Harald Clemen

Harald Clemen (born January 23, 1947 in Forchheim ) is a German theater director .

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Harald Clemen, son of Wolfgang Clemen and Ursula Clemen, née Gauhe (1910–1993), studied theater studies and German literature in Munich. In 1967 he an intern at the Munich Chamber Theater in Peter Stein 's production of Edward Bond's Saved and Fritz Kortner production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie . From 1967 to 1979 he studied at the Drama Department of the Drama Department in Bristol .

In 1970 and 1971 he was assistant director and dramaturge with Hans Lietzau at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg . From 1972 to 1975 he worked as a permanent director at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . The productions there were "Family", "When are you coming again, Roter Reiter?" The peace festival by Gerhart Hauptmann , Molières George Dandin and Hebbels Maria Magdalena "under the direction of Boy Gobert, he staged" Children of the Sun "(Gorki) and" Cloud nine “by Caryl Churchill.

In 1976 Clemen went to the Münchner Kammerspiele as a dramaturge and director. Here he made his debut in September 1976 with Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy . Important productions were Tankred Dorst's Auf dem Chimborazo (1976), Eugene O'Neill's Almost a Poet (1977) and Chekhov's The Seagull (1978).

From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a freelance director and worked at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin, the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel , where he staged Ostrowski's Der Wald in 1981 and at the Volkstheater Munich . From 1982 to 1984 he taught theater studies in the directing seminar at the University of Munich .

From 1984 to 1986 Clemen was senior director at the Mannheim National Theater . There he directed, among others, Chekhov's Uncle Wanja (1984) (Berliner Theatertreffen) and Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe (1985).

In 1986 he became a freelance director again. He directed among others at the Burgtheater in Vienna Summer by Edward Bond, at the Thalia Theater Hamburg Babel Marija (1987), the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Jahnn poverty, wealth, human and animal (1994) and Chekhov's Three Sisters (1995), in Schlossparktheater Berlin Yasmina Reza talks after a funeral (1988) and in the renaissance theater their Der Mann des Zufall (2002), in the Deutsches Theater Marlene Streeruwitz ' Elysian Park (1993), in the theater in der Josefstadt Judith Herzbergs Lea's wedding (1992), in the Volkstheater Vienna Ödön von Horváths Die Strangers from the Seine (1997) and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1999/2000), in Zurich the world premiere of Robert Schneider's comedy vom deutschen Heimweh (1999), in Bonn the German premiere of Judith Herzberg's Heftgarn (1996), Jane Bowles ' Das Gartenhaus (1999) and the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's Die Freude alive (2001). In Basel he directed Dorst's Korbes (1990), William Shakespeare's Maß für Maß (1991) and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1993).

In Sydney he made guest appearances with Big and Small by Botho Strauss and in Mexico City with Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug with Ofelia medina and Diego Luna. This performance was invited to the International Theater Festival in Bogota.

Clemen worked as a lecturer at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, at the Mozarteum Salzburg and professor for scenic teaching at the University of the Arts in Berlin and lives as a freelance director in Munich.