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Michael Hametner at „art Kapella Schkeuditz" (2019)

Michael Hametner (born 1950 at Rostock) is a German–Austrian journalist, editor, writer and literary and theater critic

Life

Michael 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", Stefan Schütz' version of Kleists novel (as "Luther"), Stephan Hermlins „Scardanelli" (Premiere),[1] Edward Albees „Die Zoogeschichte“ (first performance in GDR),[2] Alexander Vampilovs „Provinzanekdoten“[3] 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 the GDR (together with Bernhard Scheller).[4]

From the beginning of the 1990s Michael Hametner had been working as a freelancer at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). In 1993 he was appointed jury member for "Hörspiel des Monats" ("Radio drama of the month"). Before he just headed the GDR radio drama critics jury and later he became a member of the jury for Gellert-Prize,[5] Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden ("Radio drama prize of the blind war victims") and Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (2007–2009).[6][7] Since 2007 Hametner is also member of the jury for Uwe-Johnsson-Prize.[8][circular reference] In 1994 he became editorial journalist and presenter for literature at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, where he established the MDR-Literaturpreis ("MDR literature prize") in 1995. Some winners were Clemens Meyer(2001), Bov Bjerg (2004), Leif Randt (2010), Anja Kampmann and others.

Michael Hametner published several books containig one-on-one interviews with German painters and actors like Bernhard Heisig, Johannes Heisig, Sighard Gille[9] and Fred Delmare.

Hametner has also been working as a narrator for audio recordings since 2005. Until 2015 he had been editorial journalist for literature. Since 2008 he is member of Bührnheim's Literature Salon.[10]

Michael Hametner is living in Leipzig.

Works (selection)

Author

  • Kleine Form des Theaters. Zentralhaus-Publikation, Leipzig 1986.
  • Neue und wiederentdeckte Gegenwarts-Dramatik aus der DDR. Zentralhaus-Publikation, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 978-3-7444-0142-5.
  • Kleine Leute. Das Leben des Schauspielers Fred Delmare. Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-89602-122-9.
  • Einkreisen. 15 Gespräche – ein Porträt des Malers Sighard Gille. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-226-9.
  • Auf der Bühne. 15 Gespräche – ein Porträt des Malers Matthias Weischer. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-95462-643-4.
  • Übermalen. 15 Gespräche – ein Porträt des Malers Johannes Heisig. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-811-7.
  • Bernhard Heisig und Gudrun Brüne. Ein Künstlerpaar über fünfzig Jahre. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-95462-993-0.
  • Gert Pötzschig – Valeurs. Sax, Beucha/Markkleeberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86729-223-8.
  • Kopfkino. 15 Gespräche – ein Porträt des Malers Hans Aichinger. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-218-8

Publisher

  • Zornesrot. Anthologie junger Autoren. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-440-9.
  • Zeit der Witze. Texte junger Autoren. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-601-4.
  • Wolfgang Heger: Lichtzeichen. Ein Porträt des Malers Rolf-Gunter Dienst im Dialog. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-460-7.

Audiobook narrator

at Publishing House Universal Music, Berlin:

at Publishing House Universal Family Entertainment, Berlin:

References

  1. ^ Elisabeth Peuker, Mitteldeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, 05.07.1973
  2. ^ Bettina Ahrenholz, Norddeutsche Zeitung, 08.11.1976
  3. ^ Georg Antosch, Neue Zeit, 12.07.1977
  4. ^ Theater mit Leidenschaft: Die Studentenbühne an der Leipziger Universität, Passage-Verlag Leipzig 2007
  5. ^ Gellert-Prize
  6. ^ Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
  7. ^ Short biography
  8. ^ Uwe Johnsson Preis
  9. ^ Peter Gosse, Literaturbeilage, Neues Deutschland, 13.03. 2014
  10. ^ Unser Team/our team at signiertebuecher.de