Klaus Hoser

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Klaus Hoser during rehearsals for the play Hautnah in Berlin, 2013

Klaus Hoser (born December 7, 1933 in Duisburg ) is a German director , theater director and acting lecturer.

Life

Due to his mother's Jewish origins, Klaus Hoser had to be protected from persecution as a child and grew up with his father's grandmother in Füssen / Allgäu. This gave him a critical view of the prevailing National Socialist ideology. As an altar boy in Füssen, he learned how strongly ritualized actions can impress people. In 1954 he passed the Abitur in Düsseldorf.

From 1954 he studied theater studies , German literature and art history at the Free University of Berlin . He staged his first performances at the student stage of the Theater Studies Institute, took acting lessons during his studies and passed the final examination to become an actor before the joint commission.

From 1955 to 1960 he was employed as an assistant director at the Renaissance Theater Berlin , in 1956 he sat in on Bertolt Brecht's production of the Life of Galilei with Ernst Busch in the Berliner Ensemble . His teachers were u. a. Paul Verhoeven , Axel von Ambesser , Leo Mittler , Leonhard Steckel , Kurt Meisel , Viktor de Kowa and Harry Meyen . In 1962 he graduated with doctorate to the doctor phil. from.

Hoser staged in Cologne, Göttingen, Algiers, Düsseldorf, Schleswig, Rendsburg, Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg, Stendal, Dessau, San Juan (Argentina), Neuss, Berlin (e.g. Friedrichstadtpalast) and on other stages.

Since the 1990s, Hoser has been a lecturer in acting at the Berlin drama school "Der Kreis" . With the suspension stage he founded , he works with the graduates of the school twice a year on a final project that is then presented as a guest performance on a Berlin theater stage. In the more than 20 productions of the suspension stage , a. Performed pieces by Brecht, Goethe, Carl Sternheim, Ferdinand Bruckner, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Felicia Zeller, Lutz Hübner, Neil Labute and Enda Walsh. In-house productions included the hit crime thriller Zum letzte Gang , a piece with exclusively dialogized and sung hits, and the poem evening Als mich die Lust ... , a play composed from poems from two millennia that is set between eleven strangers at a lonely train station.

Head of Forum Theater Berlin

In 1962 the Forum Theater was opened by Heidellotte Diehl and Horst Köppen and F. Burckner. It was located on Kurfürstendamm 203 in Berlin. The theater makers viewed the existing Berlin theater landscape as a limping silence about the crimes of the Third Reich. The new directors of the Forum Theater, on the other hand, set themselves avant-garde, experimental and literary-political theater as their goal. The workup was the Nazi era conceptual aim of the dramaturgy and directing by Klaus Hoser. Forgotten and hushed up playwrights from the time before the Third Reich such as Ernst Toller , Georg Kaiser and most recently August Stramm were performed again for the first time in decades. There were also current politically active authors, e. B. Albert Camus , Siegfried Lenz , Ireneusz Iredynski , Harold Pinter , Benjamino Joppolo , Slawomir Mrozek , Hartmut Lange , Wolfgang Bauer , Jean Genet and Armand Gatti .

Among the outstanding poets of the forum theater was u. a. Fernando Arrabal with five premieres staged and partly translated by Hoser. The play And They Handcuffed the Flowers from 1970 was a nationally acclaimed success with over 250 performances, despite the mostly pejorative press. The political relevance of the performance came about in cooperation with Amnesty International . The organization had an information booth in the theater, and a large number of spectators joined the organization after the performances. The Forum Theater presented a total of 66 productions, 19 of which were staged by Hoser.

The innovative fertilization of the Berlin theater scene was also visible through numerous guest appearances by the Forum Theater, including Rick Cluchey's San Quentin Drama Workshop , which performed with The Cage under the staging and translation of Hoser.

The Goethe-Institut supported the Forum Theater with the organization of guest performances in Europe, Asia, America and Canada. Hoser traveled the world with productions by Handke and Arrabal as well as with August Stramm's Rudimentär . Hoser made a guest appearance at the Venice Biennale with Roland Dubillard's production of The Bone House . He engaged u. a. well-known painters such as Horst Hödicke and Wolfgang Petrick as stage designers. Rio Reiser (then Ralph Möbius), Sven-Åke Johansson and Edgar Froese composed and played the music for some of his productions.

In 1975 the Forum Theater stopped playing because of the withdrawal of subsidies.

Productions from 1976 (excerpt)

theatre

Musicals

Artistic goal setting

Hoser's intention is to make the magic of the spoken word tangible in the theater. Music from classical to jazz and rock to modern is a substantial part of his way of working. His motto is: reflection through fascination .

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personal data
SURNAME Hoser, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, theater director and acting lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg