Horst Schönemann

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Horst Schönemann (left) with Gerhard Wolfram in Dresden, 1986

Horst Schönemann (born January 19, 1927 in Elberfeld , † June 14, 2002 in Dresden ) was a German actor and director .

Life

The son of an actor came to Saxony-Anhalt after the Second World War , where he worked at the municipal theater in Wernigerode from 1947 to 1948 . From 1948 he attended the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin . He stayed at the Deutsches Theater until 1954, where he took on small roles and worked as an assistant director. Since 1951 Horst Schönemann worked as an actor at DEFA . In 1952 he brought his first production to the Senftenberg City Theater, where he was senior director from 1954 to 1959. From 1959 to 1963 he worked as a director at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. He was then senior director of the house until 1966. He left Berlin in 1966 - he was already considered to be one of the leading directors in the GDR - to Halle to become senior director and deputy director at the Landestheater. Together with the artistic director Gerhard Wolfram he developed a concept of the socialist folk theater. Their suggestions had a supraregional response - two theater evenings in 1969 and 1979, which, with their revue character, were the forerunners of the later spectacles at the Berlin Volksbühne and the discoveries at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . Important world premieres such as the stage version of Hermann Kant's novel Die Aula and the legendary staging of Ulrich Plenzdorf's Die neue Leiden des Junge W. were directed by Schönemann in Halle. In 1972 he returned to the Deutsches Theater Berlin as senior theater director, where he was appointed artistic director in 1979. In 1981 he moved to the Staatsschauspiel Dresden as director and drama director . One of his most important productions of this time is the world premiere of the play "Jutta or The Children of Damutz" by Helmut Bez with Dagmar Manzel in the leading role. The production was recorded for GDR television.

In a historical review of the Dresden State Theater, Schönemann's work is outlined as follows: "In the 1980s, the directors Horst Schönemann and Wolfgang Engel stood for contemporary productions that decisively rejuvenated the Dresden theater, which is considered to be particularly traditionalist in terms of performance and direction. Especially under the artistic director Gerhard Wolfram (from 1983) created many productions that deal as critically as possible with socialism and stimulate supraregional discussions. "

Horst Schönemann created around 80 stage productions, including 30 world premieres and GDR premieres.

In 1996 Schönemann retired. He died in Dresden in 2002 and was buried in the 1st French Cemetery in Berlin.

Awards

In 1968 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

theatre

Productions

actor

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

  • Aune Renk:  Schönemann, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Christoph Funke: The director Horst Schönemann. Report. Analysis. Documentation. A contribution to the history of theater in the GDR. Berlin: Henschel 1971
  • Ingeborg Pietzsch: Workshop Theater. Conversations with directors . S. 114ff, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1975
  • John L. Flood: Just before the curtain fell. To the theater of the GDR . London Symposium, Rodopi 1990
  • Petra Stuber: Scope and Limits. Studies on the GDR theater . Christoph Links Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-86153-171-2
  • State Theater Dresden. 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus, edited by Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller and Felicitas Zürcher . Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-01-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fernsehenderddr.de/index.php?script=dokumentationsblatt-detail&id1=13425 Retrieved on August 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
  3. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Horst Schönemann (1927–2002), actor and director. http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/persoenitäten/S/Seiten/HorstSchoenemann.aspx
  4. ↑ http://www.fernsehenderddr.de/index.php?script=dokumentationsblatt-detail&id1=13425 Retrieved on July 11, 2015
  5. ↑ Three-part film by GDR television. Accessed on September 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schönemann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2002
Place of death Dresden