Eos Schopohl

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Eos Schopohl (* 1953 in Moosburg an der Isar ) is a German actress and director .

Life

Eos Schopohl is the daughter of a doctor couple and initially grew up speaking the Persian language, as her parents lived and worked in Iran until they were 7 years old. After returning to Germany, she won the Hamburg Junior Roller Skating Championship in 1968 and later took 4th place at the German Championships.

After attending grammar school, Schopohl began her artistic training in November 1970 at the Hildburg Frese drama school in Hamburg. In the same year she made her debut at the operetta house there in a Christmas fairy tale and was also on the stage of the theater in the Hanseatic city in the fairy tale of the nut . In the following year she played in various productions in the house on Kirchenallee, such as One Must Be Stupid by Georges Feydeau , in Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth or Aristophanes ' comedy Lysistrata in a production by Dieter Dorn . When the Malersaal, an experimental stage of the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, started its performance on April 7, 1971, Eos Schopohl was there in the German premiere of Edward Bond's The Wedding of the Pope , directed by Peter von Wiese .

Until 1981 Schopohl had other engagements at the Berlin Schillertheater , the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Schauspiel Frankfurt . On the latter, in 1981, in connection with the occupation of the theater by RAF sympathizers in her capacity as co-director, she was dismissed without notice. During her acting career, she worked with well-known directors such as Hans Lietzau , Peter Palitzsch , Wilfried Minks , Claus Peymann and Heiner Müller . From 1982 to 1987 Schopohl studied philosophy and history at the University of Paris VIII . During this time she also attended the École Internationale de Théàtre of the theater teacher Jacques Lecoq . After completing her studies, she began directing training at the Münchner Kammerspiele , among others with Dieter Dorn, George Tabori , Thomas Langhoff and Franz Xaver Kroetz . She showed her first own production in 1989 in the workroom of the Kammerspiele with the play Stalin by Gaston Salvatore . From 1992 onwards, Schopohl took on teaching positions in the subject of "role instruction" at both the Otto Falckenberg School and the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

In the following year, Eos Schopohl founded the experimental theater group Fisch & Plastik together with the dramaturge Boris Heczko and the set designer Lucia Nussbächer , to which she still belongs today and for whose productions she is responsible as director. In 1994 she guest-directed Peter Handke's play The Hour, As We Didn't Know About Each Other at the El Hanagar Theater in Cairo. Schopohl is also active on other stages, such as the Munich theater MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING or the Kammerspiele in Landshut.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Eos Schopohl also worked occasionally for television. In addition to roles in two Tatort episodes, she played a. a. 1979 the film daughter of Gustav Knuth and Eva Brumby in Der eiserne Gustav , a 7-part film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada .

Trivia

The registrar in charge protested against the entry of the name Eos in the Moosburg birth register with the words: "That doesn't work. Eos is a shoe wax!"

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brigitte Ehrich: Das Mädchen Morgenröte , Hamburger Abendblatt from May 15, 1971 , accessed on August 29, 2015
  2. ↑ Willi Paetsch: The latest from the world of the stage , Hamburger Abendblatt from May 15, 1971 , accessed on August 29, 2015
  3. ^ Walter M. Herrmann: Opening with Bond and Applause , Hamburger Abendblatt of April 8, 1971 , accessed on August 29, 2015
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of Theater Fisch & Plastik , accessed on August 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Website of the Kammerspiele Landshut  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 29, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kleinestheater-kammerspiele-landshut.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schopohl, Eos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Moosburg an der Isar , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany