Gerhard Wolfram

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Gerhard Wolfram (right) with Horst Schönemann, Dresden, 1986

Gerhard Wolfram (born June 15, 1922 in Naumburg ; † January 20, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German dramaturge , theater director and theater director .

Life

Wolfram began an actor training course in Dresden during the Second World War. He was a member of the Hitler Youth and joined the NSDAP in 1940 . In 1945 he received his first theater contract as an actor, dramaturge and director at the Stadttheater Köthen . From 1946 to 1948 he worked as a speaker, director and dramaturge for the state broadcaster Halle and the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

In 1948/49 he was a director and actor at the Volksbühne Leipzig . From 1949 to 1951, Wolfram was a department head and literary editor at Berliner Rundfunk . In the formalism dispute he came under criticism of the Soviet occupying power, but Bertolt Brecht stood before him protectively. From 1951 to 1952 he worked for the DEFA dubbing studio, from 1952 to 1953 he worked as an editor for the Tälichen Rundschau in Berlin.

From 1953 to 1965 he was chief dramaturge at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin under Maxim Vallentin , and later also deputy director. From 1966 to 1972 he was artistic director at the Landestheater Halle . At the height of his success in Halle, he was given the management of the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1972 . Wolfram was artistic director here until 1982, after which he was appointed artistic director of the Dresden State Theater , where he worked until his retirement in October 1990.

Wolfram, from 1971 to 1976 a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED , a member of SED district leaderships, the central board of the Art Union and the Presidium of the GDR Theater Association, was primarily concerned with the implementation of contemporary socialist drama. He put lived socialism into focus and pushed through the performance of difficult contemporary texts such as Hermann Kant's novel Die Aula and the world premieres of Passage and Knights of the Round Table by Christoph Hein . Classics like Goethe's Faust and Die Räuber were radically questioned. He is considered the discoverer of Alexander Lang , Kurt Böwe , Jutta Wachowiak , Wolfgang Engel and Christoph Schroth .

Gerhard Wolfram was married to actress Sabine Krug, who was killed in a car accident in 1969 .

tomb

On October 3rd, 1990 the ensemble of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden made him an honorary member. His grave is in the French cemetery in Berlin.

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 .
  • Theater of the time (ed.): Maxim Gorki Theater. 50 years and no end. Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-934344-19-4
  • Karen Hoffmann: Suggestions from Halle. The Halle State Theater from 1966–1972. Master's thesis, University of Lüneburg, 2005.
  • Staatsschauspiel Dresden / Sächsische Zeitung (ed.): To be or not to be? Theatrical stories . Dresden, 1995. pp. 99f.
  • Aune Renk, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Wolfram, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , pp. 378-379.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfram, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1991
Place of death Berlin