Klaus Völker

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German sports physician and university professor, see Klaus Völker (sports physician) .

Klaus Völker (born September 27, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theater historian , dramaturge and publicist .

Völker studied literature, art history and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Free University of Berlin . During his studies he worked as an actor, dramaturge and director on student theaters and wrote theater reviews. He also translated texts by Alfred Jarry , Boris Vian and Raymond Roussel from French into German.

Between 1969 and 1985 Völker worked as a dramaturge at theaters in Zurich, Basel and Bremen, most recently at the Berlin Schillertheater . For the Berliner Theatertreffen , from 1985 to 2002 he was in charge of the play market of the Berliner Theatertreffen , a platform for new theater literature. From 1993 to 2005 he was rector of the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin.

Since 2007 he has been a juror for the German Academy of Performing Arts Award for Directing . Klaus Völker is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and of the PEN Center Germany . He is also chairman of the Johannes Bobrowski Society and the International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin.

Works (selection)

author

• Bernhard Minetti . "My existence is my life" . Propylaea, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-549-07215-5 .
• Boris Vian . The Prince of Saint Germain; a biography . New edition Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8031-2529-3 (Wagenbach's pocket library; 529).
• Brecht. A biography . Hanser, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-446-12180-3 .
• Brecht. Commentary on the dramatic work . Winkler, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-538-07037-7 .
• Elisabeth Bergner . The life of an actress; whole and yet always unfinished . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926175-72-9 (Institute for Theater Studies (Berlin): Contributions to Theater, Film and Television from the Institute for Theater Studies of the Free University of Berlin , Volume 4).
• Frank Wedekind . 2nd edition dtv, Munich 1970 DNB 455277001 , (playwright of the world theater).
• Fritz Kortner . Actor and director . Edition Edition, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926175-05-2 (= Series German Past , Volume 27).
• Hans Lietzau . Actor, director, director . ed. from the Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts / Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-88331-187-6 (Academy of the Arts) / ISBN 3-933471-10-9 (Edition Hentrich)
• "I'm going away for a while ..." Sadie Leviton. Actress, emigrant, friend of Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht . Edition Transit, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88747-129-6 .
• Irish Theater 2nd edition dtv, Munich 1972 (playwright of the world theater)

1. Synge , Yeats . 1972.
2. Sean O'Casey . 1972.

• Max Herrmann-Neisse . Artists, pubs, cabarets; Silesia, Berlin, in exile . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89468-007-5 (= German Past , Volume 56: Places of the History of Berlin ).

editor

• Brecht Chronicle. Data on life and work . Dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-30651-3 .
• Fist . A German man. The birth of a legend and its survival in the mind; a reading book . Wagenbach, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8031-2331-3 .
• Artificial people . New edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38793-6 .
• Popess Johanna . A reader with texts from the Middle Ages to the present day . Wagenbach, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-8031-2031-4 (Wagenbach's pocket library; 31).
• The forest fire. Collected stories by Leopold Schefer , Haidnian antiquities at two thousand and one, 1985
• Of those vampires or so-called human suckers ( Fantastic Library ; 306). New edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2003 ISBN 3-518-38781-2 (together with Dieter Sturm; former title “Vom Schau der Vampire”).
• About werewolves and other beastmen ( Fantastic Library ; 312). New edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-38811-8
• Alfred Jarry's work edition , 11 volumes, two thousand and one 1987-1993
• Complete edition, letters and more from Max Herrmann-Neisse .

Awards

• 2004: Hessian Culture Prize
• 2006: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
• 2019: Antiquarian Prize

literature

• Ute Kröger: Klaus Völker . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2023.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Völker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturportal-deutschland.de: Archive 2002/2. Quarter ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 29, 2014) 
2. ^ Die Gesellschaft , Johannes-Bobrowski-Gesellschaft, accessed on March 10, 2015
3. ↑ Antiquaria Prize 2019 to Klaus Völker , Börsenblatt dated November 19, 2018, accessed July 6, 2019