Klaus Pierwoß

Klaus Pierwoß (born August 29, 1942 in Berge ) is a German dramaturge and was the artistic director of the Bremen theater .

Life

Pierwoß was born the son of an inspector and a secretary. He spent his childhood in Meppen . After graduating from high school, he studied theater studies and German at the universities of Cologne , Berlin and Vienna from 1962 . Finally, he did his doctorate in 1970 under Heinz Kindermann on the stage designer Emil Pirchan .

Pierwoß then took on a job as a dramaturge at the Tübingen State Theater in 1971 . In 1975 he moved to the National Theater Mannheim as a dramaturge . Three years later he returned to Tübingen and succeeded Manfred Beilharz in the office of artistic director of the State Theater. In 1985 he took over the management of the Cologne theater as the successor to Jürgen Flimm . In 1989 Pierwoß was the first artistic director to bring the East German director Frank Castorf to a West German theater with a production of Hamlet .

In 1990 he left Cologne and in 1994 became general director of the Bremen theater , which he directed until summer 2007. He managed to rearrange the house and to profile it as a nationally important venue. As an advocate of multi-discipline theater, he has sharpened the profile of the Bremen theater, so that it has been classified as one of the “most successful city theaters” by cultural magazines across the region. In 2007 the Bremen theater was voted “ Opera House of the Year ” .

In June 2007 Pierwoß was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his “commitment that goes far beyond the usual level” .

In 2009 Klaus Pierwoß was elected President of the German Academy of Performing Arts . In the same year he resigned because of differences of opinion.

Individual evidence

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