Bernd Koellinger

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Bernd Köllinger (born September 11, 1944 in Saalfeld , Thuringia ; † November 2, 2011 in Karád , Somogy County , Hungary ) was a German theater scholar , librettist , ballet director and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Köllinger studied in Leipzig at the technical school for dance, at the Karl Marx University cultural studies and at the theater school "Hans Otto" theater studies . He completed his research studies in 1972 with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil.

After working as a research assistant for stage dance at the Association of Theater Professionals in the GDR, he was appointed ballet director at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1973 by Walter Felsenstein . Here he worked together with Tom Schilling artistically and organisationally at the "Tanztheater der Komische Oper" until 1991 . His full-length ballet works (based on libretti by Bernd Köllinger) were particularly successful nationally and internationally.

Services

In addition to many publications on dance theater in the magazine "Theater der Zeit" between 1976 and 1989, teaching as an honorary lecturer for dance aesthetics and ballet dramaturgy at the Leipzig Theater Academy , as well as lectures and workshops in various European countries, he created a variety of ballet and dance libretti. These included contemporary composers such as Georg Katzer , Siegfried Matthus , Gerd Natschinski , Mikis Theodorakis and Ruth Zechlin as well as classics such as Tchaikovsky , Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johann Strauss , Mozart , Saint-Saëns , Beethoven , Vivaldi , Schumann and Schubert .

Productions abroad were also created based on Köllinger's templates. He promoted young talent and gave them a stage. After leaving the Komische Oper, he worked for a few years at the German Dance Company in Neustrelitz from 1992 .

From 2002 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the “Brandenburger Wochenblatt” in Brandenburg an der Havel . On October 5, 2007, his play "Der große Schwoof" (music / composer: Klaus Wüsthoff) premiered at the Brandenburg Theater . He worked on several book projects until the end of his life. This is how one of his unfinished manuscripts treated the life of Mehmed Ali Pasha . It had the working title Der Muschir , the Turkish word for marshal .

In his retirement in 2007 he moved to Hungary . He died there in 2011 after a serious illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • The dance as a process - the process in dance. Historical-materialistic investigations on the aesthetic specifics of the art of dance, especially stage dance, with special consideration of the reflection aspect. Karl Marx University Leipzig - unpublished. Dissertation, 1972
  • The dance. 10 attempts . Henschelverlag Art and Society , Berlin 1975.
  • On the dramaturgy of "Swan Lake". Lectures and contributions . Association of Theater Professionals of the GDR , (Berlin) 1977
  • Black birds . Libretto for the ballet in ten pictures, a prologue and an epilogue by Georg Katzer . Leipzig u. Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Dance theater. Tom Schilling and contemporary choreography. 7 studies . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1983.
  • Hoffmann's stories, fantastic ballet based on Jacques Offenbach . Libretto after J. Barbier and ETA Hoffmann . (Berlin) 1986
  • The elective affinities ,
  • A new Midsummer Night's Dream ,

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personal data
SURNAME Koellinger, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar, librettist, ballet director and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfeld , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2011
Place of death Karád , Somogy County , Hungary