Gottfried Greiffenhagen
Gottfried Greiffenhagen (born February 9, 1935 in Bremen ; † July 11, 2013 in Gnarrenburg ) was a German dramaturge .
Live and act
Greiffenhagen studied law and completed training as a fully qualified lawyer with a doctorate. In 1966 he became Kurt Hübner's personal advisor at the Bremen Theater , and in 1968 he went to the Freie Volksbühne Berlin under Hansjörg Utzerath as chief dispatcher . In 1969 he moved to the Stuttgart State Theater as a dramaturge under Peter Palitzsch .
From 1971 to 1977 Greiffenhagen was chief dramaturge and deputy of the artistic director Peter Zadek at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Since then he has been working as a freelance dramaturge, editor and translator. In the 1993/94 season he became chief dramaturge at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich .
Greiffenhagen worked on numerous templates, including with Peter Zadek Hedda Gabler (1979), Baumeister Solness (1983), Everyone dies for himself (1981), Professor Unrat and Joshua Sobol's Ghetto (1984), with Jürgen Bosse Peer Gynt , with Niels-Peter Rudolph Der Kirschgarten and Don Carlos , with Dieter Giesing David Hare's Geheime Verführung (1989), the German premiere of Der Held des Tages by Alan Ayckbourn (1990), with David Mouchtar-Samorai Luigi Pirandellos Today is improvised , with Anselm Weber Don Juan and Faust and Wallenstein and with Daniel Karasek Hans' Happy is he who forgets and an ideal husband . Further adaptations included Raymond Chandler's The Long Farewell , James Baldwin's Giovannis Zimmer , Erich Kästner's Fabian , Irmgard Keuns Das Kunstseidene Mädchen (1995), again Peer Gynt (1995/96) and Fräulein Else (1996).
In 1997 he wrote the musical play Die Comedian Harmonists , and he also translated many plays, mostly together with his wife Inge.
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 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greiffenhagen, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11th 2013 |
| Place of death | Gnarrenburg |