Horst Laube

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Horst Laube (born January 21, 1939 in Brüx ; † October 18, 1997 in Fröndenberg ) was a German dramaturge and writer .

Horst Laube, on the occasion of a meeting with Heiner Müller, in Frankfurt am Main, 1978

Life

Born in 1939 in Brüx in northern Bohemia, Horst Laube spent his childhood and youth in Kassel . From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Friedrichsgymnasium . Until 1963 Laube studied German, art history and theater studies in Marburg , Munich and Vienna . After a one-year traineeship with the Hessische Nachrichten in Kassel, he worked as a feature editor in Essen and Wuppertal . From 1968 to 1972 he worked as a dramaturge at the Wuppertaler Bühnen . From 1972 to 1980 he shaped the Frankfurt theater with his ideas at a time when new democratic concepts were being tried out ( co-determination theater ). Laube hired a number of promising directors. In particular, he succeeded in offering Heiner Müller a platform in the west to implement his theater concepts. The job description of a dramaturge, which was still vague until then, was to gain profile through Laube. The dramaturge is the intellectual support of the director, who tries to get to the core of the respective plays in a close exchange of ideas with him. It was important to Laube to remove cuts, breaks and contradictions and less to convey the impression of a homogeneous whole. He worked as a critic for Spiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau .

In 1985 he moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg with Jürgen Flimm . At the same time he was a writer and author of five plays, three novels and several radio plays - Walter Jens praised “The Fear Man” from 1980 as the best of the year. He also translated and edited plays such as those by Shakespeare and de Musset. He died in 1997 in a nursing home in Fröndenberg (Sauerland) as a result of an accident that occurred in Hamburg in autumn 1986.

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Plays

  • The permanent piano player (premiere 1974 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, director: Luc Bondy).
  • together with Tankred Dorst : Goncourt or The Abolition of Death (Premiere 1977 at Schauspiel Frankfurt, Director: Peter Palitzsch)
  • The first day of peace (world premiere in Düsseldorf, director: Hans-Dieter Jendreyko )
  • Finally a cook (premiere 1980 at the Thalia Theater, director: Peter Löscher )
  • Final in Smyrna. Comedy with motifs by Goldoni (premiered 1985 at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, director: Werner Schroeter ).

Novels, short stories

  • Ella Ffall, Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1976 (Frankfurt a. M .: Syndikat, 1985).
  • Between the rivers. Travels to Joseph Conrad, Frankfurt a. M .: Syndikat, 1982 (Doppelganger in Borneo. On the trail of Almayers Wahn, Hamburg: Rotbuch, 1998).
  • Hill in the forest. Story, Frankfurt a. M .: Athenaeum, 1986.

Other publications (a selection)

  • Peter Hacks (Friedrichs. Dramatist of the World Theater 68), Hanover: Friedrichs, 1972.
  • Parsifal command. A memory exercise in: Was there something? Theater work and participation at the Schauspiel Frankfurt 1972–1980, ed. by Gert Loschütz in collaboration with Horst Laube, Frankfurt a. M., Syndikat, 1980, pp. 181-191.
  • The third is opposite, in: Erich Wonder , Raum-Szene / Szene-Raum, ed. by Elisabeth Schweeger , Stuttgart: Hatje, 1986, pp. 89-94.
  • In the street. Where else? and other prose pieces, in: Der Literatur Bote 53 (1999), pp. 4-22.

Editions

  • Ruhrpottbuch, Wuppertal: Hammer, 1972.
  • Workbook about Tankred Dorst , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​1974.
  • in collaboration with Brigitte Landes, theater book 1. With photos by Inge Rambow, Munich: Hanser, 1978.
  • together with Gert Loschütz , Was there what? Theater work and participation in acting. Frankfurt 1972–1980, photographs by Mara Eggert, Frankfurt a. M., Syndicate, 1980.

About Horst Laube

  • Gerhard Stadelmaier : Cave thinker. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 22, 1997.
  • Peter Iden : The tendency towards catastrophe. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, October 23, 1997.
  • Gert Loschütz : Falls. About Horst Laube. In: Der Literatur Bote 53 (1999), pp. 22-28.
  • Hans Neuenfels : Hermes in the labyrinth. On the death of the author and dramaturge Horst Laube. In: Theater heute 12 (1997), pp. 1–2.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Laube, Horst In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Volume 7, Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 258.
  2. ↑ Horst Laube in a studio talk with Gertrud Höhler , March 9, 1982, gallery, Westdeutsches Fernsehen.
personal data
SURNAME Arbor, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Brus
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1997
Place of death Fröndenberg / Ruhr