Horst Ruprecht (director)

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Horst Ruprecht (born June 19, 1938 in Teplitz , CSR ) is a German director , ensemble director , drama director and drama teacher .

biography

Ruprecht completed a commercial training in Halle / Eisleben from 1954 to 1956 . A long-term lung disease saved him from serving in the NVA . From 1960 to 1962 he studied at the State Drama School, the predecessor of the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , under the direction of Rudolf Penka and Wolfgang Heinz, and attended the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater . From 1962 to 1964 he was engaged with a group of graduates at the Parchim State Theater . His first production, Der unleashed Wotan (1963), a comedy by Ernst Toller , already showed his strong directing talent and was featured in guest performances a. a. shown in Berlin and Schwerin . In 1964 he completed a directing aspirantur with Fritz Bennewitz at DNT Weimar .

From 1965 to 1969 he was assistant / lecturer at the German Academy for Film Art Potsdam-Babelsberg in the field of drama . His staging of the satirical comedy Die Campaign by Joachim Knauth 1968 (in the year of the Prague Spring ), which he developed with students (including Winfried Glatzeder , Jaecki Schwarz , Regina Beyer , Madeleine Lierck ), was subordinated to antisocialist tendencies by various bodies at the university . Only the pro domo of the outgoing rector Konrad Schwalbe prevented the dismissal. The dramatic staging was shown within the schedule of the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam , to the delight of the audience . After the successful staging guest The raspberry pickers of Fritz Hochwälder at Theater Nordhausen Ruprecht was there from 1969 to 1972 chief director. The most important staging that received a lot of national attention was The Soldiers after JMR Lenz .

Artistic director Alber Bussmann brought him to the Meiningen Theater as senior director and made a significant contribution to promoting his productive, creative work with the ensemble . The staging of Napoleon or The Hundred Days by Christian Dietrich Grabbe with guest performances a. a. in Berlin and Leipzig . The Landestheater Halle (Artistic Director Ulf Reiher ) hired him in 1974 as 1st director / theater director. In contrast to the SED - cultural policy acclaimed era Gerhard Wolfram / Horst Schönemann , given the Hallische theater work under his direction other intentions. Highlights were

After the premiere, the new director Günther Schröder demanded changes on behalf of the SED district leadership , which the director did not accept. The production was canceled. 1979 - after further attempts by the party leadership of the Landestheater to interfere in the artistic work - there was a final break. Ruprecht couldn't and didn't want to withstand the pressure any longer and left the theater. In contrast to many other GDR directors, he was not allowed to accept invitations to guest productions in the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1980s.

From 1979 to 1986 Ruprecht worked intensively at the drama schools in Berlin (Ernst Busch) and Leipzig (Hans Otto), at the Studio Halle of GDR television and occasionally as a guest director in Erfurt and Weimar . In 1986 the general director of the stages of the city of Magdeburg, Karl Schneider , hired him as theater director. The Magdeburg years up to 1990 were productive and fruitful with a young ensemble at a large theater. He was able to continue his theater program after years of involuntary abstinence . The work there received strong national attention through festival invitations. An invitation from the Austrian author Peter Turrini , supported by the former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , made it possible for him to do guest productions from 1989 to 1992 in Salzburg and Vienna after a petition from Kurt Hager (SED Politburo ) .

In 1992 Ruprecht directed Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods as a guest at the Schauspiel Leipzig and subsequently became director of the theater there. Although he was the favorite of the City Council of Leipzig for the position of artistic director advertised in 1995, he was artistically undisputed and had great public and press successes, the contract, which ran until 1996, was dissolved in conflict in 1994. Ruprecht has worked as a guest director at various theaters since 1996. In particular the directors Wolfram Krempel ( Stadttheater Ingolstadt ), Karin H. Veit ( Schlosstheater Celle ), Dieter Gackstetter ( Landestheater Coburg ) and Gerhard Weber ( Theater Trier ) regularly invited or invite R. to guest productions. However, his programmatic, ensemble-defining theater work, trained by Meyerhold and Brecht , but also by Juri Petrowitsch Lyubimow and Andrzej Wajda , he was unable to continue in the reunified Germany .

Participation in festivals / awards

1974 "Banner of Labor"

  • Napoleon or The Hundred Days by Christian D. Grabbe (Meininger Theater)
    • 1974 Berlin Festival
    • 1974 trade fair guest play in Leipzig
  • At dawn it's still quiet by Boris Lwowitsch Wassiljew (Landestheater Halle)
    • 1975 Berlin Festival
    • 1975 Reopening of the German National Theater Weimar
    • 1976 Dresden Workers' Festival
  • Happy ending from Brecht / Hauptmann / Weill (stages of the city of Magdeburg)
    • 1987 First national theater festival in the GDR
  • And love never stops on Schnitzler Horváth evening (stages in the city of Magdeburg)
    • 1988 Berlin Festival
  • Annabella or a pity that she was a whore by John Ford (stages of the city of Magdeburg)
    • 1989 Shakespeare Festival Weimar
  • King Ubu by Alfred Jarry (Leipzig Theater)
    • 1993 Euro scene in Leipzig
    • 1994 Avant-garde Festival "Contacts" Toruń ( Poland )
  • About people and sharks by Brecht / Jarry "Threepenny Opera / King Ubu / Lux in Tenebris" (Leipzig Theater)
    • 1994 Duisburg accents

Productions

[Sources: the list of productions follows press reports from various press organs in the GDR, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria as well as radio reviews]

1963 to 1985

  • Parchim State Theater:
    • 1963 The unleashed Wotan by Ernst Toller
    • 1964 Ambrosio kills Arthur Fauquez's time
  • Hans Otto Theater Potsdam:
  • Stages of the city of Nordhausen:
  • The Meininger Theater:
  • State Theater Halle:
  • Municipal theaters of Erfurt:
    • 1982 hero Ulysses by Ludvig Holberg / Harald Gerlach (EA)
  • German National Theater Weimar:
    • 1985 The comic theater of Carlo Goldoni the servant of two masters (EA)

1986 to 1990

  • Municipal theaters Magdeburg
    • 1986 Happy ending from Dorothy Lane / Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
    • 1987 Der Reigen / Faith, Love, Hope by Arthur Schnitzler / Ödön von Horváth (EA)
    • 1987 The day goes the way of the century from Tschingis Aitmatow (EA)
    • 1987 The most amazing day of Peter Turrini
    • 1987 The park of Sean O'Casey (EA)
    • 1988 The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
    • 1988 Sunday children from Gerlind Reinshagen (EA)
    • 1988 Annabella or Shame She Was a Whore by John Ford (EA)
    • 1989 joke, satire and deeper meaning by Christian Dietrich Grabbe
    • 1989 Transit Europa by Volker Braun
    • 1990 Foot in the noose of Georges Feydeau (EA)

1990 to 1992

  • Touring theater Landgraf Neustadt / T.
    • 1990 Laura and Lotte by Peter Shaffer
  • Salzburg State Theater
    • 1988 Transit Europe by Volker Braun (ÖEA)
    • 1990 To the beautiful view of Ödön von Horváth
    • 1991 The process of Schamgorod by Elie Wiesel (OEEA)
    • 1991 Medea by Franz Grillparzer
    • 1992 The Trojans by Euripides / Jean Paul Sartre
  • Theater MBH Vienna
    • 1990 Bloodbath by Georg Ernst (WP)
  • Little Theater Salzburg
    • 1991 King Ubu by Alfred Jarry
  • Volkstheater Vienna
    • 1989 Peter Turrini's greatest day
    • 1992 end of the line longing for Tennessee Williams

1992 until today

  • Theater Leipzig
    • 1992 Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth
    • 1993 The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
    • 1993 King Ubu by Alfred Jarry
    • 1993 On the invigorating effect of money by Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill / Hanns Eisler
    • 1993 purgatory in Ingolstadt by Marie Luise Fleißer
    • 1994 The Trojans by Euripides / Jean Paul Sartre
  • Ingolstadt Theater
    • 1996 The persecution and murder of JPMarat ... by Peter Weiss
    • 1998 The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller
    • 1999 Fabian the walk to the dogs by Erich Kästner / Hans Drawe / Horst Ruprecht (WP)
    • 1999 Hans Drawe's English passport (UA)
    • 2000 purgatory in Ingolstadt by Marie Luise Fleißer
  • Satirical Theater Halle
    • 1996 The series writer by Hans Drawe (WP)
  • Municipal theaters Augsburg
    • 1998 The Maiden of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller
  • Theater Junge Garde Dresden
    • 1998 Aphra Behn's Masquerade (EA)
  • Landestheater Neustrelitz
    • 2001 Archangels don't flip by Dario Fo / Franca Rame (DEA) (The great DarioFo circus)
  • Landesbühne Hannover
    • 2002 Arturo Ui from Bertolt Brecht
    • 2003 Schwejk in World War II by Bertolt Brecht
  • Musical comedy Berlin
    • 2004 Casanova's last love from Gassauer / Sullivan
    • 2005 The beautiful Galathee by Franz von Soup
    • 2005 Dieter Arnold's Primadonna von Leitmeritz
  • Coburg State Theater
    • 2002 Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People
    • 2004 Cash from Michael Cooney
    • 2005 The Comic Theater of Carlo Goldoni: The Servant of Two Masters
  • Meininger Theater / South Thuringian State Theater
  • Celle Castle Theater
    • 2006 Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
    • 2008 Guilt and Atonement by Fjodor Dostojewski / Eugen Ruge
    • 2009 Heaven from Ödön von Horváth
    • 2010 Othello by William Shakespeare
    • 2012 Antonius and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
  • Theater Trier
    • 2005 The Breath of Freedom / Schiller collage by Friedrich Schiller
    • 2005 The visit of the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    • 2007 King Oedipus by William Shakespeare / Hugo von Hofmannsthal
    • 2007 Andorra by Max Frisch
    • 2009 The Devil's General by Carl Zuckmayer
    • 2012 The Life of Galilei by Bertolt Brecht

Working with acting students

  • German Academy for Film Art
    • 1967 Ten days that shook the world by Heiner Müller
    • 1968 Joachim Knauth's campaign
    • 1969 Bertolt Brecht's petty bourgeois wedding
  • Theater school "Hans Otto" Leipzig
    • 1981 Emil Gött's black artist
    • 1982 The great Dario Fo circus by Dario Fo
  • "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts
    • 1985 Peter Turrini's greatest day
  • Studio Magdeburg of the Leipzig Theater Academy
    • 1987 pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marie Luise Fleißer
    • 1987 Secretary of State Smith by Sergio Arrau (EA)
    • 1988 The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni
  • Studio Leipzig of the Leipzig Theater School
    • 1993 The landlady of Peter Turrini
    • 1993 Sladek von Ödön von Horváth
    • 1989 The soldiers of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz / Heinar Kipphardt
  • Transformschauspielschule Berlin
    • 2009 Wars of the Roses by William Shakespeare
  • Berlin floor
    • 2010 King Oedipus of Sophocles
    • 2010 Georg Ernst's bloodbath
    • 2011 Richard's cork leg by Brendan Behan
  • Reduta Drama School Berlin
    • 2013 Sladek / Faith, Love, Hope / Italian Night by Ödön von Horváth

TV and film

  • Television films
    • 1970 Third-party examination ( Deutscher Fernsehfunk / DFF)
    • 1992 Comrade Brüggemann from Gerald Szyszkowitz (NDR / MDR / WDR / SR / ORF)
  • Television games
    • 1971 Mr. Geldhab from Aleksander Fredro (DFF, with Madeleine Lierck , Günther Schubert, Julius Theurer , among others )
    • 1972 Mr. Leonida and the reaction of Caragiale (DFF, inter alia with Carola Braunbock , Wilhelm Thielmann)
    • 1978 Valentin and Valentina Soviet contemporary piece (DFF, among others with Karin Weser, Werner Stempel)
    • 1978 Pebble on the beach or anatomy of a murder by Natasa Tanska (DFF, banned on the day of broadcast for ideological reasons)
    • 1981 The Black Artist by Emil Gött (DFF, among others with Jenny Gröllmann , Hanjo Hasse, Gunther Sonneson)
    • 1982 Katharina in the grip of M.Domanski (DFF, among others with Jenny Gröllmann, Heinz Behrens , Erwin Berner)
    • 1983 Mother is not allowed to marry (DFF, including Christel Peters , Thomas Thieme )
    • 1980/86 Various television fun games (DFF / Studio Halle)
  • Theatrical recordings
    • 1971 The Maulheld by Joachim Knauth after Plautus (Theater Nordhausen / DFF)
    • 1976 Joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning by Christian Dietrich Grabbe (Landestheater Halle / DFF)
    • 1978 Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth (Landestheater Halle / DFF)
    • 1983 Hero Ulysses by Harald Gerlach after Ludvig Holberg (Städtische Bühnen Erfurt / DFF)
    • 1991 The Trial of Shamgorod by Elie Wiesel (Salzburger Landestheater / ORF)

literature

  • Theater Lexicon International (Berlin 1995 Henschel Verlag)
  • Theater Lexikon der Schweiz Ed. Henning Rischbieter (Zurich 1983 Füssli-Verlag)
  • Lothar Ehrlich "Christian Dietrich Grabbe" (1986 Reclam Leipzig)
  • Friedemann Krusche "Theater in Magdeburg" Volume 2 (Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1994)
  • Alfred Erck "History of the Meininger Theater" (Publisher: Das Meininger Theater 2006)
  • FAZ October 1990 "Mourning too late, hope too early"
  • Theater der Zeit "5/1990 Director's talk
  • Theater heute "5/1993 New beginning: Leipzig
  • Online lexicon of GDR television films
personal data
SURNAME Ruprecht, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, ensemble leader, drama director and drama teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz , CSR