Heinrich Koch (director)

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Heinrich Georg Koch (born November 22, 1911 in Bad Godesberg ; † November 6, 2006 in Wallau ) was a German theater director and theater director .

Life

Koch completed a university degree in Berlin and Graz . From 1933 to 1937 he was assistant director and dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and from 1937 to 1939 senior stage director at the Göttingen City Theater . From 1939 to 1942 he worked as a director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna .

From 1943 to 1944, Koch was director of the “Städtisches Schauspielhaus” in Hanover under Gustav Rudolf Sellner , then he was a soldier until the end of the war.

In 1946 he resumed his directorial profession at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . In the 1946/47 season he staged Undine , Der Sturm and Antigone here . From 1947 to 1950 he taught at the Munich Drama Studio. This was followed by directing work at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg such as Peer Gynt (1952), Macbeth (1953), Paul Claudel's Tobias and Sarah (1953), whose turn of the day (1954 and again 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ), Calderón's Das Leben ein Traum (1953) , whose Love Over All Magic (1955) and Kleist's Penthesilea (1954). As a guest director he staged at the Schillertheater in Berlin and at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen .

From 1957 to 1968 he was acting director at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main . Productions there were Hannibal (1957), Othello (1958), Byron's Kain (1958), O'Neill's The Ice Man Comes (1959) and whose grief must be carried by Elektra (1966), Ionesco's The Rhinos (1960), Büchner's Woyzeck (1961) , Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady (1962), the world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Coriolan (1962), Hebbels Herodes and Mariamne (1963), Goethe's Faust (1964, parts I and II), the world premiere of Michelsen's Lappschiess und Helm (1965) , Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg (1966) and Schiller's Don Carlos (1966).

At the Ruhr Festival, Koch directed the performances of The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (1964), The Robbers (1965) and Troilus and Cressida (1968), among others . Again at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus he staged Albee's Tiny Alice (1966) and Frisch's biography: Ein Spiel (1969) and Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1971) at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . He has also directed several shows for television.

Koch was a director who tried to be faithful to the original, and who valued extensive stylization. Together with the set designer Franz Mertz , he invented a disc-shaped unit stage (“ Koch-Platte ”), whose structured playing area precluded any milieu realism. In the 1970s he retired from the theater.

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Werner Schulze-Reimpell : Koch, Heinrich Georg. In: Manfred Brauneck , Wolfgang Beck (Hrsg.): Theaterlexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage directors, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, p. 387. ISBN 3-499-55650-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathias Münter Elfner, Michael Venhoff: Brockhaus Encyclopedia: Yearbook. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, Mannheim, 2006, p. 385.
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen : Theater. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 620f.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Godesberg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2006
Place of death Wallau (Hofheim am Taunus)