Elmar Goerden

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Elmar Goerden (born March 29, 1963 in Viersen ) is a German theater and opera director. From 2001 to 2005 he was senior director of the Munich Residenztheater and from the 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 season he was director of the Bochumer Schauspielhaus .

youth

Elmar Goerden is the son of a technical draftsman and a secretary. He grew up in Viersen and played in the youth teams of the Bundesliga soccer club Borussia Mönchengladbach until he was 16 . When he was 15, he said he hitchhiked to Bochum, saw Claus Peymann's production of the Hermannsschlacht there and decided to go to the theater himself.

He graduated in 1988 with a Master of Arts degree in art history , English and theater studies at the University of Cologne , Edinburgh ( Scotland ), Birmingham (England), and Rochester , New York State in the USA .

During this time he founded a Shakespeare troupe with Karin Beier .

Theater work

Goerden started as an assistant director at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. He assisted Robert Wilson , Peter Stein and Luc Bondy, among others . He spent "happy years" there, says Goerden looking back. In 1994 he also took over his first own production there with Liebestoll by Sam Shepard .

One year later, the Stuttgart director Friedrich Schirmer brought him to the Schauspielhaus as a guest director. Goerden's production of Karl Philipp Moritz ' Blunt or Der Gast caused a national sensation and was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen .

From the 1996/1997 season, Goerden was the third permanent in-house director in Stuttgart. His production of Anton P. Chekhov's Ivanov was again invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin. After teaching at the Mozarteum in Salzburg as a visiting professor in the winter semester of 1998/1999 , Goerden moved to the Residenztheater in Munich in 2001 as senior stage director and director . One of his greatest successes there was the faithful production of the classic Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

From 2005 on, Goerden was the artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. The time of his directorship in Bochum was judged critically in many cases. Goerden decided in 2008 not to extend his contract, which ran until 2010.

Since then he has been working as a freelance director. In 2010 he staged his first opera in Basel with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro .

John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen was his first work in Vienna in 2011/12 for the Theater in der Josefstadt. For this production he was nominated for the Austrian Nestroy Theater Prize in 2012 in the “Best Director” category. Most recently Elmar Goerden took over the direction of Thomas Bernhard's Before Retirement (2013/14), his own project Kafka (2014/15), Die Verdammten , based on the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti (2016/17), for which he was involved in 2017 was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in the category "Best Director" and Maria's testament , based on the novel by Colm Tóibín (2018/19, in this production he was also responsible for the set design). On May 16, 2019, his dramatization of Joseph Roth's "Radetzkymarsch" premieres in Josefstadt.

In addition to his theater work, Elmar Goerden has been working as a visual artist for many years, was a painting scholar at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and a guest at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Awards

Important productions

credentials

  1. ^ At the press conference to introduce the new artistic director Elmar Goerden in Bochum, December 9, 2003.
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 22, 1996.
  3. ↑ The end of a messed up management . Frankfurter Rundschau, July 3, 2010
  4. ↑ The era of Elmar Goerden . Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 22, 2010
  5. ↑ A single misunderstanding . Die Welt, March 31, 2010
  6. ^ Counter-criticism: Elmar Goerden . Theater Today , July 2008
  7. ↑ derStandard.at: Nestroy Awards: Meyerhoff and Jonasson best actors . Article dated November 13, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Goerden, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen