Claus Bremer

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Claus Bremer (born July 11, 1924 in Hamburg ; † May 15, 1996 in Forch ) was a German dramaturge , theater director , poet and translator.

Life

Bremer grew up in a Catholic family home. After high school and two years of military service in the Navy, he studied classical philology , philosophy , literature and art history in Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1945 to 1949 . In addition to his studies, he completed an actor training 1947-1949. From 1949 to 1951 he was assistant director to Franz Everth at the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg , then from 1952 to 1961 assistant director, director , dramaturge, from 1956 chief dramaturge and artistic advisor to Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Landestheater Darmstadt . From 1960 to 1962 he was chief dramaturge with Walter Oberer at the Stadttheater Bern , then until 1965 dramaturge, deputy director and artistic adviser at Theater Ulm with Ulrich Brecht and at the same time lecturer at the Ulm School of Design . From 1966 he worked as a freelance theater man, writer and lecturer. During this time he worked on the films "13 Bern Museums" and "22 Questions to Max Bill" by Georg Radanowicz . In 1970 he was dramaturge at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich .

In 1972 he designed the “Spielstraße” with scattered attractions for strollers for the cultural program of the Olympic Games in Munich .

In addition to his theater work, Bremer was involved in literary and theater theory from the beginning and was involved in relevant projects. As early as 1948, he and Rainer Maria Gerhardt - the editor of the literary magazine Fragmente , in which Bremer also published his first “Montage-Gedichte” - belonged to the “Group of Fragments” up to Gerhardt's suicide in 1954. From 1956 to 1961 he was editor of the Neues Forum, Darmstädter Blätter für Theater und Kunst and from 1957 to 1959 he was involved in the " Darmstädter Kreis " with Daniel Spoerri and Emmett Williams in the anthology series Material . From 1981 he was editor of the Swiss literary magazine Orte .

Bremer translated a. A. Comedies by Aristophanes from the Greek and plays by Eugène Ionesco from the French.

Bremer lived on the Forch near Zurich from 1974 until his death . In the last years of his life his work was impaired by Parkinson's disease .

Appreciations

Works

  • We are different. Poems and texts from the estate. Edited by Werner Bucher . Orte-Verlag, Zelg-Wolfhalden (AR) 1997.
  • Hands off my Ferrari. Poems, texts and essays. Orte-Verlag, Zurich 1994.
  • You don't wear hats to Athens. Poetry. Orte-Verlag, Zurich 1984.
  • Show your colors. My way through concrete poetry. Orte-Verlag, Zurich 1983.
  • Why does Christian Megert work with nothing but mirrors ?. Artists Press Urs / Rös Graf, Bern 1973.
  • (with Rolf Becker) poet unknown. Heinrich Heine text sequence. Stauffacher, Zurich 1972.
  • Occasions. Annotated poetry 1949 to 1969. Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1970.
  • Theme theater. 17 essays and commentaries. Edited by HC Schmolck. Kölling, Frankfurt a. M. 1969 (contains hands away from my Ferrari , pp. 73-91).
  • Texts and comments. Two lectures. Anabas-Verlag Kämpf, Steinbach 1968.
  • Hands off my Ferrari. Play. Stauffacher, Zurich 1967.
  • The current theater. Serial manifestos 6th gallery press, St. Gallen 1966.
  • Engaging texts. futura 8. Mayer, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Ideograms. Eugen Gomringer Press, Frauenfeld 1960.
  • Theater without a curtain. 3 dramaturgical essays. With a foreword by Gustav Rudolf Sellner. The square books 31. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1962.
  • tables and variations. Eugen Gomringer Press, Frauenfeld 1960.
  • Poetry. Verlag der Frage, Karlsruhe 1954.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDB -ID 971446-7
  2. ↑ ZDB -ID 1038426-1
personal data
SURNAME Bremer, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bremer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, theater director and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1996
Place of death Forch