Walter felt

Walter Filz (born August 18, 1959 in Cologne ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Walter Filz has made a name for himself as an author and cultural journalist for radio and television since 1983 . He received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of Cologne with a thesis on elements of fairy tales in German literature of the 1970s.

In 1991 he was awarded the Prix ​​Futura in the Feature category for his WDR production on the aestheticization of cat food in the late 20th century . In 1999 he won the Audience Award for Loudspeakers at the Berlin Academy of the Arts for the radio play Resonanz Rosa. A woman hears more . For his radio play Pitcher (WDR 2000 ) about a voice actor and a sound designer, he received the renowned radio play award of the war blind . His contribution to the 85th birthday of Sam Walton , the founder of the Wal-Mart chain, was awarded the Ernst Schneider Prize of the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2004 in the radio category Short Contribution . In 2006 he received Wars and Have for his contribution . eBay - or: How wild is the exchange of goods? the Ernst Schneider Prize in the radio / major business broadcast category . From July 2005, Walter Filz headed the literary and feature editorial team at SWR 2 . On January 1, 2017, he took over the overall management of the two previously separate radio play and feature editorial teams.

Walter Filz is married to the management consultant and communication trainer Antje Kamphausen.

Works

Print

• There was once. Elements of the fairy tale in German literature of the seventies . Frankfurt / M. [u. a.]: Lang, 1989. ISBN 3-631-41484-6 (Univ. Cologne, Diss. 1988)
• The monkey in Cologne. Or: Petermann's revenge. Greven, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0470-3 .
• and Boris Becker (photographs): There is still kangaroo tail soup. The truth about the Cologne Carnival based on my father's evidence . Greven, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7743-0683-7 .

Radio

• Spurge and aqua regia I. On the aestheticization of cat food in the late 20th century , WDR 1991
• The fight, the person, his questions and their answers. A documentary melodrama on the theatrical dimension of the quiz , WDR 1992
• No requiem for Captain Kirk. About the persistence of yesterday's future , WDR 1992
• Oh, the world would have been completely puffed up. On the utopian power of keeping freshness , DS-Kultur 1993
• Real time. Or: How electric guitars reunite us. A feature on the new German rock'n'roll fundamentalism , DLR 1994
• Central Park or The Empty Center , DLR / WDR 1995
• Lost in the Supermarket Or: The Last Days of Europe , WDR 1995
• Apocalypse H0. The somewhat smaller end of the world , WDR 1996
• The eavesdroppers , radio play, WDR 1997
• Master's Voices. Voices from the off , DLR 1999
• Resonance pink. A woman hears more , WDR 1999 ( Radio Play Prize of the Academy of Arts )
• Vox zombie. We hear the voices of the dead , live radio feature, WDR 1999
• Pitcher , radio play, WDR 2000 ( radio play award of the war blind )
• Triple Trauma - Three Monsters (trilogy from: 1. Kong specifically - The real monkey, 2. Godzilla in general - The lizard in general, 3. Holistic shark - The fish as a whole) , WDR 2001
• Heart archive , WDR 2001
• Please follow! An interpassive shadow play , WDR 2002
• Tokyo tremor. A nerve examination , WDR 2002
• Home cooking EXTREME - A bizarre four-course menu , DLF 2003
• Rebecca and Youssef - Eine Schalom-Salam-Peace-Power-Rock-Oper , WDR 2003
• Deadline: Sam Walton's 85th birthday , short feature, WDR 2003 ( Ernst Schneider Prize )
• Litter broadcasts Sexy Stereo , DLR 2004
• Litter mail health information , DLR 2004
• Slash: The patience of the toll animals , WDR 2004
• War and have. eBay - or: How wild is the exchange of goods? , NDR, SWR, WDR 2005 ( Ernst Schneider Prize )
• Plopp or The Sound of Close-by - A Panorama of Private Features , SWR 2005
• Speculation Summer - A Documentary Tragedy , SWR / NDR 2005 (via Ron Sommer , radio play of the month June 2005)
• 10 plus - the anniversary generation , WDR 2005
• Homesickness for Glottertal "The Black Forest Clinic" returns , DLR 2005
• Goodbye in Babylon or the utopia of art language buildings , SWR 2006
• The Half-Life of Pathos - A Atomic Contemporary Rhetoric Review , SWR 2006
• Weltempfänger - A Radio Travel Revue , SWR 2008
• Paths to Oz - radio feature by Thomas Gaevert , SWR2 2009
• Fuji 2D - We make a picture of Japan , SWR 2011
• Pieta Piëch. A documentary passion play , SWR 2012 ( radio play of the month January 2013)
• File 88. The 1000 Lives of Adolf Hitler. 10-part podcast for SWR2 (together with Michael Lissek ). 2018 ff.

watch TV

• Cultural correspondent in Parlazzo , media show on WDR, moderation: Anne Will (1996–1998)
• Oh god it's alive. The Century of Robots , television feature, WDR 2001
• Double portrait of Helmut & Helmut (Helmut Kohl & Helmut Thoma 1982–1998), television feature 2002
• Generation Pop 2/4 - Gentle & Velvet Cord, WDR 2004

literature

• Uwe Kammann: Red ears. Laudation for radio play award winner Walter Filz . epd medien No. 49/2001, Frankfurt 2001 ( online version )
• Stephanie Laube: entertainment in radio play and feature. Ingomar von Kieseritzky and Walter Filz . Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-89608-599-9 .
• Antje Vowinckel : Tupper-Mozart. About music in the non-music feature In: History and aesthetics of the radio feature . Contributions to the first Rendsburg Feature Symposium 2010. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-0385-7 , pp. 110–128

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Filz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Lissek : In conversation with Walter Filz