Peter Schroth

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Peter Schroth (born December 31, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German actor , director and lecturer for acting and directing.

family

Peter Schroth comes from a theater family whose roots go back to the 19th century and whose great-grandparents ran a theater company. Schroth is the son of actress Lotte Meyer and brother of director Christoph Schroth . Peter Schroth is married to the actress Karin Schroth and has two children, the director Katka Schroth and the author Krischan Moritz Schroth.

Live and act

Education and artistic career

He graduated from the Leipzig Theater School in 1961 and then worked for ten years as an actor in Altenburg , Weimar , Brandenburg , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Halle - among others as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Ferdinand in Cabal and Love , Carlos in Don Carlos , Franz Moor in The robbers and Mephistopheles in Faust .

He has been working as a director since 1971 and has created around 100 productions since then. He was a directing intern with Horst Schönemann , Manfred Wekwerth , Juri Ljubimow and Heiner Müller, among others . His examination of the works of Stanislawski , Gorchakov, Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht was particularly formative for him .

From 1973 to 1976 he was the deputy director and senior director at the Senftenberg miners' theater .

After an apprenticeship as a director at the Directorate for Theater and Orchestra Berlin, he worked from 1978 to 1983 as a dramaturge and director at the “Theater im Palast” (TiP) in Berlin . He worked for several years with Peter Kleinert (director: dramaturgy / organization), the set / costume designer Lothar Scharsich and the composer Christoph Theusner .

From 1983 to 1987 Schroth was acting director at the German National Theater Weimar (DNT). Under his direction, a break and a new beginning occurred in the work of the drama at DNT. This was shown in a split in the audience and in violent arguments and the like. a. at the international Shakespeare days and the Goethe and Schiller days. “A highly inspired stage in the Weimar theater with performances of artistically critical power ...” is how Volker Braun described these years.

Guest performances and tours have taken him to Austria , West Berlin, Paris , Moscow , Stuttgart , Utrecht , Ulm , Dartington and the Mozarteum with the Brecht collage Auf den zauberischen Karussellen , The Good Man of Sezuan , The Robbers and As You Like It Salzburg .

From 1992 to 1997 he worked initially as a consultant to the artistic director, then as chief director at the carrousel theater on the Parkaue Berlin. His work had a decisive influence on the development of theater after the fall of the Wall: Schroth developed a. a. the spectacle principle The black nights . From 1997 to 2001 Schroth was acting director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe .

He has been a freelance director since 2001.

In 2010, Schroth launched the Schöller Festival - The Prignitz-Ruppin Comedy Festival in Kampehl . The festival is a cooperation project with the Cottbus State Theater , the Neue Bühne Senftenberg and the Neustädter Studs and is supported by the Brandenburg State Ministry for WFK .

Teaching

From 1971 Schroth worked as a lecturer at the Hans Otto Theater Academy in Leipzig and from 1977 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , where he was also appointed professor of directing. There he created a series of studio productions in which he a. a. worked with Corinna Harfouch , Thomas Rühmann , Reiner Heise , Axel Wandtke , Sewan Latchinian , Claudia Michelsen , Oliver Breite , Cornelia Schirmer and Bettina Engelhardt .

From 1987 to 1992 Schroth was the Studio Theater at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin Head of Director and Director of the Institute asked . In the time of the fall of the Wall, the request also became a place for political and aesthetic disputes. Schroth also led numerous workshops at the Campolide Theater in Lisbon , the Berlin University of the Arts and the Young Stage Members' Forum.

Awards (selection)

Productions (selection)

