Dieter Haspel

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Dieter Haspel (born June 19, 1943 in Gloggnitz ; † April 4, 2016 in Vienna ) was an Austrian director and theater director . He was co-founder and for many years director of the Ensemble Theater Wien .

Life

Dieter Haspel first completed a commercial apprenticeship, then passed the Matura at an evening school and studied theater and German in Vienna.

In 1968, together with Hilde Berger and Götz Fritsch, he co-founded the Viennese café theater in the former Cafe Einfalt, which he continued from 1973 to 1976 as Ensemble Theater Wien in the Wiener Theater am Kärntnertor. Among other things, premieres and pieces by Wilhelm Pevny , Alfred Warnes and Konrad Bayer as well as Germinal after Émile Zola and Im Thicket of Cities and Baal by Bertolt Brecht were performed. After the theater was closed, he was senior director at the Tübingen State Theater from 1975 to 1977 . In 1976 he staged the world premiere of the Proletenpassion in the Vienna Arena . In 1977 he moved the ensemble theater to the small theater in the Wiener Konzerthaus and in 1982 to the newly opened basement theater on Petersplatz in the former Fatty's Saloon , which he directed until 2009. In 2009, he handed the Ensemble Theater of Harald Posch and Ali Abdullah, who see it as Garage X Theater Petersplatz further led, where he annually realized own production, around 2011 Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman in a version by Werner Buhss or most recently 2013 's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett .

Dieter Haspel died on April 4, 2016 at the age of 72.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

  • 1986: Rozznjogd (TV movie)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Director Dieter Haspel passed away In: orf.at. Österreichischer Rundfunk , April 4, 2016, accessed on April 4, 2016.
  2. Director and theater director Dieter Haspel has died. In: derStandard.at. Der Standard , April 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016.