Edith Koerber

Edith Koerber is a German actress , director , artistic director and co-founder of the founded in 1975 to theater tri-stage , a drama theater in Stuttgart , she has headed the 1,982th

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Koerber gained stage experience at an early age in Stuttgart through her involvement in the children's choir of the State Theater . She also completed her first degree in Stuttgart, studying drama at the State University for Music and Performing Arts . After a few years she worked as a lecturer there herself . Here she also met her first husband, Michael Koerber, whom she married in 1970. Edith Koerber then studied ballet at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . In the following years she had various engagements in Tübingen , Esslingen am Neckar , Marburg and Moers .

In 1975 she founded the tri-Bühne theater together with Michael Koerber . Started as a free group, the ensemble has had a permanent studio stage in the Stuttgart Tagblatt Tower since 1979 . After the death of her husband in 1982, Koerber and Géza Révay took over the management of the theater, to which she has been married since 1984. Almost all theater productions in the following years were staged by herself. When organizing her theater, she places particular emphasis on the social relevance of the subjects portrayed: “ What is actually the essence of theater, what do we want to achieve? Do we believe that you can change society with pieces? If I no longer believe in it, just think: I have to serve the audience so that the audience has something to laugh about, I should stop. No, we have to make current references on stage and point out what is going on in our society. "

Most important productions

• “Mario and the Magician” based on Thomas Mann
• “The Bacchae” by Euripides
• "Oak and Angora" by Martin Walser
• " The servant of two masters " by Goldoni
• Shakespeare's “ Comedy of Errors ”
• " Woyzeck " from Büchner
• " 1913 " from Sternheim
• "Noise in the House of God" by Felix Mitterer
• "The Miss Pollinger" by Horváth / Krischke
• "The Thunderstorm" by Ostrovsky
• "Philotas" by Lessing
• "My rise from an animal to a human-like being" by Kafka / Coetzee
• "Recipient unknown" by Kressmann Taylor
• “ The Bride of Messina ” by Schiller
• “ Antigone ” by Sophocles

Honors

• 1982: Sponsorship award from the Württembergische Hypothekenbank Foundation for Art and Science for outstanding artistic achievements
• 2003: Animal Welfare Prize Baden-Württemberg for "performing pieces on the human-animal relationship" (together with Géza Révay)
• 2006: Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2007: PETAs Progress Award

Web links

• Website of the tri-bühne Stuttgart theater
• “Empathy is our job”. Edith Koerber over 40 years of theater tri-Bühne