Achim Freyer

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Achim Freyer (2003)

Achim Freyer (* the 30th March 1934 in Berlin ) is a German director , stage and costume designer and painter . He is considered the "master of acting and mask art in Germany".

Life

Achim Freyer attended the traditional Pforta state school in Schulpforte near Naumburg (Saale) . His former classmate Karlheinz Klimt , who later worked in the theater, created a literary monument to these years together. The Freyers family was anti-Nazi. His father was deployed in the battle for Berlin during the Second World War and was legally shot because of comments about the futility of the war.

Freyer initially trained as a graphic artist and painter before he became a master student of Bertolt Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble . He worked as a set and costume designer (with directors such as Ruth Berghaus , Adolf Dresen and Benno Besson ). In 1972 Freyer used a trip to the west to escape from the GDR . He had his family brought by escape helpers. In West Berlin he soon began his own work as a director . He has staged at numerous leading theaters in Germany and Europe. A special focus was on world premieres by composers such as Mauricio Kagel , Unsuk Chin , Dieter Schnebel ( Maulwerke , 1977), Philip Glass , Helmut Lachenmann and Erhard Grosskopf . As a visual artist he was represented at the Kassel documenta (1977 and 1987) and at the Prague Quadriennale . 1976–2002 Freyer was a full professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

For his production of Turandot / Perséphone ( Busoni / Stravinsky ) in Venice in 1994 , he was awarded the Italian Critics' Prize for the best production of the year.

In 1988 he founded the Freyer Ensemble , which includes actors, dancers, acrobats, musicians, singers, directors and stage designers . The combination of the various disciplines of performing and visual arts resulted in numerous own performances.

Achim Freyer is a member of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) , the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

Achim Freyer set up the “Kunsthaus Achim Freyer”, which opened in 2013 , in his Wilhelminian style villa in the historic Berlin villa colony of Lichterfelde-West .

His twin daughters, born in 1971, came from his marriage to the artist Ilona Freyer (1943–1984) in 1968 : the costume designer Amanda Freyer and the painter Julia Freyer. Achim Freyer has been married to the Korean soprano Esther Lee-Freyer for the second time since 2012 .

Achim Freyer lives next to Berlin , at times also in southern Tuscany .

Important productions

play

Opera

Movie

  • MET AMOR PH OSEN 1994
  • Journey into the blue

Works

Achim Freyer ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2015 )

Graphics

  • 1994: Peer Gynt (portfolio with eleven drypoint etchings and a text by Hermann Beil . The portfolio was published on the occasion of the production by Claus Peymann , Achim Freyer and Hermann Beil at the Burgtheater Vienna in February 1994. 10th print by the Berlin graphic press)

Book illustrations

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Achim Freyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Freyer on Artfacts. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  2. ^ "Excursion into the great art fairy tale" The golden pot - Stuttgart theater - Achim Freyer's masks, costumes and fantasy-rich Hoffmann staging , nachtkritik.de of May 18, 2019, accessed May 19, 2019
  3. ^ Karlheinz Klimt : A new class - memories and evaluations of someone who was there in the school gate. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2009, pp. 42–43, ISBN 978-3-86634-819-6 .
  4. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/mdr-figaro/ausstellungen/figaro-trifft-helmut-brade100.html
  5. ↑ There was Helmut Brade his classmates, he took 20 years later to the theater.
  6. ↑ In conversation: Achim Freyer. March 30, 2016, accessed March 30, 2016 .
  7. ^ BZ for the 80th birthday. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Mr. Rabbit and the Dragon King ( Memento April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: wuppertaler-buehnen.de , 2011, accessed on May 20, 2015.
  9. ^ Ljubiša Tošić: "Luci mie traditrici": Poetry of the doll people . In: derstandard.at , May 18, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.galerie-berliner-graphikpresse.de/berliner-graphikpresse/mappenwerke
  11. ↑ Achim Freyer Foundation. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  12. ^ Nestroy Prize 2015: The nominations . Press release of September 30, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Freyer, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, set and costume designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin