Joe Knipp

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Joe Knipp (born September 21, 1954 in Cologne ) is a German author , singer , theater director and theater director . Since it was founded in 1987, he has been the artistic director of the private theater on Sachsenring (TAS) in Cologne.

life and work

Joe Knipp grew up in his native Cologne. His parents were both actors , while he says he was initially less interested in theater and more in painting . Nonetheless, Knipp belonged to the Theater AG of his grammar school and in 1972 played Thomas Münzer in Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer by Dieter Forte . After his school education, which he finished with the Abitur in 1974, he studied painting, drawing , film and directing from 1976 . After completing his studies, he worked as a draftsman and cartoonist for the political satirical magazine pardon from 1982 onwards .

Since 1972 Knipp has worked as a singer and lyricist with the Neuwied- born composer and guitarist Albrecht Zummach and performed with him as a chanson duo. In 1984 the duo expanded to include the vibraphonist Clemens Dreyer , who, like Zummach, had studied at the Cologne University of Music, to form the band Zinnober , which has since played with the same line-up: Joe Knipp (lyrics, vocals), Albrecht Zummach (composition, guitar) and Clemens Dreyer (Vibraphone). The trio gave guest performances throughout Germany with their German-language chansons and toured the republic especially in the 1980s. After a 12-year break, the band made their comeback in 1998 and have been giving concerts again since then, for example in Cologne in the old pawn shop or in the red salon .

Together with Hannelore Honnen , Knipp founded the Free Theater Neuwied in the Rhineland-Palatinate district town of Neuwied in 1980 . His productions there include u. a. the 1978 farmer opera by Yaak Karsunke in Neuwieder Carmen-Sylva-Garten and the piece Der Dra-Dra by Wolf Biermann, shown in 1980 on Neuwied Luisenplatz .

Seven years later, Knipp and Honnen relocated their joint theater work to the North Rhine-Westphalian metropolis of Cologne, where in January 1987 they founded the Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), which they have since operated as a private theater . The stage on the Sachsenring in Cologne's “ Südstadt ” district, previously run as Saxi , offers around 90 seats. Joe Knipp has been the artistic director of the TAS since its inception, while Hannelore Honnen has been responsible for the management as well as for the stage design and costumes and has also worked on stage plays for the TAS or even writes some of them herself.

In 2001 Knipp was elected chairman of the Cologne Theater Conference. With the new board of directors, he founded the first “Theaternight” in Cologne in the same year, which became a model for theater nights throughout Germany. In 2005 he resigned from office after criticizing the funding policy of the city of Cologne.

As a result of the reduction and multiple cancellation of communal funding for the independent theater scene in Cologne, the TAS, which was also affected by this, ran into financial difficulties and had to stop its productions and theater operations for one year at the end of 2009. In 2011, the two shareholders were able to reopen the TAS with their own funds and private sponsors , and Knipp staged the comedy Traumfrau, Desperately Wanted by Cologne-based British author, actor and director Tony Dunham (* 1956), with whom he had already worked several times. Since autumn 2011 the TAS has had a regular schedule again.

In addition to the artistic direction of the TAS, Knipp was involved in the training of actors and in the field of “theater and school”. Among other things, he regularly hosted pupils and school classes at TAS, supervised productions by and with pupils at various schools in Cologne and other North Rhine-Westphalian cities, led theater workshops since the early 2000s and was a lecturer at the Cologne Theater Academy in 2012/13 active.

Joe Knipp lives and works in Cologne.

Awards

Productions (selection)

  • 1992: First solo cabaret by cabaret artist Thomas Reis : When men still had tails
  • 1993: Lieutenant Gustl (Arthur Schnitzler) in the Theater am Sachsenring (TAS)
  • 1994: Idiots , based on the novel Bouvard and Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert / Hannelore Honnen) in the TAS - nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize
  • 1998: Stumm - Hollywood's early years (Tony Dunham) at TAS - nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize
  • 2001: Echt brecht (Tony Dunham) in the Cologne Theater on Reichenspergerplatz
  • 2003: Das Fest , stage adaptation of the film Das Fest (Thomas Vinterberg / Mogens Rukov) in the TAS - awarded the Cologne Theater Prize 2003;
    Final guest performance in 2005 at the Schauspiel Köln , Schlosserei
  • 2005: Verwanzt (Tracy Letts) in the VIVA studio in Cologne's Mediapark
  • 2006: Man is man (Bertolt Brecht) in the TAS
  • 2007: Favorite people (Laura de Weck) in the TAS
  • 2008: For all cases Fritz (theater revue by Joe Knipp / Albrecht Zummach) in the TAS
  • 2009: Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos) in the TAS
  • 2011: Dream woman, desperately wanted (Tony Dunham) in the TAS
  • 2011: Hamlet (William Shakespeare) at TAS
  • 2012: Scenes from a Marriage , stage adaptation of the film Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman) in the TAS
  • 2012: Big and Small (Botho Strauss) in the Cologne Academy Theater
  • 2013: Is there life over 40? (Comedy by Thomas Reis) at TAS
  • 2013: Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen) in the TAS
  • 2014: Satisfaction II - Lustschiffer (Marcel Duchamp / Hannelore Honnen) in the TAS
  • 2014: Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) in the TAS
  • 2015: Dracula (Bram Stoker / Sabine Dissel) in the TAS
  • 2015: The God of Carnage (Yasmina Reza) in the TAS
  • 2016: Prince Friedrich von Homburg (Heinrich von Kleist) in the TAS
  • 2016: Bachelor farewell for the cabaret venue Alma Hoppe's Lustspielhaus in Hamburg
  • 2016: From now on (Alan Ayckbourn) in the TAS
  • 2016: 100 years of Dada (Marcel Duchamp / Hugo Ball / Emmy Hennings / Hannelore Honnen) at TAS

Publications

Sound carrier

  • Thomas Reis (cabaret artist) ; Joe Knipp (Director): A pig becomes a butcher. The metamorphosis of a generation. Cabaret. Live in the Mainz Forum-Theater Unterhaus. Con-Anima-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-931265-16-1 (CD, with supplement).
  • Thomas Reis; Joe Knipp (Director): As much as I help God. Cabaret. Con-Anima-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-931265-31-5 (CD, with supplement).
  • Thomas Reis; Joe Knipp (Director): Is there life over 40? Live at the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen on April 17, 2004. Con-Anima-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-931265-46-3 (2 CDs, with leaflet).
  • Thomas Reis; Joe Knipp (Director): Do women really make them happy? Cabaret. Live at Comedia, Cologne. Con-Anima-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-931265-73-1 (2 CDs, with booklet ).
  • Thomas Reis; Joe Knipp (director): ... and it excites me! Cabaret. Live in Kom (m) ödchen, Düsseldorf in May 2013. Con-Anima-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-944304-02-1 (2 CDs, with booklet).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Reinhard Lüke: "This theater is my life". (No longer available online.) In: meineuedstadt.de. Information and news portal Meine Südstadt , Cologne, July 12, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 6, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.meinesuedstadt.de  
  2. ↑ See information on Joe Knipp in: Zinnober. Chansons (reports on various guest performances by the trio in the TAS - Theater am Sachsenring from 1998 to 2009). (No longer available online.) In: theater-am-sachsenring.de. Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), Cologne, January 2009, archived from the original on May 6, 2016 ; Retrieved April 8, 2016 . 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.theater-am-sachsenring.de
  3. ↑ a b See information on the volume: Zinnober. In: dooload.de. Netlabel DooLoad, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ Theater on the Sachsenring. In: cityinfo-koeln.de. 2010, accessed April 12, 2016 .
  5. ^ Cologne theater conference. In: kulturpartner.net. Kulturpartner NRW e. V., accessed April 12, 2016 .
  6. ↑ (ksta): Joe Knipp resigns. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 25, 2005, accessed April 12, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Christian Bos: Joe Knipp: fallen out of time. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 29, 2009, accessed on August 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Evelyn Steinbach: Daring won. Theater am Sachsenring celebrates its 25th anniversary . In: Südstadtmagazin Cologne . 23rd year. No. 3/2012 ( facsimile in the TAS press review [accessed on August 6, 2016]).
  9. ↑ See information and press review on: Big and Small - Learning to Theater. In: theater-am-sachsenring.de. Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), Cologne, accessed on August 6, 2016 (1987–2012).
  10. ↑ a b December 2003: The Cologne Theater Prize 2003 goes to “Das Fest”. In: Kulturserver-nrw.de. Kulturpartner NRW e. V., 2003, accessed on August 6, 2016 .
  11. ↑ See information and press review on: Das Fest. In: theater-am-sachsenring.de. Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), Cologne, accessed on August 6, 2016 (2003–2005).
personal data
SURNAME Knipp, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, singer, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne