Wolfgang Ramadan
Wolfgang Ramadan (* 29. January 1960 in Munich as Wolfgang Ferdinand Windorfer ) is German culture and event managers as well as a poet, musician and actor.
biography
In the 1960s, Wolfgang Ramadan grew up in several foster families. When he was six years old, his mother married the Palestinian Abdel Karim Ramadan, who according to his birth certificate in 1969 gave him his family name. He never got to know his biological father, a Brazilian of German descent, personally. In his youth he was very active musically, completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked with an event and advertising agency Ramadan - your husband! self-employed.
After two years in Portugal, Ramadan returned to Munich. For health reasons he also spent some time in India , since then he has been very attached to this country and stays there again and again. In the 1980s, Ramadan began writing and successfully composed dialect love poems. With that he appeared as a stage lyricist. As such, he was hired in 1989 for advertising events for the 200th anniversary of the English Garden and, based on previous experience as an organizer, was promoted to the amphitheater's director of the celebrations. This was followed by numerous other tasks as organizer and organizer.
From 1990 he was appointed cultural advisor for Garching near Munich , where he organized cultural events for five years. a. also organized the events for the town elevation of Garching. 15 years later he organized the opening of the Unterföhring community center as head of the cultural department, director and actor . The station theater "The orchestra rehearsal - was it yesterday or on the second floor?" rather loosely based on Karl Valentin , with its 100 participants and 20 sold out performances, it became a theater event in the district of Munich. He then established his own concepts as an independent organizer with the Ramadan Kulturmanagement agency ( artmoves from 2002 ). He successfully organized the "basic cultural provision" with "cultural subscriptions" in several southern Bavarian cities. For the 850th anniversary of the city of Munich, he was the curator of the Altstadtringfest and the city foundation festival in 2008 and 2009 . He is also involved in theater and drama projects, for example in the 1990s for the Munich Volkstheater or in 2009 for the natural stage on the Blomberg near Bad Tölz . He is also connected to cabaret and organizes events with numerous well-known cabaret artists, actors and musicians.
In addition to its importance as an art impresario and manager, Ramadan is also an artist himself. In addition to his lyrical work, there are appearances as an actor, including an appearance in the film Rama dama . Musically he is connected to the Caribbean musician Wally Warning , who lived in his neighborhood for a long time. But he also often appears as a musician himself, was on the road with a band in the 90s and has already recorded several CDs with other musicians and published them through his own publishing house, mehrcedes.
In 2011 filmmaker Walter Steffen reported in his film "Gradaus besides - Stories from Lake Starnberg" about the musician, impresario and poet Wolfgang Ramadan. In 2012 Reinhard Kungel shot a documentary about Ramadan for the series Lebenslinien under the title "Life is love" on behalf of Bavarian TV .
In 2013 Ramadan Pension Nirvana staged the world's first chairlift theater at the Blomberg chairlift in Bad Tölz. Because of its success, it was repeated in 2014, with a total of 50 performances. In the same year Wolfgang Ramadan played a leading role in Walter Steffen's film Bavaria Vista Club .
In 2015, Wolfgang Ramadan edited calf brooding - the carnival game by Hans Sachs - in Bavarian. It was a success with the public in Bad Tölz with 25 performances.
Works
Books
- Bang! I raised the gseng. Poems. Urbanverlag, 1990, ISBN 3-925334-42-4
- Real Bavarian. Omram Verlag, Icking 2014, ISBN 978-3-944285-03-0
- Just like that ... Omram Verlag, Icking 2015, ISBN 978-3-944285-04-7
CDs
- Ramadan: Born in Bavaria, 1996.
- Just like that ..., Wolfgang Ramadan and Jakob Schmidt (cello), 2002, morecedes
- Wolf & Gang, 2003, more Mercedes
- Mon Armi - Three songs against war, for peace, 2003, mehrcedes
DVDs
- William Schäxsbier: The Taming of the Shrew in Bavarian, in-house production, 2011
- Pension Nirvana - Philosocomical Walk, in-house production, 2013
- Off the mark
- Munich in India, Concept + Dialog, Media Production, 2013
- Bavaria Vista Club, Concept + Dialog, Media Production, 2015
theatre
- Shakespeare in Bavarian - Bavarian adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, 1992, Drei Masken Verlag
- Just like that ..., in-house production, 1998
- Gitanjali, in-house production, 2010
- Pension Nirvana - Philosocomical Walk - Station Theater, in-house production, 2013
- Wer ko der ko - calf brooding, in-house production, 2015
cabaret
- Wally & Wolfi, in-house production, 2012
Cult series tenant Wolfgang
From 1998 the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a photo column in which Wolfgang Ramadan in the role of "Tenant Wolfgang" addressed everyday experiences as a tenant, reflected it humorously and was the model for the photographer Andreas Bohnenstengel .
swell
- One to one. The Talk - Bayern 2 , November 10, 2011 (Podcast)
- Milbertshofen, India and back. In: Merkur online. October 28, 2011.
- ↑ Gradaus beside it , 5-Seen-Land, November 21, 2011
- ↑ Lifelines - BR television ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bavarian TV, June 11, 2012
- ↑ Bussi Kathi , Drei Masken Verlag
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung, The rental market: Tenant Wolfgang
Web links
- Website of Wolfgang Ramadan
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Ramadan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfgang Ramadan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ramadan, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Windorfer, Wolfgang Ferdinand (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, musician, actor, director and cultural advisor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |