Judith Lorentz

Judith Lorentz (* 1974 in Berlin ) is a German radio play and theater director .

Life

Lorentz studied German and Hispanic Studies in Berlin, Freiburg i. Br. , Madrid and Buenos Aires . During her studies she was an assistant director at Deutschlandradio Kultur and then from 2003 to 2005 she was a trainee for radio play directing at Südwestrundfunk . She is married, has two children and lives in Berlin.

Her “orchestral radio play” The War of the Buttons , which was created in collaboration with the composer Henrik Albrecht , received the German Audio Book Prize 2009 for “Best Children's Audio Book ”. It exemplifies the director's interest in opening up radio plays to music and theater. She also staged this and other pieces as "live radio plays" for the theater audience. The critics praised Lorentz's "sovereign sense of rhythm and nuances" and her "precise and easy" way of staging.

Author productions

• 2001. Off the track . (With Hermann Bohlen ). In-house production (EIG) / DLR
• 2003. Too young to be old . (With Sabine Wollowski ). DLR
• 2005. Subject . (With Britta Steffenhagen ). EIG
• 2011. Be ways . (With Britta Steffenhagen). SWR

Radio play adaptations (script and direction)

• 2006: Esmahan Aykol : Hotel Bosporus . SWR
• 2006: Esmahan Aykol : Baksheesh . SWR
• 2006: The Canterville Ghost . Orchestra radio play based on Oscar Wilde . SWR / HR / BR / DLR / NDR
• 2007: The button war . Orchestra radio play based on Louis Pergaud . SWR / NDR / BR / HR / MDR / WDR / DLR
• 2008: Half our life . After John Mighton . DLR
• 2009: Peter Pan . Orchestra radio play based on James M. Barrie . NDR
• 2010: I'm now a hairdresser . After Laila Stieler . RBB
• 2010: Saint Eddy . After Jakob Arjouni . DLR
• 2010: Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows . After Andreas Steinhöfel . WDR
• 2010: Rico, Oskar and the heartache . After Andreas Steinhöfel. WDR
• 2012: The teacher . After Laila Stieler. With Juliane Schmidt . RBB
• 2014: Something from there . After Tino Hanekamp . NDR / WDR / SWR
• 2015: Before the festival . After Saša Stanišić . With Juliane Schmidt. RBB
• 2018: Unterleuten . After July Zeh . NDR / RBB

Radio play productions

• 2000: The Good God of Manhattan by Ingeborg Bachmann , EIG / DLR
• 2004: Sultan and Kotzbrocken by Claudia Schreiber , SWR
• 2005: Little Nick by René Goscinny , SWR / Diogenes
• 2006: The seat of Karl Heinz Bölling , DLR
• 2007: A little more to the left of Dunja Arnaszus , RBB
• 2007: Stadt, Land, Fisch by Paul Brodowsky , WDR
• 2008: Radio Tobi by Peter Jacobi , DLR
• 2008: Small vineyard by the sea by Albert Wendt , MDR / DLF
• 2009: Bach's Reiche by Torsten Enders , MDR
• 2009: Wild animals in Berlin by Marianne Weil , DLR
• 2009: The Beatles in El Vesubio by Erich Hackl , SWR
• 2009: Sneak Preview by Maja Das Gupta, SWR
• 2010: Unter Wasser by Ulrike Almut Sandig , SWR
• 2010: Dunja Arnaszus : Futsch . With Britta Steffenhagen , DLR
• 2011: Watchdog from Sabine Stein , NDR
• 2011: Nina and Paul von Thilo Reffert , DLR
• 2011: Counterfeiter from Maja Das Gupta, SWR
• 2012: Alfred C. - From the life of a grain dealer by Hermann Bohlen , DLR / HR
• 2013: Black birds based on the novel of the same name by Gunnar Gunnarsson , DLR
• 2013: Jens Raschke : Do fish sleep? (Children's radio play - DKultur)
• 2014: Lichtbogen by Irmgard Maenner , DKultur
• 2014: Hans Delbruck : Doctor mendacii , DKultur
• 2014: Sabine Bergk : ICHI or the dream of the novel , DKultur
• 2014: Hermann Bohlen : Retirement in Übersee (Sha Ji Jing Hou - Slaughtering a chicken to intimidate the monkeys) , director: with Hermann Bohlen (WDR)
• 2015: Esther Becker : Supertrumpf (children's radio play - DKultur)
• 2015: Ingrid Noll : Hab und Gier (crime radio play - DKultur)
• 2016 Because Germany is a constitutional state by Maja Das Gupta, SWR
• 2009: Nikola Richter : Midnight Shopping , SWR / DKultur
• 2012: Anna-Luise Böhm : Ampelmännchen are not pets (children's radio play - DKultur)

Radio play speaker

• 2003: Stefan Amzoll : Putze Polina - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (radio play - DLR )

Theater productions (selection)

• 2006. The common being . From Hermann Bohlen. Young Theater Bremen
• 2009. The button war . After Louis Pergaud. Young Theater Bremen
• 2010. Peter Pan . After James M. Barrie. ARD Children's Radio Play Day, Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM)
• 2012. Duck, Death and Tulip . After Wolf Erlbruch. Young Theater Bremen.

Awards

• 2007 Ernst Schneider Prize for the production of Die Lebenspraktikanten by Nikola Richter
• 2007 Radio Play of the Month August for Something More Left by Dunja Arnaszus
• 2007 International Children's Radio Play Award of the Turkish Radio TRT ( Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu ) for The Canterville Ghost based on Oscar Wilde
• 2008 World Medal in bronze at the New York Festival for Radio Broadcasting for War of the Buttons according to Louis Pergaud
• 2009 Children's Radio Play Prize of the City of Karlsruhe for Radio Tobi by Peter Jacobi
• 2009 German Audio Book Prize for The War of the Buttons according to Louis Pergaud
• 2011 Zonser Hörspielpreis for I'm nu mal a hairdresser by Laila Stieler
• 2012 German radio play award of the ARD for Alfred C. - From the life of a grain dealer by Hermann Bohlen
• 2014 German Children's Radio Play Prize for Tyrannosaurus Max by Peter Jacobi
• 2018 radio play of the month October for Unterleuten von Juli Zeh
• 2019 German audio book award in the category "Best Radio Play" for Unterleuten von Juli Zeh

Web links

• Judith Lorentz in the audio play database Hoerdat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Whoever wants to hear can feel", whoever wants to hear can feel the director in the Berliner Zeitung , November 29, 2008.
2. ↑ Monika Röth: “ German audio book award : three winners have been chosen!” Audiobooks magazine , February 13, 2009.
3. ↑ Jury statement ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Audio Book Prize, website.  
4. ↑ Renate Stinn: "Berliner Charme" (about Ick am nu times a hairdresser ). epd Medien , No. 44, June 9, 2010.
5. ↑ Message ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Henschel publishing house. 
6. ^ The winners: The German Audio Book Prize. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .