Wolfgang Schonendorf

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Wolfgang Schonendorf (* 1925 ; † December 22, 1986 in East Berlin ) was a German radio play director .

Life

Schonendorf had been working for the GDR radio in the Berlin-Grünau , Masurenallee and finally Nalepastraße studios since 1950 and, as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann, worked his way into the production of radio plays. After starting his career as an editor, reporter and speaker, he became deputy chief director in September 1952. From 1957 to the restructuring of the main dramaturgy / production department in autumn 1969, Wolfgang Schonendorf was the chief director. He then took over the management of the director / transmitter department in the new main radio drama department, where he was responsible for everything that had to be staged for radio in the GDR in the field of literature, school radio, radio narration and public literary events. Schonendorf worked as a mentor and sponsor for young radio play directors on the radio in the GDR. In 1966 he advocated the permanent employment of Joachim Staritz . Since the late 1950s to the early 1980s, Schonendorf has staged over 50 radio plays and radio features , including the radio premieres of pieces by authors such as Inge Müller , Heiner Müller , Alfred Matusche and Günter Kunert .

He was the director of Adolf Schröder's radio play Gelassen die Nacht auf Land , which is an early attempt at dealing with National Socialism and specifically German history. The first broadcast was on June 10, 1965 on Deutschlandsender . Schonendorf designed the radio play, “unconscious fears in acoustic images”, which belongs to the genre of the so-called “dream radio play”. His staging is considered "aesthetically outstanding". He used various aspects of sound, including acoustic and electronic sounds, reverb effects, cross-fades and alienations. His direction thus largely departed from the artistic guidelines of socialist realism .

He was also the director of the epic radio play The Investigation based on the drama by Peter Weiss . He engaged Siegfried Matthus for the musical design and background music ; the main roles were occupied by Wilfried Ortmann , Norbert Christian and Martin Flörchinger . Schonendorf's investigation ran for the first time on October 26, 1965 on the German broadcaster. Radio DDR II also broadcast the first part on October 26, 1965, the second part on October 27, 1965. The Berliner Zeitung in the evening spoke of an “excellent production”. The German Broadcasting Archive discussed its production in November 2013 in an article under the heading “The Special Document”.

In 1975 Schonendorf directed the radio play Time to Die based on motifs by Gabriel García Márquez ; Speakers were u. a. Kurt Böwe , Gerd Ehlers and Ruth Glöss .

In October 1969 he received the GDR Art Prize . Radio plays, which he directed, received several awards in the GDR. The radio play Traumposten received the "Hörspielpreis der Hörer" and the " Spezialpreis der Kritiker" in 1979.

Directorial work (selection)

Radio plays

Features

items

  • Radio - the listeners - the listeners ' assemblies, in: Unser Rundfunk 8/1953, 51, p. 19
  • Our Stanislawski discussion , in: Unser Rundfunk 9/1954, 9, p. 19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ funeral oration by Dr. Peter Gugisch , held January 13, 1987
  2. ↑ Interview with Wolfgang Beck in: Das war - Das ist radio play, witnesses and testimonies from three decades , episode 3, Rundfunk der DDR 1979
  3. ↑ Patrick Conley: The Partial Journalist. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-050-9 , p. 177.
  4. ↑ funeral oration by Dr. Peter Gugisch , held January 13, 1987
  5. ↑ A reminder of the radio play director Joachim Staritz: The management instructor looked down in: Berliner Zeitung of September 1, 2001. Accessed on April 26, 2015
  6. ↑ a b c The Holocaust in the radio play program of other stations in the GDR in: Manuela Gerlof: Tonspuren: Memories of the Holocaust in the radio play of the GDR (1945–1989) . Page 183/184. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin / New York. 2010. ISBN 978-3-11-022589-1 .
  7. ↑ a b c The special document - 2013/2: Peter Weiss, "The investigation. Oratorio in 11 songs" on radio and television , report from November 6, 2013. Official website of the German Broadcasting Archive . Retrieved April 26, 2015
  8. ↑ Time to Die ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Plot, production details and cast. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the GDR 1969 . Entry dated October 2, 1969. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  10. ^ GDR radio play awards (1977 - 1991) ( Memento from June 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed April 26, 2015
  11. ↑ Heiner Müller - www.heinermueller.de
  12. ^ Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964-1991 . 2nd edition Berlin: Askylt, 1999, ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 ( digitized in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Schonendorf, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1986
Place of death East Berlin