Axel Manthey

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Axel Manthey (born April 10, 1945 in Güntersberge ; † October 29, 1995 in Tübingen ) was a German set designer , costume designer and director .

Life

Axel Manthey grew up in Halle (Saale) and moved with his mother to West Berlin shortly before the Wall was built in 1961 ; his father had died in World War II. After graduating from high school, he studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts . After graduating, he became assistant to the set designer Thomas Richter-Forgách in Kassel , and from 1970 he was employed as a set designer at the Tübingen State Theater. He made his debut as a responsible set designer here on September 28, 1970 at a premiere of Tartuffe . From 1972 to 1981 Manthey was employed at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . During this time he worked particularly with director Alfred Kirchner . Afterwards he worked as a freelance set designer.

The collaboration with the director Jürgen Gosch , beginning with his production of Hamlet in Bremen (1981), shaped Manthey's purist, pointed style. At that time Manthey introduced the red curtain as a magical symbol for the autonomous world of the theater. After Manthey switched to directing, he always designed sets and costumes himself for his productions. In addition to opera and drama, Manthey also devoted himself to ballet, working a lot with the choreographer William Forsythe .

From October 1985, Axel Manthey was a visiting professor, and from 1987 a full professor with the management of the master class for stage and film design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

Manthey died in 1995 of complications from AIDS. His artistic estate was donated to the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1997 by his heirs, his long-term partners Christoph Müller and Alexander Lintl .

Works

Stage design (selection)

Director

Further

literature

  • Barbara Kaesbohrer: The speaking rooms: aesthetic understanding of postmodern stage sets; an art-pedagogical consideration. Utz, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0956-7 .
  • Ulrich Ruhnke: Before that is right in the middle: a contribution to the work of Axel Manthey. University, dissertation, Cologne 2006.
  • Inge Zeppenfeld: Anti-illusionistic leeway: the aesthetic concepts of surrealism, symbolism and abstract art as reflected in the theater work of Achim Freyers and Axel Mantheys. Niehmayer, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-484-66027-9 .
  • Carsten Ahrens, Gerhard Ahrens and Alexander Lintl (eds.): Axel Manthey, Theater. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0777-4 .
  • Wolfgang Beck: Manthey, Axel . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 466 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Weird World. In: The time. (February 24, 1989) No. 09.
personal data
SURNAME Manthey, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, costume designer and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Güntersberge
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1995
Place of death Tübingen