Karl Karst

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Karl Karst , also Karl H. Karst (born October 24, 1956 in Cologne ) is a German radio journalist .

Life

Karl Karst studied theater, film and television studies in Cologne and wrote for the features section of the FAZ , the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and epd medien as well as for the ARD cultural programs until the mid-1980s . In 1985 he got his first editorial position in the radio play department of Bavarian Radio . He soon left this, applied to SWR, stayed there only for a short time, and then in 1999 - inexplicable to observers - from WDR radio director Monika Piel , he became the program director of Kulturwelle WDR 3 . In this function he created the “WDR 3 cultural partnerships” in 2000 and the “Kulturpolitische Forum WDR 3” in 2003, which organizes public debates on cultural policy. In 1991 Karl Karst began to work as a lecturer on hearing at the universities of Cologne, Essen, Leipzig and Siegen. In 2001 the University of Siegen appointed him honorary professor for media studies . Karst has since carried the title in all of his public appearances. As the founder of the nationwide network of the Hören Initiative, he represented WDR and ARD in the German Cultural Council , the German Media Council, the German Music Council and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Karst left WDR at the end of 2019.

Functions up to date

  • Since 1999 Head of Program WDR 3
  • Since 2001 honorary professor for media studies at the University of Siegen
  • Since 2002 member of the jury of the German Sound Art Award and the European Soundart Award
  • Since 2003 chairman of the Federal Association of Initiative Hören eV
  • Since 2006 individual member of the LANDESMUSIKRATS NRW
  • Since 2008 member of the Euroradio Culture Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
  • Since 2011 chairman of the hearing foundation
  • Since 2016 honorary chairman of KulturPARTNERnrw eV
  • Since 2016 representative of ARD in the German Cultural Council
  • Since 2016 representative of ARD in the German Media Council
  • Since 2017 WDR coordinator of the cross-media cultural jubilees Böll 100 (2017), Offenbach 200 (2019), Beethoven 250 (2020)
  • Since 2017 chairman of the “Project Group Future Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR” eV
  • Member of the Federal Media Committee in the German Music Council since 2019
  • Since 2019 spokesman for the German Media Council in the German Cultural Council

Functions completed

  • 1979–1984 founder and head of the "Cologne Authors' Workshop"
  • 1980–1984 founder and publisher of the magazine "DAS HEFT"
  • 1980–1985 employee in the features section of the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger"
  • 1980–1985 employee at epd / church and radio (epd medien)
  • 1981–1990 employee in the features section of the "Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung"
  • 1981–1999 author and director for BR, HR, SWR and WDR
  • 1982 Member of the jury of the BERLIN ART PRIZE "Film, Radio, Television"
  • 1984 Member of the jury for the ADOLF GRIMME PRIZE "Series"
  • 1985–1988 radio play editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • 1988–1991 head of the radio play department of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk
  • 1989 member of the jury of PRIX FUTURA "radio play"
  • 1990–1998 author and editor for the Suhrkamp and Insel publishing houses.
  • 1990–2001 founding lecturer for the course "Media Planning, Development and Consulting" at the University of GH Siegen
  • 1994–1997 Lecturer at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig "School of Hearing"
  • 1996–2010 founder and chairman of the project group School of Hearing eV
  • 1997–2001 foundation and moderation of the event series "HEAR.ing" in the city garden of Cologne on the subject of hearing and sound art
  • 1998 Member of the PRIX EUROPA jury "Marketplace of the ideas"
  • 1998 Conception and realization of the audio exhibition "RADIO HISTORICA" for the 75th anniversary of broadcasting in Germany with the International Radio Museum Bad Laasphe
  • 1998 Partial implementation of the NRW audio festival "BLIND DATE" in MediaPARK Cologne as part of the NRW competition "Jugend macht Radio"
  • 2000–2001 member of the “Noise Prevention” panel of experts at the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH
  • 2001–2010 member of the artistic direction of the MUSIK TRIENNALE KÖLN 2004, 2007 and 2010
  • 2001–2002 member of the MUSIC COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF NRW for the evaluation of the courses of study at the art and music universities of the state of NRW
  • 2002–2010 co-founder and jury member of the German Sound Art Prize
  • 2008–2011 Deputy President of the Euroradio Culture Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
  • 2012–2015 President of the Euroradio Culture Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Initiatives

  • 1979 founder of the "Kölner Autorwerkstatt" University of Cologne
  • 1980 founder and publisher “Das Heft. Journal for cultural work "
  • 1996 founder of the project group "Schule des Hörens eV"
  • 1998 initiator of the sound art series "Hear.ing Kölner Stadtgarten"
  • 1999 initiator of the project “Olli Ohrwurm. School of hearing for children "
  • 2000 founder of the network "WDR 3 cultural partnerships"
  • 2001 initiator of the "Initiative Stiftung Hören"
  • 2002 founder of the "German Sound Art Prize"
  • 2003 initiator of the series "Kulturpolitisches Forum WDR 3"
  • 2003 founder of the network "Initiative Hören eV"
  • 2004 initiator of the "Soundart" exhibitions
  • 2004 initiator of the project "Auditorix quality seal for children's audio books"
  • 2006 initiator of the project "Hearing with Quality" for the elementary school
  • 2006 initiator of the project "Radio 108.8" with the BZgA
  • 2011 founder of the "Stiftung Hören"
  • 2013 initiator of the European Soundart Association and the "European Soundart Award"
  • 2017 initiator of the project group "Future Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR eV" 2017

Radio plays, features and other radio productions

Features, essays, collages, comments, conversations, portraits, reports:

  • 1983: Report: Hamburger Hörspieltage 1983. An experience report (author) - Director: Not specified ( NDR )
  • 1984: Feature: Pioneers of radio art (6th episode: Noise you - or I'll eat you. Ernst Hardt , the audio stage and the radio play) (Author) - Director: Not specified ( SWF )
  • 1985: Essay: Radio Play - Culture - Paths from Criticism to Dramaturgy (Author) - Director: Arturo Möller (SWF)
  • 1986: Radio portrait: The radio man Ernst Schnabel (author and director) ( BR )
  • 1986: Radio portrait: The radio pioneer Karlaugust Düppengießer (author and director) (BR)
  • 1987: Eco, Eco, Eco - the echo of the novel The Name of the Rose - A collage of traces with contemporary voices a. medieval music (author and director) (BR)
  • 1987: Labyrinths. Essay on the radio play work by Christian Linder (author, director and speaker) (BR)
  • 1987: Elmar Tophoven : Essay on Nathalie Sarraute . Pictures and Words (Director) (BR)
  • 1987: Feature: Be sand, not the oil in the world's gears. Günter Eich and the subversive power of dreams (author and director) (SWF / BR)
  • 1987: The dream as reality. Introduction to Günter Eich's radio play on the occasion of the radio revue 1987/88 in Bavaria 2 (commentary and direction) (BR)
  • 1988: Collage: 25 years WDR-3 radio play studio (1963–1988) (author and director) ( WDR )
  • 1988: Essay: Voices, Scenes, Documents. Our century on the radio. Radiodrama - Radio Play - Soundpoetry (Author and Director) (BR)
  • 1989: Conversation between Karl Karst and Reinhard Baumgart (moderator) ( SDR )
  • 1991: Feature: Everything that happens is your concern. A workshop for the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast of Günter Eich's radio play Dreams (author and director) (NDR / SFB )
  • 1991: Portrait: My arm is already an antenna. Karlaugust Düppengießer and the radio of the early days (author and director) (SFB)
  • 1992: Feature: Frank Olbert : Studio Acoustic Art: Leafing through the world's audio book. Hansjörg Schmitthenner's acoustic journeys (interviewer) - Director: Hein Bruehl (WDR)
  • 1992: Feature: Just don't leave any traces. Günter Eich - ephemeral. Radio portrait (author and director) (WDR)
  • 1993: Report: The Prague Finds. Radio plays of the Reichsrundfunk. A contribution to the 70-year history of broadcasting in Germany (author, director and speaker) (SFB)
  • 1993: Report: Radio Museum: Rebellion in der Goldstadt - radio play by Günter Eich from 1940 (frame broadcast) (author and director) (NDR / SFB)
  • 1993: Essay: Anti-Bodies in the System. On the importance of radiophonic art (author and director) ( DS Kultur / HR )

Radio plays:

  • 1985: Edgar Hilsenrath : Widow Zibulskys Traum (adaptation (word)) - Director: Ernst Wendt (radio play - BR / SWF)
  • 1986: George Tabori : Insomnia (assistant director) - Director: George Tabori (radio play - BR / RIAS )
  • 1987: Walter Serner : Ball erverst or Großer Schwof in Serner's Tanzpalais. Radio play for the mature youth in various fashion dances based on Walter Serner's stories (editing) - adaptation and direction: Heinz von Cramer (radio play adaptation - BR)
  • 1987: Liebstöckl's Couples (author) - Director: Manfred Mixner ( original radio play - ORF / SFB)
  • 1990: 40 years of ARD: Das Hör-Spiel-Spiel (author and director) (radio play - HR / RIAS)
  • 1992: Günter Eich: Conversation of the pigs / John and Mildred and other scenes from the estate (director and speaker) (original radio play - NDR / SR DRS )
  • 1994: Shakespeare's journeyman. Radio play about the writer Hans Rothe (author and director) (original radio play - SFB / Deutschlandradio )
  • 1996: Edgar Hilsenrath: Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr (adaptation (word)) - director: Götz Fritsch (radio play adaptation - Deutschlandradio / ORF)
  • 1997: School of Hearing : The Ear (2 pieces) A ​​radio puzzle (author and director) (original radio play - HR / RB )
  • 1998: Edgar Hilsenrath: Ruben Jablonski (adaptation (word)) - Director: Rainer Clute (radio play adaptation - Deutschlandradio)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ARD audio game database (Das Ohr (1st part), HR / RB 1997; place of birth stated in the running text)
  2. ↑ Leo Kestenberg Medal "BMU" , accessed on October 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Karst, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karst, Karl H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne