Günther Fleckenstein

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Günther Fleckenstein (born January 13, 1924 in Mainz ; † January 17, 2020 in Hamburg ) was a German theater director , dramaturge and theater director .

Live and act

Fleckenstein graduated from high school at the Electoral Palace in 1941 and studied philosophy and theater studies from 1946 to 1948 at the University of Mainz . From 1948 to 1949 he was assistant director and deputy dramaturge at the Kammerspiele Mainz. In 1949 he led there at Outside the door first self directed . From 1951 to 1954 he was director at the Mainz theater and assistant director of the opera and operetta at the Großer Haus . Further stations as a director were Ulm (1954), Gelsenkirchen (1955) and Essen (1956). He then worked as senior director in Münster , before moving to the Landestheater Hannover as a director in 1959 , where he was promoted to senior director in 1962. Among other things, his interpretations of The Last Days of Mankind and Mother Courage made him famous there . In 1966/67 he succeeded Heinz Hilpert as director of the German Theater in Göttingen . There he staged, among other things, an extensive cycle of antiques with seven comedies by Aristophanes , as well as many pieces by Carl Zuckmayer and new authors. He premiered several pieces by Peter Hacks (including Amphitryon , 1969) as well as Die Überlebenden by Renke Korn (1967), Agent Etzel by Wolfgang Deichsel (1968), lawyers by Rolf Hochhuth (1980) and Laokoon by Stefan Schütz (1983). He strongly advocated Polish authors. From 1976 to 1981 he was also director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival and gave guest productions on various stages. In 1986 Fleckenstein said goodbye in Göttingen with Paul Claudel's The Silk Shoe .

Fleckenstein settled in Germering and occasionally staged for touring theater and festivals, such as in 1995 Zuckmayer's Der Rattenfänger in Bad Hersfeld and 1997 Anouilh's Becket or the honor of God at the Luisenburg Festival .

Fleckenstein adapted several works for the stage, including Das Spiel ist aus by Jean-Paul Sartre (first performed in 1958) and The Grand Tyrant and the Court by Werner Bergengruen (first performed in 1962, then also as a film in 1966.)

In 2010, the 86-year-old Fleckenstein staged Apex in the Göttingen cultural center. He died in January 2020 at the age of 96 in Hamburg.

Awards

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 22, 2020: Obituary: Mourning for theater maker Günther Fleckenstein , accessed on January 23, 2020
  2. ↑ The Grand Prince and the Court as a film
  3. ↑ Fleckenstein stages Glenn Walbaum's Kaestner program
personal data
SURNAME Fleckenstein, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2020
Place of death Hamburg