Rolf Spinrads

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Rolf Spinrads (born December 5, 1942 in Bavaria , † March 28, 1987 in Düsseldorf ) was a German television editor, director and author .

Life

In the turmoil of war towards the end of the Second World War , Rolf Spinrads was born in Bavaria and lived there with his mother - separated from his father - with relatives in the countryside. It was not until the end of the war that the scattered family met again in Düsseldorf, where he lived until his death. Even when he was still at school, he was very interested in art, especially photography and painting. After graduating from high school, Rolf Spinrads had actually aimed for a career as an art teacher. He began studying at Cologne University. However, through student jobs and an internship, he came to WDR, where he quickly discovered his weakness for this new, growing medium. As a result, he found a permanent position as the youngest editor in the entire WDR at the time . His life and work concentrated entirely on developing and designing new programs (today "formats") - primarily in the field of entertainment.

"He had his permanent crew, they were all permanently employed WDR people with whom he worked, but they were different from the rest of the WDR."

- Karin Zahn, assistant director

Services

Rolf Spinrads worked in the editorial department of the youth magazine Baff in the late 1960s; an occasionally deliberately irritating and provocative program. She showed z. B. the first woman with a bare upper body in such a broadcast format.

Spinrads created a variety of entertainment formats, some of which were ahead of their time, including one of the very first dating shows: "Later marriage not excluded" with Reinhard Münchenhagen . The anarchist, chaotic record kitchen , the music and sketch format Bananas and as a successor the show Kangaroo , for which he discovered Hape Kerkeling .

“He was a very creative person. At first he was - I think - the youngest editor at WDR at the age of 22. And he was also different from the others, I would say very stupidly. "

- Hans Herbert Böhrs, actor in Bananas

Spinrads gave many well-known German artists a first forum on German television by producing so-called personality shows with them. These personalities included Vicky Leandros (the show won the Bronze Rose of Montreux in 1971), Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Udo Lindenberg and Otto .

After breaking with Hape Kerkeling , he developed the successor format to Kangaroo : Frankobella with Frank Zander and Isabel Varell . By Franko Bella only a result produced since Rolf Spinrads died during production.

Television documentary

  • Laughing stories - Plattenküche , a film by Winni Gahlen, 45 min., WDR and RBB , 2011
  • Laughing stories - Bananas , a film by Winni Gahlen, 45 min., WDR, 2013
  • Chaos in the Third - The legendary record kitchen , a film by Oliver Schwabe , 45 min., WDR, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Zahn in Laughing Stories - Bananas
  2. ↑ tv-kult.de Retrieved on May 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Alexandra Reinwarth : Hape - In the footsteps of the funniest German . Riva Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86413-061-8 . Retrieved May 19, 2012
  4. ↑ Hans Herbert Böhrs in Laughing Stories - Bananas

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personal data
SURNAME Spinrads, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television editor, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1987
Place of death Dusseldorf