Luigi Malipiero (director)

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Luigi Malipiero (born April 5, 1901 in Trieste , then Austria-Hungary ; † February 24, 1975 in Sommerhausen , Germany ) was a German theater director and director, actor, set designer, book illustrator and painter.

Life

Malipiero was born in Trieste as the child of the Baltic-German Hortense Rosenberg and the Italian-German conductor and pianist Luigi Malipiero, whose family had lived in Venice since 1100. He was a grandson of Francesco Malipiero and a younger (half) brother of Gian Francesco Malipiero and Riccardo Malipiero . He grew up first in Vienna and later in Berlin , where he attended elementary school and self-taught to become a painter, actor, director and set designer. He illustrated numerous books, especially in the 1920s. Even if he is better known today for his activities in the theater, a major focus of his work is also on visual art, especially his early drawings, a large part of the originals of which burned in 1943 in Berlin. In 1934, the director of the Nordmark-Landestheater in Schleswig-Holstein hired him as a second set designer for 65 Reichsmarks , although Malipiero had never seen a stage from behind. However, his ingenuity, his imagination and his diligence made up for the lack of knowledge, so he was soon entrusted with the sets and costumes for the most important productions.

In 1940 he returned to Berlin. Here he worked as a set designer at the State Opera until the house was destroyed in 1943 and went to guest performances at many large theaters until 1943, including some ballet scenes for the Mozart Festival in Würzburg. He wanted to settle in this city, which at that time still shone in its old splendor, but found no housing. The advice of friends to go to Sommerhausen in front of the city gates decided the rest of his life: in 1944 he settled there.

Here he organized cultural days on a makeshift stage, which were so successful that he founded the Gate Tower Theater in 1950 , one of the smallest theaters in Germany with 50 seats. He worked at the gate tower theater as an actor, director, artistic director, stage designer and painter at the same time and performed seven plays over the years, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust and William Shakespeare's Storm and Midsummer Night's Dream . From September 1958 to March 1960, Malipiero was also in charge of the Kleine Schauspielhaus an der Hundekehle in Berlin, where he appeared in 12 performances a. a. of works by Paul Valéry , Jean Cocteau , Eugène Ionesco , Jean-Paul Sartre , Christopher Fry and George Bernard Shaw alternately worked as a director, actor or set designer. This small "theater in the Grunewald" had modern seating by Egon Eiermann .

In the 1950s and 1960s he made "his" community of Sommerhausen famous almost single-handedly. In addition, Malipiero also worked as an actor in some cinema and television films. In addition, numerous young theater people earned their first spurs at his gate tower theater and his example of working and living in a tower also caught on with numerous artists, for example in the person of his pupil Hannes Fabig in nearby Segnitz . His successor as the principal of the gate tower theater, Veit Relin , did the same, albeit with the difference that he had a modern elevator built into his own summer house tower.

  • Gate tower theater in Sommerhausen

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The former Mayor of Würzburg and publisher Michael Meisner wrote in his obituary: “His artistic power was already expressed in his external appearance. Whenever he performed somewhere, be it in a pub, in an exhibition or anywhere else: everyone felt that someone was coming here who was different from you and me. When he went to a cinema for the first time as a young person - 'The Student of Prague' was probably played - he was particularly impressed by an actor, the great Werner Krauss . And then he never missed a theater performance in Berlin in which Werner Krauss appeared, eventually came into closer contact with him and became his best friend. And so something very strange happened: His face became more and more similar to that of Werner Krauss with the big, bright eyes. The last public performance he held in his gate tower was a Werner Krauss exhibition with a moving speech by Luigi. "

Filmography (selection)

Honors

Luigi Malipiero was among other things holder of the Federal Cross of Merit , First Class and the Bavarian Order of Merit , which is only awarded to a limited number of people. He received the culture award of the city of Würzburg and became an honorary citizen of the Sommerhausen market.

literature

From Malipiero

  • Princess Turandot. Ballet in two pictures by Luigi Malipiero . Music by Gottfried von One . Bote and Bock, Berlin 1943.
  • Malipiero, Luigi (Ed.): Fred von Zollikofer - Selected Works. Edition for the tenth anniversary of the poet's death. A memory ribbon. Aegis, Ulm 1947.

Illustrated by Malipiero

  • ETA Hoffmann : Musical novels. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (1927). (Terra Books No. 1).
  • Heinrich Heine : Florentine Nights. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 2).
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen : Mogens. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 8).
  • Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : The Grand Inquisitor. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 9).
  • Theodor Storm : Immensee. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 10).
  • Karl Stieler : A winter idyll. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 11).
  • Gottfried Keller : Legends. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 12).
  • Joseph von Görres : St. Francis of Assisi. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 13).
  • Helmuth von Moltke : The two friends. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 14).
  • Dmitry S. Mereschkowski : Love is stronger than death. The science of love. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 15).
  • Honoré de Balzac : The Colonel Chabert. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 16).
  • Oscar Wilde : The Canterville Ghost. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 17).
  • Ivan Turgenev : Visions. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 18).
  • Nikolaus Gogol : The coat. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 19).
  • Leopold von Ranke : Frederick the Great. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 20).
  • Wilhelm Hauff : Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller. An autumn present for friends of wine. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 21).
  • Edgar Allan Poe : The Fall of the House of Usher. The man of the crowd. The treacherous heart. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 22).
  • Jean Paul : Life of the cheerful schoolmaster Maria Wuz in Auenthal. A kind of idyll. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 24).
  • Louise von François : Miss Muthchen and her caretaker. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 25).
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : The escape over the Cordilleras. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 26).
  • Heinrich von Kleist : The Marquise by O. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra books No. 27).
  • Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff : The castle Dürande. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 28).
  • Ludwig Tieck : The Abundance of Life. Karl Voegels, Berlin undated (Terra Books No. 30).
  • Alfred Mühr : The world of the actor Werner Krauss. Confessions and experiences. Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin (1927, 1928).
  • Erich Kraft: The little house. JJWeber, Leipzig 1937 ( Weberschiffchen-Bücherei 25), (New edition: Der Greif, Wiesbaden 1954)
  • Viktor Meyer-Eckhardt : people in fire. Events from two millennia. The Rabenpresse, Berlin 1939.
  • Josef Mühlberger : The purple handwriting: 3 Dalmatian novellas. Aegis, Ulm 1947.
  • Fred von Zollikofer: Homecoming. The New Berlin, Berlin 1948.
  • Hermann Rossmann: Titans. Three one-act plays (Shakespeare's death. King Thoas. Dante and Beatrice). Desch, Munich a. a. 1955.

About Malipiero

  • Michael Meisner u. City of Würzburg (Ed.): Luigi Malipiero. (Artists and works of art from Mainfranken, 4). Würzburg: H. Stürtz, 1966.
  • NN: Malipiero is dead . - Würzburg: Mainpost February 26, 1975, 1.
  • Michael Meisner: Somehow he was unique. The fulfilled life of Luigi Malipiero, the theater Tausendsasa . - Würzburg: Mainpost February 27, 1975, 11.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans J. Reichhart u. a .: 25 years of theater in Berlin. Theater premieres 1945–1970 . Edited on behalf of the Berlin Senate. Heinz Spitzing Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 412f.
personal data
SURNAME Malipiero, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, artistic director, actor and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1975
Place of death Sommerhausen , Germany