Meinhard Zanger

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Meinhard Zanger (born February 16, 1955 in Memmelsdorf ) is a director , actor , lecturer , artistic director and festival director .

Life

From 1978 to 1981 he completed an acting training in Cologne . This was followed by studies in theater , film and television studies , German and philosophy at the University of Cologne .

Since 1988 he has been a regular speaker and presenter for WDR . 1997 to 2006 he was the artistic director of the Cologne Theater der Keller and director of the associated drama school der Keller . Zanger has been a member of the directors' group at the German Stage Association since 1998 and a member of the Artistic Committee of the German Stage Association since 2004. In 2000 Zanger received the Cologne Theater Prize for Der Freigeist and in 2003 he was invited to the 37th BITEF International Theater Festival in Belgrade. In 2002/03 he was voted the best actor of the season in NRW by the NRW specialist magazine theater pur after Michael Maertens . In 2004 he was artistic director of the 11th THEATERZWANG (Best Of (f) -Festival NRW). Zanger has been the artistic director of the Wolfgang Borchert Theater in Münster since July 1, 2006 and until the end of the 2020/21 season . In the 2006/07 winter semester he held a teaching position at the Cologne University of Music . In 2010 and 2011 he was an expert for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST and has been a member of the administrative board of the Bavarian Supply Chamber - VddB since November 2010. Since January 2011 he has been a deputy assessor for the stage arbitration tribunals, the stage association / GDBA and opera choirs. In 2011 and 2012 he was a jury member for the fringe festival at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen . In 2016 he received the Monica Bleibtreu Prize for his production of the Shakespeare comedy Was Ihr wollt at the 5th Privattheatertage in Hamburg.

In his productions, among others played Dietrich Adam , Boris Aljinovic , Hans Beer Henke , Charles Brewer , Victor Calero , Matthias Günther , Sabine Haupt , Thomas M. Held , Horst Janson , Peter Jordan , Joachim Lätsch , Hans-Peter Minetti , Stefanie mill , Peter Pagel , Bernd Reheuser , Mirco Reseg , Aglaia Szyszkowitz , Antje Westermann , Michael Wittenborn , Susanne-Marie Wrage , the TV presenters Werner Hansch and Jörg Thadeusz and the ARD war correspondent in Sarajevo Friedhelm Brebeck .

He played in productions by Günther Beelitz , Hans-Joachim Heyse , Johannes Klaus, Hermann Kleinselbeck , Heinz Kreidl , Wolfgang Lichtenstein , Helmut Polixa , Wolf Seesemann , Kathrin Sievers , Joshua Sobol , Tanja Weidner , Fritz Zecha .

He currently lives in Münster.

Engagements (excerpt)

Productions

  • The true story of the Ah Q (Hein, Gießen 1989)
  • Ghetto (Sobol, Gießen and Rostock, 1990 and 1991 | Münster 2018)
  • Mephisto ( Mann / Mnouchkine, Würzburg 1995)
  • A gag for Max (DSE) (Neil Simon, Berlin 1995)
  • Measure for measure ( Shakespeare , Bielefeld 1996)
  • The three from the gas station (Tatzel, Aachen 1998)
  • Anniversary ( Tabori , Aachen 1998)
  • The visitor (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Cologne 1999 | Münster 2009)
  • The free spirit (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Cologne 2000 | Münster 2006)
  • Urfaust ( Goethe , Cologne 2000)
  • Hotel to the two worlds (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Cologne 2002)
  • Unexpected return ( Botho Strauss , Cologne 2003)
  • Minor marital crimes (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Cologne 2004 | Münster 2007)
  • Summer. Night. Dream. (based on Shakespeare , Cologne 2004)
  • My Gospels (DSE) (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Cologne 2006 | Münster 2007)
  • Cechov's Seagull (Münster 2006)
  • Blind Date I (UA) (Theatrical performance in public space, Münster 2007)
  • Hamlet ( Shakespeare , Münster 2007)
  • Blind Date II - Man's Dream. . . (WP) (Theatrical performance in public space, coproduction with WDR | Münster / Cologne 2008)
  • Enigma (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Münster 2009)
  • Maria Stuart (Friedrich Schiller, Münster 2009)
  • Blind Date III - The Seven Deadly Sins (WP) (Theatrical performance in public space, Münster 2010)
  • Old friends (Maria Goos, Münster 2010)
  • The interview (Theodor Holman / Theo van Gogh, Münster 2011)
  • Nathan the Wise (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Münster 2011)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Shakespeare , Open-Air im Gasometer, Münster 2012)
  • What you want ( Shakespeare , Kreuzgangspiele, Feuchtwangen 2012)
  • Who is the weapon, where is the enemy (WP) ( Oliver Bukowski , co-production Ruhrfestspiele / Wolfgang Borchert Theater , Recklinghausen 2013)
  • Leonce and Lena ( Büchner , Münster 2013)
  • The last soirée (WP) ( Arna Aley , Münster 2014)
  • The imaginary sick person ( Molière , Kreuzgangspiele, Feuchtwangen 2015)
  • Poison. A marriage story (Vekemans, Münster 2015)
  • What you want ( Shakespeare , Wolfgang Borchert Theater, Münster 2015)
  • Am Boden - Grounded (George Brant, Münster 2015)
  • Back to the beginning (DSE) (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Münster 2016)
  • Terror (Ferdinand von Schirach, Münster 2016)
  • The New Jerusalem (WP) ( Arna Aley , Münster 2017)

Significant roles

  • Tiripa (The Ruins of Conscience, Jahnn, Kassel 1981)
  • Perdican (You don't play with love, de Musset, Kassel 1981)
  • Philoktet (Philoktet, Heiner Müller, Kassel 1981)
  • Schreiber Licht (The Broken Jug, Kleist, Kassel 1982)
  • Herakles (Herakles 5, Heiner Müller, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 1983)
  • Jean Cabet (The Days of the Commune, Brecht, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 1984)
  • Meißner (The old country, Klaus Pohl, Tübingen 1985)
  • Valerio (Leonce and Lena, Büchner, Tübingen 1987)
  • Lassalle ( Lassalle asks Mr. Herbert about Sonja. The scene a salon , Hein, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 1989)
  • Valentin (The kiss of the spider woman, Puig, Dortmund 1993)
  • Eichmann (Adolf Eichmann - a German career, Less / Lichtenstein, Cologne 2001)
  • Argan (The Imaginary Sick, Molière, Cologne 2002)
  • Actor (WP) (Actor, Anna Langhoff, Cologne 2003)
  • Garcin (Closed Society, Sartre, Cologne 2006 | Münster 2007)
  • Alain Reille (The God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza, Münster 2008)
  • The young Martin Heidegger (The Banality of Love, Savyon Liebrecht, Dortmund | Münster 2008).
  • Marc ( 'Art' , Yasmina Reza, Münster 2012).
  • Village judge Adam ( 'Der zerbrochne Krug' , Heinrich von Kleist, Münster 2015).

Works

  • 50 years and not a bit quiet. History and story (s) from half a century of theater der keller & schule des theater. A documentation. 2005. ISBN 3-00-017528-8

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personal data
SURNAME Zanger, Meinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, actor, lecturer, artistic director and festival director
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmelsdorf