![]() ![]() In December 2003, it opened in Hamburg, where it ran for another three years before opening in Berlin. On 3 March 2000, the show was transferred to Stuttgart, Germany. In October 1997, a German version opened at the Viennese Raimund Theater. Kunze wrote his first English libretto and lyrics for the musical, Dance of the Vampires. ![]() Ĭollaborating with Roman Polanski (director) and Jim Steinman (composer), It was soon exported to other countries, such as Japan, Hungary, Sweden, Holland and Germany. The show ran in Vienna for more than six years and was immediately regarded as the rebirth of the contemporary continental musical theater in Europe. In September 1992, his musical Elisabeth, about the life of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, opened at Vienna's Theater an der Wien (music by Sylvester Levay). Since the 1990s, Kunze is creating original musicals in his own style. Over the years, he has also written a number of articles for German magazines and newspapers (Stern, Frankfurter Allgemeine, ZEITMagazin, Playboy, Süddeutsche Zeitung), exploring his views on the function of entertainment in society and current media issues. He also conceived Der Goldene Löwe, the German counterpart to the American Emmy Awards show. His once-a-year special, Die Peter-Alexander-Show, starring Germany's top musical entertainer, Peter Alexander, and, among others, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Collins and Liza Minnelli (ORF) reached cult status in the 1990s. With the annual Bambi Award Gala, he created the German counterpart to the American Academy Award presentation. In 1991, he conceived the international Peter Ustinov Gala in Paris, celebrating Sir Peter Ustinov´s 70th birthday, starring Sir Yehudin Menuhin, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Petula Clark, Tony Curtis and Montserrat Caballé. ZDF, Sport Gala/ARD, Weil wir leben wollen /ZDF) and developed the ARD Series Showgeschichten. He conceived and wrote several, 90-minute shows for the major German and Austrian networks (Liebe ist. Kunze also started working for television. The numerous other musicals Kunze has translated into German include The Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line, Song and Dance, Into the Woods, Follies, Assassins, Side by Side by Sondheim, Dorian Gray, Little Shop of Horrors, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and Elton John's Aida. His German version of Cats ran for seven years in Vienna, making it one of the greatest hits of all times in that city. The success of his adaptation opened the doors of the German-speaking market for the modern Anglo-American musical and made him the preferred translator for international hit shows. First, he adapted Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita, which was the beginning of his collaboration and friendship with the legendary Broadway director, Harold Prince. In the 1980s, the musical began making its way into the center of Kunze's activities. It was translated into several languages The New York Times called it "a vivid story of a witch." He wrote a second book, Give Way To Freedom (German Title: Der Freiheit eine Gasse) on the 1848 democratic revolution in Southern Germany. Taking a temporary hiatus from show business, he wrote the book Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft (German Title: Strasse ins Feuer). In 1981, Kunze stopped working as a producer but continued to write lyrics for top artists. Gilbert Bécaud, Sister Sledge and Caterina Valente. Performers, including Julio Iglesias, Nana Mouskouri, Herbie Mann, Lulu, Produced albums with a vast and varied array of internationally known Robin, Fly" came such hits as " Lady Bump" and "Get up and Boogie" – Michael Himself, influenced disco music and was the first German aggregation ever to His group, Silver Convention, represented by composer Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze He produced his first international act, he hit both the top of the Billboard and Cashbox charts in the U.S. ![]() His recordings dominated the 1970s music charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It topped the German charts in the summer of 1970 and went gold. Produced with Peter Maffay, a 20-year-old newcomer, was called "Du" (English Translation: "You"). Made the music business aware of Michael Kunze. The record was anything but a commercial success, but it The Hamburg folklore group, City Preachers, recorded an LP with some Kunze started writing music and lyrics during his high school years in the early He studied law, philosophy and history at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He grew up in Southern Germany and attended Klenze Oberrealschule in Munich. Born in Prague, Kunze is the son of actress Dita Roesler and Walter Kunze, a writer, cartoonist and journalist, who worked for the German language newspaper Prager Tagblatt. ![]()
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