Konstanze Lauterbach

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Konstanze Lauterbach (born April 30, 1954 in Ronneburg ) is a German theater director.

Konstanze Lauterbach

After graduating from high school in 1972 in Gera , she completed vocational training as a textile worker. 1974 to 1976 she worked as a prop master in Gera. From 1976 to 1981 she studied German and literature at what was then Karl Marx University in Leipzig. During this time, she began directing at the Poetic Theater of the Karl Marx University.

From 1982 to 1984 she assisted at the Schauspielhaus von Karl-Marx-Stadt and directed the theater in the foyer of the Schauspielhaus. There were also engagements in Altenburg and Nordhausen . From 1987 to 1990 she was a director at the Thuringian State Theater Rudolstadt , from 1991 to 2000 at the Schauspiel Leipzig with guest engagements in Bremen, Munich and Vienna. In 1993, the critics of the magazine Theater heute voted her young director of the year. In 1996 she received the German Critics' Prize . From 2001 to 2003 Konstanze Lauterbach was a director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 2002 she was awarded the Caroline Neuber Prize of the City of Leipzig. Konstanze Lauterbach works as a director for drama and opera a. a. at the theaters in Wiesbaden, Braunschweig, Essen and Weimar.

The most important characteristic of Konstanze Lauterbach's directorial style is the rich, artificial body language. She lives in Berlin.

Productions (selection)

Literature about Konstanze Lauterbach

  • Dagmar Borrmann : Innocent when you dream. Konstanze Lauterbach at the Leipzig Theater. In: Wolfgang Engel , Erika Stephan (ed.): Theater in the transition society. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-934344-84-6 .
  • Dieter Ingenschay: Woman power, unspanish-postmodern. For Konstanze Lauterbach's production of Federico García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba at the Leipzig Theater . In: Violence in Drama and on the Stage . Edited by Günter Ahrends, Hans-Jürgen Diller, Uwe-Karsten Ketelsen, Hans Ulrich Seeber. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1998. ISBN 3-8233-5186-9 , pp. 60-72
  • Hans-Dieter Schütt: The sea behind the curtain. Map of the new theater world. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00934-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lauterbach, Konstanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg