Klaus Metzger (director)
Klaus Metzger (born 1951 in Stuttgart ) is a German theater director and author.
Life
Metzger studied theater studies, philosophy and religious studies at the Free University in Berlin . He studied abroad in Canada at the Université Laval in Québec , at the University of Toronto and in the USA at Yale University .
From 1980 to 1993 he was a dramaturge and director at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, with a temporary engagement with Claus Peymann as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . He translated plays from American English for S. Fischer Verlag . Between 1992 and 1996 he was production manager and director at the Salzburg Festival and directed in Freiburg , Tübingen, Seoul ( South Korea ) and at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen . From 1997 he was director of the Tübingen room theater for six years .
Metzger has been working as a freelance director again since 2002. With the actor and football fan Peter Lohmeyer , he was involved in various television productions on the subject of football from 2004. His novel 's Bläddle: Experiences of a Swabian Reporter , published by Silberburg Verlag in 2011 , was written in Swabian . Since 2011 Klaus Metzger has been working as the author of the people's theater "Komedescheuer in der Mäulesmühle" in Stuttgart, especially for the couple "Hannes and the Mayor".
Klaus Metzger is a lecturer at the Folkwang University of the Arts , Acting Department, in Essen and Bochum.
Fonts
- Padrone: Roman in Stücken , Reutlingen: Literaturmetzgerei 2007, ISBN 978-3-940714-01-5 .
- 's Bläddle: Experiences of a Swabian reporter , Silberburg, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8425-1122-4 .
- John, Paul, George and Richard . Novel. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-359-01380-8 .
- Translations: Sam Shepard, The Invisible Hand , DSE: May 24, 1987, Schaubühne Berlin; Sam Shepard: Schocks , DSE: April 30, 1991, Theater Konstanz; Mervyn Sprung, The magic of ignorance , Königshausen & Neumann, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-7063-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Metzger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Klaus Metzger on the pages of the Renaissance Theater
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butcher, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |