Berndt Renne

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Berndt Renne (born December 4, 1943 ) is a German actor , director and artistic director .

Life

Berndt Renne was born in Silesia in 1943 and grew up in Rostock , where he learned to be a shipbuilder after graduating from school .

After several feature films for DEFA and GDR television , as well as an engagement at the theater in Magdeburg as an actor, he began working as a director at the Volksbühne Berlin in 1972. Here he directed until 1982, but could as early as 1981 with a DDR -Duration visa in the Federal Republic of Germany to work, where he attended theaters in Wuppertal and Stuttgart staged. After he was threatened with a three-year ban on production in the GDR, he left it in 1985 and moved to Munich. Now he worked among others on the stages in Nuremberg and Hanover . After his successful involvement in Tübingen , he was as general intendant of the People's Theater in Rostock appointed. During this time he premiered the fairy tale play The Drummer, which he wrote . Because of disputes with the city of Rostock, he was dismissed without notice in 1993, against which the drama ensemble protested sharply. So that he could finish his last directorial work (Danton's death) at this theater, the ban on him was suspended until midnight after the premiere.

After his release, Berndt Renne continued to work as a director and actor and gave readings. In 2003 he directed the Burgtheater in Vienna. From 2010 to 2016 he headed the unsubsidized Theater an der Landstrasse in Heidenheim an der Brenz .

Berndt Renne was married to the actress Petra Barthel and has their son Max with her.

Filmography

theatre

Director

actor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Neue Zeit of September 21, 1991, p. 13
  2. Neue Zeit of December 5, 1992, p. 12
  3. Berliner Zeitung of February 15, 1993, p. 28
  4. Berndt Renne at the Theater an der Landstrasse in Heidenheim an der Brenz
  5. Petra Barthel in Die Zeit No. 40/1979