Hendrik Mannes

Hendrik Mannes (born April 19, 1958 in Wuppertal ) is a German theater director .

Life

Mannes was trained at the Simone Emmerich Acting Studio in Munich from 1979 to 1982. This was followed by internships as directors at BK Tragelehn at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. In 1985, Mannes went to the Schillertheater in Berlin , where he worked as an assistant to the dramaturgy , primarily with Wolfgang Storch . In 1987, Mannes founded the independent group "Rudimentär Theater" Berlin. In addition to plays, the theater developed cross-over projects that included live improvised music, live overhead noise painting, dance, Kung Fu and Eat Art performance at the Kunsthaus Tacheles and the Sophiensaele Berlin, among others . Since 1988 Mannes has also been working in the field of puppet and object theater. The Lindenfels Westflügel Leipzig has been an important cooperation partner since 2006 . From 1998 to 1999, Mannes was the director of the Ratten 07 homeless theater at the Volksbühne Berlin . From 2003 to 2007 and 2013, Mannes worked as assistant director to Peter Brook for his productions Happy Days and Le dépeupleur / Der Verwaiser by Samuel Beckett .

Productions (selection)

• 1981 leonce & lena by Georg Büchner , Acting Studio Munich
• 1982 Disease of the youth of Ferdinand Bruckner , Golem Theater Munich
• 1983 The Maids by Jean Genet , Golem Theater Munich
• 1985 Miss Julie von August Strindberg , Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin
• 1986 Final by Samuel Beckett , Theater in der Tonne Reutlingen
• 1987 Rudimentary by August Stramm , Rudimentary Theater Berlin
• 1988 The police of Slawomir Mrozek , Rudimentary Theater Berlin
• 1988 idiot and kasperl at the electric chair by Konrad Bayer , Figurentheater Karlsruhe
• 1989 The little son and the audience of Reinhard P. Gruber , Literaturhaus Berlin
• 1989 Unexpected drunkenness or those who don't forget their first love won't recognize their last one by Daniil Charms , Figurentheater Karlsruhe
• 1989 Crazy Locomotive by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz , Rudimentary Theater Berlin
• 1990 Wolokolamsker Chaussee I – V by Heiner Müller , Puppet Theater Karlsruhe
• 1990 Company of Samuel Beckett , Puppet Theater Karlsruhe
• 1991 ReJoycin '/ Wake for James Joyce , artist group Azoth Berlin
• 1991 Giorni felici (Happy Days) by Samuel Beckett , Rudimentär Theater Berlin
• 1993 Arsenic Blossoms by Danielle Sarréra , Rudimentär Theater Berlin
• 1994 Beglatzt, brunette by Dani Gink , Rudimentär Theater Berlin
• 1995 One month in Dachau by Wladimir Georgijewitsch Sorokin , Rudimentary Theater Berlin
• 1996 Flamingo Bar, figuren theater tübingen
• 1996 Susn by Herbert Achternbusch (crossover La Traviata and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi a cappella), Rudimentär Theater Berlin
• 1997 The fever of Wallace Shawn , Rudimentary Theater Berlin
• 1997 Woyzeck, fragments by Georg Büchner , University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
• 1998 Iphigenie auf Tauris by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Ratten 07 / Volksbühne Berlin
• 1998 The Maids by Jean Genet , University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
• 1998 Ichundich from Else Lasker-Schüler , Berlin University of the Arts
• 1999 The life and death of King Lear by William Shakespeare , Ratten 07 / Volksbühne Berlin
• 1999 RAF or The Legend of Justice by Manfred Keil, Ratten 07 / Volksbühne Berlin
• 2000 fleur d'arsenic by Danielle Sarréra , Berlin University of the Arts
• 2000 ANNA from / to Kurt Schwitters , University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
• 2001 Orpheus Underground from / to Vergil and Claudio Monteverdi , Ensemble Orpheus Underground Stuttgart
• 2001 Chicken thriller by Alberto Garcia Sanchez, Materialtheater Stuttgart
• 2001 Specters mes compagnons by Charlotte Delbo , Sachsenhausen Oranienburg Memorial
• 2002 Recordings from the cellar hole by Fjodor Dostojewski , Garn Theater Berlin
• 2003 Far Off Sightings of Fascinating People in the Big City / The choice of the fantastic possibility by Yvette Coetzee, Friends of the Italian Opera / English Theater Berlin
• 2003 Gods, Bells, Believers by Christiane Hess , Theater am Barg Neustadt a.Rbg.
• 2005 Vivace - On the carelessness of gravity, dinner show Eckart Witzigmann Palazzo Düsseldorf (co-director Andreas Wessels)

Production design from “Spleen. Charles Baudelaire: Poems in Prose “, directed by Hendrik Mannes, 2006

• 2006 whimsy. Poems in prose by Charles Baudelaire , Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig
• 2006 Windpomp by Yvette Coetzee, Ballhaus Ost Berlin
• 2007 Lear by William Shakespeare , Puppet Theater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig
• 2007 Rüdiger and Kai Schmidt's Night Express , Theater Salz + Pfeffer Nürnberg
• 2007 The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde , Puppet Theater College Bochum (co-director Michael Vogel)
• 2007 Lower Austria by Christoph Bochdansky , Hannes Löschel and Wolfgang Vincenz Wizlsperger, radius of action Augarten Vienna
• 2008 Mewa by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov , Kompania Doomsday Warsaw
• 2008 What you want from William Shakespeare , Tapetenfabrik Bonn
• 2008 Baubo by Melanie Florschütz, florschütz & döhnert Berlin (co-director Werner Hennrich)
• 2009 The women of Clare Boothe Luce , Student Cultural Center Karlsruhe
• 2009 The Journey to the Moon by Lambert Mousseka Ntumba, Oberhoff & Mousseka Stuttgart
• 2010 String Quartet No. 14 in D minor D 810 Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert , flunker productions Gebersdorf / Cherubin Quartet Dresden
• 2010 Matka by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz , Teatr Malabar Hotel Warsaw
• 2010 Circus Šardam by Daniil Charms , Project Z! Berlin
• 2010 Fitchers Vogel by Brothers Grimm , florschütz & döhnert Berlin
• 2011 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , Puppet Theater College Bochum (co-director Michael Vogel)
• 2011 Songs for Alice by / after Lewis Carroll , Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig
• 2015 Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück from / to Phil Jutzi , flunker produktionen Wahlsdorf / Schaubude Berlin
• 2015 The last volume by Samuel Beckett , Atelier Artacta Berlin
• 2015 Unlikely Truths from Heinrich von Kleist , Westflügel Leipzig
• 2016 The Foam of the Days by Boris Vian , Group K plus Leipzig Stuttgart Berlin
• 2016 short cuts. The Schroffenstein family from Heinrich von Kleist , West Wing Leipzig
• 2016 Czarodziejska góra (The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann , Teatr Malabar Hotel Warsaw / BTL Bialystok
• 2017 short cuts. Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist , west wing Leipzig
• 2017 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by / after Mary Shelley , Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig
• 2018 Try out Hamlet by William Shakespeare , Grupa Coincidentia Bialystok / LasFest Solniki 44
• 2018 Dust - Staub - אבק , Puppet Theater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig / Golden Delicious Ensemble Jerusalem Lausanne (co-director Antonia Christl)
• 2020 Home of Love , Stefanie Oberhoff / Imaginale Stuttgart
• 2020 time, you callboy of eternity , fool productions Wahlsdorf

literature

• Actually everything is already there. An interview with the director Hendrik Mannes. In: double, No. 21, Issue 3/2010, pp. 20 ff., Verlag Theater der Zeit Berlin.
• Work or death. Magazine about the rats 07 on the occasion of the premiere machine storms . Published by Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, season 1998/99. Photos Ute Mahler / Ostkreuz, graphic design Bernd Frank, editorial department Hendrik Mannes.

Web links

• Hendrik Mann's short biography
• Hendrik Mannes at the figurentheater-kolleg ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )