Karl-Ernst Herrmann

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Karl-Ernst Herrmann (born August 12, 1936 in Neukirch / Lausitz ; † May 13, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German set designer , costume designer and opera director .

Life

Karl-Ernst Herrmann studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin under Willi Schmidt in the 1950s . He received his first engagement in 1961 at the Ulm Theater and became Wilfried Minks' assistant set designer under director Kurt Hübner .

A few years later he went with Hübner to the Städtische Bühnen in Bremen, where young directors like Peter Stein and Peter Zadek created exciting new interpretations of the German classics. The imagery of set designers like Herrmann and Minks supported the new revolutionary directorial theater and played a major role in the success of the young directors. In 1971 Peter Stein brought him to the Berlin Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer , where he was permanently employed as a set designer until after moving to Lehniner Platz.

In addition to Peter Stein, Claus Peymann was the most frequent partner of Karl-Ernst Herrmann, for whom he mainly developed the stage sets for his Thomas Bernhard productions. The third permanent director was Luc Bondy , with whom he already worked at the Schaubühne in the 1970s.

In 1982 Herrmann made his debut as an opera director. Together with his wife Ursel Herrmann, he staged and illustrated La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Brussels Opera . In addition to working as a set designer, directing an opera became his main occupation, always in the directing team with his wife. Joint productions were created for the Salzburg Festival , Easter and Whitsun Festival, the Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Mozart Week in Salzburg, the Berlin and Vienna State Opera, the Grand Opéra Paris, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Grand Théatre de Genève, the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Estates Theater in Prague, the Burgtheater Vienna and others. a. From 1994 to 2002 both held the professorship for stage design and costume at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Her productions of Mozart's La finta giardiniera , Idomeneo , Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Così fan tutte , La clemenza di Tito and the Pasticcio Ombra felice as well as Verdi's La Traviata were filmed.

Their son Oliver Herrmann (1963–2003) was a photographer and director.

Awards

Works

Stage sets

Opera productions

  • La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ( Brussels Opera 1982, Salzburg Festival , Paris Opera, Estates Theater Prague, Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro La Fenice)
  • La finta giardiniera by WAMozart (La Monnaie, Brussels, Salzburg Festival 1992, Estates Theater Prague 2009)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (La Monnaie, Brussels, conductor: Sylvain Cambreling)
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Vienna State Opera in the Theater an der Wien 1989)
  • Idomeneo by WAMozart (Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival 2000 / Salzburg Festival 2000 and 2006 / Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam 2004 and 2011 / Grand Théatre de Genève 2004)
  • Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Conductor: Simon Rattle , Salzburg Easter Festival 2004. Later Salzburg Festival 2004, Conductor: Philippe Jordan / 2005, Conductor: Ádám Fischer / 2006, Conductor: Manfred Honeck )
  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart Week Salzburg / Monnaie Brussels 1991, conductor: Sylvain Cambreling and others)
  • La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (Monnaie Brussels (from 1990) / Rheinoper Düsseldorf)
  • Les Boréades by JPRameau (Salzburg Whitsun Festival 1999, conductor: Simon Rattle)
  • Semele by Georg Friedrich Händel (State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin 1996 / Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 1998, conductor: René Jacobs)
  • Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Händel (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam / La Monnaie Brussels, conductor: Marc Minkowski / René Jacobs)
  • Médée by Luigi Cherubini (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Marseille)
  • Ombra felice , pasticcio from concert arias by WAMozart (Salzburg Mozart Week 1994 & Festival, conductor: Heinz Holliger)
  • Il turco in Italia by Gioacchino Rossini (La Monnaie Brussels, conductor: Ivan Fischer / Philippe Jordan)
  • Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (La Monnaie Brussels)

Play:

Student (selection)

literature

  • Karl-Ernst Herrmann: Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer on Lehniner Platz, 1962–1987 . Propylaea, Frankfurt / Main 1987, ISBN 978-3-549-05766-7 .
  • Peter Winter: Staged rooms. Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Erich Wonder . Art Association Hamburg. In: The work of art . 1979, ISSN  0023-561X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Set designer Karl-Ernst Herrmann died. In: orf.at. May 14, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Karl-Ernst Herrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missingTemplate: IMDb / Maintenance / Unnecessary use of parameter 2
  3. ↑ Hermann Beil : "Come on, you can piss out." Laudation on April 3, 2005 in the Giessen City Theater. From the Hein-Heckroth-Gesellschaft, accessed on December 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Karl-Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, costume designer and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirch
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2018
Place of death Berlin