Peter Ries (theater director)

Peter Ries (born August 23, 1942 in Bad Warmbrunn , Lower Silesia Province ; † April 23, 2019 ) was a German theater director , author and artistic director of theater festivals .

Life

Peter Ries came from an artistic family. His father Günther Ries was a musician and lawyer, while his mother Gertrud Ries (née Hahlo) was a sculptor. After his family left Bad Warmbrunn in 1943, he grew up in Oldenburg . In 1953 the family moved to Hanover . After graduating from high school in 1964, he studied German and theater studies in West Berlin at the Free University (FU) . During his studies he played a major role in the student theater of the FU and sat in on the dramaturgy of the Schiller Theater , where he worked as assistant director for Max P. Ammann , Boleslaw Barlog , Samuel Beckett , Hans Hollmann , Fritz Kortner , Hans Schweikart and George Tabori , among others . He also trained as an actor and also took on minor roles at the Schillertheater.

From 1970 to 1971 Peter Ries was senior drama director at the Biel-Solothurn Theater in Switzerland. In 1971 he went to the Bremen municipal theater as a speaker for Kurt Huebner , where, in addition to his work as a director and dramaturge, he was also responsible for the theater's public relations until 1974. From 1977 to 1979 Ries was head drama director at the Bielefeld municipal theater . Since then he has worked as a freelance director, writer, producer and director of theater festivals. Peter Ries has artistically directed more than 100 productions at German-speaking theaters. In 1999/2000 he trained as a systemic organizational consultant and coach and, in addition to his theater work in this area, has also worked for cultural institutions in the state capital of Hanover , where he lived , since 2001 .

Direction and artistic direction (selection)

• 1970: “The Battle of Lobositz” by Peter Hacks at the Biel-Solothurn Theater
• 1977: “ Medea ” by Euripides at the Bielefeld Theater
• 1978: “Trilogy of reunion” by Botho Strauss with the Bielefeld Theater in the Kunsthalle
• 1981: “The Unleashed Wotan” by Ernst Toller at the Braunschweig State Theater
• 1983: “We'll play until death picks us up”, a Kurt Schwitters collage ( premiere ) by Ries / Ludwig Zerull , Staatstheater Hannover in the Sprengel Museum
• 1984: "Burning Patience" by Antonio Skármeta at the Osnabrück Theater ( EA )
• 1989: "Play it again Sam" by Woody Allen at the Lübeck Theater
• 1990–1991: Artistic director of the THEATERFORMEN festival in Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel :
  • THEATERFORMEN '90 with the theme of Shakespeare , including productions by Peter Brook (" La Tempête ") and Peter Stein (" Titus Andronicus ")
  • THEATERFORMEN '91 with the theme of Eastern Europe , including productions by Lew Dodin ("The Demons") and George Tabori (" Nathan's Death ")
• 1992: "My heart is crying and all the stars are laughing" by Bielfeldt / Busch / Ries - A Ufa revue at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (WP)
• 1992: "Death to the moonlight or yellow slaps ?", A futurism collage at the Sprengel Museum , Hanover. (UA)
• 1994: "Requiem for a Spy" by George Tabori at the Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven (EA)
• 1996–2000: Head of the Wittenberg Cultural Summer in Lutherstadt Wittenberg :
  • "Luther Rufen '96" and "Luther Rufen '97 - Freund Melanchthon" by Harald Mueller (both premiered, 1996–1997)
  • "The German Luther - Angels and Demons" by Thomas Oberender (WP, 1998)
  • "Katharienen Night" by Ries / Schütze (WP, 1999)
  • "Luther and Faust" by Schütze / Ulbricht / Ries (WP, 2000)
• 1996: " Cyrano de Bergerac " by Edmond Rostand at the Landestheater Tübingen
• 2000: "Into the heads with art ...", a scenic collage in the Art Museum Celle (UA).
• 2003: “Before retirement” by Thomas Bernhard at the Schloßtheater Celle
• 2005: “To be or not to be” based on the film by Ernst Lubitsch at the Augsburg Theater
• 2005: "... as a moral institution!" A staged collage by Peter Ries and Alfred Schleppnik , acting department of the Vienna Conservatory   (premiere)
• 2006: "... Luther!" By Peter Ries, a staged collage as part of the ARD Reformation service in the Marktkirche in Hanover
• 2008: “Top Dogs” by Urs Widmer at the St. Gallen Theater in the Kantonalbank
• 2008: "One long day's journey into the night" by Eugene O'Neill at the Trier Theater
• 2009: "LUTHER-2009" by Peter Ries. Scenic collage with music in 40 churches in Lower Saxony.
• 2012: "Winterreise" by Elfriede Jelinek at the St. Gallen Theater, Swiss premiere
• 2013: "The commander" of Jürg Amann at room Tübingen premiere
• 2014: "Samuel Beckett… Dramaticules" short dramas by Samuel Beckett at the St. Gallen Theater

Web links

• Homepage of Peter Ries
• Vita of Peter Ries on his blog (PDF file; 546 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries , accessed on May 2, 2019
2. ↑ Annette Stiekele: Splendor and misery of managers. March 26, 2010, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Festival THEATERFORMEN available online (accessed on August 4, 2008)
4. ↑ Karin Güthlein: Death comes as a pun - Tabori's “Requiem for a Spy” in Wilhelmshaven . In: Berliner Zeitung of January 17, 1994. Available online (accessed August 6, 2008)
5. ↑ Wittenberger Kultursommer available online (accessed on August 4, 2008)
6. ↑ 24-hour art museum Celle with the Robert Simon collection, December 10, 2000. Into the heads with art ... (Accessed August 4, 2008)
7. ↑ Vienna Conservatory: Schiller collage "... as a moral institution!" - A dramatic investigation , March 10, 2005. Available online (accessed August 6, 2008)
8. ↑ Available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 4, 2008)