Peter Brook

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Peter Brook (2009)

Peter Stephen Paul Brook , CH , CBE (born March 21, 1925 in London , England ) is a British theater director who is counted among the most important representatives of contemporary European theater. Famous are his lectures on modern theater, published as a book in 1968 under the title “The Empty Space”, which influenced a whole generation of directors .

Life

Peter Brook was born in London in 1925 to Simon Brook and his wife Ida Brook, b. Jansen, born. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia . He has been taught at Westminster School , Gresham's School in Norfolk and Magdalen College , Oxford . As a schoolboy he was already interested in the medium of theater. First engagements as a director from 1945 in Birmingham , Stratford-upon-Avon and London , where he mainly directed William Shakespeare . In the 1960s, plays by Jean-Paul Sartre , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Peter Weiss and Jean Genet followed . In 1970 he founded the Center International de Recherche Théâtrale (CIRT) in Paris , from which the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord emerged , which still exists today.

In addition to his engagement with non-European cultures (for example in the play Mahabharata , which deals with Indian mythology, or his 1979 film Gurdjieff : Encounters with Remarkable People) , Brook continues to deal with Shakespeare (e.g. Hamlet ) to this day.

Other films: including the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding , as well as several Shakespeare films for the BBC .

Peter Brook was married to actress Natasha Parry from 1951 until her death in 2015 . The marriage has two children.

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Theater and opera productions (excerpt)

  • 1942: Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
  • 1945: George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
  • 1945: George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
  • 1945: William Shakespeare King John
  • 1945: Henrik Ibsen The Woman from the Sea
  • 1946: William Shakespeare's Lost Labor Labor
  • 1946: The Karamazov brothers Fedor Dostoevsky
  • 1946: Jean-Paul Sartre Private company
  • 1947: Jean-Paul Sartre The Honorable Whore
  • 1947: William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
  • 1948: Moussorgsky Boris Godounov
  • 1948: Puccini La Bohême
  • 1949: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1949: Richard Strauss Salome
  • 1950: William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
  • 1951: Arthur Miller death of a traveling salesman
  • 1951: Jean Anouilh Colombe
  • 1951: William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale
  • 1953: Gounod Faust
  • 1954: Christopher Fry The darkness is light enough
  • 1954: Arthur Macrae Both Ends meet
  • 1955: William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus
  • 1955: William Shakespeare Hamlet
  • 1956: Arthur Miller view from the bridge
  • 1957: Tennessee Williams The cat on a hot tin roof
  • 1957: Friedrich Dürrenmatt The visit of the old lady
  • 1957: William Shakespeare The Tempest
  • 1957: PI Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
  • 1958: Friedrich Dürrenmatt The visit
  • 1959: Irma la Douce
  • 1960: Jean Genet The balcony
  • 1962: William Shakespeare The Tempest
  • 1963: William Shakespeare King Lear
  • 1963: John Arden The Dance of Sergeant Musgrave
  • 1963: Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Physicists
  • 1963: Rolf Hochhuth the deputy
  • 1964: The Theater of Cruelty 1st part after: Ableman, Artaud, Robbe-Gillet, Jean Genet, John Arden, Margaretta d'Arcy, Charles Marowitz; 2nd part after: Jean Genet and Bernard Frechtman
  • 1964: Peter Weiss Marat / Sade
  • 1964: Jean Genet The Walls
  • 1965: Peter Weiss The investigation
  • 1966: US
  • 1968: Seneca Oedipus
  • 1968: William Shakespeare The Tempest
  • 1970: William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 1971: Orghast (texts) Ted Hughes
  • 1972: Peter Handke Kaspar
  • 1974: William Shakespeare Timon of Athens
  • 1977: Alfred Jarry King Ubu
  • 1978: William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
  • 1978: William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
  • 1979: Colin Turnbull Die Ik after The Mountain People
  • 1979: Jean-Claude Carrière The Conference of the Birds Story for the theater based on the poem The Conference of the Birds by Fariduddin Attar
  • 1981: Anton Chekhov The cherry orchard
  • 1981: Bizet The tragedy of Carmen
  • 1985: Jean-Claude Carrière Das Mahabharata stage adaptation
  • 1988: Anton Chekhov The cherry orchard
  • 1989: Percy Mtawa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon Woza Albert!
  • 1990: William Shakespeare The Tempest
  • 1992: Impressions de Pelléas Debussy
  • 1993: L'Homme qui Paris; engl. New version under the title "The Man Who"
  • 1995: Who is there according to texts by Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Gordon Craig, Meyerhold, Stanislavski and Seami
  • 1995: Samuel Beckett Happy Days
  • 1998: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni
  • 1999: Can Themba The Costume
  • 2000: William Shakespeare Hamlet
  • 2002: Claryl Churchill Far Away
  • 2002: William Shakespeare Hamlet
  • 2002: The death of Krishna extract from Mahabharata by Vyasa
  • 2003: Samuel Beckett Happy Days
  • 2003: Carol Rocamora Your hand in mine based on the correspondence between Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov
  • 2004: Amadou Hampaté Bâ Tierno Bokar
  • 2005: Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Grand Inquisitor
  • 2006: Samuel Beckett Fragments
  • 2007: Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona Swize Bansi are dead
  • 2008: Samuel Beckett Fragments
  • 2009: Amadou Hampaté Bâ Elf and Twelve
  • 2010: Why, why according to Artaud, Gordon Craig, Dullin, Meyerhold, Motokiyo, Shakespeare
  • 2010: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute
  • 2012: Can Themba the costume
  • 2013: Samuel Beckett The Orphan
  • 2014: The Valley of Astonishment
  • 2015: Samuel Beckett Fragments
  • 2015: Battlefield to Mahabharata
  • 2018: The prisoner

