August Everding

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August Everding (born October 31, 1928 in Bottrop ; † January 26, 1999 in Munich ) was a German director , manager , cultural politician and general manager .

Career

Everding was born in 1928 as the son of a Catholic provost organist in Bottrop. He studied in Bonn , where he received the K.St.V. Arminia joined the KV , and in Munich philosophy , German , theology and theater studies . Here he became a member of the KV association K.St.V. Ottonia Munich. From 1953 he worked as an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele . As early as 1955 he became director , 1959 senior director, 1960 drama director and 1963 artistic director of the house. In 1973 he moved to the Hamburg State Opera as artistic director , and in 1977 to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. At the same time he taught as a professor at the music academies in Hamburg (1973–1977) and Munich. In 1982 Everding was promoted to general manager of the Bavarian State Theaters . In this position, which he held until 1993, he founded the Bavarian State Ballet and the Bavarian Theater Days. From 1993 he held the title of State Director . As president of the German Stage Association (DBV) , Everding organized the integration of the former GDR theaters and orchestras into the German theater system from 1989 onwards. In numerous bodies he fought against subsidy cuts and theater closings. He achieved a much-noticed coup in 1993 when he founded the Bavarian Theater Academy , which he chaired as president.

Probably his greatest merit for Munich was his initiative for the renovation and reopening of the Prinzregententheater in 1988 (so-called small solution without main stage), which finally resulted in the complete renovation (including main stage) on November 10, 1996. August Everding was considered to be one of the most influential theater personalities of the 20th century in terms of culture and politics and a workaholic. In Munich theater circles he had the nicknames "Cleverding" and "Everything" (not loved by him), which are self-explanatory. As an accomplished speaker and discussion partner, he advertised the cause of culture in the media (“Not a luxury, but a necessity!”) And achieved a high level of awareness. For television ( 3sat ) he conducted from 1986 to 1998 under the title Da Capo - August Everding in conversation with… interviews with numerous well-known singers, such as Martha Mödl , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Anneliese Rothenberger , Peter Schreier and Edda Moser .

He kept a cancer ailment that overshadowed his final years a secret from the public. A few days before his death, he appeared at a panel discussion in the garden hall of the Prinzregententheater . He was buried in his adopted home Truchtlaching in Chiemgau .

Everding was married to the doctor Gustava von Vogel since 1963. His wife is involved in the hospice movement . The marriage resulted in four sons: Christoph, Cornelius, Johannes and Marcus Everding . From 1978 to 1993 Everding lived in an official apartment at Grünwald Castle , after which he lived in Munich-Schwabing. He died of cancer in 1999 at the age of 70.

Acting as a director

August Everding began his career as an acting director . It was shaped by the collaboration with Hans Schweikart and Fritz Kortner . He later worked on an international level, primarily in the field of opera . He staged

In the staging of The Magic Flute (1983) at the State Opera Unter den Linden - in ongoing theater operations in Berlin since 1994 - Everding built on the sets by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816).

The Bavarian Theater Days (BTT) were founded in 1983 by him and Ernst Seiltgen .

Other offices (selection)

Publications

  • Ten years of John Neumeier and the Hamburg Ballet 1973–1983 , with Christoph Albrecht, John Percival, Holger Badekow. Christians, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-7672-0809-1 .
  • Theater heute , Knoth, Melle 1985, ISBN 3-88368-106-7 .
  • I had the honour. Talking to, talking to, talking to , Piper, Munich / Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-492-02512-9 .
  • Munich. City in Light , with Christiane Marek, Christoph Seeberger, Patricia Goehl, Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7991-6399-9 .
  • August Everding. The whole world is a stage , published by Klaus Jürgen Seidel, Piper, Munich / Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-492-03285-0 .
  • Bottrop , photos by Károly Szelényi. Eulen, Freiburg im Breisgau 1990, ISBN 3-89102-224-7 .
  • When the last curtain falls for Romeo, theater, opera, music - critical remarks on the current cultural scene , Piper, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11560-8 .
  • Masses, power and media. Lectures in the winter semester 1996/1997 , published by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , HVA, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-7099-2 .
  • The Beatitudes. Paths to a more human world , photos by Daniel Biskup, edited by Jürgen Haase and Bernhard Wiedemann, Pattloch, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-629-00119-X .
  • The man of 1000 operas. Conversations and pictures . with Alexander Kluge , Rotbuch, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-434-53018-5 .
  • To the point, if you like , speeches, lectures and columns, foreword by Peter Wapnewski . Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-14145-8

literature

  • Theater has to be: August Everding in conversation with Jürgen Seeger , audio CD, TR-Verlagsunion, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8058-3393-8 .
  • Marianne Reissinger: August Everding , biography, Langen Müller, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7844-2745-6 .
  • Da capo, August Everding's questionnaire, international opera stars in conversation , ed. by Engelbert Sauter, Parthas, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932529-10-3 .
  • 100 Years of the Prinzregententheater , Festschrift , Knürr, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-928432-30-3 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 6th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 7). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 2000, ISBN 3-89498-097-4 , p. 27.
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xnYA4-7iM
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEAXlUXG7k
  4. ↑ His house is his castle. The head of the State Archaeological Collection, Professor Dr. Ludwig Wamser, lives in Grünwalder Schloss , Hallo Munich, July 18, 2008
  5. ^ Died August Everding , Der Spiegel 5/1999 of February 1, 1999
  6. ↑ Program of the 30th Bavarian Theater Days 2012, page 13
personal data
SURNAME Everding, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, manager, cultural politician and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1999
Place of death Munich