Klaus Zippel

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The director Klaus Zippel in the radio play studio of the Leipziger Funkhaus Springerstraße in a shot by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold

Klaus Zippel (born March 3, 1936 in Leipzig ) is a German theater and radio play director , audio book speaker and former lecturer .

Life

Klaus Zippel was born in Leipzig in 1936 as the son of a student councilor . He survived the end of the war in Aussig (today Ústí nad Labem , Czech Republic ). There the German inhabitants were taken on non-motorized boats and allowed to drift down the Elbe . After studying German (1954–1959) at the University of Leipzig with Theodor Fringes , Hans Mayer and Hermann August Korff, he first worked as an assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig and then as a lecturer at Paul List Verlag .

From 1965 he worked as a radio play director for the radio of the German Democratic Republic . He staged adaptations of Pozner's The Bond to Marriage (with Rolf Hoppe ) or Jean Paul's Katzenberger's Badereise as well as children's ( Gianni Rodari ), science fiction ( Stanislaw Lem , Ray Bradbury , Konrad Fialkowski ) and crime drama radio plays ( Wolfgang Schreyer ). He also worked as a director for dubbing and redesigning scripts. In the 1980s he also directed politically “ class struggle ” radio features in the cultural sector, such as The Narcotic Cave (author: Friedrich Dieckmann , dramaturgy: Alfred Schrader , Berliner Rundfunk ), in which Richard Wagner was sketched as an artist who was after his success the “ counter-revolution ” had withdrawn to a position in art in which the revolution was transferred into the artistic material.

After the fall of the Wall , he was production manager in the Artistic Word department at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1992 to 2001 and continued to direct radio plays, such as those by Patrick Hamilton Threat in the Moonlight , and was in charge of the series Letters of a Century . He then continued to direct other radio play productions for the MDR, SWF and especially for Der Audio Verlag , for example Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti de Mirabeau's Hic & Hex or The Step Ladder of Lust . Since the 1990s he has been active as a spokesperson for the project of the DAISY library for the blind .

While in the past his focus was on detective radio plays by English-language writers such as Dick Francis , Dorothy Leigh Sayers or Gilbert Keith Chesterton , in the course of the 2000s he increasingly turned to literary classics such as Jean Paul and shorter cultural-historical audio documentations on Dresden and Leipzig topics, such as honors by regional writers, scientists or artists.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hoerspieleipps.net
  2. ^ Patrick Conley : Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964–1991 . 2nd revised edition. Berlin: Askylt-Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 , p. 112. ( Digitized in the Russian State Library )
  3. ↑ Booklet, Dick Francis : Rampant . Radio play adaptation: Alexander Schnitzler. Director: Klaus Zippel, production: MDR and SWR, 2002, music: Pierre Oser, 1 CD, length: approx. 71 min. Der Audio Verlag , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89813-266-8 , p. 9.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hoerspieleipps.net
personal data
SURNAME Zippel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and radio play director, audio book speaker, screenwriter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Germany