Valentin Jeker

Valentin Jeker (born October 26, 1934 in Olten ) is a Swiss actor and theater director .

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After graduating from high school, Jeker attended the Zurich Drama School from 1957 to 1960 . From 1961 to 1963 he was an actor and assistant director at the Städtische Bühnen Ulm and from 1963 to 1965 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart .

Back in Ulm in 1965/66 , he went to the Staatstheater Kassel for one season in 1966 . From 1967 to 1972 he worked again in Stuttgart under Peter Palitzsch . It was here that I started directing with pioneers in Ingolstadt and Kasimir and Karoline . Guest productions took him to Pforzheim and Ingolstadt , in 1971 Uncle Wanja followed at the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne .

In 1972 Jeker and Palitzsch went to the Frankfurt theater, where he worked on Klaus Michael Grüber's production of the Brecht play In the Thicket of Cities . In 1973 Manfred Beilharz brought him to the Landestheater Tübingen , where he stayed until 1977. Here he staged, among others, Friedrich Schiller's Cabal and Love (1973), Molière's George Dandin (1974), Brecht's Turandot and his Drums in the Night (1975/76). In 1977 he directed the German premiere of Dario Fos One for All, All for One and Molières Tartuffe in Stuttgart .

In 1977 he moved to the Freiburg Theater with Beilharz . Directing work here were a theatrical collage based on the novel Transit of Anna Seghers the old station of Wiehre that Horváth -pieces Tales from the Vienna Woods and GlaubeLiebeHoffnung and Kleist's The Prince of Homburg . Guest productions have taken him to the Schlossparktheater in Berlin , Basel and Bremen .

In 1983 he followed Beilharz to Kassel . Jeker staged Kleist's Schroffenstein family (1985) and Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1986, with himself as Pozzo). At the Schauspielhaus Bochum he directed, among other things, the performance of Horváth's Italian Night , Beckett's Happy Days , Molière's Der Geizige (1987), Schleef's The Actors (1989) and Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug (1990) and as a guest at the Burgtheater Vienna Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter (1988) ).

From 1991 Jeker continued the collaboration with Beilharz at the Schauspiel Bonn . This is where Büchner's Woyzeck (1993), Dorst's Ice Age (1993), Botho Strauss ' Familiar Faces, Mixed Emotions (1993/94), the world premiere of Kaca Celan's Heimatbuch (1997), Hauptmanns Rose Bernd (1998), and Büchner's Dantons were created Death , Gombrowicz's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy , Hebbel's Maria Magdalena , Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Barlachs The Blue Boll .

In 2002 Jeker moved to the Wiesbaden State Theater . The productions here were cabal and love and Henrik Ibsen's ghosts .

In 2015 Jeker had his first exhibition as a painter as part of the "Long Night of the Courts of Justice" in Berlin.

He has a daughter with the actress Sabine Wackernagel , the actress Katharina Wackernagel .

He lives in Kassel.

personal data
SURNAME	Jeker, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olten