Bruno Klimek

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Bruno Klimek (* 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German theater and opera director, set designer, writer, visual artist and university lecturer.

Life

Klimek grew up in Tübingen and Rottenburg am Neckar . He made his way to the theater in a Catholic kindergarten when he played his first leading role at the age of seven. His passion for the theater should stem from the fact that his parents met at an amateur drama group in Tübingen. In 1977 he graduated from the Uhland-Gymnasium in Tübingen and received the Scheffel Prize .

From 1976 to 1979, during his school days and parallel to his Abitur, he worked at the Zimmertheater Tübingen (artistic director: Helfrid Foron ) as a stage technician, lighting technician, sound engineer, carpenter, cashier, property manager , stage manager , assistant director, etc., so he learned the theatrical craft " from the bottom up ”. He then worked as an assistant director in Munich and at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (as a collaborator in the world premiere of Ulrike Meinhof's play Bambule under the less provocative title of welfare pupils ).

In 1980 he wrote and published his first radio play September Stories , which was broadcast as a production by BR under the direction of Bernd Lau . The speakers were Ulrike Bliefert and Siemen Rühaak .

From 1980 to 1985 he was employed as an assistant director and director at the theater in Nuremberg . In cooperation with very different directors such as Jerzy Jarocki , Hans Peter Cloos , Raymund Richter u. a., but especially in the work with his acting director Hansjörg Utzerath , he learned the profession of theater director. In 1982 his first own production premiered: Stephen Poliakoff's Strawberry Fields . Further productions followed u. a .: Franz Xaver Kroetz Not fish, not meat , Botho Strauss Kalldewey.Farce . He worked as a guest director in Munich and Münster.

In 1985 he edited Oscar Wilde's novel Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray for the stage and staged the world premiere at the Studiotheater Munich .

In 1985 he went to the United City Theaters of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach as director (director Eike Gramss ), where he stayed until 1988. His most important productions during this time were - in addition to plays by Bernhard , Hauptmann , Brecht and Molière -: Heinar Kipphardt's brother Eichmann , Weiss ' Marat / Sade and Hans Magnus Enzensberger's The Downfall of the Titanic . With the dramaturge Wolfgang Trevisany he created a transcription of Molière's conceited patient . He was invited to guest productions at the Landestheater Tübingen and the Nationaltheater Mannheim .

In 1988 he directed his radio play Totenwache , a production by Hessischer Rundfunk . The play was a reaction to the Chernobyl reactor accident in 1986. Ulrike Bliefert and Jörg Hube acted as speakers .

From 1988 to 1992, the Mannheim theater director Nicolas Brieger brought him to the National Theater Mannheim as senior director . The result was the productions of Tabori's Mein Kampf , Lenz 's Der Hofmeister (original version), Büchner's Woyzeck , Bernard-Marie Koltès ' Battle of the Negro and the Dogs , and Fleißer's Purgatory in Ingolstadt , which received national attention above all . Together with the German-Romanian poet Johann Lippet , who comes from the Banat , he worked on a translation for his production of Molière's Tartuffe .

From 1992 to 1996 he staged as a freelance theater and opera director at the Schauspiel Köln ( Wedekind Musik ), at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ( Peter Turrini Alpenglow , world premiere by Joshua Sobol Schöner Toni and others) and at the Schillertheater (Berlin) . He made his debut as an opera director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt with Smetana's The Bartered Bride . In addition to a production for drama ( Lorca Dona Rosita remains single ), he brought out another opera production there ( Mozart Così fan tutte ).

From 1996 to 2000 he was acting director of the drama division at the Mannheim National Theater . His most conspicuous productions during this period were - in addition to plays by Schiller , Shakespeare , Chekhov and others. a. - Thomas Bernhards Am Ziel , Kleist's Amphitryon and the world premiere of Albert Ostermaier's Tatar Titus . For an interdisciplinary project at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, he tried his first work for dance theater and developed the choreography for one of the Ten Commandments (ballet director Philippe Talard). He translated and edited Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya for his productions . In Hamburg ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus ) he brought out the world premiere of Werner Fritsch's Pollock paints Hitler .

Members of his Mannheim ensemble were u. a. Nina Kunzendorf , Stephanie Eidt , Matthias Brandt , Jörg Hartmann , Peter Knaack and Matthias Neukirch . As directors who shaped his "era", he hired a. a. Johann Kresnik , Barbara Bilabel , Barbara Frey . He took up the tradition of the “theater poet” - after all, Friedrich Schiller was the first of all “Mannheim theater poets” - and revived the function. Albert Ostermaier , Simone Schneider , Werner Fritsch and Feridun Zaimoglu occupied the position, which included a scholarship and free apartment and was not associated with any writing obligation . Numerous world premieres and performances by these writers, but also by other contemporary playwrights, were a distinctive feature of his theater management.

Preferred stage and costume designers are and were - in addition to Thomas Armster , Hermann Feuchter , Tanja Liebermann and Uta Winkelsen - u. a. Manfred Dittrich , Mark Gläser , Uta Loher and Martin Zehetgruber .

Since 2000 Klimek has been working as a freelance opera and drama director and also as his own set designer. He also regularly writes short radio plays for the radio play series Das Schreckmümpfeli on Swiss radio.

Drama productions have since emerged a. a. at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (world premiere Heiko Buhr Ausstand ), at the Schauspiel Bonn (Schnitzler Das weite Land ), at the Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach (Euripides Die Troerinnen ) and at the Schauspiel Essen.

There were opera productions. a. in Aachen (Weill Street Scene ), in Bielefeld (Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande , Offenbach Die Schöne Helena / La belle Hélène ), at the Dortmund Opera House (Mozart Die Zauberflöte ), at the Aaltotheater in Essen (Johann Strauss One Night in Venice ), in Gießen (Traetta Antigona , Puccini Madama Butterfly , Nino Rota Il cappello di paglia di Firenze , Bizet Carmen ), at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern (Verdi Attila ), in Koblenz (Webber Jesus Christ Superstar ), at the theater in Krefeld / Mönchengladbach (Verdi Aida ), for the Regionale 2004 in the Bagno near Steinfurt (Berg Wozzeck , world premiere of the version for chamber orchestra and solos by Eberhard Kloke ), at the State Theater Nuremberg (Shostakovich Lady Macbeth von Mzensk , Janáček Jenůfa , Verdi La forza del destino , Gluck Alceste (Viennese version)) , at the Prinzregententheater in Munich (Mozart This is how everyone's doing it or crash course for lovers ( Così fan tutte )), at the Braunschweig State Theater (Mozart Così fan tutte ), at the Oldenburg State Theater (Berg Wozzeck , Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos ), at the German National Theater Weimar (Mozart Così fan tutte ), at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck (Janáček Jenůfa , Cilèa Adriana Lecouvreur ), at the National Theater Belgrade (Richard Strauss Salome ) and at the Vienna Volksoper (Mozart Così fan tutte ).

Klimek u. a. for Albees Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Alban Bergs Wozzeck (both as a room installation in the Bagno near Steinfurt and for the stage in the Staatstheater Oldenburg), for Bizet's Carmen , for Cilèas Adriana Lecouvreur , for Euripides' Die Troerinnen (German by Bruno Klimek), for Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , Handel Alcina , Janáčeks Jenůfa , Mozart's So Do It All or a crash course for lovers (Così fan tutte) (at the Prinzregententheater in Munich), Puccini's Madama Butterfly , Traetta's Antigona , W. Shawn's Das Fieber , Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Verdi's Attila and Falstaff .

In 2010 he oversaw the world premiere (November 18) of his Ruhrlautsonate (a bow to Kurt Schwitters ' Ursonate ) at the Pina Bausch Theater in Essen.

From 2005 to 2009 Klimek held a substitute professorship and a teaching position for drama lessons at the opera school of the University of Music in Karlsruhe, and since 2006 he has been professor for drama training in the singing / music theater course at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Since 2011 he has been the dean of the performing arts department, which includes the courses in acting, dance, singing / music theater, musicals, physical theater and directing.

Awards

Teaching

  • July 2004 Director of the International Opera Studio Nuremberg workshop on Die Fledermaus.
  • 2005 to 2009 substitute professorship and teaching assignment for drama lessons at the opera school of the University of Music in Karlsruhe.
  • May 2006 Workshop for drama lessons in the field of singing / music theater at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.
  • Since 2006 professorship for drama training in the singing / music theater course at the Folkwang University in Essen.
  • December 2007 Production of Verdi's Falstaff with the students of the Folkwang Hochschule Essen.
  • January 2009 (Frankfurt) Workshop “Basics of scenic thinking and acting” for treibhaus 0.8 (postgraduate course with traineeship for concept designers).
  • May 2009 Production of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame with the students of the University of Music in Karlsruhe.
  • June 2009 “opera! SommerWerkStatt Musiktheater 2009 ”with students from the Folkwang Hochschule Essen.
  • November 2009 (Essen) Workshop “Basics of stage production - theory and practice” for treibhaus 0.8.
  • June 2010 “opera! SommerWerkStatt Musiktheater 2010 “with students from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen.
  • November 2010 (Frankfurt) Workshop “Basics of stage production - theory and practice” for treibhaus 0.8.
  • November 2010 Direction (together with Prof. Marion Digel) of the world premiere of the RUHRLAUTSONATE as an interdisciplinary performance, realized by students from all departments at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.
  • December 2010 Production by Alcina (GF Handel) with students from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen.
  • June 2012 “opera! SommerWerkStatt Musiktheater 2012. Women and Men as Men and Women ”with students from the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.
  • September 2012 artistically supervising lecturer for the annual project “Mythos. Modern. Tomorrow. ”Of the College of Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • May 2013 Dramatic-musical master class at the Çukurova Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuvarı in Adana with Turkish singing students.
  • September 2013 Artistic lecturer (including a short practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view) for the annual project “Distance of Time” of the College for Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • December 2013 Head of the interdisciplinary scenic action for voices and keys "Verder & Wagni or the withdrawal of music into silence" (premiere of the reading version) with students from various courses in the performing arts department at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.
  • September 2014 artistically supervising lecturer (including a brief practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view) for the annual project “Translating” of the College for Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • July 2015 “opera! SommerWerkStatt Musiktheater 2015. Three world premieres “with students from all departments at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.
  • September 2015 Artistic lecturer (including a short practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view) at the annual project "Art.Machine.Art" of the College for Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • January 2016 Production at the Folkwang University of the Arts of Poulenc's mono-opera La voix humaine with Inga Schäfer, who received the Folkwang Prize for Performing Arts 2016.
  • September 2016 artistically supervising lecturer (including a short practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view, staging La nascità del luce ) for the annual project “Renaissance: Proportion. Provocation. Politics ”of the College of Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • September 2017 artistically supervising lecturer (including a short practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view, staging M ) for the annual project “Art is Politics! Italy 1943–2017 “of the College for Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • September 2018 artistically supervising lecturer (including a short practical introduction to lighting, city inspection from a dramaturgical point of view) at the annual project “Labor der Künste” of the College for Music and Art in Montepulciano.
  • May 2019 Overall artistic direction of the FOLKWANG SHOWCASE 2019 at the Ruhrfestspiele ( Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen ) with students and alumni of the Folkwang University of the Arts .

Exhibitions

  • May 2002 to February 2003 PiX.iT Exhibition of computer graphics in the Blue House, Bad Dürkheim.
  • October 2003 to February 2004 Jenufa. bruno klimek. PiX.iT graphics exhibition in the foyer of the Nuremberg Opera House.
  • May to June 2006 La recherche d'Yniold ou Une semaine du bonheur. Meditation on a topic in 77 pictures. Presentation of photographic works (“fictures”) in the Theater am Alten Markt and as an installation in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, Bielefeld.
  • 2008 Break the law of silence. 2 cycles on Mozart's Magic Flute 1. Tamino's sketchbook 2. From Pamina's estate. Found objects. 27 works on paper in mixed media, untitled. Presentation at the Dortmund Opera House.
  • February to December 2014 the homecomer. seven concepts on paper on the refugee problem in austria. 7 objects under A4 glass frame supports. Gallery "HO", Linke Wienzeile 42, Vienna.

Publications since 2000 (selection)

  • Critique of the phallocratic reason. A polemic. Nuremberg 2001
  • Zanderröllchen & Zabaione , short radio play. Production by Swiss Radio DRS, first broadcast November 9, 2009, 10:34 min.
  • Euripides, The Trojans. Translated into German by Bruno Klimek. First performance on December 4th, 2009 in Krefeld, United City Theaters Krefeld Mönchengladbach.
  • The cell phone , short radio play. Production by Schweizer Radio DRS, first broadcast January 18, 2010, 11:20 min.
  • The interrogation , short radio play. Production by Swiss Radio DRS, first broadcast April 26, 2010, 9:15 min.
  • Three in one go , short radio play. Production by Swiss Radio DRS, first broadcast May 31, 2010, 9:35 min.
  • In the dark , short radio play. Production by Swiss Radio DRS, first broadcast on July 26, 2010, 9:44 min.
  • On the couch , short radio play. Production by Schweizer Radio DRS, first broadcast November 29, 2010, 10:49 min.
  • Head voice , short radio play. Production by Swiss Radio DRS, first broadcast December 13, 2010, 9:21 min.
  • Ruhr Lautsonata in four movements for one or more voices for speaking singing coughing. World premiere on November 18, 2010 in the Pina Bausch Theater, Essen.
  • Talk show , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast July 27, 2011, 10:36 min.
  • The way over the bridge , short radio play. SRF production, first broadcast September 19, 2011, 8:46 min.
  • Everything as it was , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast October 17, 2011, 8:12 min.
  • The beautiful Helena. Scenes and German dialogues to the music of Jacques Offenbach. Based on the libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. First performance December 11, 2011 Theater Bielefeld
  • One is missing , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast January 9, 2012, 8:31 min.
  • Verder & Wagni or the retreat of music into silence. Opera buffa in seven situations. Libretto. Frankfurt 2013
  • A gruesome find , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast June 24, 2013, 10:05 min.
  • The Sternwelle , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast September 8, 2014, 7:55 min.
  • Cross sum nine , radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast October 27, 2014, 8:50 min.
  • After the beep , speak radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast March 23, 2015, 10:25 min.
  • On the trigger , short radio play. Production SRF, first broadcast August 8, 2016, 5:54 min.
  • Snowmen , SRF production, first broadcast December 12, 2016, 8:20 min.
  • Blaues Wunder, SRF production, first broadcast March 27, 2017, 8:32 min.
  • Caracas , SRF production, first broadcast May 29, 2017, 10:35 min.
  • The solution , SRF production, first broadcast January 1, 2018, 8:53 min.
  • Hang-up game , SRF production, first broadcast on July 9, 2018, 7:26 min.
  • In front of the door , SRF production, first broadcast November 12, 2018, 7:40 min.
  • Breakfast , SRF production, first broadcast March 11, 2019, 9:53 min.

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Alla bye: Bruno Klimek - four years acting in Mannheim. Verlag Nationaltheater Mannheim 2000
  • Schreckmümpfeli 7. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85616-440-9 .
  • Schreckmümpfeli 8. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85616-458-4 .
  • Schreckmümpfeli 9. Christoph Merian Verlag Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-591-8 .
  • Verder & Wagni or The Retreat of Music into Silence. axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86638-026-4 .
  • The best of Schreckmümpfeli. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-605-2 .
  • CLOSING SONATE. In: Andreas Jacob u. Gordon Kampe (ed.): Cultural action in the transcultural space. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim Zurich New York 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15100-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tree-farmer-and-his-troop-said-good-bye.
  2. Exerting, puristic, virtuoso: "Die Troerinnen" Aachener Zeitung from April 6, 2010 , accessed on June 3, 2015
  3. Jacek Janiszewski - scena Arkela. Pelléas and Mélisande. YouTube
  4. ^ The Magic Flute - Music Theater - Theater Dortmund. YouTube
  5. An experimental treatise on searching for love in Mozart's Magic Flute. Review in Online Musik Magazin , accessed on June 3, 2015
  6. ^ Klaus Stübler: Cruise ship docks in the opera. In: Ruhr Nachrichten , June 4, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2018
  7. Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern successfully starts the new season. Online review of the Attila premiere on Rheinpfalz.de
  8. deformations. Review of Wozzeck on Opernnetz ( memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 3, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / opernnetz.de
  9. God's laboratory. Review of Alceste in the Donaukurier on March 9, 2008 , accessed on June 3, 2015
  10. Image compositions of idiosyncratic aesthetic appeal. Review of Alceste on klassik.com , accessed on June 3, 2015
  11. ^ Press photos on Jenůfa on the Tiroler Landestheater website , accessed on June 3, 2015
  12. Misha Jovanovich sings Jochanaan in Richard Strauss's “Salome”. YouTube
  13. Così fan tutte in the Vienna Volksoper: A nice surprise. Performance review on bachtrack.com, accessed July 18, 2016.
  14. The fever in the Essen theater. YouTube
  15. Iranian Opera Singer. Mohsen Rashidkhan as Falstaff on YouTube
  16. Rheinische Post: RP series theater careers: Conversation with Bruno Klimek: A highly concentrated director worker . Article dated January 4, 2014.
  17. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Austrian Music Theater Awards to Damrau and Kang . Article dated June 28, 2016, accessed June 28, 2016.
  18. Verder and Wagni. Data set from the German National Library