Christian Stückl

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Christian Stückl, 2018

Christian Stückl (born November 15, 1961 in Oberammergau ) is a German theater director and director .

Life

Christian Stückl attended the grammar school in Ettal for two years and learned wood carving from 1981 to 1984 . In 1981 he founded a theater group in his hometown with which he staged plays by Molière ( The Imaginary Sick ), Ben Jonson ( Volpone ), Georg Büchner ( Woyzeck ) and William Shakespeare ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ).

In 1987 he was elected director of the famous ten-year passion plays in his home parish. In 1990 Stückl took over the direction of the Passion of Jesus for the first time, and in 2000 he fundamentally reformed the game. In 1987 and 1988 he was assistant to Dieter Dorn and Volker Schlöndorff at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where in 1991 he was named Young Director of the Year by the magazine Theater heute for his first directorial work, the world premiere of Werner Schwab's Volksvernichtung or Meine Leber ist nicht . In 1992 he was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen . Until 1996, Stückl was a director at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In the following years Stückl worked as a freelance director on various German-speaking stages. (including Vienna, Hanover, Frankfurt)

In the summer of 2002, his new production of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann premiered at the Salzburg Festival . Stückl has been artistic director at the Munich Volkstheater since autumn 2002, and his current contract runs until 2025. His production of Der Brandner Kaspar (2005) regularly brings him sold out.

In July 2004 he staged his first opera with Fidelio von Ludwig van Beethoven in Cologne .

Stückl was the inspiration behind the festival for young directors Radikal jung , which he has organized at the Munich Volkstheater since 2005.

In July 2005, Stückl resumed the Oberammergau tradition of the Kreuzschule halfway between two Passion Play years and for the first time staged a play with Old Testament content with King David on the stage of the Passion Play . In July 2007 he then staged another Old Testament play with Stefan Zweig's Jeremias in the Passion Play Theater of his home parish in Oberammergau.

Commissioned by the Austrian action artist André Heller , he staged the opening ceremony of the soccer World Cup on June 9, 2006 in Munich. The thirty-minute, colorful spectacle with around 1200 participants combined Bavarian, German and international elements.

In the 2008/09 season he staged Pfitzner's Palestrina at the Munich State Opera (conductor: Simone Young , stage and costume: Stefan Hageneier). The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “In the National Theater there was a grandiose performance of the seldom played, but musically very attractive opera.” The resumption of which was shown in 2012 at the State Opera in Hamburg.

After the Passion Play in 2010, he staged his stage version of the novel Joseph und seine Brüder by Thomas Mann in the Oberammergau Passion Play Theater in July 2011 . In the 2011/12 season he directed Tankred Dorsts Merlin or Das wüsten Land at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and at the Hamburg State Opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss . At the Salzburg Festival in 2012, for the eleventh and last time, he staged Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

At the Munich Volkstheater he staged a. a. The robbers , Don Karlos , Lulu , Peer Gynt , as well as the Shakespeare plays Titus Andronicus , Richard III. and Hamlet , as well as The Threepenny Opera , The Deputy , Danton's Death , Tales from the Vienna Woods , The Winter Tale , Nathan the Wise , My Struggle, Faith, Love, Hope and finally The Merchant of Venice .

Every year since 2011, Stückl has staged a play or an opera in the Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau. The novel Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann 2011, William Shakespeare's Antonius and Cleopatra 2012, Moses , a commission from Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel , 2013, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 2014, the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi as the first self-produced opera by the Passionstheater Oberammergau 2015, Emperors and Galileans by Henrik Ibsen in 2016, the opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner in 2017 and Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller in 2018.

On November 13, 2014 was As darkness of Peter Turrini at the Burgtheater in Vienna premiere, followed by Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni as a co-production with the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen 2016, 2018 premiered The trunk of Wolfgang Bauer and 2019. Job by Joseph Roth .

In 2014, Stückl received the Theater Prize of the City of Munich .

World premieres and premieres

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Münchner Volkstheater: Christian Stückl Intendant until 2025 , night review from July 18, 2018, accessed July 19, 2018
  2. ^ Christian Stückl | Munich Volkstheater. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christian Stückl | Munich Volkstheater. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  4. ^ Christian Stückl | Munich Volkstheater. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ State Capital Munich Editor: Theater Prize. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Upper Bavaria district . Retrieved August 18, 2010.
  7. ^ List of the bearers of the Bavarian Order of Merit 2011 on the website of the Bavarian State Government. ( Memento of December 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 49 kB) Retrieved on July 26, 2011
  8. ↑ SALZBURG.AT. Retrieved August 1, 2011
  9. ↑ Press release No. 534 of the Government of Upper Bavaria. Retrieved September 12, 2011
  10. ^ Die Welt from October 14, 2012 Dialog Prize for Christian Stückl and Uschi Glas, accessed on December 1, 2014
  11. ↑ The Abraham Geiger Prize goes to Christian Stückl. Domradio , January 15, 2020, accessed on January 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Buber Rosenzweig Medal will go to the director of the Oberammergau Passion Play Christian Stückl in 2021. German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation e. V. (DKR), June 21, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stückl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artistic director and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau