Jürgen Flügge

Jürgen Flügge (born May 27, 1944 in Darmstadt ) is a German dramaturge , theater director , author , lecturer and theater director .

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Flügge settled in Munich in 1965, coming from Darmstadt , where he studied theater studies and German literature from 1967 to 1971. In 1971 he became assistant director and dramaturge at the Munich Theater der Jugend , from 1972/73 to 1974 he worked as a dramaturge at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main .

He moved to the Frankfurt theater , then in 1976/77 to the Stuttgart State Theater . In the autumn of 1977 he was the director and co-author of the performance of the play What does love mean here? at the Berlin Theater Rote Grütze . Until 1979 he worked as a freelance director and dramaturge in Kiel , Landshut and Bern .

From 1980 to 1989 he was director of the Munich Youth Theater. Among other things, he promoted the TdJ's reputation by organizing three international children's and youth theater meetings. He worked continuously with the author Wilfrid Grote and the directors Hansjörg Betschart and Beat Fäh .

Flügge himself staged Andreas Schmidt's Jonas in the Desert (1980), Rudolf Herfurtner's Café Star-Traum (1982), William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the Betschart version (1983, co-director), and Ad de Bont / Allan Zipson's The Special Life of Hilletje Jans (1987, Nuremberg Theater ) and Beauty and the Beast (1987, based on the film Once Upon a Time ).

In 1989 he was appointed artistic director of the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen as the successor to Friedrich Schirmer . Here, too, he took particular care of the integration of adult and youth theater as well as the turn to contemporary authors. In four years he gave six world premieres and nine German premieres.

In 1993 he was elected general manager of the Braunschweig State Theater . He arranged several world premieres, including Harald Gerlach's Rape , the re-performance of period pieces from the 1920s such as Miroslav Krleža's Die Wolfsschlucht , the introduction of modern operas and the revival of the Theaterformen festival in 1995 with Thomas Petz.

Although Flügge had succeeded in making a convincing new beginning in the opinion of supraregional critics, he encountered strong resistance from conservative subscribers, especially in music theater, so that he terminated his contract early at the end of the 1994/95 season.

From 1995 he worked as a freelance director in Vienna, Zagreb, Wiesbaden, London and Kiel, among others.

From 2003 to 2006 he was the artistic director of the Schlossfestspiele at Schloss Ettlingen and was elected chairman of the fund for the performing arts. Flügge is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts in Bensheim and an honorary member of ASSITEJ .

Jürgen Flügge is currently a lecturer in theater history at the Mannheim Theater Academy , as well as director and director at the Hoftheater Tromm, which he founded.

The Hof-Theater-Tromm has existed since 1996 and offers a diverse family program. It has its main focus in children's and youth theater. Every year at least 2 in-house productions and one co-production are developed. The Hoftheater Tromm is located on the Tromm in the Odenwald in southern Hesse in the midst of nature.

Works

• "Beauty and the Beast" ( Madame Leprince de Beaumont , Jürgen Flügge, Brigitte Korn): Premiere October 8, 1987, SchauBurg, Munich; R: J. Flügge
• "A magical journey behind the light" (Jürgen Flügge, Frederic Hormuth, Dietmar Sachser): WP March 6, 1999, LT Schwaben, Memmingen; R: H. Seitz
• "I am not Siegfried" (Jürgen Flügge): WP February 20, 1999, Theater Micro-Macro, Tromm / Odenwald; R: J. Flügge

Web links

• The theater festival of the court theater Tromm
• Theater play publisher Munich
• Short biography with photo