Günther Huster
Günther Huster (born August 25, 1912 in Osnabrück , † September 3, 1987 in Bremen ) was a German actor and theater director in Bremen. Huster later changed his first name Günter to Günther for artistic reasons .
biography
Huster was the son of the businessman August Huster and his wife Martha. First he did a commercial apprenticeship. He also took acting lessons. After the Second World War , in which he was a soldier, he founded the Bremen Zimmer Theater in 1947, nicknamed "The Experiment". The theater was initially located for a short time in the private apartment of his small family at Prager Straße 15. Here he presented avant-garde theater to the Bremen audience.
He also organized the new theater life in Bremen. He preferred modern, impulsive problem pieces. At first he played in a room in Schwachhausen . Together with Wolfgang Dohnberg, he founded a room theater or theater in the house in 1948 . It was played in the house Contrescarpe 8 and from November 1951 in a house at Schwachhauser Ring 78. Huster headed the house from 1948 to 1951, which was also called the studio theater . The theater was taken over by the Literary Association in 1951 . In 1953 he took over the newly opened Bremen Zimmer Theater , which from 1955 resided in the house at Schwachhauser Heerstraße 30a and moved to Schnoor in 1976, where Huster introduced the name "Theater im Schnoor", TIS for short. The adventurous theater director particularly fostered contemporary drama and has broken a lance for the avant-garde on countless guest performances at home and abroad.
From 1976 Huster headed the Theater im Schnoor , for which he had fought tirelessly for 12 years. In 1977 he left this theater with an honorary salary from the city of Bremen. However, that did not end his life in the theater: in 1977 he reopened the Zimmer Theater, which played in the Institut Français in the Contrescarpe in Bremen until Huster's death.
His son Till is an actor at the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huster, Günther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huster, Kurt Paul Günter (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater director in Bremen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1987 |
| Place of death | Bremen |