Michael Gruner
Michael Gruner (born January 1, 1945 in Falkenstein / Vogtl. ) Is a German director and general manager .
Live and act
Growing up in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, he began studying acting in Frankfurt in 1963. In 1965 he got an engagement as an actor at the Darmstadt State Theater . In 1968 he moved to the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt and participated, among other things, in the world premiere of public abuse directed by Claus Peymann . From 1969 he worked as an actor at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under the artistic director Karl-Heinz Stroux . In 1972 Gruner began his directorial career at the Theater am Turm. In 1974 he moved to Darmstadt as a director under the management of Günther Beelitz . In 1976 he returned to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with Beelitz.
In 1980/81 he was committed to the Thalia Theater Hamburg for two productions per season . From 1987 to 1989 he was a director at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt . In 1989 he became senior director at the Stuttgart State Theater . He has worked as a guest director at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Volkstheater in Vienna , the Deutsches Theater Berlin as well as in Weimar , Bonn and Munich .
Furthermore, Gruner received a visiting professorship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and a professorship at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.
From 1999 to 2010 Gruner was acting director at the Schauspiel Dortmund , he is married to the actress Juliane Gruner.
Filmography (selection)
TV series
Productions (selection)
- Woyzeck by Georg Büchner , Theater am Turm (1972)
- Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth , Stadttheater Düsseldorf (1984)
- Michael Kramer by Gerhart Hauptmann , Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt (1987)
- Me and Me , State Theater Stuttgart (1990)
- On the beautiful view of Ödön von Horváth, Volkstheater Vienna (1993/94)
- Mr. Paul von Tankred Dorst , Deutsches Theater Berlin (1995)
- The embers according to Sándor Márai , Volkstheater Wien (1999/2000)
- The good person of Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht , Volkstheater Vienna (2000/01)
- Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist , Schauspiel Dortmund (2003)
- My friend Harvey , by Mary Chase , Schauspiel Dortmund (2007)
- Faith, Love, Hope , by Ödön von Horváth , Schauspiel Dortmund (2008)
- Odysseus, criminal. Play of a homecoming , by Christoph Ransmayr , as part of the theater project "Odyssey Europe" by RUHR.2010
Awards
In 1995/96 Gruner received the Karl Skraup Prize for his production of Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind at the Volkstheater Vienna.
Web links
- Information from the Volkstheater Wien
- Archived information, previously available at Theater Dortmund ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gruner, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and artistic director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Falkenstein / Vogtl. |