Pavel fever

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Pavel Fieber (born September 30, 1941 in Jägerndorf , Jägerndorf district ; † July 6, 2020 in Würzburg ) was a German-Austrian actor , singer , theater director and theater director .

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Fever grew up in Bavaria and Vienna after the war . After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Bamberg , he studied psychology at the University of Erlangen and the University of Vienna from 1960 to 1964 . From 1962 to 1964 he also studied acting, directing and musicals at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and received vocal training at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Leonie Rysanek , among others , and later with Karl Liebl in Wiesbaden .

In 1965 he started his first engagement as an actor at the Theater der Courage and Theater im Centrum in Vienna . In 1967 he played at the Städtische Bühnen Lübeck, among others, Dunois in Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe . From 1968 to 1972 he was active as an actor, director and, most recently, acting senior director at the Mainz City Theaters . From 1969 to 1972 he also directed the opera school at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and founded the theater at Mainz University .

His most important production during this time was George Tabori's The Cannibals in 1969 . From 1972 to 1974 Fieber was senior director at the Oberhausen Theater , and from 1974 to 1978 at the Ingolstadt City Theater . He staged several first and world premieres by Pavel Kohout and Václav Havel . In 1970 he was declared persona non grata in Czechoslovakia and for some time no longer received an entry permit.

From 1978 to 1985 he worked as a freelance actor and director at the Theater Wuppertal , the Theater Bonn , the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , the Theater des Westens in Berlin , the State Opera Hamburg , the State Theater Karlsruhe , the State Theater Darmstadt and the State Theater Stuttgart .

From 1985 to 1991 Fieber was artistic director at the Ulm Theater . Here he staged, among others, Nathan the Wise , Der Bockerer , Hamlet as well as operas and musicals. From 1991 to 1997 he was artistic director at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern . Productions there were, for example, Romeo and Juliet , Othello and Wozzeck .

In 1997 he moved to the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as general director , where he held office until 2002. From 2000 to 2003 he was also the artistic director of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel . From 2004 to 2007 he was director of the Mayen Castle Festival .

Fieber's star role as an actor was that of Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady , which he embodied in numerous theaters. Occasionally he also took on roles in film and television, for example in 2008 as the forester Joseph Dillis in Der Komödienstadel - The Last Bear of Bavaria .

Fever died in July 2020 at the age of 78 in Würzburg.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Christine Dössel, Marietta Piekenbrock : authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. (= Theater Lexicon. Volume 1). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1999, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actor and director: Pavel Fieber dead. In: Spiegel Online . July 7, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fever, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, singer, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunter village
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2020
Place of death Wurzburg