Hans Dieter Knebel

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Hans Dieter Knebel is a German theater man and has been a castle actor since 1986 .

life and work

Knebel received his first engagement in 1978 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum - as an actor and assistant director to Werner Schroeter , Marcel Bluval and Pina Bausch . This also gave him the first leading role - in an attempt via Macbeth . From 1979 to 1981 he was a member of the Wuppertal Dance Theater , participated in all current productions, took on the role of Bluebeard in Pina Bausch's play of the same name and made guest appearances with the ensemble in Paris, Berlin and Belgrade, in South America and Israel.

Schauspielhaus Bochum

In 1981 he returned to the Schauspielhaus Bochum as an actor. There he played u. a. in Heiner Müller's revolutionary drama The assignment directed by the author, the role of Eginhardt in the Claus Peymann production of Kleist's Hermannsschlacht , which was also awarded for television, and in the Manfred Karge production of Südpol . Knebel also made numerous guest appearances with the Bochumers, including a. with Schiller's robbers at the Pepsico Summer Festival in New York .

Burgtheater

In 1986 Peymann took the actor to Vienna, and Knebel has been a member of the Burgtheater ensemble ever since . There he played in smaller and larger roles, u. a. the title role in Achim Freyer's Phaeton production and the water seller in Brecht's The Good Man of Sezuan in a barren production. He worked u. a. with the directors Peter Zadek , George Tabori , Philip Stemann and Andrea Breth . His portrayal of the Sporner in Nestroy's Torn was recorded for television in 2001.

Knebel's big stage is the smallest of the Burgtheater, the vestibule, in which he could achieve great personal successes several times - be it in solo programs such as the Christian Morgenstern evening Der Nachtschelm & das Siebenschwein (2003) and the Peter Turrini - Reading Endlich Ende (2009), or in theatrical experiments, such as Bastian Kraft's Schöner Lügen - Hochstapler confess (2008) and Endstation Jonestown (2009), an evening by Nora Hertlein and Veronika Maurer based on original documents on mass murder and mass suicide in Jonestown .

In 2009 he was a guest steward in the Matthias Hartmann production of Thomas Bernhard's Immanuel Kant at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . This production moved to the Burgtheater as an Austrian premiere in September of the same year . In Andrea Breth's Hamlet production from September 2013 (with August Diehl in the title role) Knebel took over the second gravedigger and was one of the actors in Hamlet's troupe.

Festival appearances

At the Salzburg Festival , he played the fat cousin in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann am Domplatz from 1996 to 2001 ; television recorded this production in 2000. In 2002 and 2003 he appeared in two Shakespeare productions at the Rosenburg Summer Festival , in Midsummer Night's Dream and as Father Lorenzo in Romeo and Juliet . From 2004 to 2009 Knebel took part in the Reichenau Festival , in 2009 he took on a leading role in the musical High Society at the Stadttheater Baden .

In 2011 he was the main actor in Bernd Roger Bienert's cult production The Puzzled Wife at the Kosmos Theater . In 2012 he played - again at the Salzburg Festival - the Hennings in Andrea Breth's exemplary production of Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin in the Landestheater. This production then moved to the Burgtheater, where it is still on the program.

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SURNAME Knebel, Hans Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and castle actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century