Jürgen Gosch

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Jürgen Gosch (born September 9, 1943 in Cottbus ; † June 11, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German theater director who was counted among the most important representatives of contemporary German theater. Occasionally he also appeared as an actor.

Life

Jürgen Gosch began studying acting in the GDR at the age of eighteen at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . After an acting engagement at the Landestheater Parchim , where he played the doctor in Fritz Marquardt's production of Woyzeck , he came to Potsdam , where he made his debut as a director . Fritz Marquardt brought him to the Volksbühne . When his production of Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena was canceled for political reasons in 1978, Gosch moved to West Germany.

After stints in Hanover and Bremen , he landed his first major successes in the West in Cologne with his productions Nachtasyl by Maxim Gorki , Der Menschenfeind von Molière and his Sophocles adaptation of Oedipus in 1984 with Ulrich Wildgruber in the title role. Jürgen Flimm then brought him to the Thalia Theater (Hamburg) , where he stayed until 1988. In 1989 he failed as the successor to Peter Stein and Luc Bondy at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and left the theater after only one season as a director to work as a freelance director in Frankfurt am Main and at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .

In 1993, artistic director Thomas Langhoff brought him to the Deutsches Theater Berlin , and he remained permanently engaged here until 1999. Since then he has been working as a freelance director again.

The production of Maxim Gorki's Summer Guests at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus was a great success , for which the theater magazine Theater heute chose its production of Summer Guests as the 2004 production. In November 2004 in Berlin at the Deutsches Theater, his production of Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee premiere with Corinna Harfouch and Ulrich Matthes in the leading roles. Jürgen Gosch's productions have been regularly invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen since 1982 .

In 2005, his production of Macbeth at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus caused a scandal in Düsseldorf because of its bloody and allegedly brutal images. The premiere audience left the theater in large numbers, whereby Gosch's nonconformism with expectations aimed at faithfulness to the work was probably the main factor, since all roles were filled with naked men of different ages. Despite its emphatically artificial equipment and the character of the game, the production sparked a discussion about reasonable depictions of violence on the stage, similar to what Botho Strauss and Luc Bondy experienced with their Titus-Andronicus adaptation in Paris in the same season.

On November 24, 2006, Gosch received the Faust Theater Prize in the category “Best Director in Drama” for his Macbeth production . In 2006 he was again awarded the German Critics' Prize (previously in 1984) . In 2008 the production of Uncle Wanja at the Deutsches Theater Berlin was chosen by the jury of the theater magazine Theater heute as the production of the year .

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Jürgen Gosch celebrated a great triumph at the end of 2008 with his production of Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe , which he brought out at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in a co-production with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Some other planned productions, e.g. B. the Faust at the Burgtheater Vienna and the Carmen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gosch had to cancel because of a serious cancer. However in April 2009 he was able to Idomeneus by Roland Schimmelpfennig show at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Jürgen Gosch died on June 11th, 2009 and was buried on June 22nd in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin. In his final years he lived with the actress and filmmaker Angela Schanelec ; she is the mother of the two youngest of his five children.

Productions (selection)

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

  • Theater Prize Berlin 2009: Jürgen Gosch received the prize together with the set designer Johannes Schütz. Gosch and Schütz worked together since 1991. The reason given is: Gosch had “shaped and enriched contemporary theater in a unique way through (…) intellectual independence.” The award ceremony took place on May 3, 2009 in the Deutsches Theater.
  • 2009: “ Theater heute ” magazine : “Production of the year” for Anton Chekhov's “The Seagull”

Quotes

  • Christine Dössel, theater critic:

“Gosch's theater does not follow any aesthetic conventions, it lives from the simplicity and intensity - also from the disclosure - of the means. The audience is faced with pauses, lengths, breaks, moments of despair, perplexity and disorder. The hall light is almost always on in Gosch's productions. All actors are always present; often when they have nothing to play they sit in the front row. The stage sets that Johannes Schütz designs for Gosch are barren, closed boxes, from which there is no escape and in which there are no cozy corners for old viewing habits. "

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“With wit and never-ending curiosity, Gosch became a conservative innovator of the theater who promoted a return to the art of psychological human exploration. The man, who always observes himself and his surroundings with skepticism, once said that his job is 'out of pleasure'. "

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literature

  • Tobias Hockenbrink: Endless theater. The theater work of the director Jürgen Gosch , Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2014, ISBN 3-86573-790-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ddp: Theater director Jürgen Gosch buried
  2. ↑ By Christine Wahl: "Idomeneus" premiere in Berlin: Simply everything, tough. In: Spiegel Online . April 29, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  3. ^ "Berlin Theater Prize" for director Gosch. FR-Online.de, archived from the original on June 18, 2009 ; Retrieved March 23, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Christine Dössel for the Goethe Institute (see web links)
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 25/2009, p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Gosch, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2009
Place of death Berlin