Bernhard Stengele

Bernhard Stengele (born April 23, 1963 in Wangen im Allgäu ) is a German actor , reciter , director and theater director.

Life

Stengele completed his acting training at the Ecole Monika Pagneux et Philipp Gaullier in Paris. After guest engagements at the Teatro itinerante del sol (Düsseldorf / Bogotá ), the Skoronel dance theater (Berlin), the Hanover theater workshop and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Konstanz City Theater in 1992 . In 1996 he moved to the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken, where he also did his first directorial work. In 2001 director Dagmar Schlingmann brought him back to the Stadttheater Konstanz as an actor and director. It was here that Stengele premiered his first two poetry programs You have duck feet and Behind a thousand bars with great success, with which he still appears regularly today.

From 2004 to 2012 he was acting director at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg . From 2012 to 2017 he worked in the same position at the Thuringian Theater & Philharmonic in Altenburg and Gera.

Bernhard Stengele has worked on co-productions with theaters in Burkina Faso , Greece , Turkey and Israel , including Die Frauen von Troja (2014), a theater production funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation ; Les Zéros-Morts - Die Schutzlosen (2014 and 2015) and Cohn Bucky Levy The Loss (2017) - also funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future .

In 2007 he founded the THEN quartet together with Kai Christian Moritz, Ulrich Pakusch and Philipp Reinheimer.

In 2017 he took over the management of the Überlingen summer theater .

He then worked as a chief consultant at a medium-sized company.

In the Thuringian state elections in 2019 , he ran as a direct candidate for constituency 44 for Bündis90 / The Greens .

On January 25, 2020, he was elected spokesman for the regional association Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Thuringia at a state delegates conference together with Ann-Sophie Bohm-Eisenbrandt .

Productions (acting)

• 2000: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken (Theater St. Arnual)
• 2000: Small doubts from Theresia Walser at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken (Theater St. Arnual)
• 2002: Mr. Kolpert by David Gieselmann at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken (Theater St. Arnual)
• 2002: What the butler saw from Joe Orton at the Stadttheater Konstanz (large house)
• 2003: Hamlet by William Shakespeare at the Stadttheater Konstanz (Large House)
• 2003: Cyrano by Joe Roets at the Stadttheater Konstanz (Spiegelhalle)
• 2004: India by Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer at the Stadttheater Konstanz (large house)
• 2004: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare at the Stadttheater Konstanz (Summer Theater Überlingen)
• 2004: Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2004: Final game by Samuel Beckett at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Kammerspiele)
• 2005: The giant thing by Pringewitz by Thilo Reffert at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken (Theater St. Arnual)
• 2005: Triumph of Love by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2006: 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Kammerspiele)
• 2006: Nora or a doll house by Henrik Ibsen at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Kammerspiele)
• 2006: The Magic Drum by Johnny Lamprecht and Bernhard Stengele at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2007: The Servant of Two Lords by Carlo Goldoni at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2007: Danton's death of Georg Büchner at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (large house)
• 2007: The Magic Drum by Johnny Lamprecht and Bernhard Stengele at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken
• 2008: Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Kammerspiele)
• 2011: Les Funérailles du Désert - The City of the Lonely by Lilith Jordan, Paul Zoungrana and Bernhard Stengele - Premiere at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2012: Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horvath at the Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
• 2012: Die im Dunkeln by Bernhard Stengele and Mona Becker - Premiere at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic
• 2012: Dario Fo does not pay to Thuringia Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra
• 2013: Ayana Rabenschwester by Bernhard Stengele and Mona Becker - premier at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic
• 2013: When night falls in Meuselwitz - recital by Bernhard Stenegele - premiere at Thuringia Theater and Philharmonic
• 2014: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare on Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
• 2014: The women of Troy after Euripides at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic
• 2014 and 2015: Les Zéros-Morts - The Defenseless by Paul Zoungrana and Bernhard Stengele - Premiere at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic
• 2014: Death of a traveling salesman from Arthur Miller at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra
• 2015: Barbarossa ausKYFFt by Manuel Kressin and Olav Kröger - premier at Thuringia Theater and Philharmonic
• 2016: The double-edged sword by Bernhard Stengele and Petra Paschinger - Premiere at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic
• 2016: This is how everyone from Manuel Kressin and Olav Kröger does it - premiere at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra
• 2016: Two men completely naked by Sébastien Thiéry - DE at Thuringia Theater and Philharmonic
• 2017: The Hauptmann von Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer at Thuringia Theater and Philharmonic
• 2017: Cohn Bucky Levy - The Loss of Mona Becker. Gaby Aldor, Mahmoud Abo Arisheh and Ensemble - premier at Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
• 2017: Ella from Herbert Achternbusch Summer Theater Überlingen

Productions (opera, operetta, musical)

• 2001: Struwwelpeter by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott at the Stadttheater Konstanz (Large House)
• 2002: Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham at the Stadttheater Konstanz (Summer Theater Meersburg)
• 2005: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2006: Singles, a POPerette by Tobias Bücklein and Bernhard Stengele at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2007: Jekyll & Hyde (musical) by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse at the Saarland State Theater (large house)
• 2008: Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House) as part of the Mozart Festival Würzburg 2008
• 2010: The Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Large House)
• 2018: Carl Zeller's bird dealer at the Thuringian Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra.

Actor (excerpts)

• 1995: Yvan in Art by Yasmina Reza (Direction: Stefan Karthaus)
• 1996: Pegleg in The Black Rider by Robert Wilson (Director: Nada Kokotović )
• 1996: Baal in Baal by Bertolt Brecht (Direction: Dagmar Schlingmann)
• 1998: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• 2004: Instetten in Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Director: Reinhard Göber)
• 2005: King Oedipus in Oedipus, tyrant of Sophocles (Director: Stephan Suschke )
• 2012: Hermann in Die Hermannsschlacht by Heinrich von Kleist
• 2015: Kruso in Kruso by Lutz Seiler (Director: Caro Thum)

Ballads, lyrics, poetry and recitation

• 2003 - today: Lyric programs with Paul Amrod

• 2004 - today: You have duck feet - German ballads

• 2004 - today: Behind a thousand bars - German poetry

• 2006: The intermediate piece with the fig leaf - German poetry by Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht

• 2008 - today: Germany. A winter fairy tale - German poetry by Heinrich Heine (Production: THEN-Quartet)

• 2013: A European-African homage to Albert Schweizer with organ, drums and actors from both continents

• 2017: When night falls in Überlingen (Production: THEN-Quartet for Summer Theater Überlingen)

• 2017 - today: Quand on n'a que l'amour - if we only have love left - poetry and politics

• 2019: "Vom Gute Ton" - Music, Monets and Manners - Beethoven and his landlords - Beethoven with us, Berlin

• 2019: Run to the Manger (Production: Konstanzer Kammerchor)

Prizes and awards

• 1999: Acting award from the sponsors at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken for the interpretation of Macbeth.
• 2007: Language Keeper Prize of Regional Group 97 of the German Language Association.
• 2010: Prize for the best overall artistic performance (Bayerische Theatertage)
• 2011: One-time special award for courageous theater (Bayerische Theatertage)
• 2013: Innovation Award (Theater-Oskar TPT)
• 2014: Best Director for Die im Dunkeln (Theater-Oskar TPT)
• 2014: Theater of the year in Thuringia (Thüringer Landeszeitung)
• 2015: Director of the Year (Thüringer Landeszeitung)
• 2017: Medal of Honor for Special Merits (Altenburger Land district)
• 2017: Federal Theater Prize for Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia

Audio

• Nuances. Music and questions about the person , in conversation with Marietta Schwarz, Deutschlandfunk December 29, 2019, audio version without music 69.47 minutes

Web links

• Homepage of Bernhard Stengele
• Bernhard Stengele's blog
• Homepage of the THEN Quartet
• Short biography on the website of Theater Würzburg
• Short biography on the pages of the Bavarian Theater Days
• Biography on the website of Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia
• Reason given by the jury for awarding the Federal Theater Prize 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Stengele . Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia. Retrieved November 28, 2018
2. ↑ Rationale of the jury. June 12, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .