Biography
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Audible Backstage - Reinhard Kuhnert im Exklusivinterview - youtube

Studies at the College for Drama and at the Institute for Literature, Leipzig
Work as an actor, assistant director and director at several theatres of the GDR and later in West Berlin and abroad
Until 1983 successful playwright in East Berlin for several years
In the mid-eighties emigration to West Berlin
Theatrical work as a director and actor, especially abroad (Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia)
Kuhnert writes for the theatre, for radio and television, but also prose, songs and lyrics.
So far, twelve of his plays have been performed at theatres in Germany and abroad
Solo shows with own songs and lyrics in the genre of literary satire at theatres throughout Germany.
From 1994 to 2007 also resident in Galway/Ireland
at times guest lecturer at the NUIG, as well
2006 at the University and the Victorian College of Arts Melbourne
Actor/narrator in the field of audiobook, radio drama, dubbing and documentary
1999 Brothers Grimm Award of Berlin

Audible Backstage - Reinhard Kuhnert im Exklusivinterview - youtube

A modern minstrel, he learned his art on various stages from artisans. Educated to principled opinions, memes & afflatus -- a staunch objector to obtuse slogans, who travelled the world. Saw places, saw faces, heard different tongues. A journeyman who is crafting rhymes, who groks the lines of modern pens, awarded by applause & prices, abroad as in Spire's proximity... From Dublin to Melbourne with Brecht, with own songs on his lute in Berlin and stories of spellbound fairies, enjoying & lighten the heart he parsed in mystical Donegal lived in rugged terrain. Sometimes vexed by stenciled pens in a word our man is Reinhard, a worldly bard of the wayward wind.