Hanno Lunin

Hanno Lunin
Photography by Niklaus Schmid

Hanno Lunin (born September 19, 1934 in Tartu ) is a German director , writer, translator and dramaturge .

Life

education

Lunin studied German, English and Scandinavian literature, theater and art history and philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Cologne . He was a German studies dissertation on August Strindberg at Wilhelm Emrich PhD, acting classes took on Adolf Dell in Dusseldorf, an intern at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen at Heinz Hilpert and was an assistant director at Schiller and Schlossparktheater Berlin, at Folkets Hus Teater Gothenburg and at the Northwest German Rundfunk Hamburg (television).

Theater practice

Lunin was director and chief dramaturge at the city or state theaters in Pforzheim, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden, Cologne and at the Thalia Theater Hamburg , general director of the Wuppertal theaters and guest director at the Schlossparktheater Berlin, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Hamburger Kammerspiele . Of his around 70 productions, around 60 percent were concerned with contemporary drama.

Works

Radio and television practice (selection)

Lunin was a screenwriter and director for TV games and series for ARD (NDR) and ZDF for twelve years:

• Mutschmanns Reise (NDR, 1981) (screenplay, direction and ratings record)
• Die Ochsentour (Axel on the axis) (ZDF, 1983) (screenplay)
• Pure chance (The election result) (ZDF, 1986) (screenplay)
• Two Munich residents in Hamburg (ZDF, 1991/92) (screenplay for four episodes)

as well as author, guest director and translator for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Süddeutscher Rundfunk radio for audio images, features, historical-political reviews and much more.

Prose (selection)

Lunin's professional focus since 1990 has been narrative prose under the pseudonym Moritz Pirol for the Hamburg publisher <ORPHEUS UND SÖHNE>:

• Rooster cries (2 volumes, revised 2008)
• Stargazers or The Idyll of a Homeless Person (3 volumes, 2005 ff.)
• Halalí (2 volumes, 2009 f.)
• Open at the top. Reflexe (7 volumes, diary notes since 1952, 2004 ff.)
• Alexander cake. Kaleidoscope 21 (2012)

Other publications (selection)

Lunin wrote plays and dramaturgical essays:

• The paternoster. A play . Berlin: Felix Bloch Erben 1958 (nomination for the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize )
• Strindberg's dramas . Emsdetten: Lechte 1962
• Married couple (based on the film Husbands and Wives by Woody Allen ). Berlin: Felix Bloch heirs 1994
• Willi Schmidt , The children's rattle. Letters, speeches and essays on German theater between 1953 and 1974 . Edited by Hanno Lunin. Hamburg: <Orpheus and Sons> 2005
• Three great days. German scenes with singing for November 9th, 10th and 11th . Hamburg: <Orpheus and Sons> 2008
• Puah! or Eleonora Duse. Documents and dialogues (new version 2010)
• Natural resources. Forty pleadings for the freedom of expression of the defenseless (2013)

and translated plays, radio and television plays from English, French and Swedish for various publishers, theaters and broadcasters.

literature

• Lunin, Hanno . In: Curt Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. Completely reworked. u. exp. Aufl. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-423-03322-3 , p. 449.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanno Lunin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hanno Lunin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of the director and writer
• Prose under the pseudonym Moritz Pirol

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater Lexicon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics .
2. ^ Strindberg's dramatic structure . Diss. Phil., Cologne 1963 (= Strindbergs Dramen . Lechte, Emsdetten (Westf.) 1962). Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.