Nicolas Brieger

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Nicolas Brieger (born March 23, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German actor and director ( drama and opera ).

Life

Education and acting career

Nicolas Brieger grew up in his native Berlin. After graduating from high school, he first studied theater and literature at the Free University of Berlin . In 1962 he began training in the acting studio of Marlise Ludwig , where Klaus Kinski , Cornelia Froboess and Gottfried John were among the students. Brieger made his debut in 1963 at the Schillertheater alongside Sabine Sinjen in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening . Engagements at the Renaissance Theater alongside Grete Mosheim and Peter Mosbacher and at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer were followed by a permanent contract in Nuremberg (1968–1972). In the following years he worked as an actor for theater and film all over Germany.

He had Brieger's first leading role on television alongside Sonja Ziemann and Heinz Bennent in the film Alle Had Turnen sich aus sich (1969), which was shot in Israel. In the 1980s, Nicolas Brieger took part in numerous television films and series, including a. in productions by Edgar Reitz , Vivian Naefe , Karin Brandauer , Wim Wenders , Hartmut Griesmayr, Carlo Rola, Kaspar Heidelbach and in several crime scenes. In Welcome to Vienna , the third part of Axel Corti's film trilogy Wohin und zurück , he played a leading role alongside Gabriel Barylli .

In 2009 he was also seen as an actor in the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices (BFM) in Geneva : as the commander in Conversations à Rechlin by François Dupeyron , under whose direction the film of the same name was made. From September 2014 Nicolas Brieger resumed his acting career with Ibsen’s master builder Solness (director: Ingo Kerkhoff) in Wiesbaden.

Career as a director

After an assistant to Giorgio Strehler in Salzburg, I made my first attempts at directing. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked as an actor and increasingly as a director in Cologne, Basel and Bremen, where the drama and its directorial work was voted Theater of the Year. At the Berlin Schillertheater, under the artistic director Boy Gobert Lulu , he brought out Carlo Goldoni's trilogy of the holiday season , with actors such as Barbara Petritsch , Christiane Leuchtmann and Friedhelm Ptok , Edward Bonds Gerettet with actors such as Martin Held , Gisela Uhlen and Angelica Domröse . Brieger's productions have been nominated several times for the Berlin Theatertreffen , and at the Berlin University of the Arts he has been given a professorship for drama.

In 1988 Brieger took over the acting direction at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , which he held until 1992 and made it a highly acclaimed stage with productions such as Heinrich von Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn or the trilogy of the holiday season by Carlo Goldoni . Brieger also made his debut as an opera director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 1986 with The Dwarf by Alexander von Zemlinsky , followed in 1988 by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in its own German libretto version. In addition to other theater productions, which u. a. Originated in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Bochum, Basel and Vienna, he was more and more engaged as a music theater director by major international opera houses.

In the 1990s there were performances in Paris, Brussels and Vienna for the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin (including Busoni's Die Brautwahl and the world premiere of Elliott Carter's What next? Together with Von heute auf Morgen by Arnold Schönberg and Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier ), for Frankfurt and Leipzig. Artistic director Klaus Zehelein brought Brieger to the Stuttgart Opera three times, in America he staged Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen as the opening of Pamela Rosenberg's artistic directorship in San Francisco. Mozart's Idomeneo was created for the Theater an der Wien with the conductor Bertrand de Billy , which was subsequently rehearsed in Barcelona and during the inaugural season by Artistic Director Simone Young in Hamburg. Director David Pountney entrusted him with the rediscovery of two Kurt Weill operas for his first Bregenz Festival . Brieger has a permanent collaboration with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the conductor Armin Jordan . In 1999 and 2003, theater productions were again produced at the Vienna Burgtheater .

In 2006/07 Nicolas Brieger opened the new directorship of the Hanover State Opera with Verdi's Otello , staged Mozart's Don Giovanni in Mannheim as a co-production with Geneva and the baroque opera Il Giustino by Giovanni Lenzei , a musical excavation by Thomas Hengelbrock, for the Schwetzingen Festival . The production was voted Rediscovery of the Year by Opernwelt magazine . This was followed in 2007/2008 by productions at the Hamburg State Opera and the Munich State Opera ( Doctor Faust for the opening of the Munich Opera Festival ). In November 2008 Bohuslav Martinů's Greek Passion followed in Zurich , in 2009 Thomas Bernhard 's Appearances are deceptive at the Vienna Burgtheater and Salome in Geneva. In the 2009/10 season Brieger staged Johann Christian Bach's Amadis des Gaules in Mannheim ; In 2010/11 Mozart's Così fan tutte followed for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein und Krieg und Frieden by Sergei Prokofjew in Cologne . In January 2014 he worked on his first opera by Richard Wagner for the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg with the Flying Dutchman . At the Mannheim Mozart Summer in the Schwetzingen Rococo Theater in July 2014 Mitridate, re di Ponto came out with three counter tenors (musical director: George Petrou). In 2015, an opera production followed at the Theater Basel ( Médée / Charpentier with Magdalena Kožená ). For the 2015 season opening, he staged Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Great House of the Wiesbaden State Theater . In 2016 he staged La traviata at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden . Also at the Wiesbaden State Theater in 2018, Brieger staged Nathan the Wise (Lessing) and Mozart's Don Giovanni .

The collaboration with the stage designers Hans Dieter Schaal and Raimund Bauer, the conductors Daniel Barenboim and Armin Jordan as well as the directors Pamela Rosenberg, Klaus Bachler and Klaus Zehelein shaped his artistic work .

Brieger lives in Vienna and works mainly in Germany , Austria and Switzerland .

Roles as a stage actor

  • Uncle Vanya from Anton Chekhov (Astrow) in Frankfurt
  • Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (Jupiter) in Munich
  • The wild duck (Gregers Wehrle) by Henrik Ibsen in Zurich
  • Master builder Solness by Henrik Ibsen (Halvard Solness) in Wiesbaden

Productions

play

  • John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen (1999), Transdanubia dreaming by Bernhard Studlar (UA) (2003), The rehearsal by Lukas Bärfuss (ÖEA) (2007), Appearances are deceiving by Thomas Bernhard - Burgtheater Vienna
  • Sappho by Franz Grillparzer - Wiener Festwochen
  • Lulu by Frank Wedekind (1981), Summer by Edward Bond, Trilogy of the holiday season by Carlo Goldoni - Schillertheater Berlin
  • Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist (1988), Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner (1989), Weites Land by Arthur Schnitzler (guest appearance as a Russian premiere in St. Petersburg in 1992), Death Dance by August Strindberg - Mannheim
  • Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (1982) - Kammerspiele Munich
  • Music by Frank Wedekind, Der zerbrochne Krug by Heinrich von Kleist - Basel
  • Quai West by Bernard Marie Koltès (1988) - Bochum
  • Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, Big and Small by Botho Strauss - Bremen
  • Medea by Euripides - Düsseldorf
  • Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer, Uncle Vanja by Anton Chekhov - Frankfurt
  • Buschmann and Lena by Athol Fugard, A festival for Boris by Thomas Bernhard - Cologne
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Wiesbaden
  • Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing– Wiesbaden

Opera

Festival invitations

  • Berlin Theatertreffen: Maria Stuart , The Broken Jug
  • Wiener Festwochen: Sappho , Il Barbiere di Siviglia

author

New versions of opera libretti

  • The Marriage of Figaro - Arcor-Bärenreiter
  • Titus the Mild - Volksoper Vienna
  • The love for the three oranges - Stuttgart
  • Katja Kabanowa - Leipzig
  • War and Peace - Cologne

script

  • A house for us - ARD television game

Filmography

Movies

  • 1985: Welcome to Vienna
  • 1988: It is now noon
  • 1990: the second life
  • 1990: My daughter is mine!
  • 1992: The Monkey of God
  • Edgar Reitz: The Journey to Vienna , with Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf (1973)
  • Eberhard Itzenplitz: From the diary of an emigrant , The death of the white gods , with Gottfried John (1982), entrepreneur , with Jürgen Prochnow (1970), One of us (1982)
  • Wim Wenders: Family of armored lizards (1974), The Island (1977)
  • Hartmut Griesmayr: The commuter , around the house and yard , the pilot's mistake
  • Beate Klöckner: Rudolfo (1990)
  • Michael Lang: Software (1992)
  • Urs Egger: Chaos on the Gotthard (1987)
  • Frank Gutke: This portrait is beautiful to kill (1987)
  • Tom Toelle: Hello, I'm from over there , with Hans-Christian Blech (1978)
  • Marianne Lüdke: The Wollands (1973), Wages of Love (1974)
  • Bernhard Zimmel: September (2007)
  • Francois Dupeyron: Conversations à Rechlin (2009)
  • Rebecca Hirneise: Everyday Life (short film, 2018)

TV Shows

literature

  • Wait a moment, I summon you . Mannheim Theater 1988–1992. With texts by Nicolas Brieger and Alfred Huber. Photos: Hans Jörg Michel. Southwest German publishing house
  • Hans Dieter Schaal: Stage Architecture - stage architecture. Edition Axel Menges , 2002. ISBN 3-930698-86-2

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personal data
SURNAME Brieger, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor for stage and film, director for drama and opera
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin