Frank Grupe

Frank Grupe (* 1952 in Hörstel ) is a German director , actor , radio play writer and dramaturge .

Life

Frank Grupe grew up in Bremen and took over roles in radio play productions as early as 1965, at the age of 14 he played in 1966 in the film The Head Waiter at Hans Korte's Side , and in 1968 he made his stage debut at the Waldau Theater . After graduating from high school, Grupe studied social sciences and has been working as a freelance actor since 1974. Engagements took him to theaters in Bonn, Bremen, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. Well-known roles were Garcin in Jean-Paul Sartre's Closed Society , Trufaldino in Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni or Tranio in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew .

In 1984 Grupe began writing stage plays and radio plays and translating theater pieces. In 1985 he founded the independent theater group Schall und Rauch together with Helen De Lon , which played various in-house productions and plays by groups. In 1988 he worked as a director at theaters in Bremen, Flensburg and Hamburg, as well as staging radio plays and features for the North German Broadcasting Corporation and Radio Bremen . Since 2011 he has written the books for several episodes of the radio series Düsse Petersens .

In the season 1988/89 Frank Grupe worked as a dramaturge at the Waldau-Theater, in 1991 he founded the Theater Aalen together with Udo Schoen , where he worked as a dramaturge, director and actor until 1996. From 1993 to 1999 he was the director and artistic director responsible for the staging of the festival in the Alte Bastei in Nördlingen; in 1993 he was responsible for the dramaturgy for the staging of Mozart's Magic Flute at the opera festival in Heidenheim, and in 1995 Grupe Edward Albee's Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? at the Stuttgart theater in the west.

In 1997 Grupe came to the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater and has worked there as chief dramaturge and director ever since. During this time he also staged The Diary of Anne Frank at the Altona Theater in 2001 and in 2002 directed the Störtebeker open-air theater in Marienhafe in East Frisia .

Frank Grupe lives in Hamburg .

Radio play work

As a speaker (selection)

• 1965: Reports from 2015 (4th part: canned teachers) - Director: Bernd Wiegmann
• 1966: Direction Ravenseck - Director: Günter Bommert
• 1967: Window Seat - Director: Günter Siebert
• 1967: Come with us to Gamberien - Director: Otto Kurth
• 1968: De Möhl - Director: Hans-Jürgen Ott
• 1968: Dat Dorp Annersieden - Director: Walter Bäumer
• 1969: The first civic duty - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann
• 1970: De Funkenpuster - Director: Hans Robert Helms
• 1970: Dangerous Friendship - Director: Bernd Wiegmann
• 1971: Dat klort op - Director: Hans-Jürgen Ott
• 1972: The participants of the safari wait patiently - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
• 1973: Strandrövers - Director: Wolf Rahtjen
• 1975: Gollen Hochtied - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1976: De Resthoff - Director: Jochen Schütt
• 1979: Freedom for Korl Spaddel - Director: Jochen Schenck
• 1980: Bishorst - Director: Claus Boysen
• 1981: When the dealer kummt - Director: Claus Boysen
• 1981: Dat Sprüttenhuus - Director: Ursula Hinrichs
• 1983: De Radtour - Director: Ursula Hinrichs
• 1984: Ole Stories - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1985: Een Dag as elkeen Dag - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1986: Seefieber - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1987: Oprappeln - Director: Rolf Nagel
• 1989: Utrangscheert - Director: Jochen Schütt
• 1990: Sisyphos - Director: Jochen Schütt
• 1991: Die Schrumpfmarie - Director: Christian Gebert
• 1997: Acht geven - Director: Michael Leinert
• 1998: Dark - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1999: Halvtiet - Director: Jochen Schütt
• 2000: Judith van Mönster - Director: Georg Bühren
• 2002: De eerste Liek - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2004: Midsummer Night's Dreams - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2005: Exfrünnen - Director: Dirk Böhling
• 2006: Wellenslag - Director: Rolf Petersen
• 2006: Ünner den Melkwoold - Editing and direction: Hans Helge Ott
• 2009: De Mafia is överall - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2010: Wilma un Karl - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2012: Columbus op de Hallig - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2011: Australia - Director: Jochen Schütt
• 2013: Dode speelt keen Lotto - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2016: De Hund von Buscherby - Director: Hans Helge Ott

As an author

• 1987: Marion - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1987: Scheiro - De Weg na baben - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1987: Lütt Engels - Director: Claus Boysen
• 1988: Een lütte lütte city in Northern Germany - director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1991: Never - Director: Frank Grupe
• 1991: Schuld is blots de Wiehnachtsboom - Director: Walter Arthur Kreye
• 1997: Heinz un Harry - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 1997: Engel op Platte - Director: Frank Grupe
• 2000: Wenn ... - Director: Hans Helge Ott

SchnappSchuss - De Krimi op Platt

• 2002: Episode 3: Sun in the City - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2003: Episode 4: Tweemal Leven - Director: Frank Grupe
• 2004: Episode 8: De ole Villa - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2009: Episode 11: Halligstorm - Director: Ilka Bartels

Greetings Petersens

• 2011: Episode 3: Missing Tones - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2012: Episode 5: Silver Stripes - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2013: Episode 11: SOS - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2014: Episode 14: Own Paths - Director: Hans Helge Ott
• 2015: Episode 17: The New Neighbor - Director: Hans Helge Ott

As a director (selection)

• 1985: Dignified Nahverslüüd - Author: Uwe Jürgensen
• 1987: Rebellion in Koldenkarken - Author: Peter Bendixen
• 1990: Hostensaft - Author: Georg Bühren
• 1990: The Schipper-Kids (3rd episode: The Schipper-Kids and the limp dog) - Author: Wolfgang Pauls
• 1990: Twee Vagels with the name Wendehals - Author: Günter Wahrendorf
• 1990: Wulkenpalaver - Author: Wolfram Rosemann
• 1997: Iesgang - Author: Erich R. Andersen
• 1997: Herrenpartie - Author: Bodo Schirmer
• 1997: Grulig ist, över't Moor to gahn - Author: Wolfram Rosemann
• 1997: Bambi - Author: Wolfgang Sieg
• 1997: Frauke - Author: Willy Russel
• 1998: Besöök bi Nacht - Author: Peter Bendixen
• 1998: Dwarstörn - Author: Bodo Schirmer
• 1998: Eenmal Camping, Jümmer Camping - Author: Bodo Schirmer
• 1999: Mien Huus - Author: Hermann Otto
• 1999: Grönkohleten - Author: Hermann Otto
• 1999: Twee Minschenkinner - Author: Konrad Hansen
• 1999: The last class trip - Author: Peter Bendixen
• 2000: Breef to Sandra - Author: Ernst-Otto Schlöpke
• 2000: De Hasenflapp-Report - Author: Snorre Björkson
• 2000: Juana - Author: Carl Groth
• 2000: Arvdeel - Author: Ubbo Gerdes
• 2001: Een lüerlütt Licht - Author: Hermann Otto
• 2001: Jümmergrön - Author: Hermann Otto
• 2001: Amrum in love (19 episodes) - Authors: Anke Veil and Claudia Heydolph
• 2002: SchnappSchuss - De Krimi op Platt (episode: Sylter Arvschop) - Author: Erich R. Andersen
• 2003: So, ahoy first ... - Author: Holger Janssen
• 2003: Kläuser up Wulk söben - Author: Rudolf Kollhoff
• 2006: Lütetsburg - Author: Erhard Brüchert

Plays

Own pieces

• 1985: Servant for two
• 1986: Party for the godfather
• 1986: Lilly, stop lying
• 1988: late harvest
• 1988: Döör to Döör
• 1988: Iesenkopp
• 1990: Dat Speel
• 1998: Maria Holl - witch hunt in Nördlingen
• 1999: Lysistrate
• 2001: 1634

Translations

• 1984: Big Maggie
• 1984: The Vagabond
• 1984: Katharina de Grote
• 1987: Dat Glippoog (after Tartuffe )
• 1988: Liefpien in de Hacken (based on The Imaginary Sick )
• 1989: Dat Beest by Keerl
• 1989: De marriage request
• 1998: Hochtied to Kiekebusch
• 2000: Great Freedom No. 7
• 2002: Twee as Katt un Hund

Filmography

• 1966: The head waiter
• 2004: The money is in the bank

Web links

• Frank Grupe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Frank Grupe website
• Literature by and about Frank Grupe in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Frank Grupe's website
2. ↑ Brief portrait at vvb , accessed on October 11, 2015