Kathrin Brigl

Kathrin Brigl (born August 23, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German author and songwriter, television and radio presenter .

Life

While still at school, she wrote for the Berlin Telegraf and interviewed celebrities for RIAS Berlin . Apart from three years of editorial work at Illustrierte Constanze (1967–1970), she was a freelancer all her life. In the early 1960s she wrote her own column in the Münchner Abendzeitung . In the middle of the decade she brought Frank Elstner on as a presenter with her own program on Radio Luxemburg . In between, she was part of the ensemble of the Berlin cabaret Die Bedienten for a year and a half .

In 1966 she made her debut as a writer and actress in the SFB production Der Zopf wears a pink ribbon again on television. Numerous TV documentaries and features for Norddeutscher Rundfunk followed. In your TV film Tips for Housewives - or: What do you actually want, Mr. Meier? Beginning with Ortrud , the actress and singer Angelika Milster was discovered in 1973 . Together with Volker Elis Pilgrim , she created the four-hour program Talk with Show in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1975 . She was awarded a Golden Camera for her TV series of marriages in court , which she hosted for over twenty years . Your television talk show for the broadcaster Free Berlin (1981/82) was entitled radio tower location .

Her first novel, Just a little tenderness appeared in 1976. Her series of interviews with German and German-songwriters in the RIAS published under the title of course in two volumes in 1984 and 1985. As an accountant of dreams portrayed together with Siegfried Schmidt-Joos 1985 the jazz and Rock impresario Fritz Rau .

As a songwriter, she helped the singer Taco in 1981 with dreams need time to break through in the German preliminary round for the Grand Prix de la Chanson d'Eurovison . She then wrote and staged Taco for the One Man Show Curtain Call in the Hamburg Macadam Theater . She traveled to Brazil twice with Caterina Valente and interviewed them. She wrote her the Saturday evening show CATERINA for Austrian television and conducted the last TV interview in Caterina Valentes professional life for the ZDF series Zeugen des Jahrhundert .

In 1997 the singer Veronika Fischer interpreted Kathrin Brigl's songs - composition by Andreas Bicking - for the musical Das Kind und der Kater .

Kathrin Brigl was one of the most prominent radio voices in Berlin for a good quarter of a century in the RIAS (1979–1987) and SFB / RBB (1987–2006) with programs such as Guten Morgen Berlin , Seele auf HOT , Brigl on Broadway and The Voice . The weekly Showtime magazine with reports from the international show business, which she presented together with Siegfried Schmidt-Joos , became a perennial hit on the two stations .

Since the late noughties, Brigl's work has essentially concentrated on writing for musical theater and children's theater.

Private

Marianne Kathrin Friederike Schlenger survived the war years in the Thuringian province. She finished school in post-war Berlin, but was already successful during this time as an autodidact and enthusiastic publicist who knew how to meet many demands and her own ideas.

Her first marriage to the merchant Heinrich Brigl (church art) was divorced in 1963. She has lived in Berlin again since 1979 and - after the actor Roland Astor - is the third married to the music and culture journalist Siegfried Schmidt-Joos. Her daughter Christine (* 1961) is an actress and director as well as the mother of the two grandchildren.

Works

Writings and printed interviews

• Just a little tenderness , Herbig-Verlag 1976 (several TB editions)
• Bookkeeper of dreams (together with Siegfried Schmidt-Joos), Quadriga-Verlag 1985
• Of course ... 1 (interviews with Georg Danzer, Klaus Hoffmann, Peter Horton, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Reinhard Mey, Erika Pluhar, Hans Scheibner, Stephan Sulke), Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag 1985
• Of course ... 2 (interviews with Ina Deter, André Heller, Jürgen von der Lippe, Manfred Maurenbrecher, Ulla Meinecke, Herman van Veen, Stefan Waggershausen, Konstantin Wecker), Rowohlt-TBV 1986
• Michael Jackson: In Search of a Face , in: IDOLE 3 , Ullstein 1984
• Craig Russell: Sleepless with make-up , in: IDOLE 4 , Ullstein 1985
• Marilyn Monroe: The Blonde , in: IDOLE 7 , Ullstein 1985
• Nina Hagen: The provocation, or: I trust my extraterrestrial friends , in: IDOLE 8 , Ullstein 1986
• Michael Jackson: In Search of a Face (expanded and updated version), in: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos: My Back Pages , Lukas-Verlag 2004

theatre

• Curtain Call (One Man Show with Taco), Macadam Theater, Hamburg 1983
• I'm a frog, so what? (Children's rock revue with Christine Brigl, music: Bob Lenox), Ufa-Fabrik Berlin 1993, Altonaer Theater and St Pauli Theater Hamburg, both 1996, Heimathafen Berlin 2013
• The child and the hangover (music: Andreas Bicking), free for the premiere
• OH! LOLA! Life is no picnic (music: Rolf Kühn), free for the premiere (production concept: Frank A. Buecheler)

Web links

• Kathrin Brigl in the Internet Movie Database (English)