Marcel Cremer

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Marcel Cremer (born June 4, 1955 in Crombach in Belgium , † December 20, 2009 in Cologne ) was a Belgian director .

Life

Cremer was born in 1955 in Crombach near St. Vith in Belgium. He studied German , Dutch and theater studies at the University of Liège (Ulg). In 1979 he founded Agora, the theater of the German-speaking Community of Belgium . Since the theater was founded, he has been the artistic director, director and author of the AGORA ensemble. Marcel Cremer also worked as a guest director in Germany, Austria, France and Belgium.

The autobiographical theater plays a central role in his work, the concept of which he played a key role. The method assumes that the wealth of a player, of each person is his biography.

Awards

In the course of his work as a director, Marcel Cremer received numerous awards for his productions, including a .: the Cologne Theater Prize, the Theater Prize of the City of Göppingen, the Marburg Children's and Youth Theater Prize, the Main Prize of the Press, the Prize of the Jury and the Prize of the City of Huy of the “Rencontres Théâtre Jeunes Publics” festival in Huy and the Traumspiele Prize : endowed with an integral film adaptation and broadcast of The Little Red Prince by ZDF. In February 2010 he was posthumously awarded the prize of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community for his theater book The Invisible Viewer .

Productions at the AGORA Theater, Belgium

  • The investigation , by Peter Weiss [1981]
  • Martha, the last passenger pigeon , by Dietmar Roberg [1981]
  • Soldiers . A collage on the military theme [1983]
  • Baal , by Bertolt Brecht [1983]
  • The devil with the three golden hairs , by Friedrich Karl Waechter [1984]
  • Aquarium. A vision of the death of the individual in water [1985]
  • K , based on motifs from the novel The Trial by Franz Kafka [1986]
  • The Magic Brush , by Edmund Stoffels & Marcel Cremer based on a Chinese fairy tale [1986]
  • Algunas Bestias . A poetic plea for human rights with poems by Pablo Neruda , Bertolt Brecht, Yannis Ritsos, Nazim Hikmet , Federico García Lorca [1988]
  • Snoring stones at night , by Helga Schaus-Kohnen, Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [1988]
  • Jubilee , by George Tabori [1990]
  • Weird Birds , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [1990]
  • Hummingbirds in the Head , by Peter Hauser [1992]
  • VW , Belgian-German co-production, with music by Tom Waits and a poem by Karl Valentin [1992]
  • The silent lake , by Roland Schumacher, Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [1992]
  • Somewhere | Quelque Part , based on The Tale of Wishes by Arthur West [1993]
  • The white steamer | Le Blanc navire , based on motifs from the story of the same name by Tschingis Aitmatow [1994]
  • Pilgrims , Belgian-German co-production [1995]
  • Cloud sheep and rain dog , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [1995]
  • Ö et NOUS , co-production Austria / Wales / Belgium, on the subject of 1000 years of Austria [1996]
  • May 1917 , co-production Germany / France / Belgium [1996]
  • Woyzeck , by Georg Büchner [1996]
  • Princess Jitter | Princesse Trouillette | Prinsessje Angsthaas , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [1997]
  • Juliette et Roméo , based on William Shakespeare in a free lyric adaptation by Carl Norac [1999]
  • The potato soup | La soupe à la patate , by Helga Schaus & Marcel Cremer [1999]
  • The little red prince | Le petit prince écarlate , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [2000]
  • The man who planted the trees , in collaboration with Roland Schumacher [2001]
  • The raven woman | Le femme corbeau , co-production with Studiobühne Köln [2002]
  • Raven night | La nuit des corbeaux , co-production with Theater Marabu [2002]
  • The floating nest | Le nid flotant . Based on motifs from The Boy and the Sea by Tschingis Aitmatov. [2003]
  • My first teacher | Mon premier instituteur , [2004]
  • The Crusaders | Les Croisés , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble [2005]
  • The horse of blue | Le Cheval de Bleu | Het Paard van Blauw , [2006]
  • The good shepherd | Le bon berger , [2007]
  • Wanted Hamlet , by Marcel Cremer & Ensemble, in collaboration with the Studiobühne Köln. [2008]
  • Deux ennemis inséparables | Two inseparable enemies , by Marco Baliani & Maria Maglietta [2008]

literature

  • Snapshots of the autobiographical theater - my me and my you . - In: Ingrid Hentschel, Klaus Hoffmann, Florian Vaßen (eds.): Brecht & Stanislawski and the consequences . Berlin: Henschel 1997.
  • The invisible viewer , self-published, 2006.
  • AGORA pieces 1, 2, 3 . Self-published, 1993.
  • AGORA pieces 4, 5, 6, 7 . Self-published, 1998.
  • Rabennacht - la nuit des corbeaux , self-published, 2002.
  • AGORA pieces 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , self-published, 2009.
  • Emile Lansman: Des oiseaux à Hamlet , 2009 ISBN 978-2872827183
  • Emile Lansman: Marcel Cremer et le Théâtre: AGORA. Au-delà de la grande prairie , 2009, ISBN 978-2872827152
  • Christel Hoffmann: Marcel Cremer and the Agora , Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2020, ISBN 978-395749-2814

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of the date of death
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ List of the PDG award winners
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Crombach
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2009
Place of death Cologne