Helmut Schäfer (dramaturge)

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Helmut Schäfer (born February 9, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German dramaturge and theater director.

Life

Helmut Schäfer studied philosophy and sociology . After completing his studies, he worked as a dramaturge in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Cologne and Stuttgart, among others . In Berlin, Duisburg, Essen, and Cologne he pursued various theater-related teaching activities.

Together with Roberto Ciulli and Gralf-Edzard Habben , Helmut Schäfer founded the Theater an der Ruhr in 1981 in the former Solbad Raffelberg in Mülheim an der Ruhr and has been its artistic director and senior dramaturge since the theater was founded. He established the intellectual and aesthetic profile of the theater, which to this day is 40% self-financed through guest performances. Schäfer thus prevailed over other city theater models. The types of contracts he had with the staff were also exemplary for other theaters.

Activities (selection)

In addition to his numerous translations of the classical versions (Der Zyklop / Elektra / Die Bakchen / König Ödipus / Antigone / Hamlet / Titus Andronicus), he was the artistic director of the plays Alkestis, Das Dekameron, Medea and Veracruz at the Theater an der Ruhr .

Further productions under his dramaturgical direction:

  • "Stories from the Vienna Woods" Ödön von Horváth / Schauspiel Köln 1977
  • "From the bourgeois heroic life" Carl Sternheim (Die Hose, Der Snob, 1913, Das Fossil) / Schauspiel Köln 1978
  • "The Cyclops" Euripides / Schauspiel Köln 1978
  • "Alkestis" Helmut Schäfer / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 1979
  • "The Decameron" Helmut Schäfer / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 1980
  • "March. An artist's life" Heinar Kipphardt - world premiere / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 1980
  • "Gott" Woody Allen - European premiere / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 1981
  • "Medea" Helmut Schäfer / Stuttgart theater
  • "Lulu" Frank Wedekind / Opening premiere of the 'Theater an der Ruhr 1981
  • "Death" and "God" Woody Allen / Theater an der Ruhr 1982
  • "Midsummer Night's Dream" W.Shakespeare / Theater an der Ruhr 1982
  • "Big and Small" Botho Stauss / Theater an der Ruhr 1983
  • "Elektra" Euripides / Theater an der Ruhr 1983
  • "The new process" Peter Weiss - German premiere / co-production: Freie Volksbühne Berlin / Theater an der Ruhr 1984
  • "Die Möwe" Anton Chekhov / Theater an der Ruhr 1984
  • "La Moschetta" Ruzante / co-production: Freie Volksbühne Berlin / Theater an der Ruhr 1984

literature

  • Frank Raddatz: Ambassador of the Sphinx. On the relationship between aesthetics and politics at the Theater an der Ruhr , 2006, Verlag Theater der Zeit, ISBN 978-3-934344-76-1

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne