Christian Pade

Christian Pade (born August 23, 1962 in Kassel ) is a German theater and opera director .

biography

Christian Pade grew up in Munich, where he began studying directing and acting at the Otto Falckenberg School . After assisting Dieter Dorn , Hans Lietzau , Herbert Achternbusch , Günther Gerstner , Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle and Volker Schlöndorff at the Münchner Kammerspiele , his first directorial work followed. His productions can now be seen at many German state theaters and state operas. Most of them are created in collaboration with the set and costume designer Alexander Lintl .

After initially concentrating on spoken theater, his career as a music theater director began in 2000 with a production of the operetta Madame Pompadour by Leo Fall . As a result, Christian Pade , who was particularly interested in socially relevant readings , staged mostly politically explosive operas, such as Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven , Caligula by Detlev Glanert and Boris Godunow by Modest Mussorgski . He also viewed the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss from a current perspective.

Christian Pades is particularly interested in the dramatization of prose texts. In 2000 he staged the world premiere of Michel Houellebecq's novel Expansion of the Battle Zone at the Hanover State Theater . Black mirrors by Arno Schmidt followed in 2004 and wood felling by Thomas Bernhard in 2006 .

“Pade stays close to the work, wants it to unfold carefully, to make subtexts discreet but clearly visible”: This is how cultural journalist Manuel Brug characterizes the director's style and quotes him himself with the words: “It's not about the decor, it's about the core, about clarity, relentlessness, precision and sensual enlightenment ”.

Christian Pade lives in Zennhusen, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein and is married to the actress Marion Breckwoldt .

Productions

• 1990 Regina Madre by Manlio Santanelli at the Münchner Kammerspiele
• 1990 Medea by Euripides at the Landestheater Niederbayern
• 1991 speech disorders of Brian Friel at the Theater Freiburg
• 1992 The Marquise of O. by Ferdinand Bruckner after Heinrich von Kleist at the Freiburg Theater
• 1992 The small difference and its big consequences by Alice Schwarzer at the Freiburg Theater
• 1993 Nothing more after Calingasta by Julio Cortázar at the Freiburg Theater
• 1993 Mahomet von Voltaire in the translation by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the Freiburg Theater
• 1993 The sins of the rural population by John M. Synge at the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1994 Romeo and Juliet and other touches of melancholy - a Shakespeare project at the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1994 Half Truths by Alan Ayckbourn at the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1995 The investigation of Peter Weiss at the State Theater in Stuttgart
• 1996 Double Doors by Alan Ayckbourn at the State Theater Stuttgart , German-language premiere
• 1996 Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing at the Staatstheater Kassel
• 1996 The pelican by August Strindberg at the State Theater Stuttgart
• 1997 Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Staatstheater Kassel
• 1997 The Totmacher by Romuald Karmakar and Michael Farin at the Staatstheater Stuttgart
• 1998 Splendid’s by Jean Genet at the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1998 Bunbury by Oscar Wilde at the Staatstheater Kassel
• 1998 The petty bourgeoisie of Maxim Gorky at the State Theater Stuttgart
• 1999 Quizoola! by Tim Etchells and FORCED ENTERTAINMENT at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , German-language premiere
• 1999 Fornication - The 3 Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufmann at the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1999 Brother Eichmann of Heinar Kipphardt at the Heidelberg Theater
• 1999 Fire face of Marius von Mayenburg on Schauspielfrankfurt
• 1999 Top Dogs by Urs Widmer at the Heidelberg Theater
• 2000 Foreign stages by Gisela von Wysocki at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich, world premiere
• 2000 Madame Pompadour by Leo Fall at the Staatstheater Darmstadt
• 2000 Expansion of Michel Houellebecq's combat zone at the State Theater in Hanover
• 2001 Jeff Koons by Rainald Goetz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2001 The Auguste D. files by Konrad Maurer and Ute Hofmann at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich, world premiere
• 2002 Mother Courage from Bertolt Brecht at the State Theater in Hanover
• 2002 The turn of the screw by Benjamin Britten at the Frankfurt Opera
• 2002 November by Lars Norén at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , German-language premiere
• 2003 Cleaned by Sarah Kane at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich
• 2003 The dream of a life by Franz Grillparzer at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna
• 2004 Black Mirror by Arno Schmidt at the State Theater Hanover , world premiere
• 2004 Beyond by Werner Fritsch at the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich, premiere
• 2004 Elegy for young lovers by Hans Werner Henze at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
• 2004 Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven at the Dortmund Opera
• 2005 Chowanschtschina by Modest Mussorgski at the Frankfurt Opera
• 2005 Mathis the painter by Paul Hindemith at the Hamburg State Opera
• 2005 Pique Dame by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the Frankfurt Opera
• 2006 wooden cases of Thomas Bernhard at the State Theater in Hanover
• 2006 Caligula by Detlev Glanert at the Frankfurt Opera and Cologne Opera , world premiere
• 2007 The Good Man of Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
• 2007 Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich von Schiller at the Bremen Theater
• 2008 artist by Tankred Dorst at Theater Bremen , world premiere
• 2008 Boris Godunow by Modest Mussorgski at the Semperoper in Dresden
• 2008 The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist at the Theater Bremen
• 2009 The quiet child of Martin Crimp at Theater Bremen
• 2009 The divine comedy based on Dante with a prelude by Arno Schmidt at the State Theater in Hanover
• 2009 Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
• 2010 Lonely People by Gerhart Hauptmann at the Bremen Theater
• 2010 Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Festival in Montepulciano and at the Frankfurt Opera
• 2011 Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti at the Dortmund Opera and at the Mannheim National Theater
• 2012 Neumond (world premiere) by Lucia Ronchetti at the Nationaltheater Mannheim

Management functions

• 2007–2009 member of the management team at Theater Bremen

literature

“The theater of young directors”. Symposium under the direction of Eberhard Witt with Christian Pade, Matthias Hartmann , Anselm Weber , Tirza Brunken, Matthias Fontheim and Uwe Eric Laufenberg on May 19 and 20, 1991 at the State Theater Hanover . In: Young Directors . Edited by Anke Roeder and Sven Ricklefs. Fischer: Frankfurt am Main, 1994.

Brug, Manuel. "Opera becomes drama - theater directors in music theater". Opera directors today . Henschel: Berlin, 2006. [on Pade: 188 - 190.]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Pade's biography at International Artists Management
2. ↑ Biography of Christian Pade at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden ( memento of the original from September 1, 2010 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. 
3. ↑ Brug, Manuel. (see literature)
4. ↑ “I prefer it to be difficult” Christian Pade in conversation with Tim Gorbauch. Frankfurter Rundschau , November 3, 2005
5. ^ Christian Pade in conversation with opernnetz about his Fidelio production in Dortmund
6. ^ Wiener Zeitung, November 24, 2009 [1]
7. ↑ Brug, Manuel. (see literature)