Gralf-Edzard Habben

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Gralf-Edzard Habben (born June 13, 1934 in Moers ; † May 3, 2018 ) was a German set designer .

Habben was trained as a set designer in Krefeld and Toulouse . He has worked in theaters all over Germany since the 1960s and created the sets for productions by directors such as Kurt Hübner , Hansgünther Heyme , Valentin Jeker , Hans Lietzau and Claus Peymann . He has also set up the stage for Pina Bausch's dance theater in Wuppertal . He got to know the Italian director Roberto Ciulli while working together in Göttingen . Together with the dramaturge Helmut Schäfer , they founded the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1981 . The independent theater, which was to be financed primarily from guest performances, needed stage sets that not only had to withstand content and aesthetics, but also had to fit practically into a single container for every staging. In addition to working on the stage sets for Roberto Ciulli, Gralf-Edzard Habben also designed the posters and the programs for the theater. Habben, like Ciulli and Schäfer, was part of the management of the theater until his death in 2018.

His son Habakuk Habben makes music under the pseudonym TAMI.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gralf-Edzard Habben . In: Rheinische Post . April 22, 2006.
  2. ↑ The theater world mourns Gralf-Edzard Habben , kulturbuero-goettingen.de, May 8, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Co-founder of the Theater an der Ruhr turns 80. Rheinische Post. June 13, 2014, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Gift for the culture of the theater . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . 5th July 2012.
  5. ↑ TAMI_My parents call me Habakuk on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed October 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Habben, Gralf-Edzard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage designer and theater founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2018