Andrea Breth

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Andrea Breth (born October 31, 1952 in Rieden near Füssen ) is a German theater director .

Life and accomplishments

Andrea Breth, who grew up in Darmstadt as the daughter of Herbert Breth , studied literature in Heidelberg and began working as an assistant director in 1972 at the Heidelberg Theater . In 1975 she was able to present her first independent production at the Bremen Theater : The Enchanted Brothers by Jewgeni Schwarz . She came to the Bremen theater through the move of the Heidelberg artistic director Peter Stoltzenberg to Bremen , who took her there with him. In addition to her first work, she was assistant director to David Esrig and Christof Nel .

After stations and directing work at stages in Wiesbaden , Bochum , Hamburg and Berlin , she went to Zurich in 1981, still unsatisfied with her mastery of directing, and began training as an actress. In 1983 she was brought to the local theater by the Freiburg director Ulrich Brecht , where she was the permanent in-house director until 1985. It was here that she made her breakthrough with the staging of Federico García Lorca's Bernarda Alba's house . This production earned her an invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen and the award of Theater heute magazine as Director of the Year.

In 1986, after Claus Peymann left the Burgtheater in Vienna, a new era began at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under director Frank-Patrick Steckel . Steckel brought Andrea Breth to Bochum; there she was able to establish herself in the German-speaking theater scene until 1989. In her first Bochum season, 1986/1987, she staged the greatest successes of her time in Bochum. First the season opening production by Luigi Pirandello's Die Giant von Berge , then South by Julien Green and Sommer by Edward Bond . For the south she received numerous awards and was selected again for the Berlin Theatertreffen.

Until 1992 she worked as a freelance director in German-speaking theaters and staged, among other plays, Sean O'Casey's Das Ende vom Anfang and Kleist's Der Zerbrochne Krug at the Vienna Castle. From 1992 to 1997 she was artistic director of the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz . Here, too, the focus was on studying Russian authors. Nachtasyl by Maxim Gorki, Die Möwe und Unkel Vanja by Anton P. Chekhov are considered outstanding productions of this time.

From 1999 to 2019 she was in-house director at the Burgtheater Vienna and also directed for the Salzburg Festival . In 2004 and 2005 she was again involved in the Berlin Theatertreffen with the castle productions Emilia Galotti and Don Karlos . For technical reasons, the latter production could only be shown as a film recording. In 2006 the director received the Berlin Theater Prize endowed with 16,000 euros at the Berlin Theatertreffen . The director donated half of the money to a soup kitchen in Pankow , which is run by the Franciscan order.

In the Bochum years (early 1990), a mental illness forced Andrea Breth to cancel planned staging projects, such as Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt and Calderón's daughter of the air. She herself commented on her illness in public - so u. a. in 2007 in the Austrian magazine Profil. In 2008 she returned to the Burgtheater after a one year break as director of the play Motortown by Simon Stephens .

About the work of Andrea Breth

Peter Simonischek as Elector and August Diehl as Prince Friedrich von Homburg , Salzburg Festival 2012

“Andrea Breth's directorial style is in the tradition of Fritz Kortner's and Peter Stein's poetic and psychological realism. She sees herself as a human scientist, soul researcher - but never only in a biographical-social, but in a universal-human sense. "

- Gerhard Jörder, theater critic


Important productions

play

Opera

Awards and honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Breth: Free for the moment: directing theater and the art of living. Conversations with Irene Bazinger , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86789-062-5 , p. 82.
  2. ↑ Andrea Breth: Frei for the moment, S: 55.
  3. ↑ Andrea Breth: Frei for the moment, p. 79.
  4. ↑ Interview with Andrea Breth in “Profil” 27/2007
  5. ^ Quote from goethe.de
  6. ^ Breth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. ↑ Where there is planing, there are people in: FAZ of January 9, 2012, page 25
  8. ↑ Message from the jury , February 12, 2015 (PDF)
  9. ↑ Federal Merit Crosses for Andrea Breth and Katharina Thalbach on nachtkritik.de
  10. ^ Upper Austrian news: MacDonald and Galke awarded as best actors . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Announcement of the awards / Announcement of October 1, 2019. In: Bundespräsident. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ NESTROY 2019 theater award celebrates its 20th anniversary. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ NESTROY Prize 2019: The nominations. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Breth, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyards near Füssen