Klaus Pohl (playwright)

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Klaus Pohl (born March 30, 1952 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) is a German actor , theater director , playwright and screenwriter .

Early years and education

After completing an apprenticeship as a salesman in a local fruit shop, the retail apprentice, inspired by the student movement of the time , first caught on when he rewrote the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night, critically of consumption. The Fränkische Anzeiger , based in Rothenburg, responded with a long reflection on the unrest in Christian circles. Pohl went to Munich in 1969 . After doing community service in a hospital, he attended the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin from 1973 to 1974 .

The actor

He made his debut at the Freie Volksbühne in 1975 . In 1976 Ivan Nagel brought him to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . He was a member of its ensemble until 1979. He played Dave in the German premiere of Simon Grays Sorry not available in 1976, Peter in the world premiere of Botho Strauss ' Trilogy of Reunion in 1977 and Chanan in Salomon An-ski's Der Dibbuk in 1979, directed by Arie Zinger.

He then moved to the Thalia Theater and the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where he was seen in 1982 as Just in Jürgen Flimm's production of Minna von Barnhelm . He made his debut as a director in Rotterdam in 1980 at the RO-T. 1983 to 1985 he was engaged at the Cologne theater. There he played Wladimir in Waiting for Godot under the direction of Jürgen Gosch . From 1985 to 1989 Pohl was again a member of the Hamburg Thalia Theater. Roles there were Concept Fieldt in Peer Gynt , Wagner in Faust I , Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet and Josip in Platonow . He also took on various roles in film and television, initially as an actor.

The playwright

However, his literary work became increasingly important. Beginning with Da heaven also took the woman (1979), he wrote many plays with a specific reference to contemporary history. He became known in 1984 with the play Das alten Land , which addressed conflicts between refugees and long-time residents in northern Germany after the end of the war. For this he was awarded the Schiller Prize in 1983, and in 1984 he was voted dramatist of the year in the critics' survey by Theater heute . In 1985 he received the Mülheim Dramatist Prize , in 1987 he was awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize and in 1990 the Ernst Schneider Prize . Since 1989 he has been a freelance writer in Hamburg. He staged several world premieres of his plays himself, in Das alten Land he also embodied the figure of Josef Meißner at the Cologne Theater and at the Thalia Theater in the world premiere of Hot Money that of Schratz and in 1993 Franz Wassermann in the world premiere of Suicide in Madrid . In 1992 he settled in New York .

additional

In 1999 Pohl was seen at the Vienna Burgtheater as Horatio in Hamlet , in 2002 as Max in Anatol , in 2003 in the world premiere of Gert Jonke's Chorphantasie , in 2004 as Dervish in Nathan der Weise and in 2006 as Er in Jon Fosses Schlaf . He has been a member of the Burgtheater since 2000. In addition to plays, he wrote scripts, radio plays, essays and the novel The Children of the Prussian Desert . In 2020 Pohl's self-written and read audio book Sein oder nicht sein , which is about rehearsals for Peter Zadek's famous Hamlet production from 1999, was published.

He is married to the director Sanda Weigl , his daughter Marie Pohl (* 1979) is a writer, his younger daughter Lucie Pohl (* 1983) became known as an actress. Pohl lives in New York and Vienna.

Works

  • Heaven took women too (premiere: November 21, 1979 Münchner Kammerspiele , director: Edwin Noël )
  • Das Alte Land (World premiere: March 13, 1984 Burgtheater Vienna, director: Achim Benning ).
  • La Balkona Bar (World premiere: May 18, 1985 Schauspiel Köln, director: Sanda Weigl )
  • Der Spiegel (World premiere: January 17, 1986 Städtische Bühnen Münster , Director: Karl Wesseler )
  • Hunsrück (World premiere: November 14, 1987 Bremer Theater , director: Sanda Weigl)
  • Hot money (premiere: May 7, 1988 Thalia Theater Hamburg, director: Wolfgang Wiens )
  • The Dwarf of Marrakech (World premiere: April 21, 1990 Children's and Youth Theater Dortmund , Director: Gerd D. Samariter)
  • Karate-Billi returns (world premiere: May 16, 1991 Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Klaus Pohl)
  • The beautiful stranger (world premiere: May 12, 1991 Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen , director: Johannes Klaus)
  • Suicide in Madrid (World premiere: November 6, 1993 Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Sanda Weigl)
  • Manni Ramm I (World premiere: April 17, 1994 Schauspiel Essen , director: Jürgen Bosse )
  • Zettel (world premiere: April 13, 1995 Thalia Theater Hamburg, director: Klaus Pohl)
  • Waiting Room Germany Voices (World Premiere: October 28, 1995 Deutsches Theater Berlin , Director: Klaus Pohl)
  • Vinny (World premiere: May 5, 1996 Burgtheater (Akademietheater) Vienna, director: Peter Wittenberg)
  • Jud Süß (World premiere: December 4th, 1999 Staatstheater Stuttgart , director: Stephan Kimmig )
  • Rosmersholm (world premiere: 2000 Burgtheater (Akademietheater) Vienna, director: Peter Zadek )
  • The Night of Fate (premiere: December 9, 2000 Theater der Stadt Heidelberg , director: Nikolaus Büchel )
  • Kanari (World premiere: September 20, 2003 Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna, Director: Isabella Gregor)
  • Der Anatom (World premiere: January 2005 Burgtheater Vienna, Director: Klaus Pohl)
  • Night talks with my refrigerator (premiere: January 5th, 2007), St. Pauli Theater Hamburg
novel

Audio book

  • "To be or not to be" - memories of Peter Zadek's legendary Hamlet production . The audio publishing house, Berlin 2020.

Filmography

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Playing Hamlet. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The authors die before the texts in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 6, 2011, page V2 / 7

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg ob der Tauber