Joachim Tenschert

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Joachim Tenschert (born June 5, 1928 ; † April 20, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German television and theater director and chief dramaturge at the Berliner Ensemble . He was also a scientific and artistic employee at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and a lecturer at the Institute for Drama, Film and TV Professions . He is known for films such as The Regimental Commander (1972) and The Life of Galileo Galilei (1978).

Life

From 1946 to 1952 Tenschert studied theater studies , German literature and philosophy in Jena and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Subsequently, at the suggestion of the theater critic Herbert Ihering, he became the latter's research assistant in the GDR Academy of Arts , Theater History Department, and from 1956 to 1958 he was a specialist assistant in the Performing Arts section. In the meantime he tried to gain a foothold as a theater critic, which failed on the radio in the GDR , but was successful in the monthly Theater der Zeit . After the death of the playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1956, his widow Helene Weigel continued his work at the Berliner Ensemble in relation to epic theater and collective work in the spirit of Brecht , who was the director of the Berliner Ensemble from its founding until her death in 1971 . Manfred Wekwerth , who worked there as a director, was annoyed in 1958 after reading a performance review written by Tenschert about himself, because he found Tenschert's analysis to be correct. He decided to bring him by his side. Tenschert moved to the Berliner Ensemble as a dramaturge , where he initially stayed until 1970. In October 1962 he was first used as Manfred Wekwerth's co-director. Together they staged Brecht's Die Tage der Commune , a production about which Tenschert had previously praised in Theater der Zeit . In 1967 there was also a television production of the Weckwerth / Tenschert production.

In 1971 Tenschert began working as a freelance director to take on his own directorial work at home and abroad. At the National Theater London he directed Shakespeare's Coriolanus with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. The Australian premiere of Brecht's mother Courage came about in 1973 under his direction with the Melbourne Theater Company. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich , also a Brecht play, he brought to the stage in 1974 at Svenska Riksteatern Stockholm. In Leipzig he earned recognition with the life of Galileo , so that he repeated this in Graz. In Vienna in 1981 the Sophocles tragedy Antigone was performed in the version edited by Brecht. In addition, he conveyed Bertolt Brecht's theatrical conception and directing methodology in workshops and seminars in socialist, more often in “capitalist” countries. From 1973 to 1977 he was an artistic assistant at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and an author for television in the GDR. From 1975 he was a lecturer, from 1981 professor at the Institute for Drama in Berlin. In 1983 he was appointed head of the directing chair . From 1977 under the management of Wekwerth he held the position of chief dramaturge and director at the Berliner Ensemble. After many years of harmony, there was ultimately tension between the two. First, however, Wekwerth left in 1991. When Tenschert's contract was no longer to be extended in 1992, he resigned for “political and cultural-political” reasons.

He was married to the photographer and author Vera Tenschert .

Filmography

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Tenschert. In: theaterderzeit.de. Theater der Zeit , 1980, accessed May 24, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c d Klaus Baschleben: He wrote a piece of GDR theater history. BE chief dramaturge Joachim Tenschert dies . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 23, 1992, p. 17 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i For lively theater. For Joachim Tenschert's 60th birthday . In: National-Zeitung (Berlin) . 3rd June 1988.
  4. ↑ Manfred Wekwerth: The crucial question - a birthday greeting. Prof. Joachim Tenschert, chief dramaturge and director at BE, on his sixtieth . In: New Germany . Berlin edition. 5th June 1988.
  5. ^ Joachim Tenschert: Theater work in development. “The Day of the Commune” by Bertolt Brecht in the Städtische Theatern Karl-Marx-Stadt . In: Association of theater workers in the GDR (ed.): Theater of the time . 12.Jg. Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, January 1957, ISSN  0040-5418 , p. 37-40 .
  6. ↑ Klaus Pfützner: Bulky and intolerant with charm. In memory of the director Joachim Tenschert . In: New Germany . April 24, 1992, p. 6 .
  7. ^ Christoph Funke: Brecht's lawyer. On the death of Joachim Tenschert . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 23, 1992, p. 18 .
  8. ^ Chronicle of the GDR 1965. March 13th. In: ddr-lexikon.de. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ High awards given. In: Sunday. Die Kulturpolitische Wochenzeitung , number 42/1984, October 14, 1984, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Tenschert, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and chief dramaturge of the Berliner Ensemble
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1928
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1992
Place of death Berlin