Karlheinz Braun

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Karlheinz Braun (born July 4, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary and theater publisher .

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Braun studied literature and philosophy at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Paris . In 1959 in Frankfurt am Main he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In addition, he was the director of the Frankfurt student theater “neue bühne”. In 1959 he joined Suhrkamp Verlag , where he headed the Suhrkamp Theater Verlag until 1969 . At the same time he was secretary of the German Academy of the Performing Arts .

Together with Peter Iden he was director of the Frankfurt experimenta festival 1–5, founded in 1966 . At experimenta 1, Peter Handke's public abuse was premiered under Claus Peymann . In 1969 he was co-founder and until 1976, as well as from 1979 to 2003 managing director of the publishing house of the authors and from 1976 to 1979 managing director of Schauspiel Frankfurt . In 1972 Braun, together with Peter Iden, was responsible for the theater program for documenta 5 in Kassel , designed by Harald Szeemann .

In 1980 Braun played a brief role as the Löwenhund lawyer in the fourth episode of the Fassbinder film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz . In 1986 and 1988 he appeared in two episodes of the TV family saga Hessian Stories (with Günter Strack ). Braun worked at numerous theater festivals. In 1995 he received the Hessian Culture Prize and in 2007 the plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main . He had “made great contributions to the discovery, promotion and dissemination of authors who write for the stage, film and radio” . He is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts in Bensheim.

In his extensive memoir Heart Pieces: Living with Authors (2019), a large part of German theater, publishing and cultural history after 1945 is rolled out; this is done in a concise, "highly condensed" and concise presentation.

Fonts

  • Materials for Peter Weiss “Marat / Sade”. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • (Ed.): German Theater of the Present. 2 volumes, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • with Klaus Völker (Hrsg.): Playground 1st year book for theater 71/72. Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1972.
  • Mini dramas. 6th edition. Publishing house of the authors , 1987, ISBN 3-88661082-9 .
  • with Siegfried Diehl: Frankfurt - A travel companion. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-458-34904-4 .
  • with Walter Boehlich, Klaus Reichert, Peter Urban, Urs Widmer: Chronicle of the Lectors. From Suhrkamp to the publishing house of the authors , publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-88661-345-8
  • (Ed.): Wolfgang Deichsel & Rainr Dachselt, Der Hessische Molière , Henrich Editions Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-943407-16-7
  • (Ed.): MonoDramen , Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-88661-363-2
  • with Sabine Bayerl, Ulrike Schiedermair (eds.): The TAT: the legendary Frankfurt theater laboratory , Leipzig: Henschel, 2016, ISBN 978-3-89487-785-9
  • Heart pieces: Living with authors , Frankfurt: Schöffling & Co., 2019, ISBN 978-3-7317-6145-7

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hubert Spiegel : Autobiography: Heartbeats for the Theater , review in the FAZ on August 5, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Karlheinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main