Elmar Goerden
Elmar Goerden (born March 29, 1963 in Viersen ) is a German theater and opera director. From 2001 to 2005 he was senior director of the Munich Residenztheater and from the 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 season he was director of the Bochumer Schauspielhaus .
youth
Elmar Goerden is the son of a technical draftsman and a secretary. He grew up in Viersen and played in the youth teams of the Bundesliga soccer club Borussia Mönchengladbach until he was 16 . When he was 15, he said he hitchhiked to Bochum, saw Claus Peymann's production of the Hermannsschlacht there and decided to go to the theater himself.
He graduated in 1988 with a Master of Arts degree in art history , English and theater studies at the University of Cologne , Edinburgh ( Scotland ), Birmingham (England), and Rochester , New York State in the USA .
During this time he founded a Shakespeare troupe with Karin Beier .
Theater work
Goerden started as an assistant director at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. He assisted Robert Wilson , Peter Stein and Luc Bondy, among others . He spent "happy years" there, says Goerden looking back. In 1994 he also took over his first own production there with Liebestoll by Sam Shepard .
One year later, the Stuttgart director Friedrich Schirmer brought him to the Schauspielhaus as a guest director. Goerden's production of Karl Philipp Moritz ' Blunt or Der Gast caused a national sensation and was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen .
From the 1996/1997 season, Goerden was the third permanent in-house director in Stuttgart. His production of Anton P. Chekhov's Ivanov was again invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin. After teaching at the Mozarteum in Salzburg as a visiting professor in the winter semester of 1998/1999 , Goerden moved to the Residenztheater in Munich in 2001 as senior stage director and director . One of his greatest successes there was the faithful production of the classic Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .
From 2005 on, Goerden was the artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. The time of his directorship in Bochum was judged critically in many cases. Goerden decided in 2008 not to extend his contract, which ran until 2010.
Since then he has been working as a freelance director. In 2010 he staged his first opera in Basel with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro .
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen was his first work in Vienna in 2011/12 for the Theater in der Josefstadt. For this production he was nominated for the Austrian Nestroy Theater Prize in 2012 in the “Best Director” category. Most recently Elmar Goerden took over the direction of Thomas Bernhard's Before Retirement (2013/14), his own project Kafka (2014/15), Die Verdammten , based on the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti (2016/17), for which he was involved in 2017 was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in the category "Best Director" and Maria's testament , based on the novel by Colm Tóibín (2018/19, in this production he was also responsible for the set design). On May 16, 2019, his dramatization of Joseph Roth's "Radetzkymarsch" premieres in Josefstadt.
In addition to his theater work, Elmar Goerden has been working as a visual artist for many years, was a painting scholar at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and a guest at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
Awards
- 2017: Nestroy Theater Prize - Best Director for his staging of the stage version of Die Verdammten at the Theater in der Josefstadt
Important productions
- 1995 Karl Philipp Moritz: Blunt or Der Gast - Staatstheater Stuttgart, invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen
- 1996 Anton P. Chekhov: Iwanow - Staatstheater Stuttgart, invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen
- 1997 Thomas Bernhard: Simply Complicated - Stuttgart State Theater
- 1997 Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart - State Theater Stuttgart
- 1998 Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler - State Theater Stuttgart
- 2000 Robert Musil : Die Schwärmer - Staatstheater Stuttgart
- 2000 Ödön von Horváth : The Youngest Day - State Theater Stuttgart
- 2001 Peter Handke : The game of questions or the journey to the sonorous country - Residenztheater Munich
- 2001 Roland Schimmelpfennig : A long time ago in May - Bavarian State Theater in the House of Art
- 2002 Pierre Corneille : Rodogune - Residenztheater Munich
- 2002 William Shakespeare : Titus Andronicus - Residenztheater Munich
- 2003 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Nathan the Wise , - Residenztheater Munich
- 2004 Anton P. Chekhov: The Seagull - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2004 Eugene O'Neill : One long day's journey into the night - Salzburg Festival / Residenztheater Munich
- 2004 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Clavigo - Bavarian State Theater / House of Art Munich
- 2005 Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot - Residenztheater Munich
- 2005 Peter Handke: The hour when we didn't know about each other - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2005 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2006 Botho Strauss : Desecration - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2007 William Shakespeare: As You Like It - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2007 Justine del Corte : The nightmare of happiness - Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
- 2007 Roland Schimmelpfennig: Visiting his father - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2008 Friedrich Schiller: Maria Stuart , Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2008 Ödön von Horváth: Stories from the Vienna Woods - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2008 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2009 David Mamet : Work, Sex and Politics (= hillside sea view + Sexual Perversity in Chicago + November ) - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 2010 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Theater Basel
- 2011 Friedrich Hebbel : Judith - Schauspielhaus Graz
- 2011 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Minna von Barnhelm - Schauspielhaus Graz
- 2011 Alban Berg - Wozzeck - Theater Basel
- 2012 Henrik Ibsen: John Gabriel Borkman - Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna
- 2013 Jules Massenet : Manon - Theater Basel
- 2013 Thomas Bernhard: Before retirement - Theater in der Josefstadt
- 2014 Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck - Nationaltheater Mannheim
- 2014 Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmann's Tales - Theater Basel
- 2015 Kafka, a project by Elmar Goerden - Theater in der Josefstadt
- 2016 Die Verdammten , based on the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti - Theater in der Josefstadt
credentials
- ^ At the press conference to introduce the new artistic director Elmar Goerden in Bochum, December 9, 2003.
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 22, 1996.
- ↑ The end of a messed up management . Frankfurter Rundschau, July 3, 2010
- ↑ The era of Elmar Goerden . Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 22, 2010
- ↑ A single misunderstanding . Die Welt, March 31, 2010
- ^ Counter-criticism: Elmar Goerden . Theater Today , July 2008
- ↑ derStandard.at: Nestroy Awards: Meyerhoff and Jonasson best actors . Article dated November 13, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elmar Goerden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elmar Goerden: 50 directors in German-speaking theater. Website of the Goethe Institute
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goerden, Elmar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Viersen |