Ernst Seilgen
Ernst Seiltgen (born May 4, 1928 in Moers ; † September 29, 2004 ) was a German actor , theater director and theater director .
Live and act
Seilengen studied theater studies, literary history and psychology in Cologne and Bonn from 1947 to 1950 . He then received acting lessons in Bonn and began his first engagement at the Städtische Bühnen Ulm in 1950 , where he stayed until 1954.
From 1954 to 1957 he was assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele and from 1957 to 1960 teacher at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . In 1958 he began his own productions at the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
From 1960 to 1962 Seiltgen was first director at the municipal theaters of Augsburg , from 1963 to 1966 senior director of drama at the Wuppertal theaters and from 1967 to 1970 director of the state theater Württemberg-Hohenzollern in Tübingen .
From 1970 to 1973 he was director of the Oberhausen Theater and from 1973 to 1994 director of the Ingolstadt City Theater . In 1974 he opened the open-air theater and in 1985 the studio in the Herzogskasten .
His productions in Ingolstadt included Hahnenkampf by Heinrich Lautensack (1974), the world premiere of Axel Plogstedts The Early Thirties ... (1975), Burned Poets by Rainer Behrend (1979), The Silk Shoe by Paul Claudel (1980), Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (1985) and the world premiere of Lena Christs Hochzeiter (1987). As a guest director he staged Frank Wedekind's Liebestrank (1977) at the Vienna Academy Theater and at the Bavarian State Theater Geneviève Serreaus Heartache of an English Cat (1982).
The Bavarian Theatertage (BTT) was founded in 1983 by himself and August Everding .
In 1995 he retired as artistic director. Wolfram Krempel was his successor . As a director, Seiltgen, who was also the theater's first honorary member, remained active, for example with Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden (1998).
From 1957 to 1960 Ernst Seiltgen played the second narrator in the popular radio play series Dickie Dick Dickens by Rolf and Alexandra Becker . He was married to the opera, concert and oratorio singer Emmy Lisken . His daughter, Anette Seiltgen , is an opera singer.
literature
- C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
Web links
- Ernst Seiltgen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program of the 30th Bavarian Theater Days 2012, page 13
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rope tight, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, theater director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moers |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 2004 |