Hansgünther Heyme

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Hansgünther Heyme (2017)

Hansgünther Heyme (born August 22, 1935 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German theater and television director .

biography

Heyme first studied architecture , sociology and philosophy in the early 1950s before taking acting classes for the first time in Karlsruhe . In Mannheim he got to know the work of Erwin Piscator in the mid-1950s and became his assistant. With Piscator, the great theater maker of the 1920s, he traveled to Germany and abroad for theater work. Between 1957 and 1963 Heyme then worked as an actor and director at the theaters in Mannheim and Heidelberg before he was in-house director at the State Theater in Wiesbaden for five years . In 1965 he was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen for the first time and since then has been considered, alongside Peter Stein, to be one of the most important representatives of the new German directorial theater .

In the mid-1960s, Heyme began working as a guest director at various theaters in Europe alongside his work in Wiesbaden. In 1968 he became acting director of the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne . Here began a close cooperation with the translator of ancient Greek literature Wolfgang Schadewaldt , whose text versions he transferred to the stage in Cologne. In 1979, after eleven years in Cologne, he succeeded Claus Peymann as director of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. He stayed there until 1985 and then became director of the Grillo Theater in Essen , where he stayed until 1992. During this time, he worked closely with the Folkwang School by supporting young directors and actors in their training.

In addition to this activity, he took on the role of artistic director of the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen from 1990 to 2003 . After leaving Essen, he became director of the Bremen theater . However, he only stayed there until 1994, as there were considerable disputes with the Bremen Senate over the financing of the theater. From 2004 to the end of 2014 he was in charge of the Theater im Pfalzbau , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , after having fully concentrated on the Ruhr Festival in the meantime. In 1996 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2007 he was awarded the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize for his theater work.

From 2010 to 2013 Heyme realized Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Theater im Pfalzbau in cooperation with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Halle Opera . Heyme is responsible for the staging and furnishing of this large-scale cooperation project RING Halle Ludwigshafen . From 2015 active as a freelance director and outfitter.

The documentary Love at First Sight by Detlev F. Neufert (first broadcast: WDR , December 18, 1987) portrays Heyme and his work in Essen.

His personal archive (which includes stage designs, director's books, photographs and other materials) has been in the Cologne Theater Studies Collection since 2015 .

Theater directing work (selection)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Shakespeare Hamlet. Heyme / Vostell . Cologne theater. Staging by Hansgünther Heyme, media concept, stage design, costume alienation Wolf Vostell , photos by Stefan Odry and David Vostell , print and publishing house Wienand, Cologne 1979 (without ISBN).
  • The Phoenicians of Euripides . Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart. Production by Hansgünther Heyme, Stuttgarter Hefte 28 (Ed.): Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart, Druckhaus Münster, Stuttgart 1981 (without ISBN).
  • Hansgünther Heyme, Wolf Vostell, Hamlet / Phoenicians. Production documentation. Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart, Druckhaus Münster, Stuttgart 1982.
  • Goethe Faust . Acting food. Production by Hansgünther Heyme (Ed.): Theater and Philharmonie Essen, drama, Druckhaus Münster, Stuttgart 1987 (without ISBN).
  • That's why theater. Hansgünther Heyme. Christian Marten-Molnár, Wolfgang Seidl, Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen 2014 (without ISBN).
  • Hansgünther Heyme: Storm splinters . Persona Verlag, Mannheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-924652-42-5 .
  • Theatre! Job! Heyme! The actor, director and general manager Hansgünther Heyme (eds.): Peter W. Marx and Harald Müller, Theater der Zeit, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-043-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Project website and Ring2013 page on Facebook
  3. ↑ Biographical data
personal data
SURNAME Heyme, Hansgünther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim