Dimiter Gotscheff

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Dimiter Gotscheff ( Bulgarian Димитър Гочев Dimitar Gotschew ; born April 26, 1943 in Borissowgrad , Bulgaria ; † October 20, 2013 in Berlin ) was a Bulgarian theater director who mainly worked in Germany.

Life

Gotscheff - son of a Bulgarian veterinarian - came to the GDR with his father in 1962 and lived in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) . After graduating from high school, following his father's profession, he first studied veterinary medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1964 Dimiter Gotscheff met Heiner Müller through the playwright Hartmut Lange in a Berlin restaurant . A little later Gotscheff changed the subject and studied theater studies . He was a student of Benno Besson and in 1968 he became Fritz Marquardt's assistant director .

In 1979 Gotscheff returned to Bulgaria and from then on worked as a director in his home country. The Bulgarian premiere of Heiner Müller's Philoctetes in 1983 in Sofia caused a sensation . When the then director of the Cologne theater, Klaus Pierwoss, brought him to Cologne in 1985 for a guest production , he stayed in the Federal Republic of Germany after the success of the production of Heiner Müller's Quartet .

This was followed by positions in Basel , Hanover , Düsseldorf , Bochum and Hamburg . Between 1995 and 2000, Dimiter Gotscheff was a board member and in-house director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Since 2000 he has worked as a freelance director in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna . In 2005 he was named director of the year for his production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov by the theater magazine Theater heute . The performance is a production by the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. For this production he also received the 3sat Theater Prize as part of the Berlin Theatertreffen . Since 2005 he has been employed as a permanent director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 2013 Gotscheff staged Heiner Müller's 1973 piece of cement at the Residenztheater in Munich .

tomb

Dimiter Gotscheff was married to the actress Almut Zilcher and had a son with her. After a short, serious illness, he died on October 20, 2013 in Berlin. He has been described as one of the most important German stage directors. He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Quotes

"In the body language of your performance [...] I saw this translation of text in theater, the transformation of the fable from a place of contradictions to an ordeal for those involved, the resistance of the body against rape through the practical constraint of ideas."

- Heiner Müller : on the production of Philoktet (1983).

“With the reduction to the essentials, the actor, he differs very much from the wildly ironic poetry that is common in the theater today. Rather, his view of the human being strips him of the decoration. In our fashionable age, this attitude is perhaps the true avant-garde. "

- Till Briegleb , theater critic.

Productions (selection)

Awards

Others

Gotscheff plays Hamlet's father in the film Elf Unkel by Herbert Fritsch . The film premiered in March 2010 at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

literature

  • Dimiter Gotscheff: Dark that blinds us. Workbook 2013 . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943881-56-1 .
  • Peter statesman, Bettina Schältke (ed.): The silence of the theater - the director Dimiter Gotscheff . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940384-10-2 .
  • Christine Dössel: Obsessed with the theater: Dimiter Gotscheff only loved his actors more than Heiner Müller - now he's died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 21, 2013, p. 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Theater Berlin deutschestheater.de report. Nachtkritik.de
  2. ↑ a b c Christine Dössel: Everything Müller, or what? A portrait for the 70th birthday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 26, 2013, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Theater: Director Dimiter Gotscheff is dead. In: Zeit Online . October 20, 2013, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  4. ^ Theater director Dimiter Gotscheff is dead. In: sueddeutsche.de. October 20, 2013, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Portrait: Dimiter Gotscheff at the Goethe Institute.
  6. ↑ Anne Peter: The Silence of the Theater - the director Dimiter Gotscheff, Vorwerk 8: Message in a bottle from a strange world , book review on nachtkritik.de of October 31, 2008, accessed July 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Gotscheff, Dimiter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gotschew, Dimitar; Гочев, Димитър (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Borisovgrad , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2013
Place of death Berlin