Peter statesman

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Peter Staatsmann is a German theater director , author , dramaturge and theater director.

Life

After studying literature and religious studies (for many years he studied with the Berlin religious scholar Klaus Heinrich) and a doctorate in German studies, statesman worked and assistant director for BK Tragelehn , Frank Castorf and Wolfgang Engel . Since 1990 he has been a director a. a. at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin , at the Landestheater Tübingen , at the German National Theater Weimar and at the German Theater Berlin . Between 1994 and 1996 he was acting director at Theater Nordhausen.

In addition, statesman was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , at the Bavarian Theater Academy , at the University of the Arts Berlin and at the University of Leipzig . He also works as a translator and has published several theater books as an author.

Since September 2013 he has been the artistic director and manager of the Rottweil room theater.

Working method

In recent years statesman has written and developed his own plays on explosive topics such as right-wing populist tendencies "If the boat tips to the left, I sit to the right", about Europe, the perception of feelings - for adults as well as children. His non-theatrical way of working focuses on the actors, mixes music theater and acting in crossover productions, brings together professionals and amateurs of different nationalities and he always works out inner psychological processes in a plastic manner. Two years after the premiere, the AfD made the play "When the boat tips to the left, I sit to the right" in 2019 on the subject of a parliamentary question and a cultural-political debate in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. The accusation against the theater, which was one of the first to deal with right-wing populism before the 2017 federal elections , was "breach of the duty of neutrality".

Quotes

“We can state: just like the horror scenario of Melanie Klein and her school, the dramatic continuation of Sigmund Freud's school, the horror scenario of Heiner Müller is the analytical depth probe of contemporary theater. This mirror-image correspondence, by virtue of which the psychotic blocks of Müller's texts and the well-known undead revenants who populate his stage, are painfully sharp and can be represented, makes Peter Statesmann's Theater of the Unconscious a key work of modern theater. "

- Klaus Heinrich

Productions (selection)

Works (selection)

  • with BK Tragelehn, R. Mangel and S. Schnabel as editors: GERMAN in another country - the GDR 1949 to 1990 in poems. Ed. Hentrich, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926175-87-7 .
  • Peter Statesmann: Nobody knows anymore ... Postmodern theater. Some reflections on the conditions of the performing arts today , in: Language in the technical age 37, No. 149, Cologne 1999.
  • Peter Statesmann: Staging the Real. JMR Lenz and the stage , in: text + kritik 146, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3883776279 .
  • Eve Ensler : The Vagina Monologues . From the American by Peter Statesmann and Bettina Schältke. Ed. Nautilus, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89401-345-1 .
  • with Bettina Schältke (Ed.): The Silence of the Theater - The Director Dimiter Gotscheff. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940384-10-2 .
  • Peter statesman: historical drama and self-analysis. Heiner Müller's psychodramatic theater using the example of the production “Germania. Pieces ” , in: Theatrographie. Heiner Müller's Theater of Writing, ed. by G. Heeg and T. Girshausen , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3930916894 .
  • Peter Statesman: Theater of the Unconscious. The self-analytical process in Heiner Müller's writing. nexus 101, Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86109-201-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statesman  ( 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. at the National Theater Weimar@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nationaltheater-weimar.de  
  2. ↑ Zimmer Theater Rottweil | Management. Retrieved on May 19, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/inszenierung-am-zimmertheater-rottweil-komoedie-setzt-sich.1008.de.html?dram:article_id=407380
  4. ↑ https://www.fr.de/kultur/theater/weiss-auch-afdler-nicht-mehr-woran-ist-10997006.html
  5. ↑ Zimmer Theater Rottweil | Press. Retrieved January 26, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/hetze-gegen-nestbeschmutzer-rechte-kulturstoerung-eine.3720.de.html?dram:article_id=466080/ref >
  7. ↑ Peter Statesman: Theater of the Unconscious. The self-analytical process in Heiner Müller's writing. nexus 101, Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86109-201-8 .
  8. ↑ https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/chronicle/archiv/production/iwanow-2006
personal data
SURNAME Statesman, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century