Mario Peters

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Mario Peters (born April 7, 1944 in Magdeburg ) is a German pianist, organist, jazz musician and composer for film, theater and radio plays.

life and work

Peters learned to play the piano and accordion and studied at the Berlin-Friedrichshain Music School . As keyboard player of the Evgeni-Kantschev-Quintet, with jazz performances in own formations, as (anonymous) harmonium accompanist for Wolf Biermann , as pianist and organist in the Klaus-Lenz-Modern-Soul-Big-Band and from 1974 in Günther-Fischer -Quintet he achieved a wide audience. In addition to his work on the Uschi Brüning live long-playing record and the Manfred Krug LPs Greens (1974) and You're Today Like New (1976), he composed music for documentaries, among others for directors Volker Koepp , Uwe Belz or Andreas Voigt .

With his incidental music for Friedo Solter's Erfurt GDR premiere (February 27, 1982) by Bertolt Brechts Baal , Mario Peters became known as a composer and song interpreter and began to write music for radio plays. His debut in this genre - the music for the first radio play coproduction between the radio of the GDR and the ORF -Wien: Friedemann Schreiter's Villon -stück Lachen wie aus Blut - was awarded the Special Prize of the Critics Jury of the GDR Radio Play Prize in 1983 .

With this project began the collaboration with the Leipzig radio play director Walter Niklaus , who commissioned Peters to produce radio play music for many other projects: Anna Seghers : Grubetsch (1988), Hasenclever / Tucholsky : Christoph Columbus (MDR 1992) or Alexandre Dumas the Elder. Ä. : The Count of Monte Christo (MDR / BR / ORF 1997).

Stage music penned by Mario Peters emerged in recent years a. a. for the Theaterhaus Jena , the Volkstheater Rostock , the Schauspielhaus Erfurt and the Mecklenburgische Staatstheater Schwerin , where in 1996 he and Martin Olbertz premiered his Heinrich-Heine- Lied-Evenings With Black Sails and a production by August Strindberg's Miss Julie .

Mario Peters lives near Löwenberg .

Film music

  • 1976: Back in Wittstock , Director: Volker Koepp (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films)
  • 1976: The wide field , directed by Volker Koepp (documentary - DEFA-Studio for short films)
  • 1977: The Great Hall , Director: Hans-Jürgen Hohmann (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films) - on DVD at Icestorm Distribution GmbH 2007
  • 1977: Hütes-Film , directed by Volker Koepp (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films)
  • 1982: e.g. B. Sixteen-year-olds or there is no dream of flying , Director: Uwe Belz (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films)
  • 1984: Gone & Lost , Director: Günter Lippmann (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films)
  • 1986: Die F96 , directed by Volker Koepp (documentary film - ARD / NDR / DEFA-Studio for documentary films)
  • 1987: A beautiful day , director: Lutz Körner (documentary - DEFA-Studio for documentary films)
  • 1988: People with Landscape , Director: Andreas Voigt (TV documentary - ZDF / DEFA-Studio for documentary films)
  • 1988: Vibrations , director: Uwe Belz (scenic report - GDR television)
  • 1988: Goodbye winter , director: Helke Misselwitz (documentary film - DEFA-Studio for documentary films) - on DVD at Icestorm Distribution GmbH 2012
  • 1988: Das Lied , directed by Róza Berger-Fiedler (Documentary - DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films)
  • 1989: Märkische Ziegel , director: Volker Koepp (documentary film - DEFA-Studio for documentary films)
  • 1990 Märkische Heide, märkischer Sand , director: Volker Koepp (documentary film - DEFA studio for documentary films)
  • 1990: Arkona, Rethra, Vineta. A journey to sunken places , director: Volker Koepp (documentary film - Carsten Krüger film and television production / DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH / LA SEPT, Paris / NDR / WDR)
  • 1990: Housing construction in the GDR - a critical consideration , director: Rolf Hempel (documentary film - DEFA studio for documentary films)
  • 1993: Grenzland - Eine Reise , director: Andreas Voigt (documentary - DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH)
  • 1995: Cold Home - Life in Northern East Prussia , Director: Volker Koepp (Documentary - Documentary Babelsberg GmbH) - on DVD by Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH 2011
  • 2000: Swetlana , director: Tamara Staudt (feature film - Tag / Traum Film- und Videoproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne) - on DVD: Children's and Youth Film Center in Germany (KJF Edition)

Radio play music

  • 1983: Laughing as if from blood by Friedemann Schreiter, director: Walter Niklaus, co-production: Rundfunk der DDR / ORF-Wien
  • 1988: Grubetsch by Norbert Marohn based on Anna Seghers, director: Walter Niklaus, Rundfunk der DDR
  • 1990: The Maistein by Gerhard Stuchlik (3 parts), director: Walter Niklaus, Rundfunk der DDR
  • 1990: I can never and never forget that by Gerhard Pötzsch , director: Matthias Thalheim, Funkhaus Berlin
  • 1992: Christoph Columbus by Walter Hasenclever and Kurt Tucholsky, directed by Walter Niklaus, MDR
  • 1995: How the rabbit became an Easter bunny by Björn Björnson, director: Walter Niklaus, MDR, as an audio book by: Der Audio Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3-89813-242-8
  • 1997: The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas d. Ä. (3 parts), co-production: MDR / BR / ORF-Vienna, as an audio book by: Der Hörverlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-89940-252-0

literature

  • HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
  • Ludwig Schumann: Little Liverpool - Big and small stories about the Magdeburg music club "Café Impro" . Ost-Nordost Verlag, Magdeburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-938247-04-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evgeni-Kantschev-Quintett: Sunburn on: That ignites (LP) AMIGA 8 55 133, 1968
  2. ↑ see Melodie und Rhythmus , issue 11/1975
  3. ↑ Wolf Biermann: Don't wait for better times (LP), CBS, 1973
  4. ↑ Klaus Lenz Modern Soul Big Band , (LP), AMIGA 8 55 380, 1974
  5. ↑ Günther Fischer-Quintett: Combination (LP), AMIGA 8 55 598, 1978
  6. ↑ Uschi Brüning and the Günther-Fischer Quintet - live , (LP) AMIGA 855 414, 1974
  7. ↑ Martin Linzer : Balance: Theater Critics for the 1981/82 Season (II) in: Theater der Zeit, Issue 10/1982, pp. 8–9
  8. ^ Jérôme Savary : Melodies du Malheur , Theaterhaus Jena 1994
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel - Kulturspiegel, April 29, 1996
  10. ↑ Art falls far too short in: MärkischeOnlineZeitung, February 21, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg