Rudiger Schaper

Rüdiger Schaper (* 1959 in Worms ( Rhineland-Palatinate )) is a German author , journalist and theater critic . He lives and works mainly in Berlin and has been with Tagesspiegel since 1999 . He is head of the features section ressorts . Before that he was the Berlin cultural correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Schaper is married and has two children.

Works

In Schaper's literary works play essay and cultural history an important role. He presented biographies on Harald Juhnke , Konstantin Simonides , Karl May and Alexander von Humboldt . His book on the history of theater lists those theater makers who, as a critic, meant a lot to him.

• Spectacle: A History of Theater from Schlingensief to Aeschylus . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8275-0027-4 .
• Karl May: Subject, impostor, superman . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-975-2 .
• The forger's odyssey . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-966-0 .
• The nation's entertainer. Harald Juhnke. Between glamor and gutter . Argon Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-87024-384-8 .
• Berlin at midnight . Argon Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87024-470-4 .
• Alexander von Humboldt: The Prussian and the new worlds. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8275-0074-8 .

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Rüdiger Schaper at perlentaucher.de
• Text profile of R. Schaper at the Tagesspiegel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leonie Langer: Missionary with a criminal record: Rüdiger Schaper presents his Karl May biography. In: Der Tagesspiegel online. January 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Tobias Becker: Rüdiger Schaper over 2500 years of theater: The Benjamin Button principle. Review. In: Spiegel Online. May 7, 2014, accessed June 20, 2014.