Benjamin Korn

Benjamin Korn (* 1946 in Lublin ) is a German theater director and essayist .

Life

Korn, the son of devout Polish Jews, studied sociology in Frankfurt am Main at the Institute for Social Research . In 1975 he became assistant director to Michael Gruner in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden . From 1976 he was self-employed as a director in Wiesbaden and in 1978 he had success with a Stella production.

Jürgen Bosse then brought him to Mannheim , where he directed Clavigo in 1979 . In 1980 his staging of Maria Magdalena in Wiesbaden attracted attention. In 1980/81 Peter Striebeck signed him to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . There he staged Purgatory in Ingolstadt (1980), Nathan der Weise (1981) and Leonce and Lena (1982).

This was followed by Der Streit at the Kölner Schauspielhaus (1983), Woyzeck at the Münchner Kammerspiele (1984), Miss Julie at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (1985), Dom Juan (1985) ibid, Tartuffe at the Bavarian State Theater (1987), Faith, Love, Hope ( 1988) at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and you by Jean Genet (1991, German premiere) there. Further work took him to the Zurich Schauspielhaus and to Paris , where he has lived since 1982. In 1999 he succeeded Holger Berg as acting director of the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg .

In 1998 he received the Clemens Brentano Prize of the City of Heidelberg for his essay publication Art, Power and Morals . Numerous essays appeared in German daily newspapers, including during the time in which he dealt with the memory of the time of fascism, the theater scandal as a political issue, but also current political movements in France.

His older brother Salomon Korn is chairman of the Jewish community in Frankfurt / Main and vice-chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany .

Publications

Art, power and morality . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-39352-9 (essays).
Epilogue in: Kuznetsov, Anatolij: Babij Jar. The gorge of suffering. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-88221-295-2 .
Post in: I stayed - why? Jews in Germany - today. Edited by Katja Behrens 1st edition. Bleicher-Verlag, Gerlingen 2002, ISBN 3-88350-055-0 .

Selected essays on the net

Man, the machine of oblivion. In: Die Zeit , No. 47 of November 15, 1996, p. 47 f.
Down with the President! In: Tagesspiegel of March 8, 2008.

Web links

Literature by and about Benjamin Korn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Benjamin Korn. In: staatsoper-berlin.de. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
↑ Hellmuth Karasek: The dreary oases of youth. In: Der Spiegel. April 19, 1982, accessed May 25, 2020 .
↑ Matthias Schubert: Finding out the truth. A conversation with the writer and director Benjamin Korn. In: heidelberg.de. City of Heidelberg, March 7, 1998, accessed on May 25, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Korn, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater director and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH	1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lublin

[1] Benjamin Korn. In: staatsoper-berlin.de. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .

[2] Hellmuth Karasek: The dreary oases of youth. In: Der Spiegel. April 19, 1982, accessed May 25, 2020 .

[3] Matthias Schubert: Finding out the truth. A conversation with the writer and director Benjamin Korn. In: heidelberg.de. City of Heidelberg, March 7, 1998, accessed on May 25, 2020 .