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Michael Hametner
Michael Hametner (born 1950 at Rostock) is a German–Austrian journalist, editor, writer and literary and theater critic Life Hametner, son of an Austrian citizen, studied journalism and literary studies at the University of Leipzig. Initially working as an actor and director he became leading the "Poetische Theater" at the University of Leipzig; where he played and directed ''Der Auftrag'' by Heiner Müller (as "Debuisson"), ''Kohlhaas'', version of Kleists novel (as "Luther"), Stephan Hermlins ''Scardanelli'' (Premiere), Edward Albees '' Die Zoogeschichte'' (first performance in East Germany), Alexander Vampilovs ''Provinzanekdoten'' and Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'' (as Pozzo). As director, he also played in important role in the debut performance of ''Astoria'' by Austrian writer Jura Soyfer in East Germany (together with Bernhard Scheller). From the beginning of the 1990s Hametner had been working as a freelancer at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). In 1993 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hametner
Michael Hametner (born 1950 at Rostock) is a German–Austrian journalist, editor, writer and literary and theater critic Life Hametner, son of an Austrian citizen, studied journalism and literary studies at the University of Leipzig. Initially working as an actor and director he became leading the "Poetische Theater" at the University of Leipzig; where he played and directed ''Der Auftrag'' by Heiner Müller (as "Debuisson"), ''Kohlhaas'', version of Kleists novel (as "Luther"), Stephan Hermlins ''Scardanelli'' (Premiere), Edward Albees '' Die Zoogeschichte'' (first performance in East Germany), Alexander Vampilovs ''Provinzanekdoten'' and Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'' (as Pozzo). As director, he also played in important role in the debut performance of ''Astoria'' by Austrian writer Jura Soyfer in East Germany (together with Bernhard Scheller). From the beginning of the 1990s Hametner had been working as a freelancer at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). In 1993 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR; ''Central German Broadcasting'') is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Established in January 1991, its headquarters are in Leipzig, with regional studios in Dresden, Erfurt and Magdeburg. MDR is a member of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany. MDR broadcasts its own television channel to the three states it serves and also contributes programming to the first German TV channel ( Das Erste), and broadcasts a number of radio channels. History Origins The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) was founded on 22 January 1924 in Leipzig. It aired its first program on 1 March 1924 at 14:30 CET. During the '' Gleichschaltung'' in the Nazi era, the MIRAG was transferred to the "Reichssender Leipzig" in 1934. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany temporarily licensed "Radio Leipzig" in 1945, which only existed for a few months unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hennenberg
Fritz Hennenberg (born 11 June 1932) is a German musicologist and dramaturg. Life Hennenberg was born in Döbeln in 1932 as the son of the architect and master builder Kurt Hennenberg and his wife Johanna. After Abitur in 1951 at the Döbelner Realgymnasium (Lessing secondary school) he studied piano and conducting with Oskar Halfter and Martin Flämig as well as musicology with Walter Serauky and Hellmuth Christian Wolff at the Leipzig University. He also attended lectures by Ernst Bloch. (philosophy) and (ethnology). In 1965 he was awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on Das Kantatenschaffen of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel''. From 1954 to 1956 he was a lecturer at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig and from 1956 to 1959 assistant for historical musicology at the Halle Conservatory. In the 1950s he created music for the student stage of Leipzig University and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. In 1956 he met the composer Paul Dessau and was closely associated with him unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East Berlin, East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, 31st largest city of Germany, and with around 239,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg. Together with Leipzig, the largest city of Saxony, Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Between the two cities, in Schkeuditz, lies Leipzig/Halle Airport, Leipzig/Halle International Airport. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region. Halle lies in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Leipzig Bay, the southernmost part of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Delmare
Werner Vorndran (24 April 1922 – 1 May 2009), known professionally as Fred Delmare, was a German actor. Life and work Werner Vorndran was the son of a carpenter and a seamstress and grew up in Hüttensteinach at Sonneberg in Thuringia, where as an adolescent he appeared on a peasant stage. After his time in the Volksschule he learned the trade of a tool and die maker. As military volunteer he went to the marine in Bremerhaven. At the local municipal theatre he took his first drama lessons with the theatre manager Karl Georg Saebisch 1940 and 1941 and worked as background actor in an operette production. During his military service he suffered a severe abdominal injury, for that he was cured until the end of war.Fred Delmare at |
Neues Deutschland
''Neues Deutschland'' (''nd''; en, New Germany, sometimes stylized in lowercase letters) is a left-wing German daily newspaper, headquartered in Berlin. For 43 years it was the official party newspaper of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), which governed East Germany (officially known as the German Democratic Republic), and as such served as one of the party's most important organs. It originally had a Stalinist political stance; it retained a Marxist-Leninist stance until German reunification in 1990. The ''Neues Deutschland'' that existed in East Germany had a circulation of 1.1 million as of 1989 and was the communist party's main way to show citizens its stances and opinions about politics, economics, etc. It was regarded by foreign countries as the communist regime's diplomatic voice. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ''Neues Deutschland'' has lost 98 percent of its readership and has a circulation of 17,186 as of 2021. Between 2019 and 2020 the number of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gosse
Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist. Life Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Afterwards, he became a guest Professor in the USA. Peter Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts). Works * * * * * * * Awards * Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985 * Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Heisig
Johannes Heisig (born 23 April 1953 in Leipzig, East Germany) is a German painter and graphic artist. His work combines the tradition of German socialist realism with a subjective expressionism. He portrayed several famous German politicians such as Willy Brandt, Johannes Rau and former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück. The artist is represented by galerie son, Berlin. Life Heisig comes from a family of artists. His father Bernhard Heisig was the principal of the Old Leipzig School and the teacher of many artists from the "New Leipzig School" (i.e. Neo Rauch). In his father's studio Johannes learned early from his childhood on the art of painting. From 1973 to 1977 he studied Painting and Graphics at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and from 1978 to 1980 he was Masterstudent with Professor Gerhard Kettner at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (HfBK) where he was the president from 1989 to 1991. After his withdrawing from his long-time teaching ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Heisig
Bernhard Heisig (31 March 1925 – 10 June 2011) was a German painter and graphic artist. Long-time director of the Leipzig Academy (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst; 1961–64, 1976–87) and a leading figure in East Germany's Leipzig School, which included Wolfgang Mattheuer and Werner Tübke, he painted in the tradition of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Oskar Kokoschka. His experiences from World War II on both the western and eastern fronts were a recurring subject in his art beginning in the late 1960s, and it is for these works that he is best known in the West. Highly regarded on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s, he was at the center of controversy after German unification when his painting ''Time and Life'' was selected to hang in the German parliament. The painting is a panorama of German history and hangs in the cafeteria on the first floor of the Reichstag building The Reichstag (, ; officially: – ; en, Parliament) is a historic government building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MDR-Literaturpreis
MDR-Literaturpreis was a German literary prize. The prize was awarded by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1996 to 2015. The main prize was endowed with 5,000 euros, the second with 2,500 euros and the third with 1,500 euros (donated by Druckhaus Köthen), as well an audience award was endowed with 1000 euros. The award consisted of a literary short story competition. Recipients Source: * 1996 1. Prize: Renate Schröder * 1997 1. Prize: Henner Kotte * 1998 1. Prize: Ulman Weiß * 1999 1. Prize: Jörg Jacob * 2000 1. Prize: Undine Materni * 2001 1. Prize: Clemens Meyer * 2002 1. Prize: Simone Gertz, 2. Prize: Ralf Eggers, 3. Prize: Christine Hoba * 2003 1. Prize: Omar Saavedra Santis; 2. Prize: Clemens Meyer; 3. Prize: Nils Mohl * 2004 1. Prize: Bov Bjerg; 2. Prize: Jonas-Philipp Dallmann; 3. Prize: Martin Gülich; Audience Prize: Bov Bjerg * 2005 1. Prize: Silvio Huonder; 2. Prize: Martin Gülich; 3. Prize: Gunter Gerlach * 2006 1. Prize: Thomas Pletzinger; 2. Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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