Peter Radtke

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Peter Radtke in George Tabori's staging of Franz Kafka's report for an academy , Prague, 1998

Peter Radtke (born March 19, 1943 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 28, 2020 in Munich ) was a German author , actor and a PhD in Romance studies . He was committed to the needs of disabled people.

Life

Peter Radtke was the son of the actor Ernst Radtke, his mother Käthe was a nurse. He grew up in Regensburg , where he trained as an interpreter in English, French and Spanish from 1957 to 1961 at a private foreign language school. In addition, he passed the external examination at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963 with the “Certificate in American Culture and Civilization”. He earned his Abitur from 1964 to 1968 through the second educational path at the evening high school in Regensburg; He then studied German and Romance languages from 1968 to 1976 at the Universities of Regensburg and Geneva with a final first state examination and doctorate .

Radtke suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta (known colloquially as glass bone disease ) and was therefore dependent on a wheelchair . From 1977 to 1984 he was the head of the “Disability Program” at the Munich Adult Education Center and from 1984 to 2008 he was the managing director and chief editor of the Disability and Media Working Group . From 2003 he was a member of the National Ethics Council , and since 2008 also in its successor, the German Ethics Council .

In 1978, Radtke initiated the first German “handicapped theater piece” Licht am Ende der Tunnel by Michael Blenheim, in which people with disabilities participated and which was performed at the Theater der Jugend in Munich . He himself appeared for the first time in 1981 in the play Message from Grottenolm in the Theater am Sozialamt (TamS) in Munich and in 1982 co-founded the Crüppel Cabaret . As an actor he also had success with a report to an academy run by Franz Kafka at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where he could also be seen as Stalin . He worked u. a. with George Tabori .

In the film adaptation of the novel Die Rättin by Günter Grass , Radtke played Matzerath. He played another film role in Michael Verhoevens Mutters Courage .

Radtke was the author of plays, radio plays and specialist articles.

Publications

Books

  • The problem of 'fragility' - an investigation on Rabelais, Diderot and Claudel (dissertation). University of Regensburg 1976
  • Half a life made of glass. Considerations from a wheelchair user. Metöken series, Munich 1985. ISBN 3924518033
  • M for Tabori: Experiences of a disabled actor. Piper, Munich, 1987, 1990. ISBN 978-3858421456
  • Career with 99 breaks: from wheelchair to stage. Allitera, Munich 2001. ISBN 978-3869060804
  • The meaning of life is to be lived: Why our society needs disabled people (essays and presentations). St. Michaelsbund, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3920821986

Professional article (selection)

  • How high is the risk - prospects for a prenatal diagnosis? In: Gynäkologische-Obstshilfliche Rundschau , 42/2002, pp. 60–66
  • Curative education and self-determination - complement or contradiction . In: Alois Bürli (Hrsg.): Learning from one another - main presentations of the Swiss Special Education Congress 1999 . Lucerne 2000, pp. 9-18.
  • Defend against progress - Subjective views of something that is “left behind” . In: Stefan Kleinert u. a. (Ed.): The medical view of disability - ethical questions between relief and reduction, Würzburg 1997 (Würzburg medical historical research, supplement 4), pp. 61–69
  • Beginning of a new reality - analyzes and hopes of disabled people in our society . In: Franz Kaspar , Niko Roth (ed.): Dreams of life - living spaces; Disability assistance between design and management . Freiburg / Br. 1995, pp. 61-74
  • Human Genetics - What Does It Bring For The Disabled? In: Klaus Zerres, Reinhardt Rüdel (ed.): Self-help groups and human geneticists in dialogue; Expectations and fears . Stuttgart 1993, pp. 60-66
  • Disability and the ideology of the “normal” . In: Hellmut Puschmann (Ed.): Not see and act (Caritas) , Freiburg / Br. 1996, pp. 71-80

Papers (selection)

  • 2003: Peter Radtke and Wolfgang Schäuble in conversation , University of Witten / Herdecke
  • 2008: extraordinarily human ... , University of Würzburg
  • 2015: Very close to life , "Summit victory" in Leogang
  • 2019: Art knows no borders , Diocese of Augsburg

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swissbib Basel Bern: The problem of 'fragility'. an investigation into Rabelais, Diderot and Claudel . Author: Peter Radtke, Diss.Regensburg 1976.
  2. ↑ Bibliothèque de Genève (BGE): ditto .
  3. ↑ a b c Christine Dössel: Peter Radtke died at the age of 77. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 30, 2020, accessed December 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Stephan Lebert : [1] Peter Radtke: Why are you in the world? In: Tagesspiegel , November 25, 2000, accessed on July 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ Katja Tichomirowa (interview): [2] I do not suffer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 13, 2011, accessed on July 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jobst-Ulrich Brand: Nagezahn der Endzeit In: Focus Online-Magazin, October 13, 1997, " Peter Radtke, who plays the aged Oskar Matzerath, the gnome hero from Grass' big debut novel" The Tin Drum ", is also called up ." on July 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Kerstin Holzer: With unbroken energy In: Focus Online-Magazin, October 20, 1997, accessed on July 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ Peter Radtke and Wolfgang Schäuble in conversation , public event on the occasion of the "European Year of People with Disabilities", Witten / Herdecke University, November 22, 2003 [3] , accessed on July 14, 2019
  9. ↑ extraordinarily human ... , lecture by Peter Radtke at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, June 18, 2008 [4] , accessed on July 14, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Very close to life": Peter Resetarits meets Peter Radtke at the 10th "Summit Victory" in Leogang, March 13, 2015 [5] , accessed on July 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ Art knows no borders , lecture by Peter Radtke in the Diocese of Augsburg, June 4, 2019 [6] , accessed on July 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Radtke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2020
Place of death Munich