Karl Bruckmaier

Karl Bruckmaier (2018)

Karl Bruckmaier (2009)

Karl Bruckmaier (* 1956 in Lower Bavaria ) is a German presenter, critic, author and radio play director.

Career

Karl Bruckmaier studied communication science, political science and American cultural history. Since 1978 he has moderated music journalistic programs on Bayerischer Rundfunk (Club 16, Zündfunk , Nachtmix, Nachtsession) on a regular basis . From 1985 to 1987 he was editor of the BR magazine Zündfunk. From 1981 to 2018 he wrote pop reviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

He began his career as a radio play director in 1989. In the early 1990s, he initiated the first poetry slams in Munich .

From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the “Open Project Funding” jury of the German Federal Cultural Foundation .

Karl Bruckmaier lives in Munich.

Awards for radio play and audio book directing

• Elfriede Jelinek , Jackie , War Blind Radio Play Award ( 2004) and German Audio Book Award (2005)
• Peter Weiss , The Aesthetics of Resistance , Audio Book of the Year (2007) and German Audio Book Prize (2008)
• Alexander Kluge , Chronicle of Emotions , German Audio Book Prize (2010)

Radio plays

As a director and / or editor

• Amiri Baraka : When Miles Split (BR 1994)
• Samuel Beckett : Pochade Radiophonique (BR 2005) ISBN 978-3-89940-802-7
• Yvan Goll : The Eurokokke (BR 2004)
• Elfriede Jelinek : Jackie (BR 2003) ISBN 3-934847-69-2
  • Moosbrugger doesn't want to know anything about himself (BR 2004)
  • Bambiland (BR 2006) CD from Intermedium ISBN 3-934847-56-0
  • Envy (BR 2011)
  • Light in the box (BR 2017)
  • Am Königsweg (BR 2017) CD at Intermedium
• Romuald Karmakar : Night over Gospic (BR)
• Alexander Kluge : Chronicle of feelings (BR 2009) ISBN 3-88897-588-3
  • The paw of nature (and we humans) - The earthquake that struck the world in Japan and the sign of Chernobyl. (BR 2011) CD from Kunstmann Verlag ISBN 978-3-88897-762-6
  • April 30, 1945: The day Hitler shot himself and the Germans began to bind the Germans to the West. (BR 2015) CD from Kunstmann Verlag ISBN 978-3-95614-050-1
  • The new alphabet (BR 2019)
• Thomas Palzer : Journal intime (BR 1996)
• Carl-Ludwig Reichert : Cut Up Burroughs (BR 1989)
• Amiri Baraka : Real Song (BR 1994) enja CD 8098-2
• Mayo Thompson : Mayo Thompson records nature at the Rauschenberg estate (BR)
• Maria Volk : Blinky, educational talks (BR 1993)
• Peter Weiss : The Aesthetics of Resistance (BR / WDR 2007) ISBN 978-3-86717-014-7
• Peter Weiss : Farewell to Parents (BR 2013) CD at Hörverlag / Random House
• Lawrence Stars : Life and Views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (BR 2015) CD at Hörverlag / Random House

As a writer and director

• Front (BR / HR 1989)
• Beat (with Reichert , Kapfer , BR 1989)
• Beat Goes On (with Carl-Ludwig Reichert, Herbert Kapfer, BR 1989)
• Freak Out (with Carl-Ludwig Reichert, BR 1989)
• Art (BR 1989)
• Index (BR 1990)
• The Good Shepherd - REM Love in Vain (BR 1992)
• ... is a dangerous number (BR 1994)
• Kimako's Blues People & The Nuyorican Poets Cafe present:
• - War of the Body, War of Words (BR 1994)
• - - The language sings (BR 1994)
• - - The color black (BR 1994)
• - - The new voices (BR 1994)
• But then a poet will have been lost to him - speculations about Jakob van Hoddis (BR Hörspiel und Medienkunst 2002)
• On the roof of the world - freely based on Alexander Kluge (BR Hörspiel und Medienkunst 2012), CD at intermedium records
• Sounds (BR Radio Play and Media Art 2015) CD from Intermedium ISBN 978-3-943157-64-2
• At least crows (BR 2016)

Books

• I'm only in it for the line fee. Sonnentanz Verlag, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-926794-18-5 .
• Sound check. The 101 most important records in pop history . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42093-1 .
• The story of pop. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-338-9 .
• OBI or the pursuit of happiness (with the photographer Wilfried Petzi). kursbuch.edition, Sven Murmann Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-946514-16-9 .

Translations

• Several books as translator from American, for example by Jack Womack , Bruce Sterling , John Fahey , John Lennon , Leonard Cohen .

Web links

Commons : Karl Bruckmaier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karl Bruckmaier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Karl Bruckmaier at perlentaucher.de
• Le sample case (official website)
• Slam Poetry: Heroes of Poetry , film by Tilman Urbach, including with Karl Bruckmaier, BR Fernsehen, November 5, 2015 (online until November 4, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Bruckmaier | LAST RADIO POETS. Retrieved on May 13, 2018 (German). 
2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: "The new alphabet" by Alexander Kluge: Resistance of narration . November 27, 2019 ( br.de [accessed December 2, 2019]).
3. ^ Radio play and media art, Bayerischer Rundfunk: radio play pool | BR.de. In: www.hoerspielpool.de. April 22, 2016, accessed April 23, 2016 (German).