George Frogs

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George Froscher (born February 6, 1927 in Berlin ; † November 10, 2015 in Munich ) was a German actor , dancer , theater director , set designer , choreographer and theater director .

Life

George Froscher attended a private drama school in Berlin and played in small city theaters after the Second World War. In the early 1950s he completed dance training at the Folkwang School in Essen and was a dancer with Kurt Joos and Jean-Louis Barrault in Paris. He then worked as a choreographer in Bonn , Krefeld and Biel - Solothurn . From 1959 to 1962 he stayed in the United States and worked among other things at the Living Theater .

Back in Germany Froscher worked as a director and staged in Ingolstadt , Münster and at the Zimmertheater Tübingen . In 1970 he founded the Free Theater Munich (FTM) together with Kurt Bildstein, which became one of the most important groups on the international theater scene.

Froscher staged Peter Handkes Kaspar (1971) and Das Mündel wants Vormund sein (1974), Bertolt Brecht's petty bourgeois wedding (1972 and 1975), Samuel Beckett's game (1971), Endspiel (1975) and Waiting for Godot (1979), among others at the FTM , Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Singer (1986), William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1988) and Euripides ' Medea (1991) as well as several works by Heiner Müller .

In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and other groups, she has performed at festivals and workshops in Poland, Hungary, Scotland, Venezuela, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Panama, Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Israel, New Zealand and the United States. In 2002 George Froscher received the Munich Theater Prize .

George Froscher died on November 10, 2015 at the age of 88 in Munich.

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. ↑ Angie Weihs: Free Theater: Reports and pictures that encourage people to see, learn and participate . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-17439-1 .
  2. ↑ Silvia Stammen: Obituary: Contagious Energy . In: sueddeutsche.de . Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 15, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Frogs, george
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, dancer, theater director, set designer, choreographer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2015
Place of death Munich , Germany