Brigitte Soubeyran

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Brigitte Soubeyran , b. Worringen, later Grashof-Soubeyran (* 1932 in Cologne ; † January 16, 2015 in Klausthal ) was a German actress and director .

Life

Brigitte Worringen was a trained seamstress. She joined Jean Soubeyran's pantomime ensemble at the beginning of the 1950s , whom she then married and with whom she had a child. 1955 followed a longer tour of the Federal Republic and the GDR. Here she and her husband were invited by Bertolt Brecht to the Berliner Ensemble and worked there until the 1960s as a pantomime teacher, choreographer and movement director.

In 1959 Brigitte Soubeyran moved completely to the GDR, out of political conviction and because, in her opinion, there was a better theater there. She became a close associate of director Benno Besson at the Deutsches Theater . She worked as an actress and choreographer in legendary productions such as Der Frieden (1962) by Peter Hacks (based on Aristophanes ). As Besson's assistant, the trained dancer and pantomime was also responsible for acting training, should also “teach the actors' bodies to speak”. During this time she lived with Wolf Biermann , who studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from whom she had a child. Together they founded the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater (bat), which was closed again in 1963 for political reasons. Later it became the studio of the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , where Brigitte Soubeyran worked for decades as a lecturer and was appointed professor.

With Besson, she moved to the Berliner Volksbühne in 1969 , where she began to direct herself from 1971, which was still unusual for a woman at the time. After leaving the Volksbühne in 1978, she devoted herself more and more to writing alongside actor Christian Grashof , alongside productions as a freelance director in Budapest, Tübingen, Cologne, Spoleto and Chemnitz.

On January 16, 2015, she died in Klausthal, Uckermark, where she had lived in a rural commune since 1999. Brigitte Soubeyran is the mother of Manuel Soubeyrand , the artistic director of the Neue Bühnen Senftenberg , and of Jonas Soubeyrand , the director of the Klausthaler Puppenbühne .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1959: "White blood"

Theater: Actress

Theater: director

Radio plays

literature

  • Wolf Biermann : Don't wait for better times. The autobiography. Berlin 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Hochschule für Schauspielkunst - BAT
  2. ↑ Cf. Akademie der Künste - A man's job in a woman's hands 2011
  3. ↑ See Inselgalerie 6th hacking talk 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inselgalerie-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 20, 2015, p. 21
  5. ↑ See obituary for Brigitte Soubeyran in Niederlausitz currently on January 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ See the director Brigitte Soubeyran is dead. In: nachtkritik.de , January 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ See Defa-Sternstunden - Weißes Blut ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Soubeyran, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grashof-Soubeyran, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2015
Place of death Klausthal