Waldemar Kamer
Waldemar Kamer (born January 6, 1966 in Enschede ) is a German-Dutch journalist , director , actor and writer who lives in Paris .
youth
Waldemar Kamer was born in Enschede, where his mother was a harpist in the local opera orchestra. His father became a correspondent for the news magazine Der Spiegel in Brussels in 1966 . Kamer went to the European School there in Uccle . His maternal great-grandfather is Johannes Tiedke , a cousin of Bruno Kastner .
Education
Kamer has lived in Paris since 1984, where he studied art history at the Sorbonne . He wrote a master's thesis on the director Peter Brook . At the same time he took acting lessons from Danièle Ajoret and Jean Périmony. From 1990 to 1994 he was assistant director to Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie / De Munt , at the Vienna State Opera and at the Salzburg Festival .
Theater and film roles
In 1986, Kamer played the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in In memoriam by Anne Sicco at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano , and in 1987 the same poet in The Testament of Rilke (directed by Claudine Laroche) at the Espace Privé Theater in Brussels. In 1993 he played the title role of Le Gardien de Nuit by Anne Sicco at Tacheles in Berlin during the Trans Europe Festival. In 1993 he was the journalist for “Der Spiegel” in an interview with Heiner Müller (director: Max Denes) at the Festival de Poésie du Haut Allier (southern France).
In the film, Kamer played a German soldier in Fortitude by Waris Hussein in 1994 and an American diplomat in Jefferson in Paris by James Ivory in 1995 .
Opera direction
Kamer staged the following operas:
- Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck at the Nationale Reisopera in Enschede and the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux .
- La Sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini in Lausanne, Lisbon, Bordeaux, Como, Cremona, Pavia and Avignon.
- Aida by Giuseppe Verdi at the National Reisopera.
- Cendrillon by Jules Massenet in Chemnitz.
- Marianne by Edouard Lacamp in Saint-Etienne.
Concerts and lectures
Kamer organizes concerts and lectures in which art builds bridges between different cultures:
- Jerusalem , peace poems and harp in Brussels.
- Goethe and France in Heidelberg.
- Look through the pictures in Antwerp.
- From Hadewijch to Meister Eckhart in Molsheim.
- Lucien Bonaparte and the music in Ajaccio.
Since 2010, Kamer has been the music advisor at the Palais Fesch in Ajaccio.
Since 2015 he has given similar concerts as a baritone and reciter, a. a.
- The figure of the wanderer in Schubert and knights and ghosts of ruins in the castle of Béhéricourt .
- The ascent of Mont Ventoux by Petrarch and homage to Countess Marguerite de Rochegude in the Sainte-Madeleine in Bédoin .
- Monsieur Perronneau in letters and sheet music in the Musée des Beaux-Arts d' Orléans .
journalism
Kamer has been the Paris correspondent for the Dutch art magazine Tableau Fine Arts since 1991 . He works for German, Flemish and French broadcasters ( Bayerischer Rundfunk , VRT and Radio France Internationale ) and the German newspapers Berliner Morgenpost , Hamburger Abendblatt and Saarbrücker Zeitung . He writes for the news magazine Focus and for various opera and theater magazines. Since 2013 he has been the France correspondent and France & Benelux coordinator of the opera magazine Der Neue Merker in Vienna , also for the Online Merker and the Opernfreund . He is making documentaries for Arte .
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Books
After various publications in exhibition catalogs, Waldemar Kamer published his first personal book in 2019, Behind the Facades of Paris, a portrait of a hundred Parisians (in Dutch), ISBN 978-90-389-2686-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kamer, Waldemar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch journalist, director, actor and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Enschede |