Peter Danzeisen

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Peter Danzeisen (born July 31, 1941 in Basel ) is a Swiss actor , theater director and radio play speaker .

Life

After graduating from high school, Peter Danzeisen attended what was then the Zurich stage studio from 1960 to 1963 . He received his artistic training there from Gustav Knuth , Ernst Schröder and Wolfgang Reichmann, among others . During this time, Danzeisen was already playing at the Cabaret Fédéral , the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Stadttheater Basel . He received his first permanent engagement in the 1963/64 season in Graz, another from 1964 to 1967 at the Wuppertaler Bühnen , before returning to the Stadttheater in Basel for one season. From 1968 to 1972 he was engaged at the stages of the city of Essen, then until 1985 onFrankfurt theater . Another multi-year engagement followed, which took him to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg from 1985 to 1991 . In the 1997/98 season Danzeisen made a guest appearance at the Zurich Opera House .

Roles in Danzeisen's theater career were, among others, the Cosme in Dame Kobold by Pedro Calderón de la Barca , the Orlando in William Shakespeare's As You Like It and the male title role in Georg Büchner's comedy Leonce and Lena . In Frankfurt the audience saw him as Moritz Stiefel in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening , as Peachum in the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill and Lucky in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett . In Hamburg, Danzeisen was Horatio in Shakespeare's Hamlet , Cléante in Tartuffe by Molière or Jeronimus in Heinrich von Kleist's first work, Die Familie Schroffenstein .

Danzeisen worked with well-known directors, including Peter Palitzsch , Adolf Dresen , Jürgen Flimm , Jürgen Gosch , Daniel Karasek and Thomas Langhoff . He himself directed at the Badische Landesbühne in Bruchsal and at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. Danzeisen also sat there repeatedly on the board of directors during the co-determination theater period . He also held teaching positions at the theater academies in Frankfurt and Hamburg, worked there and in Essen as a theater pedagogue, was director of the Zurich Acting Academy from 1991 to 2001, and was the rector of the Zurich University of Music and Theater from 2001 to 2003 until 2006 director of the theater department at the Zurich University of the Arts. Danzeisen is also a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Between 1962 and 1992, Danzeisen was occasionally in front of the camera. Here he had roles in the novel adaptation of farmers, bigwigs and bombs based on Hans Fallada and in Reinhard Hauff's award-winning feature film Stammheim .

Since the mid-1960s, Danzeisen has also been involved in various radio productions, including the radio play adaptations of the novels Der Subject and Doctor Faustus based on Heinrich and Thomas Mann .

Peter Danzeisen has been married to his acting colleague Nina Danzeisen since 1966. He has two sons, Philipp is a musician and Markus also works as an actor.

Filmography

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Blubacher : Peter Danzeisen . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 432 f.
personal data
SURNAME Danzeisen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, theater director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel