Ulrike Nitzschke

Ulrike Nitzschke in conversation with the actor Wolfgang Hosfeld

Ulrike Nitzschke (* 1958 in Dresden ) is a German author , presenter , actress , theater scholar and singer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Nitzschke first studied at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . At the Leipzig School of Theater Hans Otto , she completed the drama studio at the stages of the city of Magdeburg and completed her studies with a diploma. She then worked for the Erfurt Municipal Theaters for nine years. Parallel to her stage work, as a doctoral student at the University of Education , German Studies / Literary Studies section , she researched her topic: "Trivial drama in Goethe's time using the example of Kotzebue". After the political change in 1989/90, she began working in Weimar as an editor for Thuringian radio .

From 1992 to the end of 2012 she was one of the defining voices and faces of the MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

Nitzschke is married and has a grown daughter.

Theater work

During her studies in Dresden, Ulrike Nitzschke sang and made music together with the songwriters Gerhard Schöne and Dieter Beckert in the cabaret chanson program Two Jugglers and a Girl . The Dresden composer Thomas Hertel also engaged her as a singer for the jazz project Nachtwächterblues by the actor Wolfgang Dehler .

Already with one of her first roles in the drama studio at the stages of the city of Magdeburg, the student Ina in the DDR present piece match of Jürgen United , they drew attention to himself as subtle as temperamental actress. Later she played under the direction of Gert Jurgons , Ekkehard Kiesewetter , Klaus Schleiff, Klaus Stephan a. a. Cordelia in King Lear , Constance in the musical Musketeers and Naemi in Der Graf von Gleichen .

Under the title Ach Sorg, you have to go back , Ulrike Nitzschke and the Erfurt theater musician Fritz Bauer dedicated herself to music and texts from the time of the Renaissance and the Thirty Years' War .

With Paula in What does love mean here? and Marie in The Notice of Václav Havel , she said goodbye to her theater audience in 1991.

Journalistic work

Ulrike Nitzschke began her journalistic work with reviews for the magazine Theater der Zeit , the weekly newspaper Sonntag and some local newspapers.

In 1990 she moved from the theater to the media, initially to Thuringian Radio , which became part of the Central German Radio in 1992. Here she was heard on MDR 1 Radio Thuringia and MDR Kultur as a presenter, reviewer and reporter. She also worked for Deutsche Welle , RIAS , which later became DeutschlandRadioBerlin , and Deutschlandfunk . At SWF she took on the title role in the radio play Christiane Vulpius . At MDR, she directed radio features.

In 1994 she started working for MDR television. After her first TV experience as a reporter for the Katholikentag in Dresden, she moderated the MDR talk show Unter uns - stories from life from 1994 to 2008 . In 1997, she co-founded the MDR afternoon magazine here from four .

From 2001 to the end of 2012 she was the author, presenter and producer for the weekly MDR inventor magazine Einfach genial , which was taken over by the broadcasters NDR , RBB and EinsPlus . In 2011 he was awarded the Rudolf Diesel Medal for the best media communication in the Hall of Fame in the Deutsches Museum in Munich .

In Das Erste , Ulrike Nitzschke invited several people to the Erzgebirge Christmas on Silberstraße during the Christmas season . With the name researcher Jürgen Udolph from the University of Leipzig she was on the trail of names , with the folk musician Eberhard Hertel on the trail of German folk songs .

At the beginning of 2009, Ulrike Nitzschke took a trip to private television with five pilots produced by UFA Entertainment for RTL Television for the Hund sucht Hütte series .

In the summer of 2009 she introduced herself as a documentary filmmaker for the first time with the MDR production Zur Reifeprüfung an der Front . Together with the cameraman Thomas Simon, she accompanied four men on their way to school once again for this film, seventy years after their first day of school together at a National Socialist advanced school.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you - from Fichtelberg to the Paralympics is the title of a report on the countdown of the German national team to the Paralympics 2010, which was broadcast on MDR and Phoenix .

In 2011, history in concrete followed for the MDR ; a 30-minute documentary about a film from 1989, its protagonists , six concrete workers from Halberstadt , and their new boss from Lower Saxony .

Nitzschke prepares and presents reports and current articles etc. a. for ZDF and 3sat .

Web links

• Ulrike Nitzschke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ulrike Nitzschke on MySpace

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrike Nitzschke puts an end to MDR BILD online from December 10, 2012
2. ↑ Report from messelive.tv ( memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated November 30, 2011 
3. ^ MDR Einfach Genial ( Memento from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) from September 28, 2012
4. ↑ Award ceremony ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. dated November 30, 2011