Klaus way

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Klaus Weise (born December 9, 1951 in Gera ) is a German theater director and theater director , as well as a playwright , screenwriter and film director .

Live and act

Weise moved to West Germany with his family in 1958. He attended schools in Aachen , Frankfurt am Main and Wuppertal . After graduating from high school in Mülheim an der Ruhr , he attended the University of Television and Film Munich from 1970 to 1973 and in 1974 studied philosophy, German and theater studies at the University of Munich .

During his studies, Weise was an intern and assistant director at the Ingolstadt City Theater in 1974/1975 . From 1975 to 1978 he worked as an assistant director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg .

He then worked as a freelance director. Weise made his directorial debut in 1977 in Kiel with Frankenstein by Wolfgang Deichsel . This was followed by Dario Fos Will Not Be Paid! (1978, Tübingen ), Wildes Bunbury (1979, Gießen ), Alan Brown's wheelchair Willi (1982) and Horváths Kasimir and Karoline (1984, both Modernes Theater Munich), Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1983) and Dorsts Ameley (1984, both Karlsruhe ) , Deichsels Loch im Kopf (1985, Volkstheater Munich ), Beckett's Endspiel (1986, Karlsruhe), Horváth's The Youngest Day (1985, Nationaltheater Mannheim ), whose Don Juan comes from the war (1986, ibid) and Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper ( 1986, ibid).

In 1985 he received the promotion award for young theater professionals from the Dr. Otto Kasten Foundation . In 1986, Weise became head director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . He staged Nora (1986), Gespenster (1988), Hexenjagd (1987) and the German premiere of Anthony Minghella's Made in Bangkok (1989).

In 1989/90 he became acting director at the Darmstadt State Theater . Here he staged the world premieres of Gabriel Dagan's The Date (1990) and Ibsen's The Woman from the Sea (1991).

In the 1991/92 season he took over the management of the Oberhausen Theater . His opening production was Prince Friedrich von Homburg , followed by Othello (1993), Terry Johnson's Dead Funny (1996), Elfriede Müller's Die tourists (1997) and the German premiere of Ayckbourn's Alles nur aus Liebe (1998).

In 1995/96 he showed Beckett's Endgame in the Gasometer Oberhausen and in 1997 in the theater his own play butchery in connection with Büchner's Woyzeck . 1997/98 he was guest director at the Burgtheater with Higgins' Harold and Maude .

On March 9, 2002, he staged the world premiere of Herr Mautz von Sibylle Berg in Oberhausen .

From 2003 to 2013, Weise was General Director of the Bonn Theater . In 2011, an indiscretion caused a sensation nationwide, through which it became known that Weise was receiving an annual salary of 320,000 euros from the city of Bonn, twice as much as Bonn's then mayor Jürgen Nimptsch .

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

Filmography (direction and screenplay)

  • 1981: The time in between
  • 1985: Rauhnacht
  • 1985: The outside staircase
  • 1991: Peter Eschbach's heart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with the former general manager Klaus Weise General-Anzeiger, March 12, 2018
  2. ↑ http://www.hna.de/kultur/debatte-bonn-viel-geld-verdient-generalintendant-1251996.html
personal data
SURNAME Way, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera