Michael Eberth (dramaturge)

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Michael Eberth (born February 2, 1943 in Lindau ) is a German dramaturge and author .

Life

Eberth studied theater studies , German and English in Munich and at the Drama Department of the University of Bristol . From January 1968 he was dramaturgy assistant to Ernst Wendt and assistant director at the Bavarian State Theater ( Residenztheater ) in Munich and assistant director at NDR in Hamburg . From January 1970 he was dramaturge at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt and on the stages of the city of Cologne . From 1974 to 1977 he was an editor at the publishing house of the authors . In 1975 Eberth (together with Karlheinz Braun ) directed the theater festival Experimenta V. From 1979 to 1991 he worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Salzburg Festival and the Burgtheater in Vienna . From 1991 to 1996 he was chief dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . In 1996 he was responsible for the organizational preparation and conceptual design of the barracks of the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier . From 1999 to 2001 he was chief dramaturge of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and from 2001 to 2005 of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He worked with the directors Andrea Breth , Achim Freyer , Julian Crouch / Phelim McDermott, Jürgen Gosch , Sebastian Hartmann , Alexander Lang , Thomas Langhoff , Cesare Lievi, Axel Manthey , Claus Peymann and Stefan Pucher .

Michael Eberth is married to the Austrian actress Lena Stolze . You live in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Teaching assignments

Eberth held lectureships and guest professorships at the Mozarteum in Salzburg , at the University of Vienna , at the University of the Arts (Achim Freyer stage design class) and the Free University in Berlin , at the Institute for Drama Directing and the University of Applied Arts in Hamburg and at the University of Fine Arts Arts in Dresden (stage design class Barbara Ehnes). He has conducted workshops at the Royal Court Theater in London , the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh and the Tron Theater in Glasgow .

Publications (selection)

• How theater and revolt (did not) go together, in: Theater heute, annual issue 1974.
• Sean O'Casey, Das Freudenfeuer für den Bishop, translation, in: Spectaculum 37, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1983.
• Perceiving, not believing is the motto, About O'Casey's bonfires for the bishop, in: Spectaculum 37, p. O.
• The fear of emptiness, About Lessing's Emilia Galotti, in: Program 5, Münchner Kammerspiele, 1983/84 season.
• Augen der Liebe, a plea against the concept, power and right-wingers of German theater, in: DIE ZEIT No. 20, May 11, 1984.
• O'Casey and Us, About O'Casey's The Plow and the Stars, in: Program 2, Burgtheater Vienna, 1984/85 season.
• On the benefit of terror, on Mussets Lorenzaccio, in: Program 1, Münchner Kammerspiele, 1985/86 season.
• Escape from love as a sickness to death, About Schnitzler's Lonely Path, in: program booklet Salzburg Festival, July 1987
• Aristophanes, Die Vögel, translation, in: Programmbuch 53, Burgtheater Wien, December 15, 1989.
• Der Sprengmeister, theater story, in: Theater heute, March 1990.
• Howard Brenton, Berlin Bertie, translation, in: Theater heute, April 1993.
• From the speechless judge, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, April 5, 1994 and Why we need the theater (Ed. Peter Iden), Suhrkamp Verlag 1995.
• On the difficulty of murdering fathers, in: Theater der Zeit, July / August 1994.
• Intendantensturz, A memory of January 6th, 71, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, January 6th, 1996.
• Sam Shepard, Simpatico, translation, in: Theater Theater 1996, S. Fischer Verlag 1996.
• The miracle of Omsk, a theater trip to Siberia, in: Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, March 2, 1996 and Theater der Zeit, May / June 1996.
• "Dramaturges are changing legitimation crises", On the reasons and abysses of the German theater, in: Theater heute, January 1997.
• The grin of the amateurs, in: Berliner Zeitung, February 4, 1997.
• Jenseits der Sprachwelt, laudation for Ulrich Zieger, in: Theater der Zeit, May / June 1997.
• Sean O'Casey, purple dust, translation, in: Sean O'Casey, Pieces II, Suhrkamp Verlag 1999.
• The obscene view, cultural policy at the crossroads, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, May 7, 2003.
• errwege, in: 40 Years of the International Forum for Young Stage Members, Berliner Festspiele 2004.
• The theater of the wrong movement, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 May 2005.
• Kleist crises, in: Kleist or The Order of the World, Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2008.
• Pleasure breaks passion, About the theater of Yasmina Reza, in: nachtkritik.de, November 8, 2008 and faust-kultur.de, September 2012.
• A man writes, About the actor Alexander Granach and the drama of emigration, in: Der Tagesspiegel, January 17, 2009.
• A language of love, About the director Jürgen Gosch, in: Der Tagesspiegel, February 4, 2009.
• Matthes, Volume 1 of the Backstage series, Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2009.
• A theater like before its invention, in: schauspiel hannover 2000 - 2009, Hannover 2009.
• Finzi, Volume 2 of the Backstage series, Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2009.
• Jürgen Gosch rehearses Die Möwe, rehearsal notes, in: Theater heute, annual issue 2009.
• Der Rabe im Blauwal, improvisation on a theme from Moritz Rinkes Die Blauwal im Kirschgarten, in: Moritz-Rinke-Arbeitsbuch (Ed. Kai Bremer), Frankfurt am Main 2010.
• Conspiracy of the hypocrites, The German City Theater in the Age of Its Acceleration, in: nachtkritik.de, September 16, 2010.
• Eidinger, Volume 3 of the Backstage series, Theater der Zeit Verlag, 2011.
• In the labyrinth of transition, on the death of Thomas Langhoff, in: Theater heute, April 2012.
• The Incomparable, On the death of Susanne Lothar, in: nachtkritik.de, July 27, 2012.
• I, the image of God, Goethe's Faust and the exhausted self, in: Program No. 77, Schauspiel Frankfurt 2012.
• The Frankfurt Experiment, The Palitzsch era at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, in: A house for the theater, Henschel Verlag 2013.
• I am Sisyphus here, too, conversation with Dimiter Gotscheff, Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch, in: Dark that blinds us, workbook Theater der Zeit, 2013.
• Unit. Berlin theater diaries 1991–1996. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89581-374-0 .