Stephan Goeritz

Stephan Göritz (* 16th September 1960 in East Berlin , † 4. March 2018 in Berlin ) was a German radio playwright , author , songwriter and journalist .

Life

Because he often had to stay in bed as a child due to illness, Stephan Göritz developed an intense relationship with radio and especially with radio plays at an early age, which he soon systematically recorded in a private tape and data archive. His short radio play “In Dinge Schulhoflinde”, which he wrote at the age of 16, was one of the prize-winning pieces in the “Password: Snapshot” competition and was first broadcast in 1977 by the GDR radio. This radio play debut was followed by numerous radio play adaptations for children, later detective radio plays, radio essays, literature and chanson programs.

After graduating from the Kant-Oberschule Berlin-Lichtenberg, he studied theater studies with Ernst Schumacher , Rudolf Münz and Joachim Fiebach at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1980 to 1985 and graduated in 1985 as part of his own research in the performing project group headed by Siegfried Hähnel Art on radio with a diploma on fairy tale adaptations in GDR children's radio play.

From 1985 to 1991 he was a research associate in the main radio drama department of the GDR radio and the Berlin radio station. In this capacity, he conducted numerous eyewitness interviews with personalities from radio and radio play history - so u. a. with Georg W. Pijet , Berta Waterstradt , Werner Grunow , Günther Rücker , Hedda Zinner , Horst Buerschaper, Rose Nyland , Karl Brenk , Flora Hoffmann , Uwe Haacke or Ruth Kraft .

Since 1992 he has lived as a freelance author, songwriter and journalist in Berlin and published primarily for ORB , SFB , RBB , Deutschlandradio and SR . Stephan Göritz has achieved a special reputation among the public and experts as a long-time author, interviewer and co-presenter of programs in the series Cross Heads in the Deutschlandfunk program. Here he portrayed legendary people as well as newcomers to the cabaret and cabaret scene, for example: Volker Kühn , Peter Ensikat , Arnulf Rating , Dieter Hildebrandt or Annika Krump , Michael Frowin or Katherina Franck.

For Maurice Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges , written in 1924 , libretto: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette , (German: Das Kind und der Zauberspuk ) Stephan Göritz wrote a new German adaptation, which was performed on February 25, 2001 in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt with Gert Westphal premiered as a speaker.

His audio pictures about cabaret artists and the First World War, as well as cabaret artists and the Third Reich , were published as audio books and were honored on the best list 4/2016 for the German Record Critics' Prize and on the hr2 audio book best list , February 2018 .

Stephan Göritz also wrote various adaptations of chanson texts from French and his own lyrics - see above. a. also by Jacques Brel , who also performed by well-known interpreters such as B. Gisela May and Celina Muza were sung.

In the program of Deutschlandfunk for April 4, 2018, 9:05 p.m. , he was not able to finish the edition of the Querköpfe , which he gave the title: Hearing butterflies laughing - Annika Krump's procrastination . Annika Krump, who should have been the focus of the planned program, ultimately designed this program, vice versa, to pay homage to the unmistakable radio producer Stephan Göritz.

A stage program in the style of a radio broadcast for Stephan Göritz took place on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 in the bar of everyone . Participants included Bérangère, Alix Dudel , Harry Ermer, Elisabeth Heymann, Annika Krump, Mariam Kurth , Isabel Neuenfeldt, Manfred Maurenbrecher , Katjeline Philipss-Lebon, Pigor and Eichhorn , Lea Streisand , Matthias Thalheim, Trio Scho, Celina Muza, Karsten Troyke , Jeannette Urzendowsky u. a. instead of.

Radio

Short radio plays

• 1974: Typical Zackata ; Children's radio play, in: Children write for children , director: Leonore Mütterlein - Rundfunk der DDR
• 1977: In the matter of Schulhoflinde - Director: Günter Bormann - Rundfunk der DDR, also on a SCHOLA vinyl LP for German lessons, VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin, 1980
• 1979: The festival program - Director: Klaus Zippel - Rundfunk der DDR
• 1979: Driving license - Director: Walter Niklaus - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1980: Two bottles of beer - Director: Walter Niklaus - Rundfunk der DDR

Children's radio plays

• 1981: Tischlein deck dich - after Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, with Hans-Joachim Hanisch , Wolfgang Brunecker a . a., directed by Manfred Täubert - Rundfunk der DDR, as an audio book on Icestorm Audiobooks 2016
• 1983: The Grim Reaper - after Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, with Peter Reusse , Jürgen Hentsch a . a., Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1984: The unfortunate misfortune - based on a Ukrainian fairy tale, with Margit Bendokat , Hans Teuscher and others. a., Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1984: The Snow Queen - after Hans Christian Andersen / Jewgeni Lwowitsch Schwarz , with Blanche Kommerell , Joachim Kaps a . a., Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1986: Timm Thaler or The Laughing Soldier - 4 parts, after James Krüss , with Blanche Kommerell, Horst Schulze a . a., Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1988: Anahit , with Rüdiger Joswig , Arno Wyzniewski u. a., Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1989: The Little Prince , based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , adapted as a radio story, with Heidrun Perdelwitz , Ulrich Voss a . a. Director: Flora Hoffmann - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1990: The stone flower , based on fairy tales from the Urals, with Inge Keller , Rolf Ludwig , music: Christian Steyer , director: Jürgen Schmidt - LITERA, published as MC
• 1992: The cat that seeks its own path , according to Rudyard Kipling , directed by Gerhard Willert - Radio Bremen

Detective radio plays

• 1986: The speaking image - Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1987: Salto - Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1987: Tod im Kontor - Director: Uwe Haacke - Rundfunk der DDR
• 1988: End of the performance - Director: Bert Bredemeyer - Rundfunk der DDR
• 1988: No Pig - Director: Uwe Haacke - Broadcasting of the GDR

Cabaret and chanson programs (selection)

• 1987: Léo Ferré , portrait - chanson meeting - songs to listen to, Radio DDR I
• 1989: I hate Sunday - Charles Aznavour and his chansons , Radio DDR I.
• 1989: “The next love” - Gisela May sings Jacques Brel , Songs - Lieder mit Grips, DT64
• 1990: Yvette Guilbert “The Art of Singing a Chanson” , Radio aktuell
• 2001: Songs against gravity - Isabel Tuengerthal - a new Alice from Wonderland in the Berlin chanson scene - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: My white, wise mirror - The Russian Morin Smolé and her stories made of glass - Crossheads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: A pin falls - and I play it for you - the chanson player Michael Heltau - a portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: One would have to try to be happy - if only to give an example - the Moritaet Jacques Prévert - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: A song from distant spaces - the cabaret aristocrat Christoph Stählin - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: I want to be unimportant - Erwin Grosche , the avowed resident of the provincial town - cross-heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2002: If you are too easy for me, you come to the Gebeinfach - As from Palma Kunkel, the singing face of a plate, who became a handbag carrier. A portrait of the chanson singer and cabaret artist Annika Krump - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Dlf
• 2002: "To the revolutionary Jesus for his birthday" - Another Christmas program - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: The List of Words - The Chanson Juggler Bernard Joyet - Cross Heads : Cabaret, Comedy & Weird Songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: Not Gone with the Wind - Scarlett O 'between folk, chanson and cabaret - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: Life in slow motion - the spoken songs of Katharina Franck - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: I am not one-eyed - neither in the right eye nor in the left. Stimulus and risk of the politician parody - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: “A diva is not a divan” - when opera and cabaret collide - lateral heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: "First you say that you dream something - then you dream that you say something" - the cabaret artist, chanson singer and boxing commentator Werner Schneyder - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: Shadow perpetrators and legends - The small theater on the Südwestkorso in Berlin celebrates its 30th birthday - Crossheads: Cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2003: “You are not born to be a cabaret artist, you are made to be a cabaret artist” - the opinion representative Arnulf Rating. A portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2004: A raven sits by the kitchen stove - Sandra Kreisler's liberation. A portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2004: The bill is free - Martina Brandl's post-brutal phase . A portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2004: One is responsible for the head, the other for the stairwell - portrait of the cabaret artist as the caretaker of the company. The Munich-based Andreas Rebers - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2004: I greet you heartily - the cabaret artist Olinka Orphea in search of Amor - a portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2005: The poetic reports of Manfred Maurenbrecher - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2006: The buzzword Dieter Hildebrandt - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2006: Götz Alsmann between swing and Feuerzangenbowle - a portrait - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2007: "bribes for all" - the lying pop by Plückhahn and Vogel - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Germany radio
• 2008: Gute Macht - the surreal political cabaret of the Hengstmann brothers - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2009: Man created God, the devil created the prophets - How the satirist Peter Ensikat tries to exaggerate reality - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2010: Underground fighters with state awards - The cabaret author Wolfgang Schaller turns 70 - Crossheads: Cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Germany radio
• 2011: Desert experience at the whirlpool - Why the cabaret artist Michael Frowin will never go on a cruise again - Crossheads: Cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2012: 'Heile Welt' three times a day - the actress and cabaret artist Saskia Kästner discovers the beauty of the trivial - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2013: Who laughs, has hope - The thistle in the system change , feature, director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch , RBB-Kulturradio
• 2013: “I've got the desperation behind me” - bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff returns to cabaret - cross heads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2013: Avoidable Noise - The Discoveries of Scarlett O - Cross Heads: Cabaret, Comedy & Weird Songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2014: Without a belt through time - Pigor sings and Eichhorn still has to accompany - Crossheads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2015: Pinch the devil in the ass: Ellen Tiedtke - The cabaret artist, singer and actress turns 85 , MDR FIGARO
• 2015: Singing always helps - How Melanie Haupt tames the chaos - Crossheads: Cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk
• 2016: Is there right-wing cabaret? - About concert camps, good atom bombs and hostile banana peels - Crossheads: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Germany radio
• 2017: From stamp song to show business - the songwriter Robert Gilbert - Querköpfe: cabaret, comedy & weird songs, Deutschlandfunk

Audio books

• 2011: Annette Postel sings Heymann “Irgendwo auf der Welt…” , audio collage, duo-phon records Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937127-20-0
• 2016: War is not good for peace: Cabaret artists and the First World War , audio picture, duo-phon records Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937127-21-7
• 2017: We would not have got through without humor: Cabaret artists and the Third Reich , audio picture, 2 CDs, duo-phon records Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937127-22-4

Quote

“Political cabaret was life-threatening during National Socialism. Many cabaret artists were banned from working or were sent to concentration camps. Others tried to adjust to avoid persecution. In original recordings from then and now, u. a. with Werner Finck and Fritz Grünbaum, with clever comments and plenty of background material, Feature and radio play author Stephan Göritz illustrates the history of cabaret from this era. "

- hr2 audio book best list 2/2018 about: Stephan Göritz: We would not have got through without humor. Cabaret artists and the Third Reich, speakers: Werner Finck, Kurt Gerron, Gisela May u. a., duo-phon-records / Dlf Kultur

Specialist publications

• 1986: Discography of record transfers from radio plays and features , in: Contributions to the history of broadcasting, 20/1986, 3, pages 90–95
• 1987: Radio plays for children on radio in the GDR , in: Contributions to the history of radio, 21/1987, 3, pages 27-47

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Göritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stephan Göritz at Discogs (English)
• Celina Muza: “Beginnings” (composition: Piotr Klimek, text: Stephan Göritz) on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary, Berliner Zeitung of March 17, 2018, p. 15
2. ↑ A supplemented and compressed copy of this extensive, dissertation-like presentation can be found under: Radio plays for children in radio in the GDR, in: Contributions to the history of broadcasting , issue 21/1987, 3, pages 27-47, East Berlin, 1987
3. ^ Award of the German Record Critics' Best List 4-2016 [1]
4. ↑ hr2 audio book best list, February 2018 [2]
5. ↑ Annika Krump: The cross head Stephan Göritz - portrait of a radio voice . Obituary for Stephan Göritz, broadcast on April 4, 2018 on Deutschlandfunk