Johann Sebastian Bach is an East German miniseries which originally aired in four episodes on DDR 1 in 1985.[1] It was produced to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre	Drama
Written by	Lothar Bellag [de] Klaus Eidam [de]
Directed by	Lothar Bellag
Starring	Ulrich Thein Franziska Troegner
Country of origin	East Germany Hungary
Original language	German
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer	Eva-Marie Martens
Running time	415 minutes
Production company	DFF
Release
Original network	DDR 1
Original release	8 March (1985-03-08) – 17 March 1985 (1985-03-17)

Selected cast

• Ulrich Thein as Johann Sebastian Bach
• Angelika Waller as Maria Barbara Bach
• Franziska Troegner as Anna Magdalena Bach
• Rosemarie Bärhold as Liese
• Gunnar Helm [de] as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Hans-Peter Minetti as Christian Friedrich Henrici
• Ralf Lehm [de] as Johann Matthias Gesner
• András Kozák as Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
• Yvetta Kornová as Catharina Dorothea Bach

References

Bibliography

• Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500–1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.

External links

• Johann Sebastian Bach at IMDb
• Film details, bach-cantatas.com