Bernd Wilms

Bernd Wilms (born November 1, 1940 in Solingen ) is a former theater director.

biography

After high school studied Wilms Protestant theology in Wuppertal and Tübingen , then switched to the departments of theater studies , philosophy and German studies of the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in February 1969 at the Free University of Berlin Dr. phil. with the dissertation “Der Schwank. German Trivial Theater 1880–1930 ”. Wilms has been married to Brigitte Wilms since 1965. They have a daughter and a son.

From 1968 to 1972 Wilms worked as a dramaturge at the Wuppertaler Bühnen with general director Arno Wüstenhöfer and then worked as a dramaturge and press officer at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg (director Ivan Nagel ) until 1979 . 1980/1981 he acted as managing director of the festival "Theater der Welt 81" in Cologne . In 1981/1982 he was dramaturge and personal assistant to General Manager Wüstenhöfer at the Bremen Theater . From 1983 to 1986 Wilms worked as a dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1986 to 1991 he was director of the Otto-Falckenberg drama school , which is affiliated with the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1991 to 1994 Wilms took over the management of the Ulm Theater with opera , drama and dance .

From 1994 to 2001 he was artistic director of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater and from 2001 to summer 2008 of the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He worked with the directors Michael Thalheimer (head director), Jürgen Gosch , Dimiter Gotscheff and Barbara Frey , among others . In 2008 the Deutsches Theater was named “Theater of the Year” after a critical vote. From April 2008 to March 2010 Wilms was curator of the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin .

Wilms published among other things: The Magician of Oos (after L. Frank Baum, m. Maria Reinhard) and The Princess of Oos (after Baum). Wilms translated the Offenbach operettas Périchole , Das Pariser Leben and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein , as well as the novel Peter Pan by James M. Barrie . He worked as a journalist a. a. for SPIEGEL , Die ZEIT and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Bernd Wilms , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2007 of June 9, 2007, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)