Michael Bogdanov

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Michael Bogdanov (born December 15, 1938 in Neath , Wales , † April 16, 2017 in Greece ) was a British director and screenwriter .

Life

Michael Bogdanov was born to Russian and Welsh parents in 1938 and graduated from Trinity College in Dublin in 1963 . It was in Ireland that he began his more than 40-year stage and film career, during which he founded two theater groups, produced, wrote and directed for film and television .

In 1970 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as assistant director , worked with Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream and with Jean Barrault on Rabelais . In the 1980s he began his international career and directed Hamlet in Dublin, Die Möwe in Tokyo , Maß für Maß in Canada and the world premiere of Stockhausen's Monday of Light at La Scala in Milan . From 1980 to 1988 Bogdanov was Associate Director of the Royal National Theater . He directed eight productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the award-winning production of The Taming of the Shrew and Goethe's Faust I and Faust II .

Together with actor Michael Pennington , he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and directed The Henrys and the seven-piece cycle The Wars of the Roses , with which he toured worldwide and received the Olivier Award for Best Director in 1990. 1989-1991 was Bogdanov director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , where he, among others, Julius Caesar , Reynard the Fox , Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas staged. After further international work at the theater and for television, Bogdanov founded the Wales Theater Company in 2003 and in the same year directed The Servant of Two Gentlemen at the Hamburger Kammerspiele and the operetta Lady Hamilton at the Cologne Opera . In 2004 the BBC aired his production The Welsh in Shakespeare and the musical Lone Star Love opened at the John Houseman Theater in New York City . The production was nominated for two musical prizes in 2005 and Bogdanov was nominated for best director.

In January 2004 his book Shakespeare the Directors Cut: Volume 1 was published, in October 2005 the follow-up volume. For his services to the theater, Bogdanov received an Honorary Doctorate from the Samuel Beckett Center at Trinity College Dublin in 2005 . In January 2006, the director designed the British Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Wales Millennium Center under the motto One Person Can Make a Difference . In 2007 he received the Rolf Mares Prize of the Hamburg theaters for his production of Waiting for Godot at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . In 2011 he opened the new Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater on Heidi-Kabel-Platz with a Low German production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . In 2012 he staged the play Four Men in Fog by Tim Firth at the Hamburger Kammerspiele. In 2014 he staged Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival .

Michael Bogdanov lived with his wife Ulrike and their two children in Cardiff and Hamburg. He died of heart failure in Greece in April 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Kaiser: Mourning Michael Bogdanov. In: NDR . April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bogdanov, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Neath , Wales , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2017
Place of death Greece