Günther Gerstner

Günther Gerstner (* 1955 in Hof ) is a German theater director .

Life

Gerstner trained as an electrician and then worked as a casual worker. In 1975 he was sentenced to two years in prison for "subversive connections and suspected illegal border crossing ". In 1977 he was deported to the Federal Republic of Germany .

He started out as a lighting technician at the Berlin Schaubühne . In 1982 he was first assistant director in Jürgen Kruse's production of Romeo and Juliet , then at the Hamburg Thalia Theater in Karl Fruchtmann's production of Seán O'Casey's Purpurstaub .

Since 1983 he has worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele as assistant to Peter Zadek , Harald Clemen and Dieter Dorn . His first directorial achievements were Sam Shepard's Fool for Love (1986) and Bertolt Brecht's Mann ist Mann (1987). In 1988 he staged Rainald Goetz 's battles at the Bonn Theater and in 1989 Molières Der Geizige at the Wiesbaden Theater .

Of Friedrich Schirmer Gerstner was a regular guest director at the Theater Freiburg fetched. This was followed by, among others, Euripides ' Orestes (1989), Luigi Pirandello's Six People Looking for an Author (1989/90), Einar Schleef's actor (1990) and Franz Grillparzer's King Ottokar's Glück und Ende (1992). From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a full-time director at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin ( Schiller Theater ).

After a break in directing, he celebrated a much-noticed comeback at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 1994/1995 with Andreas Marber's Those were the better days , which was also followed in 1995 by Peter Turrini's The Battle of Vienna . At the Maxim Gorki Theater he staged Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe in 1996 and in the same year Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena and Witold Gombrowicz 's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy , and in 1998 at the Bochum Schauspielhaus Hans Henny Jahnn's Thomas Chatterton .

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 .