Peter Meinhardt

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Peter Meinhardt

Peter Meinhardt (born May 1942 in Wetzlar ) is a German actor , director and acting teacher.

Life

Meinhardt grew up in Wiesbaden. At the Hessisches Staatstheater he had early contact with the stage as a member of the children's choir of the opera. From 1962 to 1965 he studied German, Romance studies and psychology in Frankfurt and was a member of the student theater 'neue bühne' at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . From 1965 to 1968 he studied acting at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum . In 1968 Meinhardt received his first engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under Hans Schalla . In 1970 he went to Theater Bonn as an actor and in-house director under Hans-Joachim Heyse . He was given a teaching position (children's and youth theater) at the University of Bonn . In 1974 he was appointed lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media in the drama course. In 1982 he was appointed professor; in addition to his teaching activities, he remained connected to the practice through guest contracts.

Meinhardt was the teacher of a number of prominent actors, including Ulrike Folkerts , Matthias Brandt , Katja Riemann , Birol Ünel , Katharina Schüttler , Susanne Wolff , Sabine Haupt , Markus Hering , Andreas Hoppe . He is considered to be one of the "contemporary witnesses who had a decisive influence on state acting training in Germany [...]." Since his retirement in 2005, he has worked as a speaker, actor (TV / film / stage) and coach.

In 2015 Meinhardt was accepted into the German Academy of Performing Arts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ neue bühne student theater Frankfurt 1953–1964 , accessed on July 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Lauter talents , City Magazine Noblis, Hannover, 03-2008, p 43f. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Three below, three above , Der Tagesspiegel from July 25, 2012. Retrieved on July 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ The violent one . ZEIT-online from October 22, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Awarding of the prize to Katharina Schüttler (Ulrich Wildgruber Prize) , Hamburg, January 31, 2010. Youtube video, accessed on July 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Biography of Katja Riemann . Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ Ulrike Folkerts - the woman behind Lena Odenthal . SWR TV from September 12, 2014. Accessed October 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ Interview in Anja Klöck: Hot West and cold East actors? : Discourses, practices, history (s) for acting training in Germany after 1945. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2008. ISBN 978-3-940737-27-4
  9. ^ List of members of the German Academy of Performing Arts
personal data
SURNAME Meinhardt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar