Enrico Luebbe

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Enrico Lübbe (born April 9, 1975 in Schwerin ) is a German theater director and artistic director . Since 2013 he has directed the Leipzig theater .

Career

Enrico Lübbe was born in Schwerin in 1975. At the age of eleven he played the title role in the six-part GDR television series Alfons Zitterbacke . Lübbe graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium Schwerin in 1993 and then studied communication, media and theater studies at the University of Leipzig from 1993 to 1999 . Then he started as an assistant director at the Schauspiel Leipzig . He made his directorial debut there in 1999, after having worked with directors such as Wolfgang Engel , Armin Petras and Thomas Bischoff at the Leipzig Theater from 1998 . In Leipzig he worked as a permanent in-house director between 2000 and 2004. Since 2001 he has directed as a guest at the Schauspiel Köln , Schauspiel Magdeburg and since 2004 regularly at the State Theater Stuttgart and State Theater Nuremberg . In 2010 he made his Munich debut with the production of Gerhart Hauptmanns Rose Bernd at the Residenztheater of the Bavarian State Theater . In 2011 he opened the season at the Schauspiel Frankfurt with Schiller's Die Räuber , in 2012 he made his capital debut at the Berliner Ensemble with stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth, was nominated for the Friedrich-Luft-Prize and invited to the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2013. In 2013 Lübbe staged the German premiere of Manfred Trojahn's Orestes at the Hanover State Opera .

Enrico Lübbe works continuously with the dramaturge / director Torsten Buß and the outfitters Hugo Gretler, Sabine Blickenstorfer, Michaela Barth, Bianca Deigner, Henrik Ahr and Etienne Pluss, as well as the stage musician Bert Wrede . His work has received multiple awards and invited to national and international festivals.

From 2008 to 2013 Enrico Lübbe was acting director in Chemnitz . Under his leadership, the Chemnitz Theater recorded increasing national attention and increased visitor numbers. The Chemnitzer Schauspiel was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage and Autorentheatertage in Berlin and received several awards from the annual critics' surveys of the specialist magazines Theater heute and Die Deutsche Bühne , including the nomination for “Theater of the Year” in 2010 and 2012. The newly founded theater youth club was awarded both ZDF festival "Schoolchildren play Sturm und Drang" as well as invited to the "Berlin Theatertreffen der Jugend 2010" and again to the "Berliner Theatertreffen der Jugend 2011". In 2012, Schauspiel Chemnitz made a guest appearance at the Slovenian Theater Days in the European capital of culture Maribor .

Enrico Lübbe has been artistic director at the Schauspiel Leipzig since the 2013/14 season. Here too, the number of viewers has increased since the beginning of his directorship. The Schauspiel Leipzig was invited under Lübbe to the most important German festivals for contemporary drama: to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2014, 2015 and 2018, to the Autorentheatertage Berlin 2014, 2017 and 2019, to the festival “Radikal Jung” 2015 and to the Mülheimer Theatertage 2014, 2016 and in 2019, where the playwright Wolfram Höll was awarded the Mülheim Dramatist Prize in 2014 and 2016 for the Leipzig world premieres of his plays And Then and Three We are, and Thomas Köck for his Leipzig world premiere ATLAS 2019 with the most renowned German-language playwright prize. In addition, the Leipzig Theater, under the directorship of Enrico Lübbe, received invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2017 with the staging of "89/90" by Peter Richter and in 2019 with the oratorio by SHE SHE POP. The Sächsische Zeitung praised Lübbe's artistic director performance as "The Leipzig author's wonder" , DeutschlandRadio Kultur added: “Like no other German stage, the Leipziger Schauspielhaus under Enrico Lübbe excelled as an author's theater.” Enrico Lübbe made his directorial debut as Leipzig artistic director with Emilia Galotti, and in 2014 Lübbe staged the world premiere of Richard Yates ' times of turmoil. In 2015 he opened the season with the highly acclaimed Aeschylus / Jelinek double project Die Schutzflehenden / Die Schutzbefohlenen , which was invited to the 70th Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen and was selected by the Berlin Theatertreffen 2016. In 2017, Lübbe staged the double project “The Measure / The Persians” by Bertolt Brecht / Hanns Eisler and Aischylos in cooperation with the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig and the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen . In 2017, Lübbe opened the new second venue for contemporary drama in theater, "Diskothek", with clouds . Home of Elfriede Jelinek .

In June 2016, the city of Leipzig extended Enrico Lübbe's directorship contract ahead of schedule until 2023.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung (edition of July 12, 2010, p. 11) described the style of the director Enrico Lübbe as follows: He has “a weakness for utterly unhappy subjects, he is a precise actor-director.” The trade journal Theater heute (October 2010 edition, p. 53) added: “Enrico Lübbe is an actor director who knows how to achieve an effect with reduction (...), who concentrates on the essentials, does not renounce strong feelings and at the same time also causes unrest Brain generated. ”And the Berliner Tagesspiegel wrote stories from the Vienna Woods about the production : “ The magician who is not a magician, but a precise observer and connoisseur and a so-called actor-director with the courage to remain silent is called Enrico Lübbe. (...) Now he kissed the Berliner Ensemble awake during his first production in Berlin with Horváth's "Tales from the Vienna Woods" . "

Productions (selection)

Theater Leipzig

Cologne theater

State Theater Stuttgart

State Theater Nuremberg

Drama Chemnitz

Bavarian State Theater Munich

Frankfurt theater

Berlin Ensemble

Opera productions

Hanover State Opera

Opera Erfurt

Bonn Opera

Leipzig Opera

literature

  • Jens Bisky, Torsten Buß and Enrico Lübbe (eds.): You don't know what the future will bring. The expert talks on "The Protectors / The Protectors". Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95749-080-3 .
  • Anke Roeder, C. Bernd Sucher (eds.): Radically young: Directors: portraits, talks, interviews. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934344-48-8 .
  • Ute Grundmann: More light for acting . In: The German Stage. 4/2008, p. 18f.
  • Irene Bazinger: Directing is real violence . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 7, 2008.
  • Klaus Dermutz : Back to the center. Enrico Lübbe's brilliant start at the Schauspiel Chemnitz . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 25, 2008.
  • Jenny Zichner: Departure with diligence and ambition. With Enrico Lübbe as the new boss, the Chemnitzer Schauspiel gains in format and is invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage for the first time . In: Sächsische Zeitung of April 22, 2009.
  • Rita Nikolow: Child murderer drama: village beauty on thorny paths. In: Spiegel-Online of July 3, 2010.
  • Egbert Tholl: On the wrong track. Wake-up call at the Residenztheater: In 'Rose Bernd', Enrico Lübbe shows lonely creatures full of brittle force. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 12, 2010.
  • Tereza Grenzmann: Rose Bernd: Great pain studies. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 12, 2010.
  • Joachim Lange: Enrico Lübbe's new rage on an old piece. Chemnitz head of theater convinces in Frankfurt with Schiller's 'robbers' . In: Freie Presse from October 7, 2011.
  • Andreas Schäfer: Live quietly. Enrico Lübbe kisses the Berliner Ensemble awake . In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 24, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schauspiel Leipzig website ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-leipzig.de
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  4. ↑ Schauspiel Leipzig: Zeiten des Aufruhrs (WP). (No longer available online.) In: www.schauspiel-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016 ; accessed on June 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-leipzig.de
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  6. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Berliner Festspiele - Theatertreffen: Stagings under discussion. In: www.berlinerfestspiele.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Contract with Enrico Lübbe is to be extended until 2023 - City of Leipzig. In: www.leipzig.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Luebbe, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin