Klaus Wagner (General Manager)
Klaus Wagner (born May 5, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 21, 2011 in Ravensburg ) was a German theater actor, director and general manager.
Life
Klaus Wagner grew up in Trostberg , a small Upper Bavarian town on the Chiemsee . He studied theater studies with Arthur Kutscher in Munich. After dropping out of his studies prematurely, Wagner began to work in the Frankfurt Theater im Zoo with Fritz Rémond in 1951 as an assistant director, stage manager and small actor. Rèmond gave him the first direction as early as 1953. Soon Wagner was working as a guest director in Essen, Hamburg, Bern, Basel and Baden-Baden.
In Bremen and Bern he worked for a few years as head director at the theater. Since 1959 he has directed television plays. For “Das Betriebsfest”, which Wagner had made for the NDR, he received the coveted Adolf Grimme Prize . Later he worked a lot for the Hessian radio , NDR , Bavaria and ZDF .
In 1979 Klaus Wagner was elected director of the Heilbronn Theater as the successor to Walter Bison . His artistic directorship, which lasted 23 years, was characterized by the opening of the schedule for new plays, by guest performances in Israel, Palestine, Russia and China and by a young ensemble that turned the Heilbronn Theater into a talent factory.
Wagner caused a sensation throughout Germany with the production of the play Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally in the 1999/2000 season. Jesus and his disciples are portrayed as a group of homosexual men, the figure of Mary is designed as a transvestite role and is portrayed as a prostitute.
His wife, actress Madeleine Lienhard , founded the Eckenroth Foundation to promote the next generation of authors in the 300-year-old winery he bought at the end of the 1960s .
After the end of his directorship, Wagner remained connected to the theater. He went on several tours (including the role of his life: Nathan ) and was the main director at the monastery festival in Weingarten from 2004 until his death in 2011 . During the rehearsals for this festival he suffered a stroke, from the consequences of which he died on July 21, 2011 in a clinic in the neighboring town of Ravensburg.
Awards
In 2000 Klaus Wagner was awarded the Golden Mint of the City of Heilbronn.
Web links
- Klaus Wagner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Klaus Wagner in SDR ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- Katja Marx: zeit.de: Iberhaubt doesn't bother! An artistic director who still sees his theater as a moral institution Heilbronn , January 10, 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ 23 years. The theater makers 1980 - 2003. Theater Heilbronn. Published by the Heilbronn Theater Association. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003. ISBN 3-8313-1155-2
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 15/2000: Fascist sediment.Retrieved on August 7, 2012
- ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: A godless theater.Retrieved on August 7, 2012
- ↑ eckenroth-stiftung.de Retrieved on August 7, 2012
- ↑ Stimme.de: Ex-Intendant Klaus Wagner died. Retrieved on August 7, 2012
- ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, signature ZS-14967, entry on Klaus Wagner in the HEUSS database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, director and artistic director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2011 |
| Place of death | Ravensburg |