Magdeburg
A documentary portrait of the theaters in Magdeburg by Wolfgang H Scholz
MDR, 1993, 60 min.
The film tells the story of an encounter with an actress, an actor and the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, in the rare situation of two city theaters – the Freie Kammerspiele and the Theater der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg.
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Chemnitz
A documentary portrait of the Chemnitz Schauspielhaus by Wolfgang H Scholz
MDR, 1994, 60 min.
The film is based on the success and reputation of the Chemnitz Theater as a "talent factory". Many renowned artists were "born" in the Chemnitz Theater.
Gerhard Meyer is a central person when people talk about talent¬ development then and now. Many of those to whom he taught their first steps on the "boards of the world" still have friendly contact with him (among others. Ullrich Mühe, Cornelia Schmaus). Carstorf was allowed to stage in Chemnitz when no other theater in the GDR allowed it. The film shows a connection between the theater makers and their house.
Contributors: Frank Castorf
Armin Petras
Gitta Schweighöfer
Irmgard Lange
Gerhard Meyer
Jutta Wachowiak
Hartwig Albiro
Philipp Stölzl
Rio Reiser
Herbert Olschok
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Meiningen
A documentary portrait of the Theater Meiningen by Wolfgang H Scholz
MDR, 1995, 60 min.
The film is about the dream and illusion of theater. The focus of the film is in the South Thuringian State Theater in Meiningen. Meiningen is the most traditional and famous theater city in Germany. The Ducal Court Theater was founded here in 1831 and led by Duke George II to become a pioneer of stage art in Europe at the time. The film is based on the success and reputation of the Meininger Theater, shows the famous archive (200 stage brochures are still preserved in the Meininger Museum) and the house's report.
The film shows a connection between the theater makers and the house, city and world of theater. And he also examines the question in an ironic form: What does the viewer actually dream during the performance?
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Hamburg, Bochum, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart
The musical theaters.
A film by Wolfgang H Scholz
BR, 1996, 45 min.
Musical tourism in Germany is flourishing. The media is trying to fathom the phenomenon. The film depicts the weekend of an average German family who booked a short vacation at the leisure and recreation center Stuttgart International. The highlight for her, as it is currently for tens of thousands, is the musical "Miss Saigon".
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Munich
A Munich cinema story. The Sendlinger Tor film theater and the Tivoli.
Documentary by Wolfgang H Scholz
BR, 1998, 45 min.
This film is about the Preßmar brothers, who run the cinemas. Their ideals and their lives, which is closely linked to film and their film theaters. And of course it's about these two renowned old film theaters in Munich with their staff, which look lovingly strange and old-fashioned in today's television age. When Fritz Preßmar senior goes to the safe and digs out the old business book, where the weather was recorded behind every screening, you think a little about the dream of a cinema.
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Munich
Christian Stückl and the Munich Volkstheater
Documentary portrait by Wolfgang H Scholz
with Brigitte Hobmeier and Sunny Melles
BR, 2002, 30 min.
A film about Christian Stückl's theater work, his beginning as director At the Munich Volkstheater and an attempt on the „human“ Christian Stückl to discover. A theater maker with heart and soul.
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Christoph Schlingensief in Bayreuth -
Film by Wolfgang H Scholz
BR, 2004, 30 min.
A film about Parsifal's production at the Bayreuth Festival. Everything from the installation of a dead rabbit, the excitement of the Wagnerians, Wagner's dog in plastic on every park bench to the performance.