Katarina Agathos

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Katarina Agathos (Photo Gila Sonderwald)

Katarina Agathos (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German radio play producer , author and editor .

Life

Katarina Agathos grew up in Munich and studied modern German literature and comparative literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Università di Pisa (Italy). Since 1999 she has been working for the radio play and media art editorial team (from December 2017 radio play / documentation / media art editorial team) at Bayerischer Rundfunk as a lecturer, from 2007 as dramaturge, from 2009 as chief dramaturge.

She was involved in the development and implementation of the media art festivals "intermedium 1" (1999 at the Akademie der Künste Berlin ), "intermedium 2" (2002 at the ZKM Karlsruhe) and "intermedium @ utopiastation" (2004 at the Haus der Kunst in Munich). Together with Herbert Kapfer , she developed the radio play pool for Bayerischer Rundfunk, a download platform for BR radio play productions, from 2008 onwards. So far she has produced well over a hundred radio plays for BR.

“The radio play is the most historically conscious genre of radio, it builds up a repertoire and maintains it. And it has a high level of narrative competence. ” (Agathos) Since 2014 Katarina Agathos has been in charge of the large-scale production in room 101 via the Munich NSU process. Agathos is also an editor and juror. In the 2006 summer semester she taught as a lecturer at the University of Regensburg , in the 2012/13 winter semester and 2013 summer semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Katarina Agathos is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

plant

BR radio play productions (as producer / dramaturge. Selection)

Publications as editor (selection)

  • 2006: Intermediality and open form (together with Herbert Kapfer and Barbara Schäfer). Belleville Verlag, ISBN 978-3-936298-46-8
  • 2007–2017: CD series intermedium records (together with Herbert Kapfer)
  • 2009: Radio play: Authors' conversations and portraits , Belleville Verlag, ISBN 978-3936298680
  • 2011: Germany 2089 , btb Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-06070-1

Awards

  • 2005: German audio book award for “The man without qualities. Remix "by Robert Musil (together with Herbert Kapfer and Klaus Buhlert , DerHörverlag / Belleville 2004)
  • 2013: Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann Prize for "The Sources Speak" (parts 1–4, together with Susanne Heim and Michael Farin )
  • 2016: German Audiobook Prize (together with Herbert Kapfer and DerHörverlag) in the category "Best Publishing Achievement" for Die Quellenenken . The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Studio visit to the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  2. ^ BR radio play pool - Jarry, heroics and teachings of Dr. Faustroll (pataphysicist)
  3. ^ BR radio play Pool - Horváth, The eternal philistine
  4. ↑ Website The Sources Speak
personal data
SURNAME Agathos, Katarina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play producer, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich