Armin Stolper

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Armin Stolper (1978)

Armin Stolper (born March 23, 1934 in Breslau ) is a German writer and dramaturge.

Life and work

Stolper was the son of a train driver and a seamstress. After the war his family came to Quolsdorf . He passed his Abitur in 1952 in Görlitz . He then began studying philosophy with a minor in German at the University of Jena . However, he broke off this the following year when he got a job at the Senftenberg City Theater in September . There he worked as a dramaturge and functionary until 1959 . After that he worked at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Volksbühne in Berlin, at the Landestheater Halle (Saale) and as chief dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Since then he has been a freelance writer.

Stolper wrote numerous plays and was considered one of the most important playwrights of his generation in the GDR. His first great success, the frequently re-enacted play Zeitgenossen (premiered 1969) based on Gabrilowitsch and Raisman, served, albeit at a high level, a more political-operational, "journalistic" function of the theater, such as the conception of Halle artistic director Gerhard Wolfram and his Senior game manager Horst Schönemann , with whom Stolper was closely connected, corresponded. In his later plays he successfully placed himself in the tradition of a poetic folk theater, for example in the Lusatian trilogy ( Clare and The Gänserich , The Shoemaker and the Rooster , The Scarecrow or The Homecoming of the Prodigal Son ). His friendship with the important GDR playwright Alfred Matusche also contributed to this. Stolper's close ties to his Lusatian homeland and, on the other hand, to Russian-Soviet literature often influenced the choice of material and intentionality of his pieces and books. Armin Stolper received several prizes, including the State Prize for National Artistic Creation in 1964, the Erich Weinert Medal in 1969, the Lessing Prize of the GDR in 1970 and the Literature Prize of the FDGB in 1972. Stolper also published several books with short stories and features .

Works

Pieces (selection)

  • Amphitryon . Comedy with prelude in 3 acts. Premiere 1967 at the Landestheater Halle. Director: Horst Schönemann
  • Ruzante . Folk Comedy in 4 acts. Premiere 1967 at the Landestheater Halle. Director: Christoph Schroth
  • Contemporaries . Based on a film scenario by Gabrilowitsch and Raisman. Premiere 1969 at the Landestheater Halle. Director: Christoph Schroth
  • Ascension to earth . Loosely based on Antonov's novella The Torn Ruble . Premiere at the Landestheater Halle. Director: Horst Schönemann
  • Klara and the gander . A not entirely cheerful piece with brass music and many good people as well as an almost optimistic ending. Premiere 1973 at the Landestheater Halle. Director: Ekkehard Kiesewetter
  • The Scarecrow or The Homecoming of the Prodigal Son . Last part of the Lausitz trilogy, 5 acts. Premiere 1981 at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. Direction: Reinhard Hellmann and Max K. Hoffmann

WP = world premiere

Books (selection)

  • Stories from the gable room , illustrations by Dieter Zimmermann, Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock 1983
  • After Reykjavik and Flachsenfingen , experiences while traveling, Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1985, ISBN 3-356-00286-4
  • The tightrope walker's career , nine stories and one piece, Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock
  • White wing rimmed with black , poems

literature

  • Klaus Siebenhaar: "The friendly look at the contradictions". Popular play tradition and realism in the GDR drama . In: Ulrich Profitlich (Ed.): Dramatik der DDR, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / M. 1987, pp. 375-396, DNB Frankfurt D 87/7379
  • Ingrid Seyfarth: workshop talk with Armin Stolper. In: Theater der Zeit 4/1970, pp. 38–42
  • Gottfried Fischborn : piece writing. Claus Hammel, Heiner Müller, Armin Stolper , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 127-163, DNB Frankf. D 81/17142
  • the same: Armin Stolper's Passion - the theater In: Weimarer contributions, issue 7/1977, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar, pp. 67–79
  • the same: Interview with Armin Stolper , ibid, pp. 45–66
  • the same: Epilogue to: Armin Stolper: Concerto dramatico. After Goethe, Voltaire and Bulgakow , Berlin: Henschelverlag 1979, DNB Leipzig 1979 A 11824
  • the same: Conversation with Armin Stolper (interview), in: Theater der Zeit 1/1979, pp. 49–53
  • the same: in search of one's own. Observations on Armin Stolper. In: Sonntag 34/35 (1980)
  • Hermann Kähler: work and personality in theater plays Armin Stolpers , epilogue to: Stolper: pieces , Henschel: Berlin 1979, p. 341–356, DNB Frankf. D74 / 24972
  • Marlis Sailer: Investigations into the dramatic work of Armin Stolper , Phil. Diss. Halle 1981
  • Gunter Reus: October Revolution and Soviet Russia in the German Theater , Bouvier: Bonn 1978, DNB Frankf. 78/19705

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stolper, Armin in Günter Albrecht et al .: Meyers Taschenlexikon. GDR writer . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1974
  2. ↑ a b Armin Stolper: Between Philosophy and Theater on spurensicherung.org
  3. ^ Stolper, Arnim in Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .
  4. ↑ Stolper, Armin in Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (ed.): Deutsches Theater-Lexikon . Francke, Bern 1998
  5. ↑ Armin Stolper: Pieces. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1974
personal data
SURNAME Stumble, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw