Klaus Gmeiner

Klaus Gmeiner (born June 11, 1932 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian radio and theater director .

Life

The son of a businessman and an anti-fascist mother studied drama and directing at the Salzburg Mozarteum University from 1954 . He then worked at the Salzburg State Theater as a dramaturge and at the Schauspielhaus Graz as an opera and theater director. From 1967 Gmeiner worked as a senior director at the St. Gallen City Theater . From 1971 to 1996 he produced in the ORF regional studio in Salzburgaround 400 radio plays not only based on radio play manuscripts. His specialty was also the adaptation of prose works for radio. Gmeiner was on the jury of the Rauris Literature Days. Since 1985 the director , who lives in Salzburg and Vienna, has been staging plays for the Salzburg street theater in the successor to Oscar Fritz Schuh .

Peter Simonischek pays tribute to Gmeiner's work; refers to the staging of works by the authors Anouilh , Shaw , O'Neill , but also Raimund , Nestroy , Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal .

Director

radio play

• 1965: die
• 1968: Paracelsus
• 1972: Fish for four ( Wolfgang Kohlhaase )
• 1974: The duel (based on Chekhov )
• 1975: One long day's journey into the night
• 1975: Bunbury (after Oscar Wilde )
• 1975: gas light
• 1975: The companion
• 1977: hour of knowledge
• 1977: The Bacchus Festival
• 1978: Journey around the world in 80 days
• 1980: the word
• 1981: The way out into the open
• 1983: Danube waves (comedy by Fritz Kortner )
• 1986: The wide open country
• 1986: Maigret's Christmas party
• 1987: The lonely way
• 1989: The green cockatoo
• 1992: interlude
• 1993: Jena
• 1993: Father Brown
• 1995: The Broken Jug
• 2000: The Agents ( Wolfgang Hermann )
• 2001: Sunrise

theatre

• 2001: He wants to make a joke

TV movie

• 2011: Thomas Bernhard - The natural art disaster

Prices

• 1998 Radio play of the year for the direction of Michael Köhlmeiers Your room for me alone .
• 2016 Decoration of Honor of the State of Salzburg

Web links

• Klaus Gmeiner. A portrait on phonostar.de
• June 16, 2009: Conservative to the core. The radio play director Klaus Gmeiner on oe1.orf.at
• July 2009: Klaus Gmeiner in Salzburgwiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recognition for life's work. Klaus Gmeiner  ( 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. on kulturfonds.at (PDF)  
2. ^ State of Salzburg: 29 deserved personalities honored , from May 25, 2016. Retrieved on November 15, 2016