Michael Zochow

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Michael Zochow (born August 7, 1954 in Prague ; born Michal Zochovický , † March 24, 1992 in Berlin ) was a Czech - Swiss writer , dramaturge , radio play writer and screenwriter .

Live and act

His mother was Edita Weinbergerová, temporarily married to an otherwise unknown Mr. Zochovický, both of Jewish origin, his father was Ervin Munk. The young Michal Zochovický spent the first 14 years in Prague and after the end of the Prague Spring in 1968 emigrated with his mother Edita via Austria to Switzerland, where he lived in Zurich . He attended the Zürichberg literary school of the Rämibühl canton school and quickly learned the German language.

Before he graduated from high school in 1974, he wrote fairy tales, stories, poems and eight plays. From 1974 to 1976 he was an editor at CJ Bucher Verlag , Lucerne . From 1975 to 1978 he worked as a journalist for the Lucerne News and as a cultural editor for the Schaffhauser Nachrichten with his own website.

In 1976, Zochovický began studying German, journalism and theater studies at a university, which he later continued in Berlin, but did not complete. In 1979 he acquired Swiss citizenship.

In 1979/1980 he moved to Berlin-Schöneberg , where he settled as a freelance writer and worked as a box office assistant in the Berlin cinemas Broadway and Yorck until his death .

In 1981 he married Radmila Klima and changed his name to Michael Zochow. He worked as a dramaturge for Felix Prader, for example for his production of Liebelei at the Cologne Theater in 1984. In 1986 Prader presented him to a wider public with the world premiere of Die Reise zum Mond in the Theater am Turm .

In his debut piece Sterns Stunden (1981), real scenes from the Auschwitz concentration camp are played in front of surviving Jews in New York . The dramatic fairy tale Kambek , which premiered in 1987 in the Stuttgart State Theater , is set in an archaeological excavation site in Syria , where Joseph Goebbels is resurrected with his daughter and Josef Mengele . The piece Traiskirchen is set in the Traiskirchen refugee camp in a reception camp for Czech emigrants. In 1991 Zochow and Traiskirchen were invited to the 16th Mülheimer Theatertage .

In 1986 he wrote the screenplay for the video film Motten im Licht with director Urs Egger and played the role of Friederich himself. He wrote eleven songs for the actress Ortrud Beginnen , which she performed with other texts by Zochow in the program I am a seductive woman dedicated to him in Stuttgart and on tour for several years.

Caused by AIDS, he fell ill with thalassemia and from 1991 suffered from very high fever every three to four days, which he was able to cover up with a drug.

Works

Plays

  • The flower garden (before 1971)
  • Who has the longest? (1974/75)
  • The carillon in the black palace (1974)
  • The inauguration of the public orphanage (1976)
  • A blood sausage for King Kong (1978)
  • Beat me, whip me, cute lion (1978)
  • Untitled piece (1979)
  • Love Play (1979/80)
  • The Last Hope (Libretto, 1976)
  • Stern's Hours (1984)
  • From bohemian villages (1980s)
  • Journey to the Moon (1986)
  • Between the kiss and the reunion (1987/88)
  • Kambek ( WP 1987)
  • A Negro with a Gazelle (WP 1990)
  • Traiskirchen (1988, WP 1990)
  • Three stars above the canopy (WP 1991)
  • The Angels of Hollywood (dramatization 1989/90)
  • In the shade of the bushes (1991/92, manuscript fragment)

Radio plays

  • 1987: Radio play version of Zwischen dem Kuss und Wiedersehen for Radio DRS , directed by Katja Früh , with a foreword spoken by Zochow.
  • 1987: Radio play version of Drei Sterne über dem Baldachin for Radio DRS, directed by Katja Früh

stories

  • Early Stories (1971–1974)
  • Fairy tale (1972)
  • Short Stories (1974-1975)
  • Four short stories (1985–1988)

Poems

  • Thirteen poems (before 1975)
  • Early Poems (1973)
  • Night lighting (1971-73)
  • With the panties (1974/75)
  • Songs and Poems from The Angels of Hollywood (1991)
  • Eleven Songs (1991)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Zochow, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zochovický, Michal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Swiss playwright, dramaturge, radio play author and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1992
Place of death Berlin