Rainer Jon Fritzsche

Rainer Jon Fritzsche , also Rainer Yón Fritzsche (born January 11, 1944 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-German former theater director. He is the son of the Hungarian writer Ágnes Mária Csiky and the business journalist and former bank director Rolf Fritzsche.

School, study

Growing up in Bonn , where he at the Friedrich Soennecken school and the Beethoven-Gymnasium went to school and in Innsbruck , Austria, where he's in the summer of 1963 on the Hungarian secondary school Matura made. This was followed by studies in theater studies, philosophy and German at the University of Bonn , the University of Cologne and the Budapest Institute for Theater Studies. The dissertation on "The political theater in Hungary after 1956" followed in 1970, his doctoral supervisor was Professor Rolf Badenhausen .

Directorial work

Assistant director at David Esrig (Schauspiel Köln) and at the theater of the Federal City of Bonn , director Hans-Joachim Heyse (1929–2013). First directing work at the theater in Bonn-Center with Martin Walser's "Ein Kinderspiel". Guest productions (including at the Burgtheater Dinslaken ). From 1973 to 1975 youngest artistic director at THEATER COOM in Cologne, which opened with Fritzsche's production of the German premiere of Martin Walser's "From the vocabulary of our struggles". Jutta Graeb (1949–1989) and Wolfgang Müller played the main roles here .

Jutta Graeb not only became the life companion of the director Rainer Jon Fritzsche, she also often played leading roles in productions by THEATER COOM, and finally got the 1st prize for best actress with her design in Samuel Beckett's "Not Me" directed by Fritzsche Small theater meeting in 1976 in Bergisch Gladbach. Then the radio (Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR, Südwestfunk and others) became aware of this COOM actress. She worked with the radio play director Heinz von Cramer in many radio plays .

This was followed by international theater festivals in Bregenz, Bern, Bergisch Gladbach and in Styrian autumn in Graz / Austria.

From 1979 Rainer Jon Fritzsche worked as a freelance director. The only play of the 1. Landes-Kunst-Weeks was played here in 1979, directed by Fritzsche: "Excursion with ladies", comedy by Friedrich Michael .

In 1983 he was appointed director and senior director of the newly founded FORUM Theater in Darmstadt , which he shaped for two seasons, before becoming a lecturer for theater and writing. When his partner Jutta Graeb fell seriously ill shortly afterwards and died in 1989, Fritzsche decided to stop working in the theater.

Since 2007 the artist Rainer Jon Fritzsche lives on the Canary Island of La Palma . His brother Bence Fritzsche is a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the monthly artist magazine "Atelier".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturportal - Rainer Jon Fritzsche | Zoltan Fricsay | Literature, theater | Hagen (Westphalia)
2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heyse - Munzinger biography
3. ↑ Failing better: Samuel Beckett's reception in Austria - Hannes Schweiger - Google Books
4. ↑ http://jutta-graeb.beepworld.de/