Günter Krämer (director)

Günter Krämer (born December 2, 1940 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German theater director , opera director and theater director .

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Krämer studied German and gained his first stage experience at the student theater in Freiburg im Breisgau . He first worked as a high school teacher and began his theater career as an assistant director in Wiesbaden .

In 1972 he staged Eugene O'Neill's Fast a Poet in Cologne . From 1973 to 1975 he was a director at the State Theater in Hanover . Director works here were Uncle Wanja (1973), Fräulein Julie (1974), Carlo Goldonis Krach in Chioggia (1974), Gombrowicz ' Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (1974) and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck (1974).

From 1975 to 1979 he worked at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin under Hans Lietzau . He staged Krach in Chioggia several times in 1977 , as well as Sławomir Mrożek's Emigranten (1975), Canetti's Wedding (1976), Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart (1977), Thomas Bernhard's Ein Fest für Boris (1977) and Ödön von Horváth's Faith, Love, Hope (1978).

In 1979 he became senior director with Hansgünther Heyme at the Stuttgart State Theater . Here he directed the performances of Philip Magdalany's Section Nine (1979), August Strindberg's Totentanz (1980, with Gisela Stein ), the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's Die Villa (1980), Frank Wedekind's Lulu (1981), Schiller's Maria Stuart (1982), Seneca's Oedipus (1982), the world premiere of Friederike Roth's Ritt auf die Wartburg (1982) and Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe (1982). He appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele with Hjalmar Söderberg's Gertrud (1981).

In the 1984/1985 season he moved to Bremen as a director and drama director , where he was director of the drama department until 1989. His productions in Bremen include the world premieres of Friederike Roth's pieces The Only Story (1985) and The Whole One Piece (1986), Goethe's Faust ( Faust I 1985, Faust II 1986), The Seagull (1987), Richard III. (1987), Camus ' Die Pest (1988) and Ernst Barlach's The Poor Cousin (1988/89).

In 1987 he had success at the Theater des Westens with Die Dreigroschenoper , which he took over to Cologne in 1990 . In the 1990/1991 season he replaced Klaus Pierwoß as director of the Cologne theater .

In 1995 he became general director of the Cologne City Theater , a position he held until 2002. He was also responsible for opera and ballet. In Cologne he staged Stella (1990), Strindbergs Totentanz and Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1992, with Ingrid Andree ), Heiner Müller's Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome (1993), Bertolt Brecht's Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1994), Goethe's Faust I (1997) and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1998).

Krämer's opera productions include Korngold's Die tote Stadt (1986) and Schreker's Die Gezeichen (1987, both at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ), Janáček's Katja Kabanova (1986, Deutsche Oper Berlin ), Weber's Der Freischütz (1989, Komische Oper Berlin ), and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (1992/93, Hamburg), Verdi's La traviata (1993, Munich Opera Festival ), Hindemith's Neues vom Tage (1996) and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1998), both at the Cologne Opera .

In the 2009/10 season Günter Krämer staged Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Paris Opéra Bastille and in 2010 La clemenza di Tito at the Schwetzingen Mozart Summer . In 2013 he directed Joseph and His Brothers - Die Touched , a stage version of the novel by Thomas Mann . It premiered on December 5, 2013 in the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Web links

• Günter Krämer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography with photo