Ottofritz Gaillard
Ottofritz Gaillard (born January 22, 1915 in Weimar ; † May 25, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German director .
Life
Ottofritz Gaillard studied theater studies, German, musicology and art history in Berlin and Rostock from 1934 to 1939. At the same time he had taken acting and directing training. In 1941 he received his doctorate in Rostock ( Hans Rehberg, the poet of the "Prussian dramas" ). During the Second World War he was stationed as a soldier in France, where he could buy books about the theater, which he studied intensively. In 1947, the State University of Music in Weimar, with the approval of SMAD , decided to expand its acting department, founded by Ottofritz Gaillard, Maxim Vallentin and Otto Lang in 1946, into an "Institute for the methodical renewal of German theater", which two years later became the German Theater Institute Weimar Belvedere Palace emerged. After this and the dissolution of the Leipzig drama school, Ottofritz Gaillard became head of the drama department of the newly founded Leipzig Theater Academy . From 1956 he worked as a director at the Staatstheater Dresden , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin and the Volksbühne Berlin , where he was appointed deputy artistic director from 1967. In 1969 he started teaching at the drama school in Berlin. From 1970 he also worked for television as a director and also as an actor.
Filmography
- 1970: Caesar and Cleopatra (theater recording)
- 1973: From the life of a good-for-nothing
- 1973: Stülpner legend (TV series, episode: The Trap)
- 1975: The Invisible Visor (TV series, episode: 7)
- 1977: The prosecutor has the floor: A drachma from Syracuse (TV series)
- 1979: The executioner's brother
- 1987: Polizeiruf 110: Farewell song for Linda (TV series)
theatre
- 1954: Alfred de Musset : You don't play with love - ( Staatstheater Schwerin )
- 1956: Jean Anouilh : Colombe - ( Dresden Theater )
- 1957: Alfred de Musset: You shouldn't conspire - (Dresden Theater)
- 1959: George Bernard Shaw : Mrs. Warren's trade - (Dresden Theater)
- 1960: Lev Tolstoy : War and Peace (Dresden Theater)
- 1960: Georg Kaiser : Side by Side - (Dresden Theater)
- 1960: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Torquato Tasso - (Dresden theater)
- 1961: Bertolt Brecht : Saint Joan of the Schlachthöfe - Direction with Hannes Fischer ( Staatstheater Dresden )
- 1961: Bertolt Brecht: The faces of Simone Machard - (Dresden State Theater)
- 1962: Helmut Sakowski : Stones in the way - ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1963: Michael Mansfeld : One of us - directed by Hans-Dieter Meves ( Volksbühne Berlin - theater on the 3rd floor)
- 1964: Carlo Goldoni : Mirandolina - (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1965: Curt Goetz : Hokuspokus - (Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor)
- 1967: Henrik Ibsen : Nora - (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1967: George Bernard Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra - (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1968: Arthur Fauquez : Barbarossa and the Sunflower Island - (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1970: George Bernard Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra - (Royal Flemish Playhouse Brussels, Belgium)
Radio plays
- 1980: Karl-Heinz Jakobs : Casanova in Dux (Friedrich II.) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
literature
- 1946: The German Stanislawski Book - Author (Aufbau-Verlag)
- 1947: Almanac of the Thuringian Theater Show results and conclusions - Author (Thüringer Volksverlag)
- 1948: Almanac of the Thuringian Theater Show Results and Conclusions - Author (Verlag Werden und Wirken)
- 1948: At the opening of the German National Theater Weimar after reconstruction on Goethe's 199th birthday August 28, 1948 - co-author (Thuringian Volksverlag)
- The Realistic Traditions of German Drama - Author (Tribüne-Verlag)
- 1954: G. Kristi: Stanislawskis Weg zur Oper - German version and arrangement (Henschel-Verlag)
- 1995: to be or not to be? Theater stories Staatsschauspiel Dresden 1913 to today - co-author (publisher?)
Awards
Web links
- Ottofritz Gaillard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ottofritz Gaillard at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Berliner Zeitung of June 28, 1947; P. 3
- ↑ 100 years of drama school in Berlin
- ↑ 100 years of drama school in Berlin
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 14, 1981; P. 9
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 4, 1962 p. 2
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gaillard, Ottofritz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 2006 |
Place of death | Berlin |