Hans Bauer (director)
Hans Bauer (born August 16, 1914 in Berlin , † November 4, 1970 in Binningen ) was a German director .
His training at the drama school of the Berlin State Theater took place between 1935 and 1937. After that he was an actor and director in Schleswig until 1945 . From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier, and from the season 1945/1946 he received an engagement at the Braunschweig State Theater . This was followed by the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , an artistic director in Lüneburg and, between 1949 and 1951, directorial work in Lüneburg . Then he went to Bonn for three years . In 1953 he staged Hans Rehberg's “The Mother Murder” as a guest in Stuttgart (with Heinz Reincke as Orest). Between 1953 and 1961 he worked mainly in Cologne and Hanover , but also in Berlin, where he brought out the German premiere of Beckett's Endspiel on September 30, 1957 in the Schlosspark Theater (with Bernhard Minetti , Rudi Schmitt, Werner Stock and Else Ehser ) . From 1961 to 1965 he was senior director at the Landestheater Darmstadt , with whom he remained connected to the end.
Bauer also came out with productions by Molière , Goldoni , Shakespeare and Lessing . His focus, however, was on poetic and surreal modernity: Giraudoux , Beckett , Brecht , Büchner , Barlach , Strindberg and García Lorca .
Hans Bauer made a special contribution to the rediscovery of pieces by Else Lasker-Schüler . The first re-performance since 1933 he staged “ Die Wupper ” in Cologne in 1958 and in Wuppertal in 1966 for the opening of the new theater . The Wuppertal performance was recorded for television. In the autumn of 1969, Bauer had Lasker-Schüler's " Arthur Aronymus und seine Väter " follow in Wuppertal with Ilse Ritter in the title role.
Hans Bauer was represented five times at the Berlin Theatertreffen :
- 1965 with "Doña Rosita or The Language of Flowers" by Federico García Lorca ( Landestheater Darmstadt ),
- 1967 with John Osborne's "Blick zurück im Zorn" ( Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main )
- and with Else Lasker-Schüler's " Die Wupper " ( Wuppertaler Bühnen ),
- 1969 with "Arthur Aronymus und seine Väter" by Else Lasker-Schüler ( Wuppertaler Bühnen ), as well
- 1970 with Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ( Basler Theater ).
Hans Bauer died in the same year. He was buried in the cemetery in Hettingen .
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Hans Bauer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 131 f.
- C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexicon, authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Theater in Stuttgart . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1953
- ↑ The suspension railway started in 1966
- ↑ Stepping Lyric 1968
- ↑ Theater in Yourself 1970
Web links
- Hans Bauer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1970 |
| Place of death | Binningen |