James von Berlepsch

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James Cristobal Pedro von Berlepsch (born April 22, 1935 in Herrera Entre Rios , Argentina ; † August 13, 2008 in Hanover ) was a theater actor and founder of the New Hanover Theater (1962), which he directed until his death.

Life

Von Berlepsch was born in Argentina as the youngest of four children. The father Peter von Berlepsch, a Swiss citizen, studied agriculture and forestry, emigrated to Argentina and ran his own farm there. The mother Beatrice von Berlepsch, an Englishwoman, was a teacher. After the father's death at the end of 1935, an aunt from Hanover took in the mother and the children. Berlepsch attended elementary school in Hanover and on Lake Zurich , then the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hanover up to secondary school leaving certificate and then completed training as a telecommunications engineer at Siemens.

From 1956 he attended the Braunschweig-Kolleg , at that time the only grammar school for adults in the Federal Republic of Germany , where he passed the Abitur in 1958. This was followed by acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

Gravestone with the coat of arms of the von Berlepsch family on the Michaelisfriedhof in Ricklingen

In 1962, von Berlepsch founded the theater in Hanover, initially known as the Kleines Theater , in Mehlstrasse or Schillerstrasse before moving the facility to Georgstrasse 54 and opening it on May 1, 1964 under the name Neues Theater. In the same year, the theater founder appointed the dramaturge and director Karl-Heinz Streibing to the New Theater, which von Berlepsch then headed for life. He directed most of the plays and played a leading role very often.

At the same time, von Berlepsch opened the Kammerspiele on March 5, 1970 in the Künstlerhaus Hannover , the last performance of which was given on March 5, 1977.

Meanwhile, von Berlepsch had married Sigrid von Berlepsch-Valendàs (née Schünemann) in 1972. The marriage resulted in two sons, Christopher von Berlepsch-Valendàs and Roderick von Berlepsch-Valendàs.

New theater in Hanover

The New Theater in Hanover at Georgstrasse 54 was founded on May 16, 1962 by James von Berlepsch and was managed by him until his death in 2008 and is now in the 2nd generation. The New Theater Hannover is an unsubsidised private theater in the city center. When theater founder James von Berlepsch died on August 13, 2008 after a serious illness at the age of 73, the two sons inherited the theater and Christopher von Berlepsch-Valendàs took over the management. Florian Battermann has been the artistic director since 2008 , whom James von Berlepsch brought to the Neues Theater in 1996 as assistant director and actor, and from 2000 also as director.

literature

Web links

Commons : James von Berlepsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : New Theater. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 467.
  2. ↑ a b Keyword Berlepsch in Hannover Chronik , p. 253 and others; also as a preview over google books
  3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.): Man for Man - Biographical Lexicon on the History of Love for Friends and Male Sexuality in the German-Speaking Area , Vol. 2, Berlin Lit-Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , pp. 1151f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Berlepsch, James von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actor and theater founder
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrera
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2008
Place of death Hanover