Bernd Seidel (director)

Bernd Seidel (director)

Bernd Seidel (born December 30, 1953 in Hildesheim ) is a German theater director .

Life

Bernd Seidel graduated in 1981 with a degree in sociology , German literature and visual communication at the Technical University of Hanover with the title Magister Artium . During his studies he was director of the Hanover theater workshop. He played experimental theater with the artists Jacques Gassmann , Andreas Sportelli and Detlev Gerlach and took acting and dance lessons. After completing my studies, I spent a year abroad in Africa . During this time he got to know various rituals of African tribal dances and the magic of the black continent. Further trips took him to India , Sri Lanka , South and East Africa. As a result, he acquired his own, unmistakable style in theatrical work. This was followed by a two-year stay in Berlin with the "Aquapa" group, with whom he incorporated his African experiences into so-called "emotional risks". From 1983 to 1985 he directed the summer academy in southern Italy ( Lecce ).

From 1985 to 1987 he headed the theater workshop in Berlin , which particularly dealt with socially critical plays. After that, through the friendship with Marianne Sägebrecht , I moved to Munich . In addition to lecturing at the Institute for Theater Studies, he mainly devoted himself to dance and theater. It emerged multimedia pieces such as "Emotional Risk 3" and "Transition" (dance performance ).

In 1993/1994 Bernd Seidel took over the co-direction of the Weilheimer Theatersommer with actors like Hilde Krahl , Ellen Umlauf , Cordula Trantow , Christine Kaufmann , Marianne Sägebrecht and Senta Berger . From 1990 he took over the overall management of the Wolf-Ferrari-Haus cultural center in Ottobrunn near Munich and has been an independent artistic consultant ever since. To further develop his style, he founded the TAT Creative Academy in 2001.

Bernd Seidel has been married to the actor Patrick Gabriel since 2007 . In January 2013 they emigrated from Kleinhöhenrain (Upper Bavaria) to Mijas Pueblo (Andalusia).

Projects

• since 1989: Ottobrunner Kultursommerfest
• since 2000: Amici Artium, young talent competition for comedians & cabaret artists (winners: Martina Schwarzmann and Marcus H. Rosenmüller, among others )
• since 2001: TAT Creative Academy, Munich
• since 2009: Frei-Schau-Spiel-Festival

Productions

Plays

• Gray Zone - Tickets to Nowhere by Harald Wieczorek - World Premiere (2018)
• The goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee (2017)
• Too late! Too late! Too late! by Lothar Kittstein - in cooperation with theater guest performances Kempf (2016/2017)
• Two Best Friends (A Steady Rain) by Keith Huff - in collaboration with theater guest performances Kempf (2015/2016)
• Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist - in cooperation with theater guest performances Kempf (2014/2015)
• The Pelican by August Strindberg - in collaboration with theater guest performances Kempf (2013)
• The Chinese Nightingale '' by Theo Loevendie and The Story of the Soldier '' by Igor Fjodorowitsch Stravinsky based on a story by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew (2012) - in collaboration with ACWP Artistic Consulting Wolfgang Poser
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (2010/2011)
• The misanthropist of Molière (2009/2010)
• Keep quiet, boy! by Fitzgerald Kusz
• Not fish, not meat by Franz Xaver Kroetz
• Hinkemann by Ernst Toller
• The Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Yerma by Federico García Lorca
• The misconception of Albert Camus
• The King dies of Eugène Ionesco
• Big and small by Botho Strauss
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Musicals

• From the spirit of Christmas (in the ICM - International Congress Center Munich )
• The man from La Mancha
• The Grattler opera
• The Little Shop of Horrors
• The Struwwelpeter for adults

Own pieces

• Love Dances With You (2011)
• Twilight of the idols after Friedrich Nietzsche
• Road of Longing
• The seven soups
• Opera revue

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marc Oliver Scheib: The mill on the rushing sea. In: Münchner Merkur, Edition Landkreis Süd, February 26, 2013, p. 29. In 2013 the cooperation with the theater guest performances Kempf began. In his staging, u. a. Bernhard Bettermann, Dennenesch Zoudé, Patrick Wolff with.