Michael Thalheimer

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Michael Thalheimer (2015)

Michael Thalheimer (born May 28, 1965 in Münster near Darmstadt) is a German director .

Life

Thalheimer studied from 1985 to 1989 at the Bern Drama School, which is now part of the Bern University of the Arts . As an actor, he was engaged in many German-speaking theaters, including in Bern, Mainz, Bremerhaven and Chemnitz.

In 1997 he presented his first production at the Chemnitz Theater : Fernando Arrabal , The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria . Since his work at the theater in Chemnitz he has been working with the set designer Olaf Altmann as a permanent employee. Then many productions followed in prestigious theaters like the Theater Freiburg, the Basel Theater , the spectacle of Leipzig , the Dresden State Theater , the Hamburg Thalia Theater , the Deutsches Theater Berlin and Schaubühne Berlin.

In 2005 Thalheimer made his debut as an opera director with Leoš Janáček's Katja Kabanova at the Berlin State Opera , followed in December of the same year by an interpretation of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Basel Opera , which was acclaimed by audience and press alike .

At the Hamburg Thalia Theater in particular, Thalheimer gained an excellent reputation as a theater director with productions of Schiller's Kabale und Liebe , Schnitzler's Liebelei and other classics, who can reduce even the most difficult subjects to their basic content and convey them emotionally and mentally. As a perfectionist, Thalheimer attaches great importance to the facial expressions and gestures of his actors, which sometimes fill minute-long, wordless phases, which are then replaced by a flood of text that is recited in paragraphs and presented in staccato.

After many successful years at Hamburg's Thalia Theater, Thalheimer increasingly relocated his work to the German Theater in Berlin. After he made the greatest success possible in years with his two productions of Goethe's Faust I and Faust II, which were acclaimed by both critics and the public , he was offered the position of chief director in 2006, which he accepted.

His staging of the play Innocence by Dea Loher was the subject of a protest in spring 2012.

literature

Hans-Dieter Schütt (ed.): MICHAEL THALHEIMER. Portrait of a director, Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95749-095-7 .

Theatertreffen Berlin

Theater (as a director)

Frankfurt Theater:

Burgtheater Vienna / Akademietheater Vienna :

Further awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Friday, accessed on August 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Ronald Pohl: "The Persians": Theater slaughterhouse in the antique CNN office . In: derstandard.at , May 21, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2017;
    Ronald Pohl: Michael Thalheimer: "The word education sounds like old socks" . In: derstandard.at , May 18, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Thalheimer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main