Gisela Stein

Gisela Stein (born October 2, 1934 in Swinemünde , Pomerania ; † May 4, 2009 in Mohrkirch , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German actress .

Life

The training at the Wiesbaden drama school (1953) followed first engagements in Koblenz , Krefeld - Mönchengladbach and Essen ( Erwin Piscator ). In 1960 Stein moved to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , where she found her artistic home for nineteen years. In collaboration with directors such as Hans Lietzau ( Inge in Max Frisch's " Graf Öderland ", 1961; Ranewskaja in Chekhov's " Der Kirschgarten ", 1979) Fritz Kortner (title role in Hebbels ' " Maria Magdalena ", 1966), Niels-Peter Rudolph ( Elena in Chekhov's " Onkel Wanja ", 1977) and Günther Krämer (title role in Schiller's Maria Stuart , 1977) she matured here to become one of the great German character actresses.

Guest performances stone to the Schauspielhaus Zurich , at the Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart and after Salzburg to the Festival . In 1979 she moved to Berlin and in 1980 to the Münchner Kammerspiele , where she stayed until 2001 and was entrusted with other major tasks by Dieter Dorn .

1980 Olivia in " What You Want " by William Shakespeare
1981 Iphigenie in " Iphigenie auf Tauris " by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
1981 Queen Ginevra in " Merlin or Das wüsten Land " by Tankred Dorst
1983 Lucette Gautier in “A Block on the Leg” by Georges Feydeau
1984 Leonore Sanvitale in " Torquato Tasso " by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
1986 Helena in " Troilus and Cressida " by William Shakespeare
1990 Winnie in " Happy Days " by Samuel Beckett
1991 choir; Anita von Schastorf in “Final Choir” (world premiere) by Botho Strauss
1992 Goneril in " King Lear " by William Shakespeare
1993 Atossa in " The Persians " by Mattias Braun after Aeschylus
1994 Ariel in " The Tempest " by William Shakespeare
1995 Electress in " Prince Friedrich von Homburg " by Heinrich von Kleist
1996 Penelope in “Ithaka” (world premiere) by Botho Strauss

In 1985 she appeared on stage in Achternbusch's “Mein Herbert” in a Tabori production as Luise . In 1987, Jean Racine's “ Phaedra ”, directed by Alexander Lang, and “ Penthesilea ”, also directed by Alexander Lang, followed.

Since 2001 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater . Since February 2002 Gisela Stein read “Die Schrift” in the transmission by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig .

Gisela Stein died after a long illness on May 4, 2009 at her place of residence in Mohrkirch in Schleswig-Holstein.

The game of questions by Peter Handke, Ein Einheimischer, directed by Elmar Goerden
Hekabe von Euripides , Hekabe, directed by Dieter Dorn
The walls by Jean Genet , The Mother, directed by Dieter Dorn
One and the other by Botho Strauss (world premiere) Elisabeth (Lissie) Kelch, director: Dieter Dorn
Die Bacchen von Euripides, choir leader, director: Dieter Dorn

1977: Edward Albee : Listening - Directed by Heinz von Cramer (radio play - WDR / DRS)

Christopher Schmidt , A body made of thinking limbs , in: "Süddeutsche Zeitung", May 6, 2009, p. 11 [obituary]
Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich / Birgit Pargner (Ed.): Behind the words. The actress Gisela Stein , Henschel, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-89487-795-8 .

" I clean up ", based on a pamphlet by Else Lasker-Schüler, with Gisela Stein as Else Lasker-Schüler, Hanns Zischler , Harun Farocki , Hans Christoph Buch , Ulrich Gregor , Frank Burkner, director: Georg Brintrup , WDR Cologne, 1979,