Felix Rellstab

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Felix Rellstab (born July 14, 1924 in Wädenswil ; † March 11, 1999 in Schönenberg ZH ) was a Swiss actor and theater director .

Live and act

Felix Rellstab completed an apprenticeship as an actor and director at the Zurich stage studio and at the Zurich theater from 1946 to 1948 . Between 1948 and 1950 he worked as a dramaturge, assistant director and actor at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 1951 Rellstab became artistic director of the Small Theater in Zurich and directed open-air plays, folk and student theaters. In addition to his artistic work, Rellstab studied philosophy from 1953 and completed training in speech therapy . His educational work as a speech and voice trainer began during his studies . From 1959 he also appeared as a speaker and lecturer for theory and fundamentals of theater play.

In 1966 he was a founding member of the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich and remained its director until 1971. From 1960 to 1991 Felix Rellstab headed the stage studio in Zurich, which in 1972 was renamed the Zurich Acting Academy under his direction ( Zurich University of the Arts ). As a co-founder of the SADS - Swiss Working Group for Performing Games in Schools, of which he was president from 1982 to 1986, Rellstab laid an important foundation stone for his career as one of the most important drama teachers in the German-speaking area. In 1979 he founded the "Theater im Schulhaus", of which he took over in 1985. In 1987 he became co-founder and president of the sponsoring association as well as vice-president of the children's and youth theater Zurich (Kitz - Junge Theater Zürich), as well as president of the re-established Center Suisse ITI. During Felix Rellstab's time as director of the Zurich Acting Academy and the Theater am Neumarkt, important productions, new translations, and original, German or Swiss premieres took place. In addition, Rellstab occasionally worked as an actor for stage, television and film, u. a. 1998 in Fredi Murer's film Vollmond and in 1998 in the world premiere of Theresia Walser's King Kong's Daughters at Theater Neumarkt.

From 1990 Felix Rellstab started an extensive series of workshops in Germany, Italy, Romania, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Korea, among others. As a project manager for extensive theater educational structures at home and abroad, head and jury member of authors' workshops (including Boswil) as well as author and editor of the series schau-spiel , the Stanislawski book 1976, the four-volume handbook of theater plays and author of internationally acclaimed location regulations such as Über die Fantasy of the actor 1964, About the theory of representation in training to become an actor 1985, Artistic animation - function and training 1987, The double reality of the actor 1990, Theory of theater play according to Stanislawski and Brecht 1992, he made a name for himself beyond the borders of Europe as an acting teacher.

Rebstab was buried in the Nordheim cemetery.

He was the brother of the painter Regula Rellstab and the father of the actress Barbara Rellstab.

Awards

  • 1992 Culture Prize of the City of Zurich.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater Lexicon. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fritz Franz Vogel: Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Ed .: Chronos Verlag Zurich. tape 3 . Chronos Verlag Zurich, Zurich 2005, p. 1479 .
personal data
SURNAME Rellstab, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Waedenswil
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1999
Place of death Schönenberg ZH