Luk Perceval

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Luk Perceval, 1997

Luk Perceval (born May 30, 1957 in Lommel ) is a Belgian theater director . From the 2009/2010 season to 2017/2018 he was the lead director at Thalia Theater Hamburg .

Life

Perceval studied acting at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Antwerp and then worked as an actor in Belgium.

Create

In 1984 he co-founded the independent theater Blauwe Maandag Compagnie , where he presented his first directorial work. All employees were involved in the staging of the troupe and the theater was considered the most important representative of the Flemish Wave . In 1997 Perceval merged this theater group with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg in Antwerp under the name Het Toneelhuis . Perceval was the artistic director of the new theater.

In 1999, it hired the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for its first German production, in co-production with the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg premiered. The staging battles! was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen , where it received the 3sat Prize and was chosen by Theater heute for the production of the year. His production Traum im Herbst from 2002 at the Münchner Kammerspiele was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. From the 2005/2006 season, Perceval was in-house director at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin for four years until he moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 2009. Since the 2009/2010 season he has been director and senior director there. Among other things, he directed William Shakespeare's Hamlet there in 2010 , as well as the play Große Freiheit No. 7 , which is based on the 1944 film. In 2015 he directed an adaptation of the novel Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass . Most recently, he developed the productions Love (2016), Money (2016) and Hunger (2017), which as a trilogy of my family are based on a cycle of novels by Émile Zola and have been shown as a 7.5-hour theater marathon since the 2017/2018 season.

In 2008 Perceval was appointed head of the course for directing and acting at the Academy for Performing Arts in Baden-Württemberg . He worked there until 2011.

Perceval's project Mut und Gnade am Schauspiel Frankfurt was nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2019. Perceval staged the three-hour evening One Long Day's Journey into the Night , Psychogram of a Family Destroying Drugs, at the Schauspiel Köln in 2019 "like a score whose climax is inevitable". His staging of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio at the Geneva Opera succeeded in giving the piece of music an unusual, completely new interpretation thanks to the close collaboration with Aslı Erdoğan , who wrote the libretto based on her novel “The Miraculous Mandarin”.

Works (selection)

literature

DVDs

Platonov (DVD). Director's Cut. Luk Perceval (director); Anton Chekhov (author), Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89581-168-5 .

Web links

Commons : Luk Perceval  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Trilogy of my family I-III. Accessed April 11, 2018 (German).
  2. Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg: Luk Perceval becomes director of the directing and acting course in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - productions under discussion in 2019. Accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  4. Luk Perceval exposes the core of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece as precisely as with a dissecting knife , nachtkritik.de of November 15, 2019, accessed January 24, 2020
  5. a b Bernhard Doppler: “Amazing abysses in Mozart's Singspiel” , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de on January 22, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020
  6. Dirk Pilz: Molière. A passion - Luk Perceval's theater marathon at the Salzburg Festival. Retrieved November 28, 2019 (German).
  7. Katrin Ullmann: My Darkest Star live in concert: Outside the door - Luk Perceval lets Wolfgang Borchert's famous 1946 war returnee sing. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (German).
  8. Platonov. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (Dutch).
  9. ^ The German stage. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
  10. Shirin Sojitrawalla: Courage and Grace - Luk Perceval's uncompromising evening about love and dying at the Frankfurt theater. Retrieved on April 5, 2019 (German).
  11. Süddeutsche Zeitung: In the cage of lies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .