Frank Behnke (director)

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Frank Behnke (born March 20, 1962 in Haste near Hanover ) is a German theater director and dramaturge .

Life

Frank Behnke studied literature with a focus on theater and media studies at the University of Hamburg . He has been working as a dramaturge and director since the early 1990s. He had his first permanent engagement as a dramaturgy and assistant director at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen in Wilhelmshaven . In the 1993/94 season he went to the Osnabrück Municipal Theaters as a dramaturge ; from the 1997/98 season he took over the management of the drama department. From 1998 to 2000, he was chief dramaturge and head of public relations at the Schlosstheater Celle . From the 2000/01 season to the 2009/10 season he was employed at the Staatstheater Nürnberg as the lead dramaturge and deputy to the theater director Klaus Kusenberg . There he was responsible for the redesign and redesign of the schedule of the Nuremberg Theater; together with Kusenberg he put the focus a. a. on contemporary theater literature with numerous premieres and premieres.

At the Staatstheater Nürnberg Behnke realized productions of plays a. a. by Thomas Bernhard , Federico García Lorca , Lukas Bärfuss and George Tabori . For his staging of Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters in the 2004/05 season (premiere: November 2004), he was awarded the audience and jury award of the Bavarian Theater Days in 2005.

In 2008 he took over the direction of Schiller's Don Karlos at the Schwaben State Theater . In the 2009/10 season he staged Goethe's drama Iphigenie auf Tauris at the Ingolstadt City Theater .

In the 2010/11 season he became head dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . Since the 2012/13 season he has been acting director at the Städtische Bühnen Münster . There he staged a. a. Die Räuber (2012/13 season), Spring Storms of Tennessee Williams (2012/13 season), Hamlet (2013/14 season), Ein Volksfeind (2013/14 season; premiere: December 2013), Othello (2015/16 season), The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (2015/16 season), The Nibelungs (2016/17 season), Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses (2016/17 season) and The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof (2017/18 season).

In the 2013/14 season he staged the play The Sacrifice of Gorge Mastromas by Dennis Kelly as a guest director at the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg . He also worked as a guest director at Theater Hof (season 2016/17), Theater Ingolstadt (season 2017/18) and again at Staatstheater Nürnberg (season 2017/18) and at Theater Münster . In the 2018/19 season he staged Schiller's Wilhelm Tell at the Münster Theater .

As acting director, he was the initiator and artistic director of the NRW-Theatertreffen at the Münster Theater in the 2019/20 season .

Productions

  • 1993/94: Javier Tomeo : Mothers and Sons (Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord, Wilhelmshaven)
  • 1994/95: Ad de Bont : Mirad, the boy from Bosnia (Theater Osnabrück)
  • 1995/96: When the girls are naked , a recital ( premiere , Theater Osnabrück)
  • 1996/97: Suzanne de Lohuizen: Dossier Ronald Akkerman (Theater Osnabrück)
  • 1998/99: Horst Vincon : Goethe must go (premiere, Schloßtheater Celle)
  • 2004/05: Thomas Bernhard: Old Masters (Nuremberg Theater)
  • 2005/06: Thomas Bernhard: Heldenplatz (Nuremberg Theater)
  • 2006/07: Federico García Lorca: Bernarda Albas Haus (Schauspiel Nürnberg)
  • 2007/08: Lukas Bärfuss: The Rehearsal (Nuremberg Theater)
  • 2007/08: Friedrich Schiller: Don Karlos (State Theater Schwaben, Memmingen)
  • 2008/09: Werner Fritsch : Enigma Emmy Göring (Schauspiel Nürnberg)
  • 2009/10: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Stadttheater Ingolstadt)
  • 2009/10: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / George Tabori: The Jews / Jubilee (Nuremberg Theater)
  • 2012/13: Friedrich Schiller: The Robbers (Theater Münster)
  • 2012/13: DC Moore: Afghanistan (DSE-Theater Münster)
  • 2012/13: Tennessee Williams : Spring Storms (DSE-Theater Münster)
  • 2013/14: William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Theater Münster)
  • 2013/14: Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People (Theater Münster)
  • 2014/15: Anton Cechow : Platonow (Theater Münster)
  • 2014/15: Tennessee Williams: Light underground - European premiere (Theater Münster)
  • 2014/15: Wolfgang Herrndorf : Tschick (ETA-Hoffmann-Theater Bamberg)
  • 2015/16: William Shakespeare: Othello (Theater Münster)
  • 2015/16: Friedrich Schiller: The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (Theater Münster)
  • 2015/16: Ferdinand von Schirach: Terror (State Theater Nuremberg)
  • 2016/17: Friedrich Hebbel: The Nibelungs (Theater Münster)
  • 2016/17: Bertolt Brecht: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses (Theater Münster)
  • 2016/17: Simon Stephens : Three Kingdoms (Theater Hof)
  • 2017/18: Tennessee Williams: The cat on a hot tin roof (Theater Münster)
  • 2017/18: Theresia Walser : I'm like you, I love apples (Theater Münster)
  • 2017/18: Lot Vekemans : Falsch (DSE, Theater Münster)
  • 2017/18: Frank Wedekind: Lulu (Ingolstadt Theater)
  • 2017/18: William Shakespeare: As You Like It (Staatstheater Nürnberg)
  • 2017/18: Gabriel Chevallier : Heldenangst ( WP , Theater Münster)
  • 2018/19: Friedrich Schiller: Wilhelm Tell (Theater Münster)
  • 2018/19: Joel Pommerat: Circles / Visions (ETA-Hoffmann-Theater Bamberg)
  • 2018/19: Ödön von Horváth : Kasimir and Karoline (Theater Münster)
  • 2019/20: based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder : The BRD Trilogy (Theater Münster)
  • 2019/20: Aeschylus : The Persians (Theater Hof)
  • 2019/20: Martin Heckmanns : My father and his shadows (Theater Münster, world premiere)
  • 2019/20: Heinrich von Kleist : Prince Friedrich von Homburg (Theater Münster)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frank Behnke Official website of the State Theater Nuremberg . Retrieved December 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Frank Behnke . Vita. Official website of the Münster Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved November 20, 2019
  3. ^ "Old Masters" from Nuremberg most successful play at Theatertagen Report in: Schwäbische Zeitung of March 13, 2005
  4. ↑ "Sire, give freedom of thought!" Performance review in: Schwäbische Zeitung from March 17, 2008
  5. ↑ Ipgigenie in Tauris ( Memento December 31, 2013 Internet Archive ) Press and criticism. Internet presence Stadttheater Ingolstadt. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  6. ^ Frank Behnke ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Internet presence ETA-Hoffmann-Theater . Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Frank Behnke . Vita. Official website of Theater Hof . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ Frank Behnke . Vita. Official website of Theater Hof . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  9. ↑ Frank Behnke . Vita. Official website of the State Theater Nuremberg . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  10. ↑ Frank Behnke shows the timeless topicality of Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” in Münster: The knitting freedom hero . In: Westfälische Nachrichten of September 30, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Behnke, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Haste near Hanover