Ernstgeorg Hering

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Ernstgeorg Hering (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German theater director and dramaturge .

Life

Ernstgeorg Hering is the son of a historian and a speech educator. From 1961 to 1966 he studied German and theater studies at Berlin's Humboldt University , and in 1966 he began his theater career as a director and dramaturge at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. Benno Besson engaged Hering in 1972 at what was then the Berlin Volksbühne , where he worked with well-known colleagues such as Heiner Müller , Matthias Langhoff and Manfred Karge . In addition, Hering was a member of the Volksbühne's artistic director from 1974 to 1992. In 1975, an intensive and long-lasting collaboration began with the director Helmut Straßburger , together they managed 31 productions by 1992, many of which were invited to guest performances in various European countries, in addition to socialist brother countries also in the Federal Republic and Switzerland. Together with Strasbourg, Hering regularly staged at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe between 1979 and 1991 . In 1992 both of them were committed to the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau under the direction of Johannes Felsenstein at the time , which lasted for Hering until 2007. He then worked repeatedly at the theater in Naumburg and most recently at the Ansbach theater .

Well-known productions by Hering were, along with other Rameaus nephew of Denis Diderot , who at the same time established the long-term collaboration with Helmut Straßburger, Gerhart Hauptmanns Biberpelz with Ursula Karusseit and Marianne Wünscher, and Berlin Alexanderplatz based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Döblin , which appears 111 times on the program of the Volksbühne stood. In Dessau, Hering staged Hauptmann von Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer with Alfred Müller in the title role, the visit of the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt with Ursula Karusseit as Claire Zachanassian or William Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , with whom he said goodbye to the Anhaltisches Theater.

In 1972 Hering was also a co-founder of the Berlin Jazz Collegium , where he played the trumpet himself. In 2011 he took part in the documentary betrayers of the fatherland . As a lecturer he teaches at the Theater Academy Vorpommern in the subject "Dramaturgy". Ernstgeorg Hering is married to the actress Hildegard Alex .

Filmography

  • 1981: Rameau's nephew
  • 1983: the beaver fur
  • 1984: Koritke

Theater (direction with Helmut Straßburger )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Claus Blumenstengel: Productive Farewell with Shakespeare , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 19, 2007, accessed on August 22, 2016
  2. Biography on the website of Theater Ansbach , accessed on August 22, 2016