Fritz Marquardt

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Fritz Marquardt (born July 15, 1928 in Groß Friedrich near Kriescht ; † March 4, 2014 in Pasewalk ) was a German director and actor .

Life

Fritz Marquardt attended elementary school. In 1945 he was interned in a labor camp in Siberia . After a stay in a hospital and his release, he worked as a farm worker, tractor driver and warehouse worker, then as a new farmer in the Oderbruch . From 1950 to 1953 he did his Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty , then he studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1958 . With Wolfgang Heise he wrote his diploma thesis on the comic in Hegel . After a short assistantship at the university, he was editor of a village newspaper, then district secretary for youth consecration in Seelow and construction worker in the Schwedt oil processing plant .

From 1959 to 1961 Marquardt was editor of the magazine Theater der Zeit . It was during this time that his friendship with Heiner Müller began . His enthusiasm for Müller's play Die Umsiedlerin or Life in the Country earned Marquardt party proceedings; After its premiere on September 30, 1961 (directed by B. K. Tragelehn ) the play was banned in the GDR for 15 years and could not be shown again until 1976, now under Marquardt's direction.

Marquardt then worked as an archivist at the Volksbühne in Berlin, then as chief dramaturge at the Landestheater Parchim , where he himself directed for the first time in 1963. His production of Büchner's Woyzeck resulted in his dismissal in Parchim . In 1965 he wrote the short story Document or Widder im Dornbusch , which was only published in 1979. In the second half of the 1960s he worked as a lecturer for scene studies at the film school in Babelsberg . Since then he has also been seen sporadically as a film actor. He had his most important appearances in films by Siegfried Kühn , including his most memorable role, the gatekeeper in The Second Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973) , which was made redundant by the electrification of the railway . The film was rejected by the DEFA committees and by Helmut Baierl , the author of the original, and could only be shown as a few copies in small art theaters in the GDR.

Finally, in 1969, Marquardt switched back to the Volksbühne, which at that time developed into the most important theater in the GDR under the direction of Karl Holàn and the artistic direction of Benno Besson . There Marquardt staged primarily contemporary pieces in a “strict poetic imagery”; occasionally he also appeared as an actor. His staging of Heiner Müller's Die Bauern (1976), the revised version of the resettler banned since 1961 (the revision consisted of changing a single movement), and the first performance of the since the XI. ZK plenum 1965 forbidden Müller play Der Bau (1980) based on Erik Neutsch's novel Trace of Stones , in which Marquardt and Artistic Director Fritz Rödel implemented the uncensored text version.

In 1980 Marquardt left the Volksbühne and worked abroad until 1985, mainly at Hans Croisets Publiekstheater in Amsterdam , but also in Mannheim , Munich and Bochum . In 1985, BE director and ZK member Manfred Wekwerth brought him back to East Berlin and to the Berliner Ensemble , where , after years of struggle, he got the GDR premiere of Heiner Müller's Germania Tod in Berlin (1989); the premiere had already taken place in 1978 in Munich.

After Wekwerth's resignation in July 1991, Marquardt was briefly interim director, then from August 1992 (rather unwillingly ) a member of the five-person directorate together with Matthias Langhoff , Peter Palitzsch , Peter Zadek and Heiner Müller (and due to fluctuations temporarily also Eva Mattes and Peter Sauerbaum ) of the BE. In 1993 the BE was converted into a GmbH with the directors as shareholders. In the summer of 1995 Marquardt resigned as artistic director and ended his directorial work with Ibsen's Klein Eyolf . Since then he has lived on his farm in the Uckermark and only appeared occasionally as an actor, for example in Stephan Suschke 's production of Die Bauern in 1997 and in Andreas Dresen's film Whiskey with Vodka in 2009 .

Theater productions

At the Volksbühne:

  • Valentin Katajew : Avantgarde (Premiere September 27, 1970)
  • Heiner Müller : Women's Comedy (Premiere June 25, 1971)
  • Erich Köhler : The Spirit of Cranitz (premiere June 16, 1972)
  • Alexander Kopkow : Der goldene Elefant (Premiere December 8, 1972), directed with Berndt Renne and Roland Bischoff
  • Kurt Bartsch , with music by Henry Krtschil : Der Bauch (premiered September 25, 1974 as part of Spektakel 2. Zeitstücke )
  • Molière , translated by Kurt Bartsch: Der Menschenhasser (Premiere September 27, 1975)
  • Heiner Müller: The Peasants (= The Resettled Woman ) (Premiere May 30, 1976)
  • Heiner Müller: The Building (Premiere September 3, 1980)

Guest productions:

  • Heinrich von Kleist : Penthesilea (1973, Rotterdam)
  • Bertolt Brecht : Mijnheer Puntila en zijn knecht Matti (= Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti ) (1981, Publiekstheater Amsterdam)
  • Franz Xaver Kroetz : Not Fish, Not Meat (Premiere April 18, 1982, Nationaltheater Mannheim)
  • Bertolt Brecht: De weerstaanbare opkomst van Arturo Ui (= The resilient rise of Arturo Ui ) (1983, Publiekstheater Amsterdam)
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan the Wise (1984/85, Münchner Kammerspiele)
  • Molière : De ingebeelde Zieke (= The Imaginary Sick ) ( Premiere March 16, 1985, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam)
  • Henrik Ibsen : Eyolf (= Klein Eyolf ) (Premiere November 21, 1986, Schauspielhaus Bochum)

At the Berliner Ensemble:

Filmography

literature

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephan Suschke: Briefly about the approach of the root in the hard wood. Spiritual sharpness and human warmth: the director Fritz Marquardt turns seventy . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 1998.
  2. ↑ Matthias Braun: Drama about a comedy. The ensemble of SED and State Security, FDJ and Ministry of Culture against Heiner Müller's "The resettler or life in the country" in October 1961 . 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-102-X
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Behrens: More upright with a tendency to be stubborn. Fritz Marquardt on his 80th birthday
  4. ↑ Reinhard Wengierek: The director Fritz Marquardt's 80th birthday . In: Die Welt , July 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ Detlef Friedrich: Theater life in the country. Real GDR biography: The director Fritz Marquardt turns 75 today . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 2003.
  6. ↑ table of contents

7. ↑ Fritz Marquardt - Truthfulness and Wrath. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008, pp. 11–15

personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Friedrich at Kriescht
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2014
Place of death Pasewalk