Gert-Hagen Seebach

Gert-Hagen Seebach (* 3. September 1943 in Karlsruhe , artist: G. H. Seebach ) is a German director for drama and opera.

Life

Seebach was born in Karlsruhe and grew up there. After graduating from high school, he began a newspaper traineeship at the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten and worked as a journalist and editor in his hometown and for Südwestfunk Baden-Baden (Kulturelles Wort).

In 1969 he switched from journalism to theater and became assistant director to Peter Palitzsch at the Stuttgart State Theater , where he a. a. worked with Hans Neuenfels and Klaus Michael Grüber .

As a scholarship holder of the Dramatic Center Vienna, Seebach assisted Peter Stein at the Schaubühne Berlin (Labiche, Das Sparschwein).

In 1972 he made his debut as a director at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz with the world premiere of Helmut Eisendle's A violation study .

1973–1976 Seebach was acting director at the United Theaters in Graz. 1976–1978 he worked as a director at the Thalia Theater Hamburg (Genet, Die Zofen / Lorca, Donna Rosita remains single / Brecht, fear and misery of the 3rd Reich ).

1979–1984 he was a director at the State Theater in Hanover .

1985–1990 he worked as a permanent director at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin with productions in the Schiller Theater, Schlosspark Theater and the Schiller Workshop. I.a. the German premieres of Christopher Hampton's dangerous love affairs , Tom Stoppard's Hapgood and La Musical II by Marguerite Duras .

Seebach has been a freelance theater and opera director since 1991, with productions in Dortmund, Salzburg, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Lyon, Graz, Wuppertal, Ljubljana and Vienna. His varied repertoire as a theater director includes the works of German classical music (especially the bourgeois tragedies), the authors of the late 19th century as well as numerous premieres and premieres.

Act

First work for the music theater from 1995: At the Karlsruhe State Theater Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia ; at the Ulm Theater Berg, Wozzeck / Busoni, Doctor Faust (nominated in 1997 for “Performance of the Year” by Opernwelt magazine) / Strauss, Elektra , Salome / Gluck, Iphigenie in Aulis ; at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck Verdi, Macbeth , Il trovatore .

At the Graz Opera House there has been an intensive collaboration since 2001 with the conductor Philippe Jordan with Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw and the two Verdi operas Don Carlos and Otello . The world premiere of Strindberg's opera Julie & Jean by Gerhard Schedl in the Semperdepot was created for the “Klangbogen Wien 2003” festival . May 2004 Debut at the National Opera Ljubljana with Tosca von Puccini. This was followed by the German premiere of the opera Galileo Galilei by Philip Glass at the Braunschweig State Theater and at the Graz Opera House Boulevard Solitude by Henze, in 2005 at the Theater an der Wien Fidelio by Beethoven in the original version from 1805. In addition to productions in Dortmund (Weber, Der Freischütz ) and Nuremberg (Henze, Boulevard Solitude ), a closer collaboration was established with the Halle Opera, which, in addition to two world premieres (Grünauer, Cantor or the measurement of infinity and Sky disc by Ramon Humet), owes some formative works to the director: Puccini, La Bohème / Wagner , Tannhäuser / Dallapiccola, Il prigioniero and Verdi's The Power of Fate .

Invitations to festivals at home and abroad as well as participation in international congresses in France, Austria and England complement the staged work, which the critics repeatedly attest to "poetic power, analytical clarity and magical realism". Since 1985 Seebach has been staging under the artist name “G. H. Seebach ".

literature

• Gerhard Blasche and Eberhard Witt (eds.): Hamburg Thalia Theater. Boy Gobert , Kristall Verlag, Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-607-00004-2
• Ulrich Eckhardt and Börries von Liebermann (eds.): 25 years of Theatertreffen 1964–1988 , Argon Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87024-124-1
• C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
• L. Hochstraate (Ed.): Theaterzauber. Salzburger Landestheater 1986-2004 , special edition Theaterblatt 150, Salzburg 2004