Rainer Schwarz (director)

Rainer Schwarz (born December 6, 1952 in Potsdam ; † November 16, 2013 ) was a German theater and radio play director.

Live and act

Rainer Schwarz studied biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle and later directing at the Institute for Drama Directing in Berlin. From 1976 on he worked as a director and author for radio, for records and dubbing, and as a theater director on the stages of the city of Magdeburg. 13 productions of contemporary and classical pieces, including a world premiere by Peter Hacks with “Musen” in 1983 , more than 70 radio plays and features were created in his artistic creative period. He was a lecturer in acting theory and practice at the “Hans Otto” theater school in Leipzig, Studio Magdeburg and the “Konrad Wolf” film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He worked as a freelance writer and director for ten years before taking on project management for "Weimar 1999 European City of Culture". In autumn 1999 he was appointed festival manager and managing director of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg GmbH.

Radio play adaptations (selection)

• The sold shadow based on Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story , adaptation: Reimund Frentzel and Rainer Schwarz, director: Horst Liepach , Rundfunk der DDR 1975.
• The image of the other based on motifs from the novel The painter Nolten by Eduard Mörike , arrangement: Reimund Frentzel and Rainer Schwarz, music: Reiner Bredemeyer , director: Horst Liepach, Rundfunk der DDR 1977.
• The dream of happiness based on the fantastic fairy tale "The golden pot" by ETH Hoffmann, arrangement: Reimund Frentzel and Rainer Schwarz, music: Hermann Keller , director: Horst Liepach, Rundfunk der DDR 1978.

Radio director (selection)

• What do you think of Irma Prein from Franz Hiesel , Rundfunk der DDR 1986.
• The older son radio play after Alexander Wampilow, Rundfunk der DDR 1987.
• The adventurous deaths of Mister Fruin by Don Haworth, with Rolf Ludwig , Rundfunk der DDR 1987.
• The prisoner von Wole Soyinka , Broadcasting of the GDR 1988.
• How I racked Bernd Kirschke's head Radio play by Bert Koß , MDR 2002.
• Levins Mühle - 34 sentences about my grandfather by Johannes Bobrowski , reading in 11 episodes, with Traugott Buhre , production: MDR Figaro 2005
• A love out of nothing by Barbara Honigmann , reading in 5 episodes, with Nina Petri , production: MDR Figaro 2007
• Sommergewitter by Erich Loest , reading in 15 episodes, with Erich Loest, Ursula Karusseit and Maria Simon , production: MDR Figaro 2006
• Weisskern's estate from Christoph Hein , reading in 16 episodes, with Götz Schubert , production: MDR Figaro 2013.

Sound carrier (selection)

• The Snow Queen , record version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, arrangement: Reimund Frentzel and Rainer Schwarz, music: Christian Steyer , direction: Rainer Schwarz, VEB Deutsche Schallplatte 1980, LITERA 865353.
• The cold heart , record version of the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff, arrangement: Reimund Frentzel and Rainer Schwarz, music: Christian Steyer, direction: Rainer Schwarz, VEB Deutsche Schallplatte 1984, LITERA 865358.
• Thumbelina , record version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, arrangement: Dieter Scharfenberg and Rainer Schwarz, music: Reinhard Lakomy , direction: Rainer Schwarz, Deutsche Schallplatte GmbH, Berlin, LITERA junior 1991.
• Das Feuerzeug , record version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, arrangement: Dieter Scharfenberg and Rainer Schwarz, music: Reinhard Lakomy, direction: Rainer Schwarz, Deutsche Schallplatte GmbH, Berlin, LITERA junior 1991.
• Weisskern's estate from Christoph Hein , reading with Götz Schubert , director: Rainer Schwarz, 420 min., Mp3-CD, MDR 2013 / Der Audio Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783862315628 .
• Levins Mühle - 34 sentences about my grandfather by Johannes Bobrowski , reading with Traugott Buhre , director: Rainer Schwarz, 400 min., Mp3-CD, MDR 2005 / Der Audio Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783862315659 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Schwarz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chamber opera Rheinsberg mourns Rainer Schwarz. (No longer available online.) Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera, archived from the original on April 15, 2014 ; Retrieved April 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Frank Kallensee: "Friderizianische Saison. Program for Rheinsberg Festival Summer" in: Märkische Allgemeine from 23 May 2012, p. 9
3. ↑ Karin Großmann: "Everything is filed away. The author Erich Loest gives his books and manuscripts to a Leipzig foundation." in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from February 4, 2006, p. 9