Dieter Stegmann

Dieter Stegmann (born December 6, 1942 in Cologne ; † November 18, 2019 in Büdingen / Wetteraukreis ) was a German set designer , director and long-time director of the Brothers Grimm Festival , formerly the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Festival in Hanau .

Family, childhood and youth

Dieter Stegmann was the son of Alois and Agnes Stegmann, geb. Skinny. During the Second World War he spent his early childhood with relatives of his father in Klotten on the Moselle . He then lived with his parents and brother Erwin in Cologne, where he began an apprenticeship as a theater painter after graduating from secondary school. His first marriage to Karen Stegmann, b. Houtrouw married; from this connection the daughter Natali Stegmann emerged; After the divorce, the daughter lived with the father and his second wife. In his second marriage, Stegmann lived with the costume designer Ulla Röhrs; both have a son, Marc Philippe Stegmann. Dieter Stegmann and Ulla Röhrs often worked together.

Stage sets

Dieter Stegmann received his training as a set designer in the class of the Swiss Max Bignens at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. His first engagement was at the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne as assistant to Casper Neher , Teo Otto , Wieland Wagner and others. Several years each followed at the Städtische Bühnen in Ingolstadt, Wilhelmshaven and Bielefeld as well as at the Boulevard Theater Die Komödie in Frankfurt am Main. Further engagements took him to Mannheim, Heidelberg, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, Essen, Braunschweig, Kaiserslautern, Lucerne and Bern, among others.

Worked at the festival in Hanau

Dieter Stegmann has been part of the Hanau Fairy Tale Festival since it was founded in 1985. First he worked at the open-air theater as a set designer. Before he took over the management of the festival from 1992 to 2006, he had already written and staged several plays. Under his leadership, the festival expanded and professionalized. More performances, including musicals, were added to the program, and a separate amphitheater was put into operation. Stegmann dramatized 31 fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm for the festival and directed 38 times; he also continued to work as a set designer. Under his leadership, the number of viewers rose from around 26,000 to over 80,000 during the season.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Bühlmann (Ed.): International Music Festival 1984 Lucerne . Lucerne 1984, p. 82 .
2. ↑ Dieter Stegmann. H & S Verlag, accessed on February 11, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ There is still a long way to go about retirement , Luise Glaser-Lotz, July 30, 2006, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
4. ↑ Jens Hübner: Farewell to the stage of life. Director Dieter Stegmann is dead: grief in Hanau, memories in Dreieichenhain . In: Dreieich newspaper . November 27, 2019, p. 8 .
5. ↑ Christian Spingler: Dieter Stegmann, long-time director of the Brothers Grimm Festival, died at the age of 76. Offenbach Post, November 22, 2019, accessed on February 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Jutta Degen-Peters: Once upon a time. A man with a heart and a clear edge: the long-time festival director Dieter Stegmann is dead . In: Hanauer Anzeiger . November 21, 2019, p. 20-21 .
7. ↑ Jutta Degen-Peters: Grimm Festival: Long-time director Dieter Stegmann is dead. In: Hanauer Anzeiger. Hanauer Anzeiger, November 20, 2019, accessed on February 10, 2020 .