Helge Thoma

Helge Thoma (born October 30, 1936 in Mannheim ) is a German theater director and director.

Life

Thoma began studying music in his native Mannheim in 1956/57 . Then he studied theater studies in Vienna with a visit to the Max Reinhardt seminar . In 1960/61 he had an engagement at the Länderbühne Vienna. In 1962 he became assistant to the then artistic director Boleslaw Barlog at the Schiller Theater and the Schloßpark Theater in Berlin . He worked as an assistant director (among others with Fritz Kortner , Heinz Hilpert and Ernst Schröder ) and since 1964 as a director. His first directorial work had its premiere on the workshop stage of the Schiller Theater. a. the Horváth dramas Don Juan comes out of the war and Figaro is getting divorced .

From 1967 he was responsible for theater and opera productions on various stages in German-speaking countries. In 1967 he staged an opera for the first time at the Bielefeld Theater . From 1968 to 1970 he was a director at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen , where he a. a. Staged productions of Rolf Hochhuth's drama The Soldiers and Horváth's Village Without Men . From 1971 to 1975 he was head director of the drama department at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden with drama productions a. a. by Die Kleinbürger (Gorki), Flea im Ohr ( Georges Feydeau ), Sunset ( Isaak Babel ), Maria Stuart (Schiller) and Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Kleist); in the music theater sector, he realized Stravinsky's The Story of the Soldier in Wiesbaden .

From 1976 to 1981 he was senior director at the Vienna State Opera ; there he created several productions. From 1981 to 1992 and a second time from the 1997/98 season he was director of the Augsburg Municipal Theaters until 1999 . In between he worked as a freelance director (also abroad).

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume IV. Singer - Tzschoppe. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. December 1993. Page 2567. ISBN 978-3-907820-30-8 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
• 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. P. 705. ISBN 3-423-03322-3

Web links

• Helge Thoma in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Helge Thomas appearances at the Vienna State Opera