Hannelore Honnen

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Hannelore Honnen (* 23. January 1945 in Enzersfeld in Vienna ) is a German playwright , dramaturge and theater director . Since founding in 1987, it is the private theater at the Sachsenring (TAS) in Cologne for both the management as well as stage design and costumes responsible, while co-founder Joe Knipp since then artistic director of the theater holds.

life and work

Hannelore Honnen worked as an art teacher and turned to the theater from an early age. In 1980 she founded together with the author, singer and theater director Joe Knipp in the Rhineland-Palatinate district town Neuwied the Free Theater Neuwied . The independent theater initiative performed, among other things, Wolf Biermann's play Der Dra-Dra in the production of Joe Knipp on Neuwieder Luisenplatz in 1980 .

Seven years later, Honnen and Knipp relocated their joint theater work to the North Rhine-Westphalian metropolis of Cologne, where they founded the Theater am Sachsenring (TAS) in January 1987, which they have since operated as a private theater . The stage on the eponymous street Sachsenring in Cologne's “ Südstadt ” district, which was previously run as Saxi , offers around 90 seats. Joe Knipp has been the artistic director of the TAS since its inception, while Hannelore Honnen has been responsible for the management as well as for the stage design and costumes and also writes or dramaturgically works on stage plays for the TAS.

After the Theater am Sachsenring initially established itself as a literary stage (see also Literarischer Salon ) with numerous guest appearances , Honnen wrote and staged the TAS first in-house production in 1988, the play Ms. Armand does not meet Rosa Luxemburg after Rosa Luxemburg and Colette , which premiered at the end of the same year has been. This was followed by other in-house productions, mostly in dramaturgical arrangements by Hannelore Honnen, such as the 1990 play Die Wut nach Dostojewski  - which brought the TAS an invitation to participate in the international theater festival of the Soviet Union in Volgograd in 1991 - I, a great child after Heinrich Heine or 1994 Idiots based on the novel Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert . Around the turn of the millennium, the TAS changed from the “theater of world premieres”, including several works by the English author Tony Dunham , increasingly to an actor's theater , to which Honnen contributed both through her dramaturgical, stage and costume design work.

As a result of the reduction and multiple cancellation of communal funding for the independent theater scene in Cologne, the TAS, which was also affected by this, ran into financial difficulties and had to stop its productions and theater operations for one year at the end of 2009. In 2011 the two shareholders were able to reopen the TAS with their own funds and private sponsors ; since autumn 2011 there has been a regular schedule again at the TAS.

The TAS was nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize for Honnen's work Idioten nach Flaubert, which premiered in 1994 in a production by Joe Knipp . Her work Satisfaction (Part I) based on Spengler, Walser and Benjamin, which was also staged by Knipp and premiered at TAS, received a nomination for the Cologne Theater Prize 2011.

Hannelore Honnen lives and works in Cologne.

Works (selection)

  • 1988: Mrs. Armand does not meet Rosa Luxemburg after Rosa Luxemburg and Colette, world premiere (world premiere) at the Theater am Sachsenring in Cologne (TAS)
  • 1990: The Anger after Dostoyevsky, premiered at the TAS
  • 1991: Me, a great child after Heinrich Heine, premiere at the TAS
  • 1994: Idiots according to Gustave Flaubert, premiere at the TAS
  • 2000: Crash , world premiere at TAS, resumption in 2001
  • 2011: Satisfaction (Part I of the trilogy) based on Oswald Spengler , Robert Walser and Walter Benjamin , premiere at TAS
  • 2014: Satisfaction II - LustSchiffer after Marcel Duchamp u. a., UA at the TAS
  • 2016: 100 years of Dada according to Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings , premier at TAS

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbro Schuchardt: The dead live longer. The Theater am Sachsenring has existed for 25 years . In: Kölnische Rundschau . January 2012 ( copy in the TAS press review [accessed August 7, 2016]).
  2. ↑ a b c Reinhard Lüke: "This theater is my life". (No longer available online.) In: meineuedstadt.de. Information and news portal Meine Südstadt , Cologne, July 12, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 7, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.meinesuedstadt.de  
  3. ↑ a b Clivia Kelch-Rade: Theater on the Sachsenring. In: koelnreporter.de. City magazine Köln Reporter , March 1, 2015, accessed on August 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ See information as well as copies and facsimiles of media reports about the TAS in: Press Review. In: theater-am-sachsenring.de. Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), Cologne, accessed on August 7, 2016 (2007–2015).
  5. ↑ Christian Bos: Joe Knipp: fallen out of time. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , December 29, 2009, accessed on August 6, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Evelyn Steinbach: Daring won. Theater am Sachsenring celebrates its 25th anniversary . In: Südstadtmagazin Cologne . 23rd year. No. 3/2012 ( facsimile in the TAS press review [accessed on August 7, 2016]).
  7. ^ Andreas Kohl: Theater, the art and the greatest artist. In: huffingtonpost.de. The Huffington Post , January 10, 2014, accessed August 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Honnen, Hannelore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Enzersfeld near Vienna