Reinhardt Stumm

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Reinhardt Stumm (born December 13, 1930 in Berlin ; died April 12, 2019 in Basel ) was a Swiss-German cultural journalist , theater critic and non-fiction author, long-time column head of the Basler Zeitung and juror of the Berliner Theatertreffen and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in the 1980s Years.

Life

Reinhardt Stumm did his Abitur after an apprenticeship as a gardener at the evening high school in Dortmund. He went to the University of Basel to study English , art history and psychology , and later also German . He earned his living as a student trainee with jobs like gardening and delivering sausages. As a student he began writing event reviews for the Basler Nachrichten . From the beginning, the focus for him was on reporting on the theater. Without a college degree, he switched full-time to journalism. He took on the citizenship of Switzerland because he wanted to stay there permanently.

He initially worked as a freelancer for the Zürcher Woche , was editor of the Swiss theater newspaper from 1968 to 1971 and then from 1970 to 1974 head of the features section of Basler Nachrichten . Due to serious differences of opinion with the editor-in-chief, he resigned and from then on initially worked as a freelancer for newspapers and radio stations. From 1977 he worked for the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich . There he built up the weekly program supplement . After five years, he moved to Basler Zeitung in 1982 as head of department , where he headed the feature section until his retirement in June 1996. As a “hinge personality” between the Swiss and German theater scene, Stumm often reported for German radio and print media, for example for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the specialist magazines Theater der Zeit and Theater heute .

Stumm was characterized by the fact that he was interested and curious in many ways. He also knew the non-intellectual scene, the popular culture, he propagated Anglo-Saxon literature. He was an early friend and sponsor of Tomi Ungerer .

As a theater critic, he traveled a lot in Germany and all over Switzerland. His curiosity and love for the theater drove him. And as a well-founded expert on German-language theater recognized in professional circles, Stumm was a member of the jury at the Berlin Theatertreffen from 1977 to 1982 and from 1988 to 1991. He urged and initiated that Switzerland should also have such a theater meeting, which became the Zurich Theater Spectacle , which has been held annually in the last two weeks of August since 1980 on the Landiwiese on Lake Zurich . For six years he was also one of the jurors of the Klagenfurt journalism competition before it was discontinued due to the participation of the Carinthian FPÖ in the state government .

As a critic, he was recognized in the cultural scene, but also feared. He was argumentative and "not always fair". With sharp-tongued statements he got involved in theater and cultural policy issues and sometimes triggered resistance.

“The theater people feared him. He always only wrote what he really thought. He was already a role model. "

- Peter Burri, SRF

Works

Monographs
  • America of the pioneers. With photographs by Heinrich Gohl. Mondo-Verlag, Lausanne 1974, ISBN 978-3-7169-1103-7 .
  • (with Georg Stark): The Mississippi: History of a River. Mondo-Verlag, Lausanne 1985.
  • (with Kurt Wyss): Jean Tinguely  : Der. Dream is everything - technology is nothing. With illustrations by Jean Tinguely. F. Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 1985, ISBN 978-3-7245-0564-8 .
  • (with Georg Stark): Botanical Gardens of Switzerland , Mondo-Verlag, Vevey 1997.
  • Comedy Basel . Fifty years of woe and noise. 2001.
  • Querbeet: garden stories. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2002, ISBN 978-3-85616-170-5 .
  • Strassenbilder , Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-7245-1413-1 .
  • Memorandum. CVs in Basel. Basler Zeitung Medien Verlag 2007.
Editorships
  • Oh and oh. The Swiss radio play book , Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1998.
  • Markus Kutter - Gleanings: Findings from the text archive. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2009.

literature

  • Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Reinhardt Stumm. In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2005, Volume 3, p. 1773.
  • Urs Bircher, Peter Burri (Hrsg.): Der Stumm: Reinhardt Stumm - journalist, critic, publicist. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85616-509-3 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhardt Stumm - «He spoke plain text». srf .ch from April 15, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Switzerland “Gruusig guet” , Spiegel online from September 19, 1983, accessed May 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Theater critic Reinhardt Stumm has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 15, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Free groups, free spectators - Ten Years of Theater Spectacle Zurich" , R. Stumm 1989 In: Diplomthema Theaterspektakel (PDF), accessed May 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ HeBIS union catalog
  6. ↑ Entry Komödie Basel BS , Swiss online theater lexicon, accessed April 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ see hbz union catalog
personal data
SURNAME Mute, Reinhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural journalist, theater critic and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2019
Place of death Basel