Lutz Dean
Lutz Dechant (* 1948 in Jena ) is a German actor and author.
Life
Lutz Dechant grew up as the son of a seamstress and a warehouse worker in Jena an der Saale. He attended the Grete-Unrein-Schule , the Adolf-Reichwein-Schule and the Ostschule , played soccer at SC Motor Jena (later FC Carl Zeiss Jena ) up to the B-youth and was singer of the amateur band "The Ohios" from 1963 to 1965 . After school, with basic training as a concrete worker , he attended the State Ballet School in Berlin for two years and was de-registered there at his own request.He moved back to Jena and worked for two months as a warehouse worker and packer in the city's university bookstore before starting his studies in 1967 began at the acting department at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam / Babelsberg.
After completing his studies in 1971, he was hired to work at the theater of friendship in Berlin (later Carrousel-Theater, Theater an der Parkaue), to which he remained loyal until his last performance ("Peter and the Wolf") in the summer of 2017. During his 46 years on the stage, he worked there as an actor, assistant director, director, director, project manager and author.
In 1979 his first play, Paul and Maria, was premiered at the Theater der Freunde. In 1983 the theater delegated him to study directly at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig, which he finished in 1986 as a literary worker. In 1986 he received the Berliner Zeitung's Critics' Prize in the category of new forms of communication for the documentary montage Icke bin noch icke .
In 2005 Dechant produced the CD Salz (12 times the normal blues between Cpt. Beefheart and Paolo Conte) as author and singer together with the band "Wahre Schule" on the No System Sounds label , then founded the band DECHANT and played the live until 2015 -act "Carnival in the cemetery".
With the production of Peter and the Wolf , written and arranged in 2010 based on Prokofiev's musical fairy tale by Harriet and Peter Meining and played together with the musician and performer Ole Wulfers, Dechant made guest appearances at home and abroad (including Russia, Croatia, Albania, Austria, Luxembourg).
He has been married since 1978 and has a daughter and a son.
Theater (selection)
- 1968: Büchner: Woyzeck - Director: Fritz Marquardt (HFF-Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 1969: Shakespeare / H.Müller: As You Like It - Director: BKTragelehn (HFF-Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 1970: Freemann / Webster / Fain: Calamity Jane - Director: Dieter Wardetzky (HFF-Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 1970: Goethe: Egmont - Director: Peter Kupke (Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam)
- 1972: Bernd Wagner: The Shirt of a Happy Man - Director: Peter Ensikat (Theater of Friendship - Berlin)
- 1972: Heinz Kahlau: Die kluge Susanne - Director: Mirjana Erceg (Theater of Friendship)
- 1973: Elke Erb, Adolf Endler: Das Humplige Pferdchen - Director: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
- 1977: Jan Jilek: Firebird and Red Fox - Director: Anu Saari (Theater of Friendship)
- 1977: Aleksis Kivi / Holmberg: The Seven Brothers - Director: Bernd Renne (Theater of Friendship)
- 1978: Margarete Steffin: If he had an angel - Direction: Wolfgang Engel (Theater der Freunde)
- 1979: Marschak / Bobrowski: Das Tierhäuschen - Director: Joachim Siebenschuh (Theater of Friendship)
- 1991: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Hercules and the Stable of Augiah - Director: Ulrich Voss (Theater of Friendship)
- 1991: FK Waechter: The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs - Director: Renate-Louise Frost (Theater of Friendship)
- 1995: Steve Tesich: On the Open Road - Director: Jürgen Zielinski (Carrousel-Theater)
- 1999: Max Frisch: Andorra - Director: Marcelo Diaz (Carrousel-Theater)
- 1999: Jean Baptiste Molière: The Miser - Director: Axel Richter (Carrousel-Theater)
- 1999: after Sven Nordqvist: Petterson and Findus - director: Felicitas Loewe (Carrousel-Theater)
- 2000: Franz Xaver Kroetz: Fear and Hope in Germany - Director: Uwe Cramer (Carrousel-Theater)
- 2000: Samuel Beckett: Happy Days - Director: Eddy Socorro (Theater unterm Dach-Berlin)
- 2001: Tankred Dorst: Closed because of wealth - Director: Manuel Schöbel (Carrousel-Theater)
- 2004: Charles Way: A Touch of Cold Weather - Director: Yüksel Yolcu (Carrousel-Theater)
- 2005: Bertolt Brecht: Life of Galilei - Director: Hartmut Wickert (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2006: Jean Anouilh: Antigone - Director: Nora Somaini (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2006: Lothar Trolle: Das Hildebrandslied - Director: Director: Sascha Bunge (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2007: Theodor Storm: Die Regentrude - Director: Kay Wuschek (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2008: Alexander Sutherland Neill: The Green Cloud - Director: Norton.Commander.Productions (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2009: Brothers Grimm: Snow White and Rose Red - Director: Wolf Bunge (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2009: Lessing: Nathan the Wise - Director: Esther Hattenbach (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2010: JMR Lenz: The court master or advantages of private education - Director: Albrecht Hirche (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2010: based on Sergej Prokofjew: Peter and the Wolf - Director: Harriet Maria and Peter Meining (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2011: Walter Benjamin: Radau! - Director: Thomas Fiedler (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2011: ETA Hoffmann: Der Sandmann - Director: Carlos Manuel (Theater an der Parkaue)
- 2013: Lothar Trolle: They are alive! You live! You are still alive! - Director: Sascha Bunge (Theater an der Parkaue)
Filmography (selection)
- 1970: close to the wind
- 1970: Playful home
- 1970: Rottenknechte
- 1971: Police call 110: The scrap scales
- 1973: The public prosecutor has the floor: night shopping
- 1974: The Mission
- 1977: Chess von Wuthenow
- 1996: Crime scene: Death in a jaguar
- 2014: ... and then came Wanda
- 2015: The disobedient
Discography
- 1977: Das Katzenhaus, radio play - Litera
- 1973: The Swineherd, radio play - Litera
- 1973: The wild swans, radio play - Litera
- 1980: Fortunatus Glückssäckel, radio play - Litera
- 1982: The singing, jumping Löweneckerchen, radio play - Litera DNB 1007637323
- 2005: Salz - No System Sounds
Works
- Paul and Maria (drama) world premiere at the Theater der Freunde Berlin, 1978.
- Naughty like Oskar II (Revue) First performance at the Theater der Freund Berlin, 1980.
- Play with me: Die goldene Gans (play) henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin, 1989.
- The Children's Wedding (script)
- Icke bin noch icke (documentary montage) first performance at the Theater der Freund Berlin, 1985.
- Icke and Ernst (documentary montage) World premiere at the Theater der Freund Berlin, 1986.
- Alles anders (documentary montage) First performance at the Theater der Freund Berlin, 1994.
- Everything in the Old (Documentary Montage) World premiere at the Carrousel Theater Berlin, 1994.
- The Futurological Congress (play based on the novel by Stanisław Lem )
- The winter fairy tale (play based on Franz Fühmann )
- Santa Cecilia (monologue, German arrangement) World premiere at the Carrousel Theater Berlin, 1995.
- Luchin Peasants' War (screenplay)
Web links
- Lutz Dechant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lutz Dechant at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lutz Dechant - Theater an der Parkaue In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Wahre Schule Produktionen: Dechant In: Wahreschule.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Peter and the Wolf In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Lutz Dechant In: ddr-hoerspiele.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Paul and Maria In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Who plays with me: Die goldene Gans In: henschel-schauspiel.de , accessed on November 8, 2018.
- ↑ Icke am icke In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Icke and Ernst In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Alles anders In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Everything at the old one In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Santa Cecilia In: parkaue.de , accessed on November 7, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dean, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |