Wolfgang Schnecke

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Wolfgang Schnecke (born July 17, 1944 in Chemnitz , Saxony ; † June 24, 2018 in Chemnitz) was a German set designer, director and media designer.

Life

After graduating from high school and briefly working as a stage worker and lighting technician at the opera house in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt), he began his artistic career at the municipal puppet theater, where he worked as a puppeteer, puppet designer and set designer. In 1967 he worked as a set designer, prop master and graphic artist at the satirical cabaret Leipziger Pfeffermühle . In 1970 Wolfgang Schnecke began working as a camera assistant for television in the GDR. Shortly afterwards, he switched to the production design department and in the following years, in addition to large entertainment programs, he was responsible for series such as “Schätz Sie mal” and “ Mit Lutz und Liebe ”. He was one of the first artists who consistently used the then new method of electronic image mixing ( blue screen ) in their design. In this context, the first (later so-called) video clips in the GDR were made during a studio production with Monika Hauff and Klaus-Dieter Henkler . Knowing the possibilities of this technique, he was also able to apply the process to productions in the classical genre. Examples of this are the productions “Dresdner Opernpartituren”, where the blue screen technology was used in this form for the first time outdoors, and the television adaptation of the opera “White Nights” directed by Harry Kupfer . This staging was also part of his diploma thesis as a set designer at the Dresden University of Fine Arts .

In 1981 Gerhard Behrendt hired him as a director for the animation studio of GDR television ("Sandmann Studio"). Here he designed opening and closing credits for the evening greeting, puppet cartoons and flat-figure films and directed the series " Plumps " , among other things . A special highlight of his work was a ten-part puppet cartoon series based on the fairy tale " Thumbelina " by HC Andersen , which is also available in a 45-minute version.

Parallel to his work in the animated film studio of GDR television, Wolfgang Schnecke has been working on artistic computer graphics and animation since 1985, which he programmed himself on a Commodore VC-20 . He was one of the first artists in the GDR to create artistic computer graphics . The results were presented at festivals (Osnabrück Media Art Festival, Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week, Berlinale ) and art exhibitions (Bild und Szene Berlin, GDR Art Exhibition 1982/83 and 1987/88).

After working for GDR television, in 1987 he moved to the video studio of a large machine tool combine, where he worked as a director for video graphics. With the monetary union in 1990 he began a freelance work as a media designer. He looked after a large number of companies and also designed the first corporate design for the Chemnitz Clinic and the Saxony Chamber of Engineers. He published aphorisms under the pseudonym "Gastropodus", which he illustrated with his own computer graphics, and took over the complete journalistic and photographic design of a book for the anniversary of a Chemnitz housing association. Wolfgang Schnecke lived and worked in Chemnitz, where he died after a serious illness in June 2018 at the age of 73.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schnecke, "Image and Sound", issue 6/1980
  • Catalog IX. Art exhibition of the GDR 1982/83
  • Catalog X. Art Exhibition of the GDR 1987/88
  • Ralf-Michael Seele, "Fine Arts", issue 2/1989
  • Ralf-Michael Seele, "Bildnerisches Volksschaffen", issue 4/1989
  • Volker Blech, "Music and Society", issue 4/1989
  • Ralf-Michael Seele, "Fine Art", issue 11/1989
  • Bettina Ulrich, "novum", issue 1/2000
  • Gastropodus: black and white (s) whites. Edition Schnecke, Chemnitz 2004, ISBN 3-00-014055-7 .
  • "Lived living - accustomed life", 50 years of CAWG, Chemnitz 2007
  • Dietmar Eisold , "Lexicon: Artists in GDR" ISBN 3355017612 , Verlag Neues Leben, 2010

Web links

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  1. ↑ Obituaries , accessed on March 5, 2020
  2. ↑ rbb, Plumps  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sandmann.de  
  3. ↑ rbb, Thäumelinchen  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sandmann.de  
  4. ↑ IX. Art exhibition of the GDR , Erhard Frommhold, Ministry of Culture, Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, publishing house Ministry of Culture of the GDR, 1982, page 466
  5. ↑ Aesthetics and Communication , Volume 26, Issues 96-97, Institute for Culture and Aesthetics, Aesthetics and Communication Verlag., 1997, page 120
  6. ↑ Brochure on page 28 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinikumchemnitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Snail, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer, director and media designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2018
Place of death Chemnitz , Saxony