Peter Kleinschmidt
Peter Kleinschmidt (born February 23, 1940 in Munich ; † March 17, 2020 ) was a German director and dramaturge .
Kleinschmidt grew up in Frankfurt am Main . He received piano and composition lessons at an early age. As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on a topic of East Asian art history. From 1964 he was employed as chief dramaturge in Kiel, Frankfurt / Main, Cologne and Stuttgart. As a director he directed around 30 productions between Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cape Town, Mexico City, Rostock, Windhoek etc. and within the framework of the court art Loipfing. He also made more than two dozen translations, from Aristophanes to plays from English trivial theater to Athol Fugard . From 1983 to 1986 Kleinschmidt was director of the Otto Falckenberg School , which is affiliated with the Münchner Kammerspiele .
From 1984 Kleinschmidt lived with his wife Wiebke and the married couple Claus-Paul and Petra Haller on a former farm in Loipfing, a district of the Upper Bavarian community of Isen . Here they organized more than 50 exhibitions, concerts, readings, theater performances and events in the Knights' Hall of Hofkunst Loipfing. In 1998 and 2000 Kleinschmidt staged the comedies B'Vegl (last set by Bert Kistner ) and The Peace of Aristophanes / Peter Hacks (set and costume by Falk von Wangelin ) at Burgrain Castle , 2005 The Frogs in Court Art Loipfing. In 2002 he directed the world premiere of the comic opera in 3–5 acts Der Cid by Christian Dietrich Grabbe and in May 2008 he staged an arrangement of Joseph Victor Widmann's cockchafer comedy .
Awards
Kleinschmidt has been awarded several cultural prizes:
- 1966: Mexico City
- 1980: Cape Province
- 2002: Sparkasse Wasserburg
- 2003: District of Erding
He also received the Bavarian Lifesaver Medal.
supporting documents
- ↑ Obituary notice Dr. Peter Kleinschmidt. In: trauer.sueddeutsche.de. March 21, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ^ Anne Huber: Farewell to a great theater person: Isener dramaturg Peter Kleinschmidt is dead. In: www.merkur.de. March 27, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Grabbe Bibliography 2002 ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 11, 2008.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinschmidt, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director, dramaturge and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th March 2020 |