Filmography

  • The Beggar's Opera . 1953 (German: The Beggar Opera) - based on the opera by John Gay
  • Moderato Cantabile. 1960 - after Marguerite Duras, with Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Lord of the Flies , 1963 (German: Lord of the Flies) - based on the novel by William Golding
  • Marat / Sade , 1967, also published on DVD
The play “ The persecution and murder of Jean Paul Marat presented by the actors from the Charenton hospice under the guidance of Mr. de Sade ” by Peter Weiss is one of the central dramatic works of the 20th century. Brook directed the 1967 film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company stage version of "Marat / Sade".
  • Tell me lies. 1968 - London at the time of the Vietnam War
  • King Lear. 1971 - also released on DVD
  • Gurdjieff : Encounters with Remarkable People , 1979.
Director: Peter Brook - Script: Peter Brook; Jeanne de Salzmann - Actors: Terence Stamp, a. a.
The film is based on the autobiography of the same name by Georges I. Gurdjieff , a Caucasian wisdom teacher with whom Brook studied intensively.
In it Gurdjieff describes his childhood and youth at the foot of the Caucasus and his encounters with the people who formed the origin of his later teachings. Highlights of the film include trips to certain Sufi teachers and the sacred dances (originally performed by Gurdjieff students) in the hidden monastery of the mysterious Sarmoung brotherhood.
  • La Tragédie de Carmen , 1983 based on Brooks staging of the opera by Bizet
  • Mahabharata. 1989 - also released on DVD
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet , 2002

Writings and Conversations

  • Peter Brook: The empty room . Translated from the English by Walter Hasenclever. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1969. (8th edition. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-923854-90-0 )
  • Peter Brook: Years of Wandering, Writings on Theater, Film & Opera 1946–1987. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-923854-25-0 .
  • Peter Brook: Forget Shakespeare . Translated from the French by Hans-Henning Mey. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89581-021-5 .
  • Margaret Croyden: Conversations with Peter Brook 1970-2000 . Faber and Faber, New York 2003, ISBN 0-571-21137-2 .
  • Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook. ed. by Dale Moffitt. Southern Methodist University Press.
    • German: Dale Moffitt (Ed.): Between two silences. Conversations with Peter Brook . Translated from the English by Petra Schreyer. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89581-094-0 .
  • Peter Brook: The Open Secret . Frankfurt am Main 1998. (New edition with an afterword by Hans-Thies Lehmann. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89581-266-8 )
  • Peter Brook: Time threads. (Autobiography). Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-10-008308-3 .
  • Peter Brook - Theater as a journey to people. Texts and conversations by and with Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, Yoshi Oida a . a., ed. by Olivier Ortolani. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jerzy Grotowski: Georg Iwanowitsch Gurdjieff . Translated from the French by Hans-Henning Mey. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89581-060-2 .
  • La voie de Peter Brook - Peter Brook's Journey. Documentation of the 2nd European Theater Prize, ed. by Georges Banu and Alessandro Martinez. Alexander Verlag, Berlin. (English France)
  • Peter Brook: My Shakespeare (The Quality of Mercy) . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89581-334-4

Awards

literature

  • John Heilpern: Conference of the Birds. The Story of Peter Brook in Africa . Faber & Faber, London 1977, ISBN 0-571-10372-3 .
  • Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves: Peter Brook. (Directors in Perspective), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-22662-7 .
  • Richard Helfer and Glenn Meredith Loney (Eds.): Peter Brook. Oxford to Orghast (Contemporary Theater Studies; Vol. 27). Harwood Academy Publ., Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 90-5702-208-7 .
  • Andrew Todd, Jean-Guy Lecat: The Open Circle. Peter Brook's Theater Environments , Palgrave MacMillan, New York 2003, ISBN 1-4039-6362-2 .
  • Arthur Horowitz: Prospero's "True Preservers," Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa, and Giorgio Strehler . Twentieth-Century Directors Approach Shakespeare's the Tempest . University of Delaware Press, Newark 2004, ISBN 0-87413-854-X .
  • Olivier Ortolani (Ed.): Theater as a journey to people. The director Peter Brook . Alexander-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89581-135-1 .
  • Michael Kustow: Peter Brook. A biography. Bloomsbury Publ., London 2006 ,: ISBN 0-7475-7913-X .
  • Gerhard Stadelmaier : The child of fortune as a tempter of God. He is the king of world theater, as a director a magician, the genius of the greatest simplicity: today the miracle Peter Brook is ninety years young. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 21, 2015, p. 11. Online version

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Princess of Asturias Prize for Peter Brook , nachtkritik.de, published and accessed April 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Brook, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brook, Peter Stephen Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK