Dieter Lange (painter)

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Dieter Lange (born June 21, 1938 in Dresden ; † November 12, 2010 in Potsdam ) was a German stage and costume designer and painter.

Life

Dieter Lange grew up in a Dresden handicraft family, attended elementary school from 1944 to 1954 and then trained as a commercial worker. In 1955 he graduated as a skilled worker. After an internship at the Dresden State Theater , he began studying stage design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts , which he completed in 1962. In 1962 he became a set designer at the Städtische Theater Plauen, 1966 at the Städtische Bühnen Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz ), from 1968 he was the first stage and costume designer as well as deputy head of equipment, from 1990 until his retirement in 2001 he was exhibition manager at the German National Theater Weimar . His critical attitude towards the GDR earned him a long-term travel ban, which meant that he was not allowed to travel to western countries on guest tours. After his retirement, Dieter Lange moved to Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam and devoted himself intensively to his own painting, which "often strict, seemingly simple, always full of color" searches for the sound of color. Dieter Lange had been with the musician Rosemarie, geb. Schikora married. He is the father of the costume designer Anja Laterne (1964–2019) and the flautist Bettina Lange (* 1968).

Services

Dieter Lange played a key role in productions by Harry Kupfer , Ruth Berghaus and Ehrhard Warnecke, among others . His special passion was music theater. He was responsible for setting up numerous world premieres and premieres in the GDR music theater, including the 1978 world premiere of Der Mantel (based on Gogol ) by Gerhard Rosenfeld . His last work for the theater was to furnish the opera Mathis der Maler by Paul Hindemith , which premiered on June 2, 2001 in Weimar. After moving to Wilhelmshorst, he concentrated on his own painting and graphics. His pictures were exhibited in Weimar , Erfurt and Potsdam . He left behind over 300 pictures and graphic works as well as countless stage designs and figurines. His estate is owned by the family.

literature

  • Dieter Lange: Experience. The contemporary and the opera, in: Theater der Zeit (1978) issue 6, pp. 31–33.
  • Interview with Dieter Lange, in: Oper heute 6. An almanac of the music stage. Edited by Horst Seeger and Mathias Rank. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1983, pp. 106-113

Web links

  • [1] Exhibition review in the Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Büstrin: The breadth of the color space. Dieter Lange's "Loud and quiet pictures" , in: Potsdamer Latest News, June 29, 2004, accessed on May 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2010
Place of death Potsdam