Edith Clever
Edith Clever (born December 13, 1940 in Wuppertal ) is a German actress and director .
Life
After graduating from high school and training as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , Clever received his first engagement at the Kassel State Theater . 1966–1970 she played at the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, but also took guest performances at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . From 1971 to 1989 she was a member of the Berlin Schaubühne , where she made a name for herself in collaboration with Klaus Michael Grüber and Luc Bondy , but above all with Peter Stein (Warwara in Gorkis Sommergäste ; Ruth in Botho Strauss ' Trilogie des Wiedersehen and Lotte in his Groß and Klein ; Clytaimnestra in Aeschylus ' Orestie ; Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters ).
Her participation in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's aesthetically radical Parsifal film adaptation (1982) led to an intensive artistic connection with this director. The results of this work placed high demands on the audience's willingness to be receptive. E.g. the two-part film Die Nacht (1985) with a six-hour monologue on the topic of night or solo evenings such as the staged reading by Schnitzler's Fräulein Else . In 1987 Clever impressed the Paris audience for five hours with Kleist's Penthesilea , which she, assuming all the roles, performed as a “Tragedy in 24 appearances”. Also in 1987, she reads Molly Bloom 's monologue from James Joyce's Ulysses, directed by Syberberg (in her Berlin apartment, with the S-Bahn and long-distance trains passing in front of the windows) . In addition to the literary hymn to life and finitude, the film represents an attempt to fathom the extent to which the environment and the audience influence a text and its presentation.
In 1992 Clever first introduced herself as a director with Goethe's Stella . In 1994 Peter Stein engaged the actress as Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antonius and Cleopatra for the Salzburg Festival . 1996 directed and performed it at the Berlin Schaubühne the Medea of Euripides , in 1997, she directed The home visit by Rudolf Borchardt . In 1998 she continued the personal union of director and actress at the premiere of the Botho Strauss play Jeffers - Acts I and II in the Hebbel Theater in Berlin . Since the premiere in 2017 she has appeared as Everyman's mother in Michael Sturminger's production at the Salzburg Festival.
Filmography
- 1976: summer guests
- 1976: The marquise of O.
- 1978: The left-handed woman
- 1979: Girls' Years (L'Adolescente)
- 1979: Trilogy of reunion
- 1980: big and small
- 1982: Parsifal
- 1985: The night
- 1986: three sisters
- 1987: Penthesilea
- 1987: Miss Else
- 1990: The Marquise von O. 'moved from the south to the north'
- 1994: A dream, what else
Awards
- 1976: Gold film tape for The Marquise of O.
- 1977: German Actor Award (Chaplin Shoe)
- 1982: Bavarian Film Prize for Parsifal by Richard Wagner / Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- 1986: Gold film tape for Die Nacht
- 1988: Gertrud Eysoldt ring for Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist / Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- 2006: Nestroy Theater Prize for Best Sleeping Actress at the Akademietheater (Vienna)
literature
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (publisher), German Stage Yearbook 2007 , Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2007, page 850 ISSN 0070-4431
Web links
- Literature by and about Edith Clever in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edith Clever in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edith Clever at filmportal.de
- "Why is Kleist so close to us?" - Interview with Irene Bazinger in the FAZ , April 23, 2011
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clever, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal , Germany |