Matthias Baxmann

Matthias Baxmann (* 1957 in East Berlin ) is a German radio play author and feature writer .

Life

His mother was the actress Ruth Kommerell . Baxmann studied chemistry for two semesters before taking up a job as an archivist in the Bertolt Brecht Archive and later working as a graphic printer. After completing his studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin in 1987, he worked as a puppeteer until 2001 and at the same time worked as a play and theater teacher for over 10 years. Since the mid-1990s he has worked as an author, journalist and producer for the radio for ARD and Deutschlandradio, for which he wrote over 100 features, reports and radio plays. Together with Matthias Eckoldt , he created the weekly series Mensch Müller and Typisch deutsch? for Deutschlandradio Kultur with 200 episodes each. Since 2012 he has been producing the weekly long-term series Everyday Different with Eckoldt , with over 300 episodes so far for Deutschlandfunk Kultur . In these original sound features, German foreign correspondents from all continents tell about their everyday experiences abroad.

His son is the musician Gregor Heinze.

Feature and radio play (selection)

• 1996 "Ferryman, get over!" - Ferrymen today - (F), in-house production for MDR
• 1999 “A sheep must remain a sheep” - On the road with a shepherd - (F), EIG for MDR
• 2000 "Sailor's Bride and Cod" - The fishermen from Usedom - (F) EIG for MDR
• 2001 “Admire his gifts” - the organ builder Gottfried Silbermann - (F), EIG for RBB
• 2002 “Moses Baby Window - No Witnesses! No police! No questions! ”- Baby flaps in Germany (F), NDR
• 2003 “No letter yesterday, none today” based on Franz Kafka (H), directed by Barbara Plensat, MDR
• 2004 “Sweet potatoes in no man's land” - The Berlin Wall - (F), EIG for RBB
• 2005 “Prince Pückler, adventurer, writer, horticultural artist” (F), EIG for SWR
• 2005 "The little girl with the sulfur sticks" according to Andersen (H), EIG for ORF
• 2005 “The flowers of little Ida” according to Andersen (H), EIG for MDR
• 2006 “Either I'm crazy or the world” based on Einar Schleef (H), director: Ulrich Lampen, production SWR / WDR
• 2006 “Immaculate Conception” - Lesbian couples who want to have children - (F) EIG for SWR
• 2007 "Solution word cash" - The coffee trip mafia - (F) EIG for DLF
• 2007 "Mädchenmörder Brunke" - Hsp. Based on texts by Thomas Brasch - (H) for DLR
• 2008 "Germany above everything" - fraternities today - (F) EIG for DLF
• 2009 “Who is the father?” - The search for the physical origin - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2009 "Rotary shops and foundling houses" - The story of infanticide - (F), DLR
• 2009 “The Art of Driving Locomotives” based on the novel by Steven Caroll - (H) for SWR
• 2010 “German Romanian or Romanian German?” - The search for identity - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2010 “What was left of the East” - The mentality of the East Germans - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2011 “My child is mine!” - Custody in Germany - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2011 “Search for traces in the Brandenburg sand”, Tour of Germany (F), DLR
• 2012 "Tourism in the Moon Landscape" - The open pit mine in Welzow-Süd - Country report, EIG for DLR
• 2012 "Stressed mothers give birth to stressed children" - about prenatal psychology - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2013 “Mermaids, Elves, Water Spirits” - Life on the Elbe - Tour of Germany, DLR
• 2013 “When the penny falls” - via automats - 5-part audio play series, EIG for RBB
• 2014 “Nothing works anymore” - Have we forgotten how to walk? - (F), DLR
• 2014 "Red hair, freckles ..." - About redheads - (F), EIG for SWR / RBB
• 2015 “How time flies” - About our sense of time - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2016 “Leuna - A Fate from Chemistry” - (F), MDR
• 2016 “Tears on my pillow” - About crying - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2017 "Every Jeck is different" - About the wondrous Germans - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2017 "Murmeln murmeln" - A well-rounded affair - (F) Nachspiel / DLF Kultur
• 2018 “Becoming German” - The hurdles of naturalization - (F), DLF Culture
• 2018 "Scratching curves" - "The history of skis" (F), Nachspiel / DLF Kultur
• 2019 “Put it away or try to repair it?” - About obsolescence - (F), EIG for SWR
• 2019 “From Thuringia to Silicon Valley” - A flight from the republic - (F), co-author: Matthias Eckoldt, MDR Kultur

Non-fiction

• Everyday life is elsewhere too - foreign correspondents on the pitfalls of being abroad , together with Matthias Eckoldt , Cologne, Bastei Lübbe 2014.
• Different countries, different customs , together with Matthias Eckoldt , Munich, Travel House Media 2015.
• Typical German? , together with Matthias Eckoldt , Munich, Travel House Media 2016.

Awards

• 2003 Radio play of the year for his radio play No letter yesterday, none today (Director: Barbara Plensat )
• 2005 RBB Audience Award ("15 Years of German Unity") for the short feature Müller's Unity
• 2006 ARD radio play prize and ARD online award for his radio play Either I'm crazy or the world based on texts by Einar Schleef (director: Ulrich Lampen )
• 2007 2nd place in the " Plopp ! -Award" of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin with the radio play Won!
• 2008 2nd place in the short radio play competition Hoer.Spiel, Sankt Pölten / Austria, with The Invention
• 2016 3rd place at the Berlin radio play festival / The short, burning microphone for lies have crooked legs
• 2018 3rd place at the Berlin radio play festival / The glowing button micro for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, all compulsion or what?

Web links

• http://www.privataudio.de/
• Everyday life different in DeutschlandradioKultur
• Typical German? in DeutschlandradioKultur
• Matthias Baxmann in the Hoerdat audio game database