Oliver Reese

Oliver Reese (* 1964 in Neuhaus Castle near Paderborn ) is a German theater director , dramaturge and author . From the 2009/10 season until the end of the 2016/17 season he was the artistic director of the Schauspiel Frankfurt . Reese has been the director of the Berliner Ensemble as the successor to Claus Peymann since 2017 .

biography

Oliver Reese was born in 1964 in Neuhaus Castle near Paderborn. Even as a schoolboy he was enthusiastic about the world of theater and made contacts with actors from the Westfälische Kammerspiele, the theater in his hometown. After his community service he studied modern German literature, theater studies and comparative literature in Munich and worked as an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, where he became a dramaturge in 1989. In 1991 he moved to the Ulm Theater as chief dramaturge. From 1994 to 2001 Oliver Reese was chief dramaturge at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, then chief dramaturge and deputy director under Bernd Wilms at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . At DT he worked with Hans Neuenfels, Robert Wilson, Michael Thalheimer and Jürgen Gosch, among others. In the 2008/2009 season, Reese was interim director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. From the 2009/2010 season to 2016/2017 he headed the Schauspiel Frankfurt and brought the occupancy rate to a record level with a repertoire that skilfully moved between ancient and contemporary drama. Oliver Reese taught theater studies at the Free University of Berlin from 2002 to 2004. He is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts.

In addition to numerous productions, Reese brought his own dramatizations ("Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin, "Lolita" after Nabokov) and plays based on biographical texts ("Bartsch, Kindermörder", "Emmy Göring at the side of her husband"). "Emmy Göring" was awarded the Friedrich-Luft-Preis of the Berliner Morgenpost in 1999. In the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater he staged "Goebbels" based on the diaries of the Nazi propaganda minister and "The Man Without Qualities" based on Robert Musil. In Frankfurt he dramatized Vaslav Nijinsky's diaries, which he titled »I am Nijinsky. Ich bin der Tod. ” Premiered at the“ Le Sacre du Printemps ”music festival in the Alte Oper Frankfurt at the beginning of the 2013/14 season. During the same season, »Will zur Truth ─ Inventory of Me« was created, a theatrical version of Thomas Bernhard's five-volume biography. Most recently, Reese developed his own version of Günter Grass' novel »The Tin Drum«. The monologue, played by Nico Holonics , premiered on January 11, 2015.

Oliver Reese has been the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble since the 2017/18 season . The program focuses primarily on contemporary drama: "In the tradition of its former artistic directors Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller, the Berliner Ensemble under director Oliver Reese focuses on theater about our present day. In the center of the program are works by Bertolt Brecht all current material and contemporary pieces by living authors who negotiate the pressing issues of the time on stage. " While Peymann was emphatically derogatory about his successor, Reese did not allow himself to be provoked by his "bullying predecessor" or to take any verbal revenge.

Works

• Bartsch, Kindermörder (1992), Ulmer Theater, director: Oliver Reese
• Emmy Göring at the side of her husband (1994), Ulmer Theater, director: Oliver Reese
• Goebbels (2005), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele), director: Oliver Reese
• Bacon talks (2012), Schauspiel Frankfurt (in the Frankfurt Städel Museum), director: Oliver Reese
• I am Nijinsky. I am death (2013), Schauspiel Frankfurt (in the Alte Oper Frankfurt), director: Oliver Reese

Dramatizations

• My place by Peter Weiss (1994), Theater Basel, director: Oliver Reese
• Parzival based on Wolfram von Eschenbach (1998), coproduction Hebbel-Theater and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, director: Joachim Schlömer
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1999), Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg
• The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (based on the silent film of the same name) (2002), Deutsches Theater Berlin, director: Robert Wilson
• Lolita (2003), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele), director: Oliver Reese
• Extinction (2016), Theater in der Josefstadt , director: Oliver Reese

Productions

• Bartsch, Kindermörer (1992), Ulm Theater
• Emmy Göring at the side of her husband (1994), Ulmer Theater
• Individual conversations ( Ingmar Bergman ) (1999), Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
• The indoor fountain (Jens Sparschuh) (1996), Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
• Lolita ( Vladimir Nabokov ) (2003), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele)
• Goebbels (2005) Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele)
• Faithless ( Ingmar Bergman ) (2006) Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• The Man Without Qualities (2007), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele)
• Why don't you dance , based on stories by Raymond Carver (2007), Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
• Ritter, Dene, Voss (2009), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Kammerspiele)
• Phädra by Jean Racine (2009), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Kammerspiele)
• The woman who ran against doors (Roddy Doyle), German-language premiere 2010, Schauspiel Frankfurt (Kammerspiele)
• The naked madness by Michael Frayn (2011), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2011), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• We love and know nothing about Moritz Rinke, (2012), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Kammerspiele)
• Elective affinities based on the novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (2013), Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Kleines Haus)
• Will to truth - inventory of me based on the five-volume autobiography by Thomas Bernhard (2013), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• Art by Yasmina Reza (2014), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• The Tin Drum (2015), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• The reunification of the two Koreas by Joël Pommerat (2015), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Kammerspiele)
• The Broken Jug (2015), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• Terror after Ferdinand von Schirach (2015), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• A Family ( August: Osage County ) by Tracy Letts (2017), Schauspiel Frankfurt (Schauspielhaus)
• Gott after Ferdinand von Schirach (2020), Berliner Ensemble

Article about Oliver Reese

• Bernd Wilms: “Write with scissors. The author and director Oliver Reese, who is a dramaturge. ”In: R. Koberg, B. Stegemann, H. Thomsen (eds.):“ Authors at the Deutsches Theater ”. Berlin, 2006. pp. 77-81.

Web links

• http://www.schauspielfrankfurt.de
• http://www.rowohlt-theaterverlag.de
• Oliver Reese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Oliver Reese's biography at Munzinger Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Reese: From car accessories trade to the theater  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Darmstädter Echo from May 5, 2012  
2. ^ Report of the Frankfurter Neue Presse from April 27, 2016 , website of the Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
3. ↑ Profile | berlin ensemble. Retrieved April 16, 2018 . 
4. ^ "Report of the time of May 30th, 2017 on change of artistic director in Berlin" ( Memento of the original of September 6th, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the time, Internet access from 23 August 2017