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Michael Skasa (born January 14, 1942 in Cologne ) is a German radio presenter , author and journalist .
education
Skasa's father was the writer and journalist Eugen Skasa-Weiß . After their parents 'apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943, the family moved into their grandparents' little house in Grafing near Munich . Skasa spent his childhood there. Like two of his brothers (among them the editor Ruprecht Skasa-Weiß (* 1936)) he came to the boarding school in Neuburg / Donau and went to the humanistic grammar school there for five years. The last four years of his school days he was at the Rosenheim grammar school. The later Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber was his classmate there. After graduating from high school in 1961, Skasa studied theater history, German, philosophy, psychology, art history, newspaper studies, philosophy of religion and speech training. He felt like part of the 1968 movement and lived in a shared apartment in Munich-Schwabing .
Career
Skasa became known through the radio show Sonntagsbeilage of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , to which his name was later added. Typical for him was the dry and sometimes black, astute humor with which he entertained his listeners on Bayern 2 from the early 1970s to the end of 2011 . The literary and musical contributions of the hour-long program, which he compiled, had a weekly changing theme. At the end of 2011 he said goodbye after 40 years with a New Year's Eve supplement. On New Year's Day 2012 - a Sunday - the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast a farewell gala in his honor with Maria Peschek as the “interviewee”.
In addition, Skasa wrote around 50 audio portraits of poets and historical figures, was chief dramaturge at the Berlin Schillertheater for a year and sole editor of the monthly Theater heute for a year . He also wrote as a theater critic for Die Zeit , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and for Theater heute.
Awards
Skasa received the Ernst Hoferichter Prize in 1988 , the Schwabing Art Prize in 1994 and the Bavarian Poet Thaler in 2007 .
Works
- 2004: For all love situations (ed.), Herder, Freiburg i. B. ISBN 3-451-07029-4
- 2005: Vacation from vacation. Why look into the distance? (Ed.), Herder Spectrum Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3451070426
- 2007: Miracle of Improvisation - Christmas in the 1940s (ed.), Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3451297342
- 2009: Sunday and weekday supplements , Frantz-Semmelroch Verlag, Kulmbach, ISBN 978-3941219014
- 2011: The men are all criminals: 1a Schlager , Verlag Antje Kunstmann , Munich, compilation and publication by Michael Skasa, ISBN 978-3888977145
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Skasa in the catalog of the German National Library
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- ↑ Michael Skasa: Miracle of Improvisation - Christmas in the 1940s , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2007, p. 117, ISBN 978-3451297342
- ↑ klett-cotta.de: Ruprecht Skasa-Weiß
- ^ Meeting of the 1959 Abitur class in Neuburg ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Sunday supplement" on the website of Bayerischer Rundfunk
- ^ Farewell to the Sunday supplement ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skasa, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and radio host |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |