Wolf butter
Wolf Butter (* 1949 in Aue as Wolf-Rüdiger Butter ) is a German composer. In addition to chamber and ballet music, he composes drama, radio play and film music.
Life
Wolf Butter grew up in Hartenstein (Saxony) and went to school. His father Karl was the mayor and local chronicle there and participated in the workers 'and peasants' theater, which regularly organized performances of the Altenburg prince robbery at Hartenstein Castle . Wolf Butter studied clarinet at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau , worked as a stage musician , composer, lecturer, director and actor .
In addition to engagements at the Berliner Volksbühne , the Berliner Ensemble and the Porcupines, he held teaching positions at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and from 1999 to 2005 a professorship for musical role-playing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For years he has been touring Germany and Switzerland with solo evenings and musical-literary programs by the "Galgentrio" and is active as a singing lecturer at the Theater Academy Vorpommern. There are also numerous performances with his long-term partner, the flamenco dancer and choreographer Nora Lantez.
Works (selection)
Chamber music
- 1983: Metamorphoses for 32 solo strings , Anhalt Philharmonic , State Theater Dessau
- 1984: Concerto for cello and orchestra , Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra , soloist: Hans-Joachim Scheitzbach , Brandenburg an der Havel
- 1997: Quintet for clarinet, two violins, viola and violoncello , world premiere: October 31, 1997 in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt , Berlin
- 2008: In memoriam Lutosławski , string quartet, world premiere: April 13, 2008, Anhaltische Philharmonie, Landestheater Dessau
Stage music
- Professor Mamlock by Friedrich Wolf , Theater Anklam
- Egon and the eighth wonder of the world according to Joachim Wohlgemuth , Theater Anklam
- Snow white and rose red after Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Landestheater Dessau , 1976
- Veilchen by Walentin Katajew - Director: Edwin Marian (Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor), 1977
- Triptych , ballet music in three movements, Henschel Verlag für Musik, Berlin; World premiere: Landestheater Dessau 1984
- Oedipus , ballet music, world premiere: Landestheater Dessau 1989
- King Lear by William Shakespeare - directed by Helmut Straßburger and Ernst-Georg Hering, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, 1999
- Lost fame of the giant city of New York by Bertolt Brecht. An America evening. , Musical director, staging: Manfred Karge , Berliner Ensemble 2003
- Friedrich Schiller's robbers in Hanover
- Dwarf Nose by Wilhelm Hauff - Director: Herbert Olschok, Potsdamer Theater, 2005
- The Cold Heart by Wilhelm Hauff - Director: Herbert Olschok, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, 2006
- Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Braunschweig State Theater
- Antigone by Sophocles, Schleswig-Holstein State Theater , 2008
Film music
- 1977: Die Eiserne Rose , feature film by Dieter Schubert, director: Udo Witte, University of Film and Television of the GDR (Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 1987: Neidhardt von Gneisenau , director: Frank Rinnelt, DEFA-Studio for documentary films , on DVD in the bonus part of the feature film Lützower at Icestorm 2013
- 2003: Wolffs Revier , episode: Die Mumie (TV series), Sat.1
- 2003: Wolffs Revier , episode: Dead or Alive (TV series), Sat.1
Film reel
- 1983: Zille and ick , DEFA musical film, role: potato seller, also synchronization supervisor, director: Werner W. Wallroth
Radio play music
- 1981: Hotte, simply Hotte by Werner Buhss , director: Horst Liepach , ( GDR radio )
- 1981: Amadis von Gallien by Fritz Rudolf Fries based on Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo , director: Horst Liepach, (children's radio play in four parts - radio of the GDR)
- 1988: The Little Mermaid by Andrea Czesienski based on Hans Christian Andersen , (radio play music with Wolfram Bodag ), director: Werner Buhss, VEB Deutsche Schallplatten
Productions
- The beautiful Helena by Peter Hacks , Schlosstheater Schönbrunn , Vienna, 2002
- The world will not end because of this. Songs of German Film 1933-1945 , together with Ole Georg Graf, Max-Reinhardt-Seminar Vienna, WA at the Musikverein Vienna, 2004
- Struwwelpeter after Heinrich Hoffmann , Musiktheater, Max-Reinhardt-Seminar Vienna, 2005
- Have you ever kissed in the dark? , Singing evening, Vorpommersche Landesbühne , 2006
Sound carrier
- 1988: Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid , (radio play music together with Wolfram Bodag), director: Werner Buhss, VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin , Litera 865414
- 2011: When Raachermannel naabelt - Christmas stories from the Erzgebirge (speaker in dialect reading), director: Matthias Thalheim, MDR Figaro / Verlag Querstand, Altenburg, ISBN 978-3-95755-604-2
Web links
- Works by and about Wolf Butter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolf butter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolf Butter at filmportal.de
- Radio play: The little mermaid to listen to
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Bazinger: Pretty cheeky - Fritz Decho's lyrical flower harvest in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 21, 2000, page BS4
- ↑ IH: Wolf Butter and tearing your hair behind the curtain in: Berliner Kurier, October 30, 1997
- ↑ Dietmar Fritzsche in conversation with Wolf Butter in: Theater der Zeit , born in 1984, issue 02/1984
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butter, wolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butter, Wolf-Rüdiger (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aue |