Peter Stein

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Peter Stein (2015)

Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German theater , opera and film director and former theater director. He directs internationally leading stages. Many of his productions have made theater history, especially the groundbreaking performances at the Berlin Schaubühne , which he renewed in terms of content and made it one of the most important theaters in the world at the time.

Life

youth

Peter Stein is the grandson of Rudolf Stein, who owned and ran a motorcycle factory since the 1920s. His father Herbert Stein studied mechanical engineering in Hanover and later went to Berlin for the company ATE Alfred Teves as technical director in the area of ​​engine construction and after the end of the war as plant manager in southern Baden. It was here that Peter started school in Blumberg at the age of nine in 1946. After only 2 years in elementary school, he switched to the Fürstenberg-Gymnasium in Donaueschingen in 1948 , which he attended until 1953. Stein's father became director of ATE in Frankfurt am Main in 1953, and Peter switched to the Lessing grammar school in Frankfurt . He fell sharply because of domestic disputes in the performances. Nevertheless, he was able to catch up again by the Abitur in 1956 and become one of the best graduates. He studied literature and art history from 1956 to 1958 in Frankfurt am Main and from 1958 to 1964 in Munich. He broke off a dissertation on ETA Hoffmann's stories due to dissatisfaction with his work.

First theater experiences and successes

In Munich he regularly attended the Munich Kammerspiele and was enthusiastic about the work of Fritz Kortner . After completing his studies, he started working as Kortner's assistant at the Kammerspiele. In 1967 he was given the opportunity for his own production there for the first time: Saved by Edward Bond . The magazine Theater heute wrote that “a new generation in German theater” had appeared with Stein . He caused a theatrical scandal by collecting donations after a performance of the Vietnam Discourse by Peter Weiss in 1968. Stein was then dismissed by Artistic Director August Everding .

First he went to Zurich and then to Kurt Huebner's theater in Bremen. At the Theater Bremen in the 1960s, Hübner gathered a number of aspiring young directors and many talented actors around him. Peter Zadek also contributed to the best theater in West Germany at this time with his productions of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Friedrich Schiller's Robbers . In 1969, Peter Stein was able to contribute Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Torquato Tasso to this series of productions committed to Pop Art - a production that is still paradigmatic to this day.

Schaubühne

In 1970 Stein and his ensemble , which had grown in Bremen and Zurich, came to the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin, which he directed through a co-determination theater , shaped by the political events around 1968 . With the Schaubühnenensemble he developed and perfected his directorial style, and some of his fellow campaigners developed into theater stars such as Edith Clever , Jutta Lampe , Otto Sander , Udo Samel , Ernst Stötzner and Bruno Ganz . The successful productions in the very small theater on Halleschen Ufer made it possible for him to move into a new house in 1981, which was built according to his wishes. With the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz, a multifunctional building was created whose technical standard is unmatched in the German theater scene to this day (2014). In 1985 Stein stepped down from the artistic direction of the house, from then on worked as a freelancer and only came back to the Schaubühne on a project basis.

Fierrabras , Salzburg Festival 2014

Salzburg Festival

From 1991 to 1997 Stein directed the play at the Salzburg Festival and opened his era with two monumental Shakespeare productions at the Felsenreitschule : Julius Caesar (1992) and Antonius and Cleopatra (1994). He ensured that drama was restored to equality with opera and concert, found the Pernerinsel in Hallein as a new permanent venue and staged two Austrian classics - with Libussa and Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind .

In Salzburg he also turned to opera and staged Moses and Aron in 1996 and Wozzeck in 1997 , with Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado at the podium. In 2011 he returned to Salzburg and the Felsenreitschule for Verdi's Macbeth (conductor Riccardo Muti ) . In 2013 he staged Verdi's Don Carlos (conductor Antonio Pappano ) in the Großes Festspielhaus , and in 2014 in the Haus für Mozart Fierrabras by Franz Schubert (conductor Ingo Metzmacher ).

The Faust project

For the Expo 2000 in Hanover he staged the complete Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe - unabridged with all 12,110 verses of the first and second part . For this 15 million euro production, Stein founded his own company with over 80 employees; Vera Neuroth was responsible for production management and Christian Meyer for commercial management . The ensemble consisted of 35 actors, including guest stars in the main roles Bruno Ganz , Johann Adam Oest , Robert Hunger-Bühler and Dorothee Hartinger .

Wallenstein

From May 2007 Stein staged the eleven acts of Friedrich Schiller's “Wallenstein” in a ten-hour performance with the Berliner Ensemble on the grounds of the old Kindl brewery in Berlin-Neukölln . Klaus Maria Brandauer played the title role. With Brandauer in the leading role, Stein also staged the Broken Krug at the Berliner Ensemble (2008) and König Lear at the Vienna Burgtheater (2013).

