Dieter Giesing
Dieter Giesing (born May 21, 1934 in Memel ) is a German theater director .
Life
In 1944 , Giesing's family fled East Prussia and came to Tübingen . At the city's Eberhard Karls University and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich studied Giesing Romance, German and art history. He directed the student theater in Tübingen and staged the first plays by Ionesco , Adamov and Günter Grass . During his studies, Giesing worked as assistant director to Erwin Piscator on his productions at various theaters. He was given a permanent position as assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele .
In 1964 he made his debut as a director with Harold Pinter's play “Sammlung” in the Werkraum of the Münchner Kammerspiele and worked with Hans Schweikart . During these years a friendship with Peter Stein and the painter Gerhard Richter began for decades . Other productions by Giesing that received national attention include Harold Pinter's “Heimkehr” and Mrozek's “Tango” with the young Hannelore Elsner .
From 1968 to 1972 Giesing was senior director at the Münchner Kammerspiele (chief dramaturge: Ivan Nagel ). Subsequently he was acting director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg until 1976 (artistic director: Ivan Nagel). With his directorial work, especially with the staging of plays by Wedekind, Sternheim and Gorkis, Giesing took a nuanced position against the ideological realism of this time and thus enlivened the aesthetic discussion of the 1970s. In Hamburg he started working with Hans-Michael Rehberg , u. a. in Kipphardt's “In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer” and in the world premiere of “Trilogie des Wiedersehen” by Botho Strauss . Giesing also staged this play as an American premiere in San Francisco. Botho Strauss's work plays an important role in Giesing's directorial career, as do other productions, including a. “The time and the room” (with Catrin Striebeck ) at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and “The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia” (with Johanna Wokalek ) at the Burgtheater prove. At the Bavarian State Theater, Hans-Michael Rehberg played in the world premiere of Kipphardt's play "Brother Eichmann", staged by Dieter Giesing. In Stuttgart, Giesing, also with Hans-Michael Rehberg as actor, staged David Mamet's “Slope Sea View” and the German-language premiere of Harold Pinter's “Another Last”. With “Favor of the Hour” at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , Giesing staged another play by his favorite author David Mamet (with Gerd Böckmann and Hans-Michael Rehberg).
Sigrid Löffler wrote in Theater heute , 1993/6 about Giesing's production of Isaak Babel's “ Sunset ” in 1993 at the Akademietheater (Vienna) : “The director Dieter Giesing succeeds in bringing out the whole complexity of this rarely played piece, both powerfully and carefully - the brightly colored surfaces and everything that is deeply seated, remote, nocturnal. Giesing stages the richness and vital color of Eastern Jewry - including Rebbe , Schammes and Schadchen . (...) And Giesing always lets the archetypal conflict, the human myth shimmer through, the uranosic fall of the gods, the primordial crime - the primordial murder of the primordial horde on the forefather. "
Under the direction of Matthias Hartmann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Giesing staged the German-language premiere of Martin Crimp's “Auf dem Land” in 2001 and the German-language premiere of Fosse's “Beautiful” in 2003 . Burghart Klaußner , with whom Giesing had previously worked in Zurich (1992 for Kalldewey's "Farce", 1995 for "Das Kryptogramm" and 1999 for Babel's "Marija"), played the male lead in both productions . In 2011 Giesing staged Arthur Schnitzler's “ Professor Bernhardi ” at the Burgtheater with Joachim Meyerhoff in the title role and Caroline Peters in the role of Professor Cyprian. In ZEIT on April 20, 2011, Peter Kümmel wrote: “The Burgtheater is rediscovering Schnitzler's comedy“ Professor Bernhardi ”. Dieter Giesing takes the time in Vienna to mimetically create and examine a complex social work of art: an intrigue. He shows how politics can be turned into a crime, and finally, with a "Na". You haven't seen that as clearly as here for a long time. "
In 2012 Giesing turned back to a contemporary author and staged the German premiere of Simon Stephens ' “Wastwater” (under the direction of Karin Beier ) at the Cologne Theater .
Giesing lives with the screenwriter Maria Scheibelhofer in Hamburg and Vienna.
Important productions
- 2016 Yasmina Reza "Bella Figura" ( Academy Theater )
- 2012 Simon Stephens "Wastwater" (DE; Schauspiel Köln )
- 2012 Tennessee Williams " End Station Sehnsucht " ( Burgtheater )
- 2011 Arthur Schnitzler " Professor Bernhardi " (Burgtheater)
- 2010 Thomas Vinterberg / Morgens Rukov "Das Fest" (Cologne Theater)
- 2009 Arthur Schnitzler " The wide country " ( Bochum theater )
- 2008 Yasmina Reza " The God of Carnage " (Burgtheater)
- 2008 Simon Stephens "Motortown" (Schauspielhaus Bochum)
- 2006 Neil LaBute "Some Girl (s)" (Akademietheater)
- 2005 Botho Strauss "Time and the Room" (with Burghart Klaußner ; Schauspielhaus Bochum)
- 2003 Jon Fosse "Beautiful" (Schauspielhaus Bochum)
- 2002 Botho Strauss "The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia" (with Uwe Bohm , Johanna Wokalek , Paulus Manker ; Burgtheater)
- 2001 Martin Crimp "Auf dem Land" (Schauspielhaus Bochum)
- 2000 Thomas Bernhard "Appearances are deceptive" ( Theater in der Josefstadt / Vienna)
- 1999 Isaak Babel "Maria" (Schauspielhaus Zurich)
- 1997 Robert Musil "Die Schwärmer" (with Anne Tismer ; Schauspielhaus Zürich )
- 1996 August Strindberg " The Dance of Death " (Burgtheater)
- 1995 David Mamet "The Cryptogram" (DE, Schauspielhaus Zurich)
- 1993 Isaak Babel " Sunset " (Akademietheater)
- 1993 David Mamet "Oleanna" (DE; with Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe ; Akademietheater)
- 1992 Botho Strauss "Kalldewey Farce" (Schauspielhaus Zurich)
- 1988 David Mamet "The Favor of the Hour" (DE, Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1986 Harold Pinter "One more last one" (DE, Staatstheater Stuttgart )
- 1986 David Mamet "Hillside view of the sea" (State Theater Stuttgart)
- 1985 Lars Norén "Demons" (Akademietheater)
- 1985 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (National Theater Seoul)
- 1985 Frank Wedekind "Music" (with Susanne Lothar , Hans-Michael Rehberg , Paulus Manker ; Burgtheater / Schauspielhaus Hamburg)
- 1983 Heinar Kipphardt "Brother Eichmann" (premiere, Munich Residenztheater)
- 1981 Ferdinand Bruckner " Illness of Youth " (Akademietheater)
- 1980 Frank Wedekind " Spring Awakening " (Burgtheater)
- 1979 Harold Pinter "Cheated" (Thalia Theater Hamburg)
- 1978 Anton Chekhov "Uncle Wanja" ( Thalia Theater Hamburg )
- 1977 Botho Strauss "Trilogy of Reunion" (premiere, Schauspielhaus Hamburg )
- 1977 Heinar Kipphardt : "In the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Schauspielhaus Hamburg)
- 1972 Maxim Gorki "The Barbarians" (Schauspielhaus Hamburg)
- 1972 Brecht / Weill " The Threepenny Opera " (Schauspielhaus Hamburg)
- 1971 Frank Wedekind "Lulu" ( Thalia Theater Hamburg )
- 1970 Frank Wedekind " The Marquis von Keith " (Münchner Kammerspiele)
- 1968 Henrik Ibsen " Hedda Gabler " (Munich Kammerspiele)
- 1969 Harold Pinter "The Birthday Party" (Münchner Kammerspiele)
- 1965 Václav Havel "The Notification" (DE; Schillertheater (Berlin) )
- 1966 Harold Pinter "Homecoming" ( Munich Chamber Games )
Awards
- Promotion Prize of the City of Munich (1967)
- Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen with:
- Lars Norén's "Demons" (1985)
- David Mamet's "Hillside Sea View" (1986)
- Isaak Babel's "Sunset" (1994)
- Bavarian State Prize for the best German-language performance 1998 ("Die Schwärmer" by Robert Musil; Schauspielhaus Zürich)
literature
- Dieter Giesing , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/2012 from October 9, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Giesing, Dieter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Memel |