Klaus Hemmerle (director)

Klaus Hemmerle (* 1960 in Offenburg ) is a German theater actor and director.

Life

Hemmerle studied at the Zurich Acting Academy, where he had his first engagement as an actor at the Schauspielhaus . From 1984 to 1991 he was engaged at the Heidelberg Theater . He gave the Torquato Tasso , Hamlet , Franz Moor and Leonce , among others . In 1992 he was awarded the actor's prize at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . He appeared at the Stuttgart State Theater in 1995/1996, for example as Alceste in Der Menschenfeind or as Oscar Wilde in Fornication - The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde . He also played in television series. Hemmerle has worked as a director since 1991. He staged in Heidelberg, in Halle / Saale, at the Lübeck Theater , Stuttgart, at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , at the Giessen City Theater and at other stages. He lives in Stuttgart, where he has been teaching drama at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts since 1999 and is also a spokesperson for the SWR .

In 2013 he directed Chekhov's tragic comedy Uncle Vanya for the Lübeck Theater . The columnist Günter Zschacke judged: "[...] Hemmerle, in his interpretative sovereignty, turns it into a comedy [...] and misses the core of the work [...]."

theatre

Director

• 1996: Frank Wedekind : Spring Awakening - ( Thalia Theater Halle / Saale )
• 2019: Friedrich Schiller : Wilhelm Tell - ( Altes Schauspielhaus Stuttgart )

Radio features / documentation

• 2000: From Digedags and Abrafaxen - comic heroes in the GDR - author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 jungle , 30 min.
• 2001: Between Church and Social Welfare Center - Young Mennonites in Germany - Author: Thomas Gaevert - Bayern2Radio - History and Stories, 25 min
• 2001: Expensive, magnificent Old Shatterhand - Marie Hannes and Karl May - Author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 jungle, 30 min.
• 2014: Spy friends - Germany and the American secret service NSA - Author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 Feature, 55 min.

Web links

• Klaus Hemmerle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• biography
• biography
• From Digedags and Abrafaxen - comic heroes in the GDR
• Between church and social station - Young Mennonites in Germany
• Expensive, magnificent Old Shatterhand - Marie Hannes and Karl May
• Spy friends - Germany and the American secret service NSA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Zschacke: Wanja falls out of the ordinary . In: Lübecker Stadtzeitung from March 19, 2013, p. 6
2. ↑ Dieter Schnabel: mannered, modernist and gendered. In: Mannheimer Morgen , October 24, 2019.