Scala

In 2016 he directed The Magic Flute at La Scala in Milan . In 2017 he directed Don Carlos there , a takeover of his production from the 2013 Salzburg Festival.

Private life

Stein was married to actress Jutta Lampe from 1967 to 1984 and to Beatrice Leppert from 1985 to 1990. He has been married to the Italian actress Maddalena Crippa since 1999 . Stein has been living with his wife in the San Pancrazio estate near Rome for a number of years, where they also farm with the cultivation of olives, wine and fruit.

He is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy for Spoken Word in Stuttgart.

Honors

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Filmography

by Peter Stein

about Peter Stein

  • 1987: A stage changes the theater landscape. Peter Stein and the Schaubühne. Film by Hans-Christoph Knebusch , production: ZDF
  • 1992: Peter Julius Caesar Stein. Shakespeare's play in Salzburg. Script and direction: Norbert Beilharz, production: ARTE
  • 1994: Ancient drama in the army theater. Peter Stein stages the Oresty in Moscow. A report by Andreas Christoph Schmidt , Production: SFB .
  • 1995: Schaubühne Berlin. From Peter Stein to Andrea Breth . Des "années stone" à nos jours. A film by Helmar Harald Fischer, production: SFB . 25 years of Schaubühne Berlin
  • 2013: Peter Stein in Square: straightforward and straightforward. Conversation with video recordings, Germany, 2013, 43 min., Moderation: Anja Höfer , production: arte , series: Square , first broadcast: March 31, 2013 on arte, summary by arte
  • 2013: Lontano - The Schaubühne by Peter Stein by Andreas Lewin, documentary film, 90 min., Premiere at the Academy of the Arts on September 7, 2013
  • 2015: Peter Stein - 46 videos , exhibition catalog by Christian Meyer , edited by Wallenstein Betriebs-gGmbH and Wiener Künstlerhaus

literature

  • Dagmar Hahn, Jochen Hahn (ed.): The Oresty of Aeschylus . The production by Peter Stein in Moscow 1994. Photographs by Bernd Uhlig. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-89581-024-4
  • Gerhard Kaiser: Is there a 'Faust' based on Peter Stein? 'Faust' in Weimar. Dramatic intensification after Stein's luminous theatrical flood of images. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 118 (2001), pp. 315–321 ( online )
  • Michael Patterson: Peter Stein. Germany's leading theater director. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981
  • Roswitha Schieb: Peter Stein. A portrait. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0540-X
  • Roswitha Schieb (Ed.): Peter Stein stages Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The program book Faust I and II. [On the occasion of the performance of the Faust production by Peter Stein at the EXPO in Hanover (July 22/23 - September 24, 2000), in Berlin (October 21/22, 2000 to September 15, 2000). July 2001) and in Vienna (September 8/9 - December 16, 2001)]. With the assistance of Anna Haas. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5418-5
  • Dominique Sprigi: Peter Stein . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1744 f.

Web links

Commons : Peter Stein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gerhard Stadelmaier : No child of his time. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 1, 2007.
  2. ↑ Roswitha Schieb: Peter Stein: A Portrait . Berlin - Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8270-0540-3 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e John O'Mahony: Master of the rebels. In: The Guardian , August 9, 2003
  4. ↑ Schaubühne: Geschichte, 1970 - 1985 , accessed on April 26, 2017
  5. ↑ Peter Stein begins Faust project Hamburger Abendblatt, September 1, 1999, accessed on April 26, 2017
  6. ↑ Susanne Steinrück: ".. Valid like the Matterhorn", an interview with the Faust director Peter Stein , in: Der Europäische, Vol. 6, No. 5, March 2002, accessed on April 26, 2017
  7. ^ Gerhard Stadelmaier : Wallenstein madness. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 21, 2007.
  8. ↑ Academy for the Spoken Word | Board. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Frankfurt am Main: Goethe Prize. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ Goethe Society in Weimar eV - Honors. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Peter Stein receives an honorary doctorate - oesterreich.ORF.at. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  12. ^ Ceremony for the award of honorary citizenship to Peter Stein . June 10, 2008 ( db-thueringen.de [accessed on February 21, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Ukas of the President of Russia of October 29, 2008 No. 1539
  14. ↑ Peter Stein receives this year's Festival Prize. Retrieved on February 21, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  15. ↑ Peter Stein | ORDER POUR LE MÉRITE. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  16. ↑ orf.at: European Theater Prize . Article dated April 16, 2011, accessed November 29, 2017.
  17. ↑ BAnz AT November 22, 2012 B1
  18. ^ Austrian Cross of Honor for Peter Stein - BKA Photo Service. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Künstlerhaus - Peter Stein - 46 videos. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, opera and film director and former theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin