Bettina Schältke

Bettina Schältke (born February 6, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German dramaturge and theater scholar .

Life

After studying theater studies, German and Romance languages (Italian) at the Free University of Berlin , she did her doctorate on German-language theater during the Nazi era . Since 1991 she has worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Staatstheater Hannover , the Volksbühne Berlin am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz , the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel (1994–1999), the Theater Bremen and from 2001 to 2010 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Since then she has overseen over fifty productions, mainly by Dimiter Gotscheff and Jürgen Gosch at the Deutsches Theater . In 2011 she was engaged at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . Since 2013 she has been the artistic director and manager of the Rottweil room theater . She also took on teaching positions (at the Free University of Berlin, the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich , the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig ), was a member of the jury for the Munich Literature Prize , and was a mentor of the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen and, together with Peter Staatsmann, published the book “Das Schweigen des Theater - Der Regisseur Dimiter Gotscheff” in 2008 (as a workbook for a future theater).

Dramaturgy (selection)

• 1998, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich: Tankred Dorst “ Closed because of wealth ” (premiere), director: Alexander Lang
• 1998, Bavarian State Theater in Munich, Tennessee Williams “The Tattooed Rose”, director: Hans Neuenfels
• 2002, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Andreas Dresen “Witness stand. Urban guerrilla monologues ”(WP), director: Andreas Dresen
• 2004, Deutsches Theater Berlin: Heiner Müller “Germania. Pieces ”, (together with Peter Staatsmann), director: Dimiter Gotscheff
• 2007, Deutsches Theater Berlin: Samuel Beckett “Endspiel”, director: Jan Bosse
• 2009, Deutsches Theater Berlin: Roland Schimmelpfennig “Idomeneus”, director: Jürgen Gosch
• 2010, Staatsschauspiel Dresden: Stein, Bock, Harnick "Anatevka", director: Heidelinde Leutgoeb (coproduction with the Dresden Music Festival)
• 2013, Zimmertheater Rottweil: Goethe “Faust 1”, director: Peter Statesmann

Works

• Art or propaganda? The municipal theaters of Frankfurt am Main 1933 to 1945. Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0464-8
• The vagina monologues . by Eve Ensler , from the American by Peter Statesmann and Bettina Schältke, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 0-375-75052-5
• The silence of the theater - the director Dimiter Gotscheff. (with Peter Staatsmann), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940384-10-2

Awards

In 1989 Bettina Schältke received the Johann Philipp von Bethmann Study Prize from the Frankfurt Historical Commission .