Lars Wernecke

Lars Wernecke (* 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German playwright , director and senior director.

Life

Lars Wernecke was born in Hamburg in 1966. He went to school in Ahrensburg near Hamburg and passed his Abitur there in 1985 . The musical training in singing , guitar and clarinet as well as music theory and composition took place since Wernecke was twelve years old. In 1987 he began studying psychology at the University of Hamburg and in 1990 moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , where he studied drama directing and graduated in 1993. Parallel to his studies, he worked as the director of the Junge Theater Ahrensburg as well as a director and actor . Assistant director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , the Graz Opera , the Vienna Theater Gruppe 80 and the Schauspiel Essen with well-known directors such as Michael Bogdanov , Peter Konwitschny and Jürgen Bosse followed. Wernecke was a visiting professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and at the University of Potsdam.

Wernecke has been working as a freelance playwright since 1990, and as a freelance director since 1998. He has staged numerous operas, for example by Henry Purcell , Arthur Sullivan or Christoph Willibald Gluck , and plays by predominantly contemporary dramatists, such as the German-language premiere of Philippe Minyana's "Six Worlds", Michel Vinaver's "Flight to the Andes", and Elias Canetti's "The Temporary One "and Harold Pinters " The Birthday Party ". Werneckes productions were u. a. at the Renaissance Theater Berlin , the comedy on Kurfürstendamm , the Markgrafentheater in Erlangen or the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam. Since 2001 he has staged regularly at the Gostner Hoftheater (including Torsten Buchsteiner's "Nordost" and the German-language premiere of Philip Ridley's "Vincent River") and since 2006 at the Schlosstheater Celle (including Curt Goetz's comedy "Ingeborg", Irmgard Keun's "Das Kunstseidene Mädchen"), "The fat years are over" based on the film of the same name by Hans Weingartner and "The 39 Steps" based on Alfred Hitchcock). At the South Thuringia State Theater Meiningen , he directed 2009 "Misery" by Stephen King , which in a fixed it from 2013 commitment works as a senior director for the fields of drama and opera.

Lars Wernecke lives in Berlin.

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Wernecke's pieces often deal with socially taboo subjects such as suicide and euthanasia (as in the play "freitot" ) or pedophilia ( Orpheus Britannicus ), but without making strong judgments. About his play "freitot" , which is based on an article from the Stern , Wernecke said: "This monologue is neither to be understood as advertising nor as a demonization of institutionalized euthanasia. But it may be a plea for no longer avoiding a social problem because of moral blinkers. "

In Orpheus Britannicus , a play with music about a fictional episode from the life of Benjamin Britten , in which there is an encounter between the young Briton and a character posing as Henry Purcell , sexual taboos, war experiences and the emotional power of music are discussed .

Wernecke's theater and music plays are performed on stages all over Germany.

Selection of works

• Berlin Comedian Harmonists - Crazy Times (2009)
• Orpheus Britannicus. Drama with music by Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell (2008)
• "free dead" (2006)
• Sweet Sweet Smile (2006)
• Illusions - Alexandra's Life (2002)
• Suite of a Fear (1998)
• The Shark (1997)
• Final Excitements (1995)
• Cockroaches or The Extermination (1991)
• The exhaustion story
• The membranous time
• Just one mishap

Web links

• Author's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No life without dignity - Article by the Humanist Press Service on the play "freitot" from March 9, 2007.