Dieter Görne

Dieter Görne (born August 7, 1936 in Heidenau ) is a German dramaturge and artistic director .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dresden in 1953 , Görne studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Leipzig from 1953 to 1958 , with Ernst Bloch and Hans Mayer , among others , and completed his studies in 1976 with a doctorate with Joachim Müller in Jena. Dissertation topic: Heritage and the present. To the "Faust" reception by the socialist theater of the GDR . During his studies, from 1968 to 1974, he headed the Regest Edition work group in the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar , which edited all letters addressed to Goethe .

First engagements as dramaturge and chief dramaturge took him to Anklam , Plauen , Weimar, Chemnitz and Dresden. From 1990 until his retirement in 2001, Görne was director of the Dresden State Theater .

Görne is the father of the baritone Matthias Goerne .

Awards

Görne was appointed honorary professor for the history and dramaturgy of spoken theater at the Dresden University of Fine Arts in 1994, and in the same year he became a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . From 2002 to 2005 he was secretary of the performing arts and film class at the Saxon Academy of the Arts and has been vice-president of the academy since 2005. In 2003 he received honorary membership of the Dresden State Theater and the Federal Cross of Merit (1st class) .

Web links

• Short biography at the Saxon Academy of the Arts