Max Fritzsche (set designer)
Max Fritzsche (born July 19, 1906 in Karlsruhe , † October 21, 1999 in Bochum ) was a German set designer, costume designer and director.
Life
Max Fritzsche completed his studies in stage design at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Walter von Wecus . From 1929 to 1933 he worked as a set designer in Münster, from 1933 to 1934 also in Stettin. From 1934 to 1947 Max Fritzsche worked in Darmstadt, where he shaped the "Darmstadt style" with an already high degree of abstraction. It was here that the first collaboration with director Hans Schalla took place in 1937 . This was followed by engagements in Stuttgart (1947–1950) and Kiel (1950–1954), where he was also deputy director in 1953 and 1954 .
In 1954 the director of the Bochum theater, Hans Schalla, brought him to the Ruhr area. From 1954 to 1977 Fritzsche was head of equipment and deputy director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Together with Schalla, he developed the characteristic “Bochum style” for a shortened, post-expressionist style of play: wide, symbolic spaces, podiums and inclines, bright colors, analytical clarity, consistently anti-naturalistic, never mere decor or pure location. As an eminently dramaturgically thinking theater man, his drafts anticipated or interpreted the directorial work, the style of which they optically justified: They made the sense sensual and gave the production a spiritual dimension. "I tried to capture the spirit of the play and to reproduce it pictorially." From 1961, Max Fritzsche also directed in Bochum, a. a. at the German premiere of Montherlant's “The Cardinal of Spain”, Shakespeare's “King Lear”, Strindberg's “Dance of Death”, Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” and Genet's “Balcony”. In 1967 he staged Goethe's “Faust I” in Cologne.
In 1977 Fritzsche's final equipment for the world premiere of Gaston Salvatore's “Free Letter” took place. Max Fritzsche was regarded as a benchmark set designer in the 1940s and 1950s.
literature
- Werner Schulze-Reimpell : Max Fritzsche, in: Beck, Brauneck (ed.): Theaterlexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, stage advisors and stage designers. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55650-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Schulze-Reimpell: Theater Lexicon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers. 2007, p. 221.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fritzsche, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German set designer, costume designer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bochum |