Rüdiger Schaper (born 1959) is a German writer, journalist and theatre critic.

Life

Born in

Worms Worms may refer to: *Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs Places *Worms, Germany, a city **Worms (electoral district) *Worms, Nebraska, U.S. *Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy Arts and entertainme ...

, Schaper lives and works mainly in Berlin and has worked at ''

Der Tagesspiegel ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (meaning ''The Daily Mirror'') is a German daily newspaper. It has regional correspondent offices in Washington D.C. and Potsdam. It is the only major newspaper in the capital to have increased its circulation, now 148,000, s ...

'' since 1999. There he is head of the

feuilleton A ''feuilleton'' (; a diminutive of french: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criti ...

department. He previously was the Berlin cultural correspondent of the ''

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...

''.

Works

Essays and

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

play an important role in Schaper's writing. He published biographies of

Harald Juhnke Harald Juhnke () (born Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, 10 June 1929 – 1 April 2005), was a German actor, comedian, and singer. Life and career Juhnke was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father was a police officer and his mother came from a ...

Constantine Simonides Constantine Simonides (1820–1867) was a palaeographer and dealer of icons, known as a man of extensive learning, with significant knowledge of manuscripts and miraculous calligraphy. He was one of the most versatile forgers of the nineteenth centu ...

Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( , ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main pro ...

and

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, p ...

. His book on theatre history lists above all those theatre-makers who have meant a great deal to him as a critic. * ''Spektakel: Eine Geschichte des Theaters von Schlingensief bis Aischylos''.''Spektakel: Eine Geschichte des Theaters von Schlingensief bis Aischylos''
on WorldCat , Munich 2014, . * ''Karl May: Untertan, Hochstapler, Übermensch''. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2011, . * ''Die Odyssee des Fälschers''. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2011, . * ''Der Entertainer der Nation. Harald Juhnke. Zwischen Glamour und Gosse''. Argon Verlag, 1997, . * ''Berlin um Mitternacht''. Argon Verlag, Munich 1998, . * ''Alexander von Humboldt: Der Preuße und die neuen Welten.'' Siedler Verlag, Munich 2018, . * ''Elefanten. Ein Portrait.'' Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2020, .

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German theatre critics 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists Print journalists Der Tagesspiegel people 1959 births Living people People from Worms, Germany {{Germany-journalist-stub