Dieter Sturm

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Dieter Sturm (born May 24, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German dramaturge and co-founded the Berlin Schaubühne in 1962 . Sturm is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts , Performing Arts section. He lives in Berlin .

Life

Dieter Sturm spent the first years of his life in Frankfurt am Main. To protect him from bombs, he was brought to his grandparents at Lake Starnberg in 1944 and spent his childhood after the war with his mother, who now lived in Erlangen. In Berlin he studied German, ethnology and ancient history. From 1958 to 1961 he directed the student theater at the Free University of Berlin and was a committed member of the SDS . Both personally and through his dramaturgical work, Sturm can be regarded as an important head of the left-wing political avant-garde of the 1960s.

Together with Jürgen Schitthelm , Leni Langenscheidt, Waltraut Mau and Klaus Weiffenbach, Sturm founded the Berlin Schaubühne in 1962 as an independent theater group that first rehearsed and staged on the Halleschen Ufer in Kreuzberg. There began an intensive collaboration with the playwright Hartmut Lange , there the plays by Marieluise Fleißer were rediscovered and there were performances of plays by Bertolt Brecht , which were not otherwise performed in West Berlin at the time.

On the initiative of Dieter Sturm, the director Peter Stein and with him actors such as Bruno Ganz , Edith Clever , Jutta Lampe , Werner Rehm , and later Otto Sander and Peter Fitz came to the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer. Among them, this cultural center of the 1968 movement developed into one of the most famous German theaters. In 1981 the theater and Dieter Sturm moved with him to the renovated Schaubühnen building on Lehniner Platz . As the head dramaturge of the Schaubühne, Sturm supported the Schaubühne directors Peter Stein , Luc Bondy , Jürgen Gosch and Andrea Breth, as well as important directors such as Klaus Michael Grüber.

In 1995, Sturm left the Berlin Schaubühne and moved to the Deutsches Theater in the former East Berlin. This brought him to the place where he would almost have become a dramaturge in 1963 if the artistic director Wolfgang Langhoff had not resigned in the same year for reasons of cultural policy. His son Thomas Langhoff , who was the director of the Deutsches Theater at the time, he stood by as a consultant until 2001. In the following years, Sturm was involved in productions by Luc Bondy as a freelance dramaturge at the Berliner Ensemble.

In 1993 Dieter Sturm was honored with the Fritz Kortner Prize by the magazine “ Theater heute ” .

meaning

The dramaturge and inspired literary connoisseur Dieter Sturm was ascribed an outstanding importance for the theater culture in post-war Germany. He accompanied the most important productions at this theater for over three decades. Right from the start he was particularly committed to the plays of his temporary colleague Dramaturge Botho Strauss and prepared their productions. He gave important impulses in long conversations before and during many productions. He had clearly broken away from his ideological past and saw himself only as the aesthetic conscience of the theater. In the eulogy for the Kortner Prize in 1993, Luc Bondy confirmed that Dieter Sturm “certainly already has a role in theater history, as perhaps only Otto Brahm back then ”.

Former colleagues repeatedly emphasize the extraordinary eloquence and intellectual dexterity of Dieter Sturm, who only fully developed his rhetorical power in discussions with directors and actors. The theater critic Gerhard Stadelmaier called him a “prince of letters who never wrote, always only spoke”. In an interview he himself expressed his self-image as a dramaturge as follows: "The dramaturge must stay in the dark."

A Berlin “ urban myth ” is Dieter Storm's private library, for which he is said to have rented several Berlin apartments.

Out of a decided interest in fantastic literature, in " black romanticism " and gaudy novels, Sturm wrote afterwords to an edition of Charles R. Maturin's " Melmoth the Wanderer " and to an anthology with vampire stories in the 1990s . Together with Michael Krüger , he edited the series Bibliotheca Dracula published by Hanser-Verlag in Munich .

Major productions (selection)

Among others, the following productions at the Berlin Schaubühne were created with Dieter Sturm's participation:

  • 1972 Stories from the Vienna Woods , director: Klaus Michael Grüber
  • 1974 Antiken-Projekt I. Exercises for actors
  • 1974 Die Bakchen , by Euripides, directed by Klaus Michael Grüber
  • 1976 Shakespeare's Memory , directed by Peter Stein
  • 1977 As You Like It , by Shakespeare, directed by Peter Stein
  • 1973 Die Hypochonder , by Botho Strauss, director: Wilfried Minks
  • 1980 Antikenprojekt II / Orestie , by Aeschylos / Peter Stein, directed by Peter Stein
  • 1982 Hamlet , by Shakespeare, directed by Klaus Michael Grüber
  • 1982 Kalldewey Farce , by Botho Strauss, director: Luc Bondy
  • 1983 The Negro . Clowning, by Jean Genet, directed by Peter Stein
  • 1984 Three Sisters , by Anton Chekhov, directed by Peter Stein
  • 1985 The Triumph of Love , by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, directed by Luc Bondy

Fonts

  • Strange in the unity. Remarks by Dieter Sturm at the awarding of the Kortner Prize in the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In: Theater Today. 1/94.
  • Epilogue. to: Charles R. Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer. from the English by Friedrich Polakovics. Hanser, 1969.
  • Epilogue. to: Klaus Völker, Dieter Sturm: From the vampires and other bloodsuckers: seals and documents. Hanser, 1968.

literature

  • Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner: Dieter Sturm. The Schaubühnen dramaturge. In: Theater dramaturgies from the Enlightenment to the present. Böhlau Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20260-8 , pp. 244-266.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b storm. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lothar Müller: Inflammation of a world of books. An excursion through the library of the dramaturge Dieter Sturm on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 24, 2006, p. 16.
  3. ^ A b Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner: Dieter Sturm. The Schaubühnen dramaturge. In: Theater dramaturgies from the Enlightenment to the present. 2016, p. 244.
  4. ↑ a b Botho Strauss: The Secret One. About Dieter Sturm, dramaturge at the Berlin Schaubühne. In: The time. May 23, 1986 (zeit.de)
  5. ^ Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner: Dieter Sturm. The Schaubühnen dramaturge. In: Theater dramaturgies from the Enlightenment to the present. 2016, p. 248.
  6. ^ Gerhard Stadelmaier: weight to the east. Dieter Sturm at the German Theater. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 18, 1995, p. 28. / cbs, A myth - more glamorous than ever. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 16, 1995.
  7. ↑ Dieter Sturm: Alien in the unit. Remarks by Dieter Sturm at the awarding of the Kortner Prize in the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In: Theater Today. 1/94.
  8. ↑ a b Luc Bondy: The Theater Philosopher. Laudation for the Kortner Prize winner Dieter Sturm. In: Theater Today. 12/93.
  9. ^ A b Gerhard Stadelmaier: The storm. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 29, 1994.
  10. ↑ Simon Strauss: Who else should you ignite? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 6, 2017, p. 9.
  11. ↑ Lothar Müller: Inflammation of a world of books. An excursion through the library of the dramaturge Dieter Sturm on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 24, 2006, p. 16.
  12. ↑ Finally explained - what do dramaturges actually do? Retrieved on July 13, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Jürgen Schitthelm (Ed.): 50 years of the Schaubühne. 1962-2012. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-00-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main