Superintendent — Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach Character Profile

About Superintendent

A high-ranking church official overseeing Leipzig's religious institutions, representing the ecclesiastical authority that often disputed Bach's compositional freedoms and contractual demands.

Character Facts

Played by

Rainer Kirchner

Appears in

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

• Johann Sebastian Bach (Gustav Leonhardt)
• Anna Magdalena Bach (Christiane Lang)
• Hölzel (Paolo Carlini)
• Steger (Ernst Castelli)
• Regine Susanna Bach (Anja Fahrmann)
• Born (Hans-Peter Boye)
• Rector (Joachim Wolff)
• Rector Ernesti (Hellmuth Costard)
• Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
• Christine Sophie Henrietta Bach (Katja Drewanz)
• Johann Elias Bach (Bob van Asperen)
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Andreas Pangritz)