  • 1972: Jerzy Stawinski, version: Schroth / Kleinert, misdiagnosis (LT Halle) - world premiere
  • 1973: Molière, Amphitryon (Senftenberg Miners' Theater)
  • 1974: Jewgeni Gabrilowitsch / Salomen Rosen, The Second Wedding (Senftenberg) - GDR premiere
  • 1974: Spielkiste 1: From the actor's work (Senftenberg) - broadcast on GDR television
  • 1976: Alfred Matusche, Cape of Unrest (Senftenberg)
  • 1977: Nikolai Gogol , The Auditor (State Theater Schwerin)
  • 1978: On the magical carousels , Brecht collage, studio staging by the State Drama School Berlin (studio theater bat)
  • 1978: Carl Sternheim, Citizen Schippel (Dresden State Theater)
  • 1979: Helmut Baierl, second leg (TiP) - world premiere
  • 1980: Georg Büchner , Woyzeck (TiP)
  • 1980: Scenes from Brecht, The Mother (Teatro de Campolide, Lisbon)
  • 1980: Dieter Noll / Gabriele Bigott, Kippenberg (TiP) - world premiere
  • 1981: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (TiP)
  • 1981: Bertolt Brecht, The Exception and the Rule (Lisbon)
  • 1983: Dario Fo , The woman to throw away (bat) - GDR premiere
  • 1983: Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos (German National Theater Weimar - DNT)
  • 1983: Heinar Kipphardt, brother Eichmann (DNT)
  • 1984: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (DNT)
  • 1985: Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters / Boris Wassiljew, It's still quiet at dawn (DNT)
  • 1985: Heiner Müller, Philoctetes (bat)
  • 1986: William Shakespeare, What You Want (DNT)
  • 1987: Volker Braun, Siegfried Women's Protocols German Furor (DNT) - world premiere
  • 1987: William Shakespeare, Hamlet (DNT)
  • 1988: Bertolt Brecht, The Good Man of Sezuan (bat)
  • 1988: Edward Bond, Saved (asked)
  • 1989: Thomas Bernhard , The Theater Maker (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
  • 1989: Sophocles, Antigone (Cologne Theater)
  • 1990: Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers (bat)
  • 1990: Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (Theaterhaus Stuttgart)
  • 1991: George Tabori , peepshow (bat)
  • 1991: Georg Büchner, Leonce and Lena ( Theater of Friendship Berlin )
  • 1992: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (asked), guest performance in Stuttgart
  • 1992: Horst Hawemann , Immer schön tiger ( Carrousel Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin ) - world premiere
  • 1992: George Tabori, Jubilee (Carrousel Theater)
  • 1992: Socialism goes and Johny Walker comes - a Brecht-Braun evening (carrousel theater)
  • 1994: George Tabori, Mutters Courage (carrousel Theater)
  • 1994: George Tabori, cannibals (carrousel theater)
  • 1994: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (carrousel theater)
  • 1996: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Urfaust (carrousel theater)
  • 1997: GeorgeTabori, ballad from Wiener Schnitzel (Staatstheater Karlsruhe)
  • 1998: Bertolt Brecht, Drumming in the Night (Karlsruhe)
  • 1998: William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Karlsruhe)
  • 1998: Dea Loher, Adam Geist (Karlsruhe)
  • 1999: William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors (Karlsruhe)
  • 1999: Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (Karlsruhe)
  • 2004: Urs Widmer, Top Dogs (SH-Landestheater)
  • 2003: Yasmina Reza, art (Staatstheater Cottbus)
  • 2003: Heiner Müller, Women's Comedy (Cottbus)
  • 2004: Heinrich von Kleist , The Broken Jug (New Stage Senftenberg)
  • 2006: Edward Albee , The Goat or Who is Sylvia (Senftenberg)
  • 2006: Carl Laufs / Wilhelm Jacoby, Pension Schöller (Cottbus)
  • 2009: Christian Dietrich Grabbe , Napoleon or the hundred days (Senftenberg)
  • 2009: David Pharao, The Guest (Schleswig-Holstein State Theater)

literature

  • Peter Schroth: The worst are those that stay here In: Sewan Latchinian, Harald Müller (ed.): Glück auf! - 60 years Theater Senftenberg ISBN 3-934344-74-7 .
  • Jochen Gleiß: Go, let the troops fire! The author in conversation with Peter Schroth and Peter Kleinert. In: Theater of Time. 12/1987, ISSN  0040-5418 .
  • Gabriele Bigott, Peter Kleinert, Peter Schroth: A process of piece development. In: Theater of Time. 09/1980, ISSN  0040-5418 .
  • Gisela Kahl: The invention of the toy box.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive Academy of the Arts. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Saxon Biography: Biography of Lotte Meyer. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Weimar State University for Music: Graduates 1948-1999. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Peter Schroth - List of authors - Verlag Theater der Zeit. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Volker Braun, private correspondence with Peter Schroth (reference), original in the Peter Schroth archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
  6. ↑ Sebastian Kreutz actor, private acting lessons in Karlsruhe. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Petra Brändle: Not just turnips or walls. In: taz. December 10, 1997.
  8. ↑ New Germany editorial staff: “Hatte Illusionen” (new Germany). Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Schöller Festival - Prignitz-Ruppiner Comedy Festival. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Why Pension Schöller is a home game. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  11. ^ Homepage MWFK State of Brandenburg
  12. ↑ Schöller Festival celebrates anniversary | MWFK. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e workshop of the Berlin drama school. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Berlin drama school, see studio productions 12.7. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Excerpt from: Ernst Schumacher : Drama of three students. In: Berliner Zeitung. June 16, 1985, chapter 12.7. Berlin drama school. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1987: Nibelungen saga from a contemporary perspective. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  17. ^ New Germany from March 8, 1989: Kauziger Theatermacher. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  18. ^ Program booklet Theater of Friendship. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  19. ^ Editing of new Germany: Johnny Walker in Gänsefüßchenland (new Germany). Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ The Sons' Nightmare. In: Neues Deutschland May 27, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Gabriele Gorgas: An evening to laugh healthily. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. June 26, 2007. (lr-online.de)
  22. ↑ Hartmut Krug: Trench, Graves, Grave. October 3, 2009. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Karin Hartmann: A comedy with real depth , in: Holsteinischer Courier. Flensburg, October 5, 2009. (shz.de)
personal data
SURNAME Schroth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and lecturer in acting and directing
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden