Norbert Kentrup

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Norbert Kentrup (born May 2, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) is a German actor , theater director and theater director .

Life

Kentrup was born as the fifth child of the Wilhelm and Antonie Kentrup family of pharmacists. He grew up with his family in Neuss . From 1967 to 1970 he attended the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen .

From 1970 to 1972 he played with Kurt Hübner at the Bremen Theater , then for a year at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main . From 1973 to 1979 he was employed at the Schauspiel Frankfurt during the co-determination period . In 1978 he founded the first self-managed theater, Mobile Rhein-Main Theater GmbH, with Gregor Lawatsch . From 1981 to 1982 he worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Wuppertaler Bühnen and until 1983 at the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich . In 1984 he founded the bremer shakespeare company as a self-managed theater in the Kammerspiele on Böttcherstrasse together with several fellow actors and was its spokesperson until 1997. He played and staged world premieres and numerous works by William Shakespeare there until 2001 .

In 1993 he staged Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor as the first complete performance in the shell of the new London Globe Theater at the request of Sam Wanamaker in collaboration with the Goethe Institute after 351 years there.

In the same year he initiated the Shakespeare Globe Center Germany (Patrone, inter alia, Peter Hartmann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Great Britain, Kurt Hübner, General Director of the Bremen Municipal Theaters (1962–1973) and the Free Volksbühne Berlin (1973–1986), Helga Trüpel, Senator for Culture and Integration of Foreigners Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Jürgen Timm, Rector of the University of Bremen , Heinz Abeling, Managing Director of SET Studienreisen GmbH and Norbert Kentrup. Chairpersons: Vanessa Schormann and Dagmar Papula .)

In 1994 he became a member of the Artistic Board of the International Shakespeare Globe Center London and later a Council member.

In 1995 he gave his first own lecture on Shakespeare's Globe Theater at the Shakespeare Days in Bochum .

In 1997 Norbert Kentrup was elected as a member of the International Theater Institute ITI.

In 1998, Norbert Kentrup was the only German actor to date to be a member of the first international ensemble of the Shakespeare Globe Theater in London.

There he played 64 performances in English as Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in the 1997 reopened, reconstructed Globe Theater on the Thames .

From 1998 to 1999 he was visiting professor in the Drama Department at the University of Toronto with Pia Kleber. There he gave lessons in the master class and staged a. a. Angel on the train by Dagmar Papula and Twelfth Night (Was Ihr Wollt) by William Shakespeare.

In 2001 he founded the third self-managed theater, SHAKESPEARE and PARTNER, in Berlin with Dagmar Papula and Stanley Shakespeare. In cooperation with the European Union , there were many guest performances in numerous countries. In addition, Kentrup was a teacher a. a. at drama schools in Zurich , Sofia , Wellington .

From 2002 to 2008 Norbert Kentrup was a board member of the German Shakespeare Society .

Kentrup has lived and worked with the actress and author Dagmar Papula in Berlin-Wannsee and Puumala since 1971 .

Works

theatre

As an actor (selection)

  • 2017 You wonderful Jean by Dagmar Papula / Jean Sibelius
  • 2013 I couldn't keep my mouth shut from Dagmar Papula / Hoffmann von Fallersleben
  • 2013 Summer of the laughing cows according to Arto Paasilinna by Norbert Kentrup / Rytkönnen
  • 2010 Everything is True - King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare / King Henry VIII
  • 2005 The comedian of Dagmar Papula Arthur
  • 2000 The Brothers Grimm by Dagmar Papula Wilhelm Grimm
  • 1999 What You Want from William Shakespeare Sir Toby
  • 1997 Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare Timon
  • 1994 Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus
  • 1991 The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Falstaff
  • 1989 What You Want from William Shakespeare Maria, Fool
  • 1988 Human Herrmann by Holger Franke Archangel Gabriel
  • 1986 Henry IV by William Shakespeare Falstaff
  • 1985 Othello by William Shakespeare Othello
  • 1985 King Lear by William Shakespeare Lear

Productions (selection)

Opera (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Kentrup, Norbert: The sweet taste of freedom (autobiography), Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95651-180-6
  • Theater plays for the radical decree , edited and compiled by the Theater Frankfurt working group: Hannelore Christ, Manfred Dutschke, Roland Haas, Elisabeth Heidkamp, ​​Horst Holzschuh, Norbert Kentrup, Günter Pabst, Jutta Rücker, Klaus Siblewski, Verlag 2000, Offenbach
  • Kentrup Norbert, Pope Günter (Ed.): Devil, devil! Don't trust an hour over 35! , Verlag 2000, Offenbach 1980, ISBN 978-3-88534-303-5
  • Papula Dagmar, Kentrup Norbert (ed.): Frauen-Theater , Verlag 2000, Offenbach 1982, ISBN 978-3-88534-308-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudia Sautter: Stage - free! In: The time . September 30, 1983, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 5, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Norbert Kentrup co-founder of the Bremen Shakespeare Company , at www.radiobremen.de, accessed on February 5, 2019
  3. ↑ Calendar - Theater Bremen. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Volksbühne Berlin. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Content editing: Home. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Shakespeare's Globe: About Us - International / Germany. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Tim Schomacker: The world is wherever you are . In: taz . October 29, 1999, ISSN  2626-5761 , p. 23 ( taz.de ). , on www.taz.de
  8. ↑ Welcome to - Shakespeare & Partners. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  9. ^ Start: Shakespeare Society. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kentrup, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf