Jörg Jannings

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The radio play director Jörg Jannings in a portrait shot by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold

Jörg Jannings (born November 14, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German director . Until 1993 he was head of word production at RIAS .

Life

Jörg Jannings - a nephew of the actor Emil Jannings - attended schools in Innsbruck and Salzburg. He then took acting lessons in Innsbruck and Vienna. Jannings had his first engagement at the Tiroler Landestheater. Since 1950 he worked for Bavaria in Munich. Since 1953 he took over activities in the production of documentaries at DEFA . In 1957 Jörg Jannings moved to RIAS, initially as assistant to Hanns Korngiebel (1902–1969), who was then senior director. From 1960 to 1968 Jannings was the sound director for the series Wir geht ins Theater.

Since 1962 he has mainly worked as a radio play director. By 2011 Jörg Jannings had created over 134 productions. This also includes radio plays by the author George Tabori , with whom he had been friends since 1978.

Quote

“Jannings comes from a time when the handicraft was valid - his realizations often sound a bit like Orff's instruments, like natural sound, just as the music he uses largely dispenses with modern technology. Above all, Jannings is an actor-director, someone who relies on the charisma of a personality even in the non-optical medium. It is not uncommon for his actors to contort, bend or lie on top of each other in the studio when Jannings considers it appropriate to recite a certain sentence in a certain posture ”(DLF 2000).

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Michael Merschmeier: The guillotine is already in the hallway. Radio play, radio art and theater. A conversation with Jörg Jannings. In: Theater heute, Vol. 30, H. 7 (1989): pp. 20-22.

Opera

Jörg Jannings is one of the five roles in the opera "Comeback" by Oscar Strasnoy and Christoph Hein, together with Tilla Durieux , Emil Jannings, Paul Cassirer and Gussy Holl.

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personal data
SURNAME Jannings, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and former head of word production at RIAS
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin