Alexander Stillmark

Alexander Stillmark (born January 13, 1941 in Karlsruhe ) is a German film and theater director and actor . He is known for his activities at the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Life

Alexander Stillmark was born in Karlsruhe in 1941. He came to Erfurt in 1949 , where he also graduated from high school , and completed an apprenticeship as a potter . He studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . After completing his studies, he was assistant director and director at the Berliner Ensemble from 1964 to 1970. In 1971 he moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin (DT) and worked a lot with Klaus Erforth , including on plays by Bertolt Brecht , Friedrich Schiller , Athol Fugard , Pablo Neruda , Heinar Kipphardt , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Georg Büchner , William Shakespeare , Wolfgang Borchert , Friedrich Hölderlin , Bernard-Marie Koltès , Franz Xaver Kroetz and Oliver Bukowski . They had their first great success with Schiller's Kabale und Liebe . Another great success was the 1974 staging of Pablo Neruda's Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta , which featured drama school students. In 1975 he took part in the Festival Theater of Nations in Warsaw with Pablo Neruda's “Joaquin Murieta” . In 1986 he left the DT in Berlin and from 1989 to 1991 was a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, where he had studied. He later became acting director at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . He has been a freelance film and theater director since 1992 and lives in Berlin .

personal data
SURNAME	Stillmark, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film and theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe