Heribert Sasse

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Heribert Sasse (2010)

Heribert Sasse (born September 28, 1945 in Linz , Upper Austria ; † November 19, 2016 in Hinterstoder ) was an Austrian actor , director and theater manager .

Life

Sasse grew up in Vienna and began studying music, which he broke off to devote himself to the theater. From 1969 he worked as a temporary lighting technician, stage manager and assistant director at the Vienna Volkstheater , where he also played his first small roles. After a brief engagement as an actor at the Munich cellar theater , he went to the Berlin Schlosspark Theater . Further stations of his acting career were the Vienna Academy Theater , the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin .

From 1976 he worked increasingly as a director. He staged at the Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Vienna Volkstheater, at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin and at the Salzburg Festival . In 1980 Sasse became director of the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, where he worked as a director and leading actor.

From 1985 to 1990 he was general director of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . After the State Drama Theaters in their previous corporate form had been wound up by the Berlin Senate in 1993, Sasse opened the former small house, the Schlosspark Theater, as a private theater, which he headed as director until 2002. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he became a member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volkstheater under the direction of Michael Schottenberg . In the 2006/07 season he moved to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, whose new director Herbert Föttinger entrusted him with both acting and directing duties. In the 2012/13 season Sasse made guest appearances alongside Helmuth Lohner , Nicole Heesters , Andrea Jonasson and others with the production of John Gabriel Borkman at the Schauspielhaus Graz . His last role was that of Baron Joachim von Essenbeck in the drama Die Verdammten, based on the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti (premiere: November 11, 2016). Heribert Sasse “ended up being one of the Viennese theater stars that made people visit the theater. ... A man from the times of personal format ”.

Sasse has received numerous awards for his diverse artistic activities as an actor, director and artistic director. At the Mozarteum in Salzburg , he also taught acting and directing as a professor and at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin, the “Cultural Management” course.

Heribert Sasse died on November 19, 2016 in his home in Hinterstoder .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1996: Rolf Schneider : Montezumas Krone (Samuel Flieg) - Director: Rolf Schneider (detective radio play - MDR / SFB)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Heribert Sasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Theater in der Josefstadt , accessed on November 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Helmut Schödel : Stylish Perfector. The theater maker Heribert Sasse is dead . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 21, 2016, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Theater maker Heribert Sasse is dead orf.at, accessed on November 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Golden awards for Erich Schleyer and Heribert Sasse . Rathauskorrespondenz [City of Vienna], November 30, 2011, accessed on November 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Maria Gurmann: A dramaturgical heavyweight: Heribert Sasse is finally a chamber actor . kurier.at , January 16, 2013, accessed on November 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Sasses “Werther” with honorary membership and election call . APA report in the Salzburger Nachrichten , September 29, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sasse, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2016
Place of death Hinterstoder