Beat Fäh

Beat Fäh (born April 3, 1952 in Zurich ) is a Swiss director, actor and author.

Fäh studied from 1974 to 1977 at the Zurich Acting Academy . After engagements as an actor in Marburg, at the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich and at the Stadttheater Bern , he worked as a freelance director a. a. at the Munich Schauburg , Esslingen, Nuremberg, Basel, Ulm, Bonn and Stuttgart. From 1992 to 1994 he was the chief director of the Freiburg Municipal Theaters . Then he continued his activity as a freelance director a. a. continued in Bonn, Freiburg, Mainz, Basel, Zurich, Potsdam and Munich. He teaches at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, the Folkwang University in Essen and the Zurich University of the Arts .

In 1982 he made his debut as a director with the children's play Max at the Stadttheater Bern, where he staged a children's play every year until 1987. In 1984 he brought out Max at the Munich Schauburg; From 1988 he worked several times at the Spilkischte Theater in Basel.

In 1991 he directed the performance of Chris Weinheimer's opera Othello at the Stadttheater Ulm , and in 1996 the performance of Violetta Dinescu's opera Erendira at the Stuttgart State Theater . During his time in Freiburg he brought the Urfaust , Amphitryon , Cymbeline and Raub der Sabinerinnen on stage.

Since 1995 Fäh has been working with the jazz group Post no Bills (Chris Weinheimer, Ole Schmidt , Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Sebastian Gramss ). They realized in 1995 at Bonn Theater a performance of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale , 1996, the Music Performance Blue Zone and 1997 at the Mainz State Theater As You Like It by Shakespeare in collaboration with the choreographer Vivienne Newport .

In 1999 he worked for the first time with John von Düffel in the play Rinderwahnsinn (music by Carl Ludwig Hübsch) at the Bonn Theater. In 2003 he directed the world premiere of Düffel's play Kur-Guerilla at the Wiesbaden State Theater . As additional pieces with music by Hübsch he staged Othello Therapy (2001, with von Düffel), Drei Mal Leben (2002, with Monika Kroll ), Antilopen (2002), One Minute (2004) and God of Carnage (2007 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden ) . In 2010 he was entrusted with the direction of the 2013 World Theater in Einsiedeln.

literature

• Fritz Franz Vogel: Beat Fäh . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 553.

Web links

• Homepage of Beat Fäh