Gustav Rueb

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Thomas Meczele and Gustav Rueb (2015)

Gustav Rueb (born May 25, 1975 in Zurich , Switzerland ) is a Swiss theater director .

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Gustav Rueb, who grew up in Zurich as the son of the publicist Franz Rueb , went to Berlin in 1995 , where he studied art history and philosophy at the Humboldt University and at the Free University of Berlin . Before graduating, he worked at the theater as assistant to Klaus Michael Grüber and Peter Stein . In 2000 he began as a permanent assistant director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , a. a. to work with Anna Badora , Philip Tiedemann and Jürgen Gosch . He later worked as a director for Christof Loys at the Frankfurt Opera (for Charles Gounod's Faust ), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , followed by engagements at the Teatro Nacional in Lisbon and at the Operan in Gothenburg .

Gustav Rueb has been a freelance director for spoken theater and music theater since 2003 . In 2009 he received the Hessian Theater Prize for best director for his production of Euripides' Bacchus . In addition to the Bacchae , he directed the actress Anke Stedingk also Medea . Euripides' Alkestis is still part of his cycle of antiquities at the Staatstheater Kassel .

Other works by Rueb as a director are A Child of Our Time with Prodromos Antoniadis and Steffi Krautz , Flimmern with Johannes Allmayer , the German premiere of Dejan Dukovski's The Other Side with Sebastian Hülk and Andrea Cleven , the world premiere of Die Reise nach Bugulma with Johannes Allmayer, Angelika Bartsch and Constanze Becker as well as Don Carlos and Alkestis . In 2010 he staged Puccini's Tosca at the Oldenburg State Theater . Other productions led Rueb at the Dresden State Theater at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and at the State Theater Tübingen ( Faust II ). Further work took him to the Theater Osnabrück , at the State Theater in Darmstadt and the Saarland State Theater . As a lecturer, Rueb taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , at the Rostock University of Music and Theater and at the Potsdam University of Film and Television .

Gustav Rueb lives in Berlin and Cologne.

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personal data
SURNAME Rueb, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland