Immo Sennewald

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Immo Sennewald (born October 10, 1950 in Suhl ) is a German theater director , actor , author of television productions, writer and freelance publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Suhl, Sennewald completed a physics degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he finished with a thesis on the behavior of laser light in thin optical layers. He then got a job as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In addition to his studies, Sennewald had worked as an extra in theater productions at the Berliner Volksbühne and Shakespeare's "Leben und Tod König Richard III" ( Deutsches Theater Berlin ) since the beginning of the 1970s , where he made the acquaintance of critical directors, authors and actors who made him change careers moved. When the Institute for Drama Directing was founded in Berlin in 1974, he enrolled in directing studies. In 1979 he finished this with a degree in acting director. Then he was engaged at the theater ( Schwedt an der Oder ).

He left this theater because of ongoing interventions by the State Security, founded the first and only independent theater production in the GDR , worked as a freelance director and actor in theaters, on radio, film and television, as a radio and voice actor, lecturer in drama at the Academy of Dramatic Art and worked as an author in Berlin until 1984 when a professional ban suppressed his work.

In March 1989 he was granted expatriation and relocation to the Federal Republic. Here he changed the medium and started freelance work as an author and speaker of radio and television productions for RIAS and RIAS-TV Berlin and, since April 1992, for Deutsche Welle TV (DW-TV) Berlin. At Deutsche Welle TV Berlin he also worked as a television editor and presenter until the end of 1999.

Starting in 1995, Sennewald produced a series of features about the education system in the unified Germany as a freelance journalist and television producer for DW-TV in Bochum, Cologne and Berlin. He has lived and worked in Baden-Baden since 2000 as an author of films from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, architecture and technology, psychology, medicine, social and economic sciences for various magazine and news programs on behalf of ARD and ZDF . In 2006, he published the communication science book "Der Mensch Kosmos" at Salier Verlag Leipzig and a trilogy on contemporary historical upheavals in the GDR and the Federal Republic between 1968 and 2010 with the novels "Blick vom Turm", "Babels Berg" and "Raketenschirm".

Television productions

  • 1990 "From Museum Piece to Superbahn" (S-Bahn and U-Bahn in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall; 30 min., For RIAS-TV)
  • 1993 "Studying in Germany" (study situation in old and new federal states; 30 min. For Deutsche Welle TV)
  • 1995 "Salt Makes History" (history and present of salt production in Bavaria; 30 min. For DW-TV)
  • 1996 "Studied and unemployed" (On the situation of unemployed academics; 30 min. For DW-TV)
  • 1997 "Campus - Bildung und Beruf" (six-part series of features about the German education system from school to university; 30 minutes each for DW-TV)
  • 1998 "Enemies, Strangers, Friends - Franco-German Approaches" on the history of German-German cultural relations since 1945 (30 min. For DW-TV), economic contributions for "Made in Germany"
  • 2005 International production "Between jungle and metropolis - China's undiscovered faces" ( ZDF / 3sat )

Radio productions

  • 1976: Heinrich von Kleist : Michael Kohlhaas (von Meißen) - Director: Hans-Dieter Meves (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
  • 1976: Antonio Skármeta : The Search (Soldier) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1991 "I didn't turn around - the poet Wilhelm Müller", feature for RIAS Berlin
  • 2005 "The Meekness of the Dai and the Hard Business - Ethnic Minorities in China", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2006 "Mao's death and China's awakening - political struggles for direction in the new Middle Kingdom", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2007 "Can't the world be saved anymore? - The Rudolf Bahro case", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2009 "Wikipedia's great grandfather - the Lexicon-Meyer", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2009 "Kalashnikov - Career and Curse of a Wonder Weapon", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2010 "Steinbach - the village of the assassins", Feature SWR2 "Leben"
  • 2010 "Death of a Reformer - Managers and the Leadership Culture of the Future", Feature SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2010 "The Pearl Seller - Luxury and Survival in China's Holiday Paradise", Feature SWR2 "Life"
  • 2011 "The physical memory - how our body remembers", Feature SWR2 "Life"
  • 2011 "Evenings after nine - A successful author as a street musician", Feature SWR2 "Leben"
  • 2011 "For China from exile - the poet Liao Yiwu", Feature SWR2 "Leben" and "Tandem"
  • 2012 "Resource shortage and jungle struggle - GDR policy in Africa", SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2012 "Ropes", SWR2 "Knowledge"
  • 2013 "More than a court decision - the perpetrator-victim compensation", SWR2 "Tandem"

Books

  • 2006 "The human cosmos - feelings, conflicts, strategies" published by Salier Verlag Leipzig
  • 2008 "View from the Tower" novel published by Salier Verlag Leipzig
  • 2010 "Babels Berg" novel published by Salier Verlag Leipzig
  • 2013 "Raketenschirm" novel published by Salier Verlag Leipzig

Weblog

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sennewald, Immo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, actor, author of numerous television productions, writer and freelance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl (Thuringia)