Kiele: Holger Münzer - an obituary - after a year. In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, May 14, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2018.
^ Association history. (at the bottom) In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, undated, accessed on July 21, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Biographical information about Holger Münzer's biography. In: Rhetorik Netz (undated). Until 2016: Holger Münzer (Ed.); since 2016: Matthias Pöhm (see imprint ) (undated). Both accessed on July 21, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Rhetoric courses. ( Memento of February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Online course of the Handbook of Rhetoric in the February 2015 version.

personal data
SURNAME	Münzer, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Atlan; Holger; McLord, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Messkirch , Baden
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 2017
Place of death	Berlin

[FB-PennyMcLeanOfficial-1] Sad News: RIP Holger Münzer (February 14, 1939 - May 14, 2017). Entry on the Facebook page of The Penny McLean Official Tribute Page. Hans R. de Vries (Ed.), June 1, 2017, accessed on July 21, 2018.

[2] List of residents. In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, undated, accessed on July 21, 2018

[Nachruf-20180514-3] Elisabeth Kiele: Holger Münzer - an obituary - after a year. In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, May 14, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2018.

[4] Association history. (at the bottom) In: Website of the KünstlerKolonie Berlin eV, undated, accessed on July 21, 2018.

[HM-RNde-5] Biographical information about Holger Münzer's biography. In: Rhetorik Netz (undated). Until 2016: Holger Münzer (Ed.); since 2016: Matthias Pöhm (see imprint ) (undated). Both accessed on July 21, 2018.

[LehrgRethOnl-6] Rhetoric courses. ( Memento of February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Online course of the Handbook of Rhetoric in the February 2015 version.