Reinhardt Friese

Reinhardt Friese (born April 17, 1968 in Mainz ) is a German artistic director , theater director and author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Friese did community service in the area of ​​individual care for the severely disabled. He took acting lessons and worked in many productions at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden. So he played in the play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler the Dr. Wenger and in Lysistrate after Aristophanes the councilors. In 1991 he took over the management of the youth club at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden , which he established as a musical up-and-coming division and headed it until 2001.

In 1994 he switched to the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen as an assistant director , where he also staged for the first time with professional actors in 1996. His production of What is called love here by H. Fehrmann / J. Flügge / H. Franke was so successful that he took on other works, such as art by Yasmina Reza or Peter Pan by James M. Barrie .

Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance director in various cities in Germany. In addition to classics and contemporary drama, he is particularly active in the field of musicals. In the summer of 2001 he became senior director at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven , where he was engaged until 2007. Here he drew attention to himself with the world premiere of a stage version of Hildegard Knef's autobiography , Der schenkte Gaul , which he wrote together with the composer Udo Becker and Hildegard Knef. In 2005 he wrote - again with Udo Becker - a musical version of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein , which he also premiered in Wilhelmshaven. Most recently he wrote “Mit Dir, Lili Marleen ” with the actress Stefanie Schmid , a solo piece about the life of the singer Lale Andersen , which he also premiered in 2008 in Hamburg with Stefanie Schmid. From 2007 to 2012 Friese worked again as a freelance director and author, a. a. at the Schauspiel Essen and at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich . In the 2012/2013 season, Friese took over the artistic direction of Theater Hof as artistic director .

As a director, Friese has been focusing more and more on drama classics for several years, staging, for example, Faust von Goethe , Danton's Death von Büchner or Minna von Barnhelm von Lessing . Other important productions were works by William Shakespeare such as Titus Andronicus , What you want , As You Like It , Much Ado About Nothing , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Othello or Macbeth (in a combination with the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi ). There are also world premieres by David Lescot (bankruptcy - beginning and end) and Katharina Gericke ( The Count of Monte Christo after Alexandre Dumas ) and the German premieres of Stephen Poliakoff with Remember This and Die Mai by Marina Carr . His staging of the play "Murdered Majesty" by Andreas Gryphius , which has not been performed for over two hundred years, also received national attention in the professional world . The German-language premiere of the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone took place under his direction on April 27, 2013 at the Theater Hof, as did the world premieres of " Einstein " by Stephan Kanyar and Maren Scheel in 2016 and "After Midnight" by Gottfried Greifenhagen Irmgard Keun 2019. Friese staged more than 130 works as a director.

Awards

For his productions Little Man, What Now? after Hans Fallada (2006) and Shockheaded Peter in 2008 and 2009 as well as Amadeus in 2010 and Comedian Harmonists in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Friese received the Rheinische Post's Theater Oscar for the best drama and music theater production of the season.

In 2018, Friese was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor from the Upper Franconia district . This award recognizes the commitment of the Theater Hof and its artistic director Reinhardt Friese to the entire Upper Franconian region.

Web links

• Homepage of Reinhardt Friese
• Homepage of the Hof Theater

Individual evidence