Hermann Beil
Hermann Beil (born August 9, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater dramaturge and theater director and was President of the German Academy of Performing Arts from 2009 to 2016 .
Life
Beil studied German, history and music in Mainz in the early 1960s . His main instrument during his music studies was the clarinet . After completing his studies, he received his first engagement at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main in 1965 as assistant dramaturge. In 1968 he moved to the Basel Theater, where he worked as chief dramaturge until 1974. As a dramaturge, Beil accompanied world premieres by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and productions by Werner Düggelin . After this activity he moved to the State Theater in Stuttgart , where Claus Peymann was director. Since then he has been Peymann's permanent dramaturge and moved with him to the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 1979 and to the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1986 . He ran the Burgtheater together with Peymann as co-director. From 1992 to 1997 he also worked as an employee of Peter Stein for the Salzburg Festival . In 1999 he and Peymann moved to the Berliner Ensemble , where he is still chief dramaturge today. Thomas Bernhard dedicated three dramas to him, which appeared in 1990 under the title Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes eat with me . The first dramolet (Claus Peymann leaves Bochum ...) he staged himself in 1986 at Peymann's farewell party. In one of the one-act plays (Claus Peymann and Hermann Beil on the Sulzwiese) he lets him perform. Hermann Beil played himself and the two other roles at the Wiener Festwochen, where the pieces were performed again 20 years after their creation.
In 1995 Beil was awarded the German Critics' Prize and, together with Claus Peymann, the Berlin Theater Prize.
Since March 2014, Beil has been working as a voluntary advisor to the interim Burgtheater director Karin Bergmann .
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy for Spoken Word in Stuttgart.
Works
- Directorial work
- 1999: Sinking of the Titanic by Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Salzburg Festival
- 2000: The Story of the Soldier by Igor Stravinsky - with the Merlin Ensemble Vienna and Lore Brunner, later with Manfred Karge, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival
- 2002: Jubilee of George Tabori - Landestheater Tübingen
- Fonts
- 1983: Saladin Schmitt - Der Theatergründer (The book accompanying the exhibition in the Schauspielhaus Bochum)
- 1986: The Bochum Ensemble - A German City Theater 1979 to 1986 (to say goodbye to the Peymann Ensemble from Bochum)
- 1999: World Comedy Austria - 13 Years Burgtheater (to say goodbye to the Peymann Ensemble from Vienna)
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Hermann Beil . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 149.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Beil in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Beil: Theater fans live longer a hundred and three stories from the Burgtheater. Literature review by Karin Cerny
- Herrmann Beil: About the splendor and misery of the dramaturge . Deutschlandfunk, June 10, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herman Beil as "honorary advisor". In: ORF News from March 19, 2014
- ↑ Academy for the Spoken Word | Board. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beil, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater dramaturge and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |