Walter Adler

Walter Adler (2005)

Walter Adler (born September 14, 1947 in Dümpelfeld near Adenau ) is a German director specializing in radio plays for ARD . Most recently it was mainly opulent large-scale productions of radio plays with a playing time of many hours.

Life

Walter Adler with a colleague in Cologne's green belt. 2017

After studying at the drama school in Bochum and the drama school in Berlin , Adler worked from 1969 to 1971 as an assistant director at Südwestfunk Baden-Baden . Since 1971 he has been a freelance writer and director for radio plays and theater . In total, he has staged over two hundred radio plays. Adler also worked at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Köln and the Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

For his radio play Centropolis (1976) he received the radio play award of the war blind . The radio plays Breakfast Talks in Miami (1978) and Oops, wrong planet! (2012) were also awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize. His radio play Richthofen, produced in 1979, based on a text by Gert Hofmann , denounced the gun-obsession of the fighter pilot and his time in a sparse and absurd production. The role of Manfred von Richthofen sponsor, President Paul von Hindenburg , was spoken by a woman, the comradely laughter of the military was moderated ("comradely laughing"), the sounds of the planes and the wind were sung by the actors in the studio.

In 1995 Adler began to break new ground with more extensive productions and staged Walter Kempowski's documentary The War Is Ending with over 200 speakers for a 14-hour broadcast . His largest project Otherland , after Tad Williams ' tetralogy of the same name, is 24 hours long and was realized between January 19, 2004 and September 9, 2005 with over 250 actors at Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) in Frankfurt. It is the most extensive German-language radio play production to date. Between 2006 and 2007, another major project was developed under Adler's direction at WDR: Karl May 's ' Orient Cycle ' as a 12-hour radio play. In 2010 he produced in Stuttgart for the SWR and HR House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende in six parts and a total length of nine hours. In 2013 he wrote and staged a radio crime scene for SWR .

Walter Adler is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts and lives in Cologne.

Works

As a director of radio plays

1970-1979

• Autocardiogram from Steffen, SWF. At night all cats are gray by Rainer Puchert, SWF
• Alison , SWF, The participant did not answer from Rainer Puchert, SWF
• Behind the lock and bolt of Taschau, WDR. Mah-Jong , SWF 1972. Once it's everyone's turn from Walter Adler and Bernd Lau, SWF. Yes, what do you want from Walter Adler, SWF
• Death of a retailer from Bernd Lau and Walter Adler (2 parts), WDR. Come on. Felix Kulpa puts Pommeret in order , editing: Adler, WDR. Garbage disposal by Michael Koser, SWF
• The legacy of Ballygombeen von Arden, adaptation: Adler, WDR. Layer cake by Stanislaw Lem, arrangement: Adler, WDR. Phases of an invention by Portner, SWF. Dingo in Minoa by Kliess (4 episodes), SWF
• Centropolis by Walter Adler, WDR / SWF / BR 1975. Four rooms, kitchen, bathroom by Walter Adler, SWF
• The large connecting pipe by Harun Farocki, WDR. The Ewerwyn, HR
• Run Niggler run by Chester Himes, editing: Adler, WDR. Breakfast talks in Miami von Lettau, edited by Adler, SDR. Family ties of Walter Adler and Bernd Lau (3 parts), WDR / SWF. Kaspar Hans and Wurste Peter from Walter Adler, HR. I want to be on Wilhelm Genazino, HR's television . Say cowardly / Sweet Death by Kusz, HR. Do not go to El Kuhwehd von Eich, HR / NDR / WDR. The Slaves of Labor by Karl May , BR / SWF. The dropouts from Moers, BR
• The little ringing in the ears of stone wax, NDR. The Illness of the Imagination by Christian Linder, WDR. Out in the Land by Walter Adler, HR. Debris everywhere from E Podlech, BR. Kaspar Hans and Wurste Peter from Walter Adler, HR
• Danger is my business by Raymond Chandler , editing: Hermann Naber, SWF. Oberleisamplin by Walter Adler (group project), HR. Richthofen von Hofmann, HR / NDR / RIAS. Triptych by Frisch, arrangement: Adler, DLF. The realm of lights by Linder, WDR. Denied Reality by Eisendle, WDR. The parent trap of B. Grashoff, WDR / BR. Office game by WE Richartz, BR-HR-NDR

1980-1989

• Kollrott by Hubert Wiedfeld, WDR. The colorful life and the black death of Harald Mueller HR / BR / SFB. The order from Heiner Müller and Walter Adler, SDR / BR / WDR. Mayakovsky von Schütz, processing: Adler, SDR. Before lock and bolt by L Fels, BR. Mary , L Fels, BR 1980. A natural scream from WE Richartz, BR
• Reflections on a pig from Cousse, edited by Adler, SDR. The perpetual piano player from Laube, SDR. The threat from Gerd Loschütz, WDR / SWF. My Midsummer Night's Dream by Christoph Buggert, WDR / SFB. Casanova and the figurine von Hofmann, HR. Who says it's contemporary to shoot into the crowd by Walter Adler and Bernd Lau, HR
• The head of the Hydra von Fuentes, arrangement: eagle (4 parts), WDR. Octopus from Steinbach, SDR / NDR. Lilac fragrance from Hull, BR
• Heart needs and accessories from Peter Jacobi, SFB. Romeos Schwalbe von Pohl, SDR. Kohlhaas von Müller (2 parts), HR. Justification for a certain sadness by Walter Adler, HR. My sweet home from Heidenreich (6 parts), SWF. The Samudio Strike , WDR. How Concrete Turns to Grass by Walter, SWF
• Dead Mortin not dead by Pinget, SDR. The night just before the woods by Bernard-Marie Koltès , SDR. The flame by Patrick Roth , WDR. The Kipplinger Report by Walter Adler (2 parts), HR / WDR. A novel by a child by Honigmann, SDR. Umbrella jumper from Amery, BR / WDR
• Lydia von Arz, SDR. Old Charlie from Ryga, SDR. In good and bad days by Lauterbach, SWF. Chronicle of an announced death of Gabriel García Márquez , adaptation: Adler, WDR. Macuilxochitl by Walter Adler, DLF. The Suspect by Georges Simenon , editing: Adler, WDR. Top Girls from Churchill, WDR
• Ayahuasca from Beck, HR / SRG / SFB. Nothing is tragedy in Mexico, only flaws from Walter Adler (feature), SFB. In the shadow of the weather vane by Jonke, WDR 1986. A Tour of the City by Miller, adaptation: Adler, HR
• An anarchist banker by Fernando Pessoa, editing: Adler, WDR. Zero murder by Christoph Buggert, WDR
• The Scars of Memory by Diaz, WDR
• First Class Funeral by Rodriguez, SFB 1989. Hang up by Anthony Minghella , DLF. Blauer Adler - Roter Hahn by Christoph Buggert, WDR

1990-1999

• The herb in the handkerchief from Wehlack, SDR. To the beautiful view , WDR
• The Haworth Deadline , WDR. The Palestinian woman from Sobol, SFB / SR. The Stalinsonata by David Zane Mairowitz, HR. Nigger from Renke Korn , WDR. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (2 parts), editing: Adler, HR / SWF / NDR. Completion of Tolerance by Walter Adler, HR / SWF / BR. Appointment with a dead person by Karlheinz Knuth, WDR
• Wall, Lake of Jovanovic, SFB. Closing ceremony by Lang, SDR. Obituary for a spy by Eric Ambler (3 parts), arrangement: Adler, WDR. The vacuum hunters from Friedhelm Ortmann, SWF / MDR. Irish Nightcap from Conny Lens, SDR. Bloody Night from Magister, MDR. Sensations in the country by Hofmann, SDR. Hitchhiking from Therriault, WDR. Hinze Kunze von Braun and Fritz, MDR. All good friends of Millar and Siegele, NDR. One from Harlem by McHale / Bechth., SDR. Light experiments in the darkroom of Vesper, SWF
• Stalingrad by Walter Kempowski and Walter Adler (2 parts), HR / SWF / BR / MDR. American Films by Edgar Lipki, SDR. Intersection or The Yawning Shivering Silence by Oliver Bukowski, WDR. Laura Singer by David Zane Mairowitz, SFB. Anna Marx ... by Christine Grän, SWF / WDR. From Wunnicke's spherical trigonometry , SDR. Merlin von Tankred Dorst (3 parts), processing: Adler, MDR. The meat, umbilical ports, ... by Ingomar von Kieseritzky, SDR. Freedom ... by Friedhelm Ortmann, SWF. Still Life by Wilhelm Genazino, SWF. Red money by Edgar Lipki, WDR. VirX by Michael Esser, HR. The witnesses of Georges Simenon, editing: Adler, SWF / NDR. Black Blood by Ross Macdonald (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, SDR / NDR. Two strangers on a train by Patricia Highsmith (2 parts), editing: Adler, SDR / NDR. The missing from Sender, editing: Adler, SFB / SDR / HR
• The Yeti's Questions by Ingomar von Kieseritzky, SDR. Zyto von Belletto (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, NDR. Death at Pier Seven by Sara Paretski (3 parts), SDR. Tattoo by Edgar Lipki, WDR. Nechayev returns from Semprun (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, SWF. The head of Larson , HR. Memoirs ... by Ingomar von Kieseritzky, SDR. Misery by Stephen King, Moore, editing: Adler, SDR / RB. Listening walls by Millar (2 parts), editing: Valerie Stiegele, NDR
• Anna Marx and the Doubt by Christine Grän, SWF. The war is coming to an end by Walter Kempowski and Walter Adler, HR / SWF / NDR / BR. The possessed of Gombrowicz (2 parts), editing: Valerie Stiegele, SWF. Mice also have parasites from Ingomar von Kieseritzky, SDR. A short hop from Shirley Shea, SDR / SFB. Silent Night. Snow by Edgar Lipki, WDR. Last shirt has no pockets from McCoy, processing: Adler, SWF. The treasure diggers by Ross Thomas (3 parts), arrangement: Adler, WDR
• Honeymoon from Sorokin, SDR. Damn good luck from Ford (2 parts), processing: Adler, NDR / DLR. The black dahlia by James Ellroy (6 parts), arrangement: Adler, WDR. Victor Klemperer's diaries (2 parts), edited by Adler, DW. Little fish in the water by Michael Esser, HR. Angels in America by Kushner (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, SWF. On Brooklyn's roofs by Bob Leuci, editing: Adler, WDR. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett (2 parts), Adaptation: Adler, SWF. Crashing heart by Matt, editing: Adler, SDR.
• Dark Orphan by David Zane Mairowitz, NDR. Game over by Philip Kerr (2 parts), editing: Adler, WDR. The Shame Mask by Minette Walters (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, SDR. Under the Käfer cellar by Mary Willis Walker (2 parts), editing: Jochen Stremmel, WDR. The cigarette lighter by Johannsen, SWF 1997. Anna Marx by Christine Grän, SWF. The thousand and second days by Ludwig Fels, HR. All the beautiful horses by Cormac McCarthy (3 parts), arrangement: Adler, WDR. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (2 parts), Editing: Adler, SWF / HR. End station cemetery of Lawrence Block (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, NDR
• President in Space by Michael Esser, HR. The trains behind the woods by Jürgen Becker, WDR. Electric Lady Land by Michael Esser, WDR. In agreement with Call, SDR. The Man Who Watched the Trains by George Simenon, Adaptation: Adler, SWF. Radio Romance by Garrisson Keillor (4 parts), arrangement: Adler, SDR. Prussian Hawaii by Uwe Mengel, WDR. Things dear to the heart of Weldon (2 parts), processing: Valerie Stiegele, BR. International Space Station by Michael Esser (Radiotag), HR. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, WDR 1998. In icy heights by Jon Kracauer (25 × 20 min.), HR
• Anna Marx and the murderess of Christine Grän, SWF. Roland Schimmelpfennig's taxi terrorist , SWR. The Netzmann by Michael Esser, WDR 1999. A mysterious opera house by X Tomeo, SWR. O Matador by Patricia Melo, editing: Adler, SWR. Mojsche and Reijsele von Stoffels, edited by Adler, SWR. The wormhole from D Call, SWR. Esau by Philip Kerr (2 parts), arrangement: Adler, BR. The murderer by George Simenon, editing: Adler, WDR. The elective affinities of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, arrangement: Adler, NDR. Elevator to the scaffold by Noël Calef, edited by Adler, SWR. The death drive Mesrine, WDR 1999. Michael Connelly : The Poet Arr.: Adler, WDR. WortGewalt by D Kühn, WDR

2000-2009

• John Berger : On the way to the wedding , HR / SR / WDR. The collector by John Fowles (2 parts), arrangement: Jochen Stremmel, SWR. Character assassination , by Dick Francis, arr.: Adler, SWR. Calamity Jane from L Fels, HR. Hidden Window, Hidden Garden, by St King, WDR. The Embers of S Marais, Arr. Seb Goy, SR-HR. GAS by Matt Ruff, arr .: Adler, WDR 2000
• Nailed by Dick Francis, arr.: Adler, SWR. The Value of Man , by F Emmanuel, arr .: Adler, HR 2001. Texas Damski by Edgar Lipki, HR. Horizont Samarkand by H Brandt, HR. Extropia by M Esser, WDR. Tokyo no longer loves us by R Loriga, arr .: Adler, WDR. Outside in the dark 1-3 by McCarthy, Bearb Adler, WDR. The Eve of the Future 1-2 by d'Isle-Adam, arr .: Adler, NDR. Frédéric Beigbeder : Thirty-nine eighty-nine Bearb Adler, WDR, 2001
• Rivers of the World: The Congo [Radio Day], HR. Burning cash by Ricardo Piglia, arr .: Adler, WDR. The Klingsor Paradox by Jorge Volpi, arr .: Adler, WDR. The visit of personal physician 1-2, Enquist, NDR. The Happiness of Others by Stewart O'Nan, arr .: Adler, SWR
• What the wolves dream of Yasmina Khadra, arr .: Adler, WDR. Caruso no longer sings chaplet, arr .: Adler, BR. The camera killer , Th. Glavinic, arr .: Adler, WDR. Apeiron by M Esser, NDR. 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas 1-2 by J Verne / Peschina, MDR. The Crusaders by Stefan Heym / Caren Fischer, MDR
• Cobain's Ashes by Agnieszka Lessmann, SWR. Otherland by Tad Williams, arr .: Adler, HR. Top Dogs by Urs Widmer, SWR. Puma by U Miehe, arr .: Peter Schilske, WDR. Death in Lisbon 1-3 by R Wilson, arr .: Adler, WDR. Nothing but the truth 1-2 chaplet, arr .: Adler, BR. Otherland by Tad Williams, arr .: Adler, HR
• No. 89 1-2, by E Leonard, arr .: J Stremmel, SWR. Where the Crows Fly 1-3, by A MacDonald, arr .: Adler, SWR. Die Toten von Leticia by Thomas Kistner, arr .: Adler, WDR. Snow death of chaplet, arr .: Adler, BR
• In the Sign of Power 1-2, by St Horn, arr .: Adler, WDR. Victor's people from Jürgen Becker, SWR. Orient cycle 01-12, by Karl May, arr .: Adler, WDR
• Basic Beliefs by Michael Esser, WDR
• Engineer Andrées balloon flight to the North Pole by Eugen Ruge , MDR. Aunt's Inferno by Jens Sparschuh , MDR. The Boy with the Tree on His Head by Osborn Bladini, SWR. Eisblut by Marina Heib, DRadio. The real purpose of the war by Walter Adler, WDR
• The greenhouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, HR / SWR / WDR

2010-2019

• Facing (3 parts) by Stieg Larsson, arrangement: Adler, WDR EinsLive. The Haunted House (6 parts) by Isabel Allende, arr.: Adler, SWR / HR
• Damnation (3 parts) by Stieg Larsson, arr.: Adler, WDR EinsLive. Forgiveness (3 parts) by Stieg Larsson, arrangement: Adler, WDR - TERROR (4 parts) by Martin Maurer, arrangement: Adler, WDR
• The 8th dwarf (2 parts) by Ross Thomas, arr.: Adler, WDR. Domino by Christoph Buggert, MDR / WDR. Oops, wrong planet by Gesine Schmidt, DLF / WDR. Deadly Art by Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer , SWR
• The Sleeper by Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer , SWR. Brotherly love by Yves Ravey, arrangement: Annette Berger, WDR. Anatomy of Death by Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer, SWR. Radio-Tatort Wilde Tiere by Walter Adler, SWR. Angst by Dirk Kurbjuweit , arr.: Adler, WDR. Judith von Lothar Trolle , Deutschlandfunk and HR.
• Morning by Simon Stephens, SWR. A pornographic relationship by Philippe Blasband, WDR. Beauty & Terror by Peter Englund, arr .: Adler, SWR. Foxfinder from Dawn King , SWR. Katja Roeder's gray area - (Radio-Tatort - SWR)
• Die for me (4 parts) by Robert Wilson, arr .: Adler, WDR. Dshan by Lothar Trolle after Andrej Platonowitsch Platonow, SWR. Galveston (2 parts) by Nic Pizzolatto, bearer .: Adler, WDR (EinsLive). Heart of Darkness (5 parts) based on a non-film script by Orson Welles, based on the story of the same name by Joseph Conrad, arr .: Adler, WDR.
• Jona by Lothar Trolle, after Inge Müller HR / SWR. 1 billion years before the end of the world by Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki, arr .: Adler, SWR
• Licht im August (4 parts) by William Faulkner , arr .: Adler, SWR
• Brothers (26 parts) by Walter Adler based on the novel by Hilary Mantel, WDR
• When I was dying (3 parts) by William Faulkner, arr .: Adler, SWR

Original radio plays, as an author

• Death of a retailer , together with Bernd Lau, WDR / SWF 1973
• Centropolis , WDR / BR / SWF 1975
• Family ties , together with Bernd Lau, WDR / SWF 1977
• Kaspar Hans and Wurste Peter , HR 1977
• Out in the Country , HR 1978
• Oberleisamplin , HR 1979
• Who said that shooting into the crowd is contemporary , together with Bernd Lau, HR 1981
• Justification of a certain sadness , WDR 1983
• The Kipplinger Report , HR / WDR 1984
• Macuilxochitl , DLF 1985
• The Consummation of Tolerance , HR / SWF / BR 1991
• Four room kitchen bathroom , SWF
• The real purpose of the war WDR 2008
• Wild animals , radio crime scene, SWR 2013

Theater productions, as a director

• The father of August Strindberg, Wallgrabentheater Freiburg
• Heaven took Frau von Pohl, Schauspiel Frankfurt, too
• Hamlet machine by Heiner Müller, Schauspiel Frankfurt
• Before Thomas Bernhard retired , Schauspiel Köln
• Harold Pinter's Greenhouse , Arnhem Theater
• The Mission by Heiner Müller, Soho Poly London
• Summer from Bond, Schauspiel Köln
• Top Girls from Churchill, Schauspiel Köln
• Zappzarapp von Deichsel, Cologne Theater
• Demons von Noren, Schauspiel Köln
• Tabula Rasa by Sternheim, Karlsruhe State Theater
• What you want from William Shakespeare, Schauspiel Köln
• Galileo Galilei by Bertolt Brecht, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Comedy in the Dark by Shaffer, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Orgy - pigsty by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Web of lies by Shepard, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Inconsistency on both sides of Marivaux, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Me, Feuerbach by Tankred Dorst, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Doctors from Rolf Hochhuth, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• The little foxes by Hellman, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• The second chapter by Simon, Tourneetheater Kempf

Translations

• On Brooklyn Roofs by Bob Leucie, originally: Brooklyn Roofs , for a WDR radio play
• Dark Orphan by David Zane Mairowitz, in the original: Dark Orphan , for an NDR radio play

Prices

• Prize (literature) from the city of Cologne
• Radio play award of the war blind 1976 for Centropolis by Walter Adler (author award)
• Radio play award of the war blind 1978 for breakfast talks in Miami by Reinhard Lettau (arrangement and direction)
• Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2002 for Tokyo no longer loves us [Tokyo ya no nos quiere] by Ray Loriga (adaptation & direction)
• German Audio Book Award (Best Fiction) 2011 for Das Geisterhaus [Isabel Allende] (adaptation & direction)
• Radio play award of the war blind 2013 for Oops, wrong planet! by Gesine Schmidt (director)
• Robert Geisendörfer Prize of the Evangelical Church, 2013 for Oops, wrong planet! (Director)
• Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2014 for FOXFINDER by Dawn King - SWR - (Director)
• Radio Play of the Year 2015 for Dshan by Lothar Trolle (Director)

literature

• Oliver Weilandt: Fighters in format country. In: Cut , Vol. 8, H. 12 (Winter 2004/2005). Pp. 18-23.
• Michael K. Hageböck: Futuristic head cinema. Interview with the radio play director Walter Adler. In: Quarber Merkur , 109/110, Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 2009, ISBN 978-3-939914-13-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Adler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A short excerpt from Centropolis on Schweizer Rundfunk