Hagen Mueller-Stahl

Hagen Mueller-Stahl (born September 21, 1926 in Tilsit , East Prussia , † July 4, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German theater director , film director and actor .

Life

The older brother of Armin Mueller-Stahl studied German and theater studies from 1947 to 1952 at the Humboldt University in Berlin ; his fellow students included u. a. Fritz J. Raddatz . In 1952 he became a dramaturge at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm .

At the Volksbühne Berlin , he staged Die Feststellung by Helmut Baierl in 1958 , the world premiere of Herbert Keller's Encounter 57 in 1959 and Engel / Stemmle's Affaire Blum in 1961 , O'Casey's Farewell at 4 a.m. and Max Frisch's Biedermann and the Arsonists .

From 1962 to 1970 Mueller-Stahl was in-house director of the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer . Here he staged, among others, Arnold Wesker's day after day and next year in Jerusalem , Michel de Ghelderode's The Ballade of the Great Macabre , Martin Sperr's hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria , Ödön von Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline , Bertolt Brecht's husband is a man and In the Thicket of Cities , Plautus ' The Maulheld and Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide .

From 1969 to 1971 Plautus' Smoeeshaan followed at the Toneelgroep Centrum Amsterdam in 1968 and Brecht's In the Thicket of Cities in 1969 . From 1972 to 1973 Mueller-Stahl worked at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , in 1972 he staged Henrik Ibsen's Ein Volksfeind in the Bavarian State Theater . From 1976 to 1978 he was acting director at the Staatstheater Kassel .

From 1980 to 1990 he taught as a lecturer at the drama department of the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1986 he staged the world premiere of Horst Wolf Müller's Komarek at the Karlsruhe State Theater and in 1988 the world premiere of Elfriede Müller's miners at the Freiburg City Theater . In 2000 he took on a role in Anne Meara's aftermath at the Volkstheater in Munich .

Since the 1960s Mueller-Stahl has worked as a director and especially since the 1990s as an actor for film and television productions. He died after a serious illness on July 4, 2019 at the age of 92.

literature

• Werner Schulze-Reimpell : Mueller-Stahl, Hagen , in: Manfred Brauneck , Wolfgang Beck: Theaterlexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage directors, dramaturges and stage designers , rowohlt's encyclopedia in Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0

Web links

• Hagen Mueller-steel in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in Der Tagesspiegel of July 14, 2019, p. 14, online .