Peter Müller-Buchow
Peter Müller-Buchow (born May 1, 1941 in Habelschwerdt , Silesia, † May 18, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German dramaturge , radio play speaker and director .
Life
Peter Müller-Buchow was born in 1941 as the fourth child of Fritz Müller and Eva Müller, née Buchow, in Habelschwerdt, Silesia. Through his parents he came into contact with art and music at an early age. During the Second World War and in the period afterwards, his childhood was marked by fleeing from the approaching Russian troops, expulsion and internment. After he had finished elementary school in Halle an der Saale , he and his family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954, where he attended an advanced high school in Petershagen near Minden and graduated from high school at the age of twenty. From an early age he enjoyed listening to classical music, painting, reading intensively and over time built a large library.
In 1961, Müller-Buchow began studying theater studies at the Free University of Berlin , during which time he worked on the student stage. He did not complete a dissertation on the set designer and director Traugott Müller and instead switched to theater practice. From 1970 he worked as a dramaturge at the theater in Bielefeld . In the 1970/71 season he was chief dramaturge at the Stadttheater Osnabrück and from 1971/1972 dramaturge at the stages of the city of Cologne . In mid-1972 he went to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in the same position . For the opening of its second venue, the Thalia in the Kunsthalle , or tik for short , a German Revue 1900-1918 compiled by Hanno Lunin , Peter Müller-Buchow and Dirk Schortemeier with the title First a while on the right was premiered.
Boy Gobert , who took over the management of the Thalia in 1969 after having been extremely successful as an actor on leading theaters in Germany and Austria, opened the traditional house to contemporary directorial theater. During his directorship, which lasted until 1980, he engaged, among others, Hans Hollmann , Peter Zadek , Hans Neuenfels and Jürgen Flimm , who later became director of Thalia himself . Peter Müller-Buchow accompanied their productions as production dramaturge. In cooperation with Prof. Holger Matthies , a leading graphic designer in Germany, programs were created that are in demand today as documents on the history of theater.
In 1973, the prominent actor and cabaret artist Helmut Qualtinger read excerpts from Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf in tik , a deliberate breach of taboo in order to initiate the public debate about the collectively suppressed German past. The compilation of the text from Hitler's notorious combat pamphlet was done by Peter Müller-Buchow in collaboration with Dr. Hanno Lunin, Thalia's chief dramaturge.
From 1978 Müller-Buchow worked for the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) as a speaker and participated in numerous radio plays. This was followed by a longer stay in New York , where he turned to the medium of film, expanded his English language skills and found inspiration for his artistic work in the cultural life of the cosmopolitan city. Back in Hamburg, he moved into an apartment in the central St. Georg district, took on orders for video documentations and began to build his own contemporary film archive. During his stays with friends in the country, he developed a special love for plants, flowers and gardens.
Müller-Buchow was married for ten years. In 1986 he fell ill and had to have an operation, but recovered and worked as a video maker for several insurance companies. Their commissions took him to many countries around the world. On behalf of Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Kehr, his friend and colleague from his days in Cologne, documented Robert Wilson's first opera production at the Stuttgart State Opera , Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck and three years in a row at the Schwetzingen Festival .
Between 1994 and 2006, Müller-Buchow made four historical films for the city of Pforzheim , which deal with the topics of youth in the Third Reich, the destruction of the 'gold city' in World War II and reconstruction after 1945: Code Yellowfin (1995), school-leaving certificate for the war (1996), Trümmerleben (2002) and Wealth Years (2006). The work was created in collaboration with Dr. Alfred Hübner, the then head of the Pforzheim Cultural Office, who was his colleague at the Thalia Theater in the 1970s.
In 2007, Peter Müller-Buchow fell seriously ill again and died on May 18, 2012.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Buchow, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dramaturge, radio play speaker and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Habelschwerdt , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2012 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |