Holk Freytag

Holk Freytag speaks at a rally against the closure of the Wuppertaler Schauspielhaus on January 30, 2010

Holk Freytag (born September 29, 1943 in Tübingen ) is a German dramaturge , director and artistic director .

Live and act

Freytag grew up in Cologne and Moers . After graduating from high school in Cologne, he studied theater and musicology at the University of Cologne from 1964 to 1969 . From 1968 to 1969 he headed the theater cellar in Neuss and from 1969 to 1977 was a lecturer in media education at the comprehensive university in Düsseldorf .

Freytag founded the Schlosstheater Moers in 1975 and was director there from the time it was founded until 1988. He also worked from 1977 to 1979 as a director and chief dramaturge at the Hildesheim City Theater . From 1988 to 1996 he was general director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen and from 1996 to 2001 he was acting director of the Schillertheater (North Rhine-Westphalia) . From 2001 to 2009 he was the artistic director of the Dresden State Theater .

Since the 2010 festival season, Freytag took over the management of the Bad Hersfeld Festival . On July 28, 2014 , Freytag was dismissed without notice by the city administration of Bad Hersfeld. The reason given was that Freytag had disregarded the budget resolution of the city council for the Hersfeld Festival 2015 when submitting the program for 2015. Presumably it was about 400,000 euros, which the director should save in the 2015 season.

In the meantime, however, Holk Freytag is considered rehabilitated and has taken over the staging of Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Bad Hersfeld Festival 2015 under the new artistic director Dieter Wedel .

Productions (selection)

• The Bacchantes by Euripides , Schlosstheater Moers (1979)
• The Oresty of Aeschylus , Moers Castle Theater (1984)
• Life of Galilei by Bertolt Brecht , Schlosstheater Moers (1988)
• Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist , Wuppertaler Bühnen (1989)
• The investigation of Peter Weiss , Wuppertaler Bühnen (1995)
• Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Wuppertaler Bühnen (1990)
• The measure by Bertolt Brecht, Schillertheater NRW (1998)
• I Have A Dream by Gerold Theobalt , Schillertheater NRW (2000)
• Sideman by Warren Leigh , Schillertheater NRW (2000)
• Guiskard: A fragment after Robert Guiskard Duke of Normans by Heinrich von Kleist, Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2001)
• Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2001)
• A Christmas Carol by Gerold Theobalt based on Charles Dickens , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2001)
• The Last Day by Ödön von Horváth , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2002)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2003)
• Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2003)
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2004)
• The man without a past based on the film by Aki Kaurismäki , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2004/05)
• Amphitryon by Molière , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2005)
• Mephisto by Klaus Mann , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2005)
• King Lear , Staatsschauspiel Dresden (2008)

Teaching

Freytag taught from 1990 to 1993 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

Offices and memberships

Freytag has been chairman of the artistic director group at the German Stage Association since 2001 . He is also secretary of the performing arts and film class at the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

Web links

• Information from the Saxon Academy of the Arts
• Information from the Staatsschauspiel Dresden ( Memento from November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ from HNA.de of July 28, 2014: Hersfeld Festival: Intendant Freytag dismissed without notice
2. ↑ Holk Freytag rehabilitated
3. ↑ Looking ahead: highly acclaimed ex-director Freytag back