Joachim Staritz

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Joachim Staritz during a radio play production in the early 1990s, photo by Werner Bethsold

Joachim Staritz (born November 12, 1932 in Berlin ; † May 17, 2001 in Munich ) was a German radio play director .

Life

Joachim Staritz came from a Berlin family of actors. He was the older brother of Dietrich Staritz . After graduating from high school in 1953, studied theater studies at the Humboldt University at an East Berlin high school. 1955 Exclusion from the SED and relegation. Continuation of studies in Hanover and Paris, later at the Free University of Berlin. Arrested in East Berlin in March 1958 and sentenced to eight years in prison (Brandenburg) for alleged treason. His early release from prison in 1962 came under the direction of the State Security Service , to which he had committed himself (code name "Robert") in the Brandenburg prison. After his dismissal, since the mid-1960s, radio play director for the radio in the GDR. 1977 first directing award of the radio play critic jury of the GDR.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, she has also worked as a director for ARD radio play departments and in Switzerland and was also active there for the Stasi until the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1997 he received the prestigious radio play award of the war blind for the production of the play Compagnons und Concurrenten by Ingomar von Kieseritzky . For the MDR he directed a. a. Thomas Brasch's Mercedes , Dylan Thomas ' Margate , Karl Mickels Irrgang's Confession , Jens Sparschuh's The Great Coup and Isaak Babel's The Cavalry Army . The latter directorial work and adaptation by Staritz was honored with the German Audio Book Prize in 2003 as the best audio book .

Joachim Staritz has made his own radio broadcasts of works by Bertolt Brecht , Volker Braun, but also by younger authors such as Oliver Bukowski and Holger Böhme .

Radio play productions

Broadcasting of the GDR
ARD and DeutschlandRadio
  • 1992: Pastoral care on the glacier according to Halldór Laxness , MDR; Mercedes by Thomas Brasch , MDR
  • 1993: The Holy Family in the personnel office of Gerhard Zwerenz , ORB; Man in the train, man in the house, man in the bush by Andreas Knaup , MDR
  • 1993: Andreas Berger : Bank robbery (detective radio play - MDR)
  • 1994: The raft of the Medusa by Georg Kaiser , MDR; Deceit of Philip Roth , SDR; Frizzy death of Holger Böhme
  • 1995: Wiesau is the gateway to the world by Irmgard Maenner, SDR; Unta de Dächa by Ingo Schramm, ORB; Trumpets of the Dead by Einar Schleef , MDR; Moni's men from Oliver Bukowski , DLR; Andreas Knaup's slaughterhouse , DLR / SDR
  • 1996: Compagnons and Concurrenten or The True Arts by Ingomar von Kieseritzky , SDR / DLR; Lord of the Flies by William Golding , MDR; Margate by Dylan Thomas , MDR
  • 1996: Holger Böhme: Still life with village and corpses (radio play - ORB / RB)
  • 1997: Bahlke's last love from Oliver Bukowski, DLR; Irrgang's confession by Karl Mickel , MDR; Still mother of Holger Böhme, MDR
  • 1998: The Baden lesson on the consent of Bertolt Brecht , SFB-ORB / MDR; The big coup by Jens Sparschuh , MDR;
  • 1998: Pierre Bourgeade : The Pass (radio play - MDR)
  • 1998: Volker Braun : The Dust of Brandenburg (radio play - DLF / SFB)
  • 1999: Isaak Babel : Die Reiterarmee (also several speaking roles) (radio play (3 parts) - MDR / DLR)
  • 2000: Dark Fish by Joachim John , SFB-ORB; Night Train by Martin Amis MDR / SWR
  • 2001: Donor heart from Torsten Enders, MDR; Solstice. Dead dog by Holger Böhme , SFB-ORB / NDR

Prices

  • 1977 Director's Prize of the Critics' Jury for his production On a rainy morning by Hans D. Brandt, Rundfunk der DDR
  • 1997 Radio play award of the war blind for his production Compagnons und Concurrenten or The true arts by Ingomar von Kieseritzky, SDR / DLR
  • 2001 German audio book award "Best Audio Book" for his production The Reiterarmee by Isaak Babel, MDR / DLR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Matthias Thalheim: A reminder of the radio play director Joachim Staritz: The management instructor lowered her eyes in the Berliner Zeitung on September 1, 2001, accessed on March 18, 2014
  2. Jochen Staadt: One hundred and fifty pieces - radio play director Joachim Staritz and his alter ego "Robert" in: FAZ from September 11, 2001, p. 55
  3. ^ Matthias Thalheim: Addendum to the obituary for the radio play director Joachim Staritz: Unbridled Man of Art in the Berliner Zeitung of September 13, 2001, accessed on March 18, 2014
  4. ^ The Stasi in Switzerland on Swissinfo.ch, accessed on September 14, 2018
  5. all of the productions mentioned up to this point were made on radio in the GDR