Ottofritz Gaillard

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

theatre

Radio plays

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Zeitung of June 28, 1947; P. 3
  2. ↑ 100 years of drama school in Berlin
  3. ↑ 100 years of drama school in Berlin
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 14, 1981; P. 9
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 4, 1962 p. 2
personal data
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