Horst Bonnet

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Horst Gustav Franz Bonnet (born March 8, 1931 in Berlin ; † January 10, 2006 there ) was a German music theater and film director .

Horst Bonnet was born in Berlin as the son of the actor Franz Bonnet . At the age of six he was already acting as a child actor in films such as pediatrician Dr. Engel (1937) and Pitty (1938) with. Although he later received smaller roles in film and television productions, such as in the 1953 film Jacket Like Pants , he decided against a career as an actor.

After studying acting, Horst Bonnet was assistant director to the theater directors Bertolt Brecht , Wolfgang Langhoff and Walter Felsenstein . It was Felsenstein who brought Bonnet to the " Komische Oper " in Berlin. Bonnet staged " Die Distel " at several East Berlin music theaters, at the Volksbühne and at the cabaret . The two musical DEFA films Salon Pitzelberger (1965) and Orpheus in der Unterwelt (1974) were made under his direction .

Because he showed solidarity with reform socialism in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and condemned the invasion of the Warsaw Pact , he was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Thanks to the commitment of renowned artists such as Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin , he was released after only 13 months.

From 1970 Bonnet worked at the German State Opera Berlin. He brought Orpheus on stage in the underworld at various GDR theaters . In 1974 he also directed a successful operetta adaptation of this work for DEFA . After the fall of the Wall he continued to direct, for example at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

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SURNAME Bonnet, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonnet, Horst Gustav Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music theater and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2006
Place of death Berlin