Norbert Josef Radermacher

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Norbert Josef Radermacher (born May 27, 1946 in Berg ) is a German theater pedagogue and founder of the World Children's Theater Festival .

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Radermacher grew up in Bonn-Bad Godesberg . After graduating from the city's secondary school, he moved to the State Quirinus Gymnasium in Neuss in 1964 , where he passed the high school diploma in 1966.

After military service in Budel (NL) and Aurich , he studied German language and literature, philosophy, art and craft education and art studies from 1969 to 1976 at the University of Bonn , the University of Münster and the University of Osnabrück . From 1972 to 1973 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Hans Paul Isenrath . In 1976 and 1977 he passed the first and second state examination in philology in the subjects of German, philosophy and art studies for teaching at grammar schools. After completing his legal traineeship at the Hammonense grammar school in Hamm / Westf. In 1977 he entered the Lower Saxony school service at the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen (Ems) . As a specialist in art and theater, he had been a senior student councilor since 1988.

During his studies, Radermacher taught from 1973 to 1976 at the Hammonense grammar school in Hamm and took on teaching and teaching assignments in the “Stage and Play” department at the Westphalia-Lippe University of Education in Münster. At the request of the Emsland landscape in 1980, he designed the concept for a first “theater pedagogical model” in Germany, which he took over in November 1980. Until his departure in 2006, he built the Theater Education Center into the largest specialist academy for play, dance and theater education in Germany.

Until 1994 Radermacher headed this cultural institution parallel to his teaching duties at the Georgianum grammar school. Since 1985 he promoted the idea of ​​establishing a world children's theater festival, which took place for the first time in 1990 in cooperation with various professional associations and the city of Lingen / Ems as the official world festival of the AITA / IATA ( International Amateur Theater Association ). In the years that followed, this festival grew to become the world's largest theater festival by children for children. The World Children's Theater Festival has had a lasting impact on theater work with children in Germany and around the world. On the basis of this concept, Radermacher developed the 1st German Children's Theater Festival in Rudolfstadt in 2004 together with the Thuringian theater maker Frank Grünert and the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater (BDAT). Since then, the festival has taken place every two years in cooperation with various professional associations in Germany.

Together with Bernd Ruping, Radermacher played a key role in the establishment of the Lingen university location of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and in the development of the first degree in theater education. In 1991 Norbert Radermacher founded the "European Center of the International Amateur Theater Association" in Lingen / Ems as an international network of amateur theater. In 2008 it culminated in the "European Theater House".

In 2009 he and the journalist Katrin Kellermann developed the “Talents” youth culture award for the St. Michael Cultural Forum in Lingen, which is one of the most highly endowed youth culture awards in Germany. In 1994, Norbert Radermacher and the Theater Education Center received the world's most valuable youth culture award, the LEGO Group's Ygdrasil Prize, for his diverse work to promote child and youth culture in Germany.

With the prize money, Radermacher built the first “theater museum for young people” in the professors' house in 1996. Significant exhibits such as B. the original shadow play figures and scripts for the world's first children's television programs (1942) were exhibited in this interactive museum. This unique theater museum was closed in 2008 by his successor and the city of Lingen.

From 2008 to 2014 Radermacher was chairman of the board of trustees of the federal “Performing Arts” fund. With this funding instrument he had a considerable influence on the development of the independent professional theater scene in Germany. In 2008, together with the Indonesian television presenter Peggy Melati Sukma and other artists from seven nations, he founded the international children's culture and children's aid organization "arts by children" (ABC), which helps children in need worldwide through artistic education.

Radermacher has given numerous theater and method workshops in Asia and with his theory and practice had a lasting influence on theater work, especially with children in the region (Japan, South Korea, Nepal, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan etc.).

Radermacher staged over 50 children's and youth theater pieces as well as numerous adult productions, including a. a performance with 250 participants on the market square in Bonn for the official constitutional celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1988 (ZDF recording).

Radermacher is one of the pioneers in theater education in Germany. He decisively advanced the development of theater education into an independent professional field and field of work in Germany. As early as the beginning of the 80s, he designed extensive training and further education structures, as well as teacher training, from which the first basic certificates developed. In 1988, the first two-year full-time training for theater pedagogues in Germany was established in his institute (Theater Pedagogical Center). Together with Bernd Ruping and other specialist colleagues, the curricular structures and content were continuously developed. In 2010 they culminated in a first bachelor's degree with the degree “Theater pedagogue at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences on the Lingen / Ems campus”. The Theater Education Center in Lingen became a model for numerous facilities and institutions of this type in Germany and Europe. Today, the theater pedagogue, with his many opportunities in art and society, is an established profession and a necessary part of the cultural and educational landscape in Germany.

As President of the Association of German Amateur Theaters (BDAT) from 2000 to 2015 , Radermacher volunteered to establish the non-professional theater as the third pillar of the theater landscape in Germany alongside the state and city theaters as well as private and independent theaters. With the establishment of a federal office for the amateur theater in Berlin and the self-imposed target "Theater for and with everyone", the amateur theater with its approx. 2,500 member stages and over 10 million viewers annually is now an important cultural and social factor. Due to the hearing of Radermachere in the German Bundestag before the "Culture in Germany" commission of inquiry , the German amateur theater award "Amarena" was launched and numerous other recommendations for promoting popular culture in Germany were made . Radermacher has been honorary president of the BDAT since September 2015 and an honorary member of Arts by Children since 2019

Awards and honors

  • 1997: Emsland medal of the district of Emsland for outstanding services to the district of Emsland
  • 2012: First Class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony
  • 2013: 1st Culture Prize of the City of Lingen / Ems for outstanding achievements in the cultural, artistic and scientific fields
  • 2017 Knight of the Order of Leopold awarded by the Belgian King Philippe
  • 2019: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

Publications (selection)

  • Norbert Radermacher - Jörg Sobeck: Children play and dance for children , documentation of the 1st World Children's Theater Festival 1990 in Lingen / Ems, R. van Acken Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-87001-028-2
  • Theater must be like fire - 25 years of the theater education center in the Emsland landscape, ed. by Norbert Radermacher, Verlag der Emsländische Landschaft eV, Sögel, 2005 ISBN 3-925034-40-4
  • Professional fields of theater education in Europe (German / English) ed. by Norbert Radermacher, Verlag der Emsländische Landschaft eV Sögel, 2001 ISBN 3-925034-32-3
  • Giving children a stage 20 years of the World Children's Theater Festival (German / English) ed. by Norbert Radermacher, Verlag Kultur-Dialog, Lingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812877-3-8
  • Theater with everyone - concepts, methods, practical examples , ed. by Norbert Radermacher, Schibri-Verlag , Uckerland 2014, ISBN 978-3-86863-127-2 ( table of contents )
  • Norbert Radermacher, “Amateur Theater” , in the dictionary of theater education, ed. by Gerd Koch and Marianne Streisand, Schibri-Verlag, Berlin-Milow 2003, ISBN 3-933978-48-3
  • Norbert Radermacher: Cultural education in the multigenerational model of amateur theater , in: Handbuch Kulturelle Bildung. ed. by Hildegard Bockhorst, Vanessa-Isabelle Reinwand, Wolfgang Zacharias, Kopaed Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86736-330-3
  • Norbert Radermacher: Theater with children as an art event , in: Future School Theater , ed. by Volker Jurke, Dieter Linck, Joachim Reiss, edition Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89684-072-1
  • Norbert Radermacher: Theater without Borders - On the quality of the intercultural dialogue in child and youth cultural work . In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (Ed.): Mobility in the globalized world . KIT Scientific Publishing , 2005, ISBN 978-3-937300-62-7 , pp. 147 ff . ( limited preview ).
  • Norbert Radermacher: KulturLeben - a journey through time through art, natural and cultural history on the Ems and Vechte, Edition Virgines 2020

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim-Hannes Schauen: Probebühne der Toleranz In: Deutschlandradio Kultur July 17, 2006
  2. ↑ Die Welt zu Gast in Lingen In: the daily newspaper July 14, 2006
  3. ↑ Wir im Emsland Festschrift 30 Years of the Emsland District, page 15
  4. ^ Lower Saxony Order of Merit for Norbert Radermacher City of Lingen November 30, 2012
  5. ^ First Lingen Culture Prize awarded by the city ​​of Lingen on December 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Radermacher, Norbert Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radermacher, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar and founder of the World Children's Theater Festival
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH mountain