Rüdiger Schaper (born 1959) is a German writer, journalist and theatre critic.
Life
Born in
Worms
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, Schaper lives and works mainly in Berlin and has worked at ''
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, since reunificati ...
'' since 1999. There he is head of the
feuilleton
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department. He previously was the Berlin cultural correspondent of the ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and ...
''.
Works
Essays and
cultural history
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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,
Karl May
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and
Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...
. 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, .
References
External links
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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
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