Reinhold Stövesand

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Reinhold Stövesand (born January 30, 1939 in Essen , † January 25, 2015 in Dresden ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Reinhold Stövesand was born as the son of the actor Hermann Stövesand (1906–1982) in Essen, where his father was engaged as a stage actor at the Essen City Theater during the Second World War . He began his artistic career in 1956 as an actor. He was mainly active in the role of “youthful hero” at the theaters in Potsdam , Schwerin , Erfurt and at the Dresden State Theater . In 1963 he played the title role in Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Don Karlos in a new production by Gerd Michael Henneberg in the rebuilt Dresden Schauspielhaus ; his partners were his father Hermann Stöbesand as King Philip II, Katja Kuhl (Elisabeth von Valois) and Traute Richter (Princess Eboli). Stövesand has made several guest appearances at the Bergtheater Thale in the Harz Mountains ; There he appeared, among other things, as Karl Moor in Schiller's tragedy The Robbers . In 1991, alongside Gojko Mitić in the title role, he played Old Shatterhand in an open-air production of Winnetou at the Thale mountain theater . In 2003 he took on the role of Merlin at the Bergtheater Thale (alongside Elmar Gunsch's old Merlin) in the musical play Der Zauber des Merlin .

In 1965 he, at that time a member of the Dresden State Theater , took over the role of Algarnon as a musical performer in My Friend Bunbury at the Dresden State Operetta . From 1967 (1967/68 season) he was a permanent member of the ensemble, and in 1968 he took up permanent engagement at this house. From 1978 (after Fritz Steiner's sudden death in 1977 and a brief interregnum period by the administrative director at the time) he was director of the Dresden State Operetta until 1987/88. Stövesand built as director a "excellent ensemble" and made the Dresden State Operetta in the area operetta for "leading house of this genre in the GDR." The "spectacular" took place in May 1987 under Stövesands directorship at the Dresden State Operetta East German premiere of the musical Evita .

He then was director of the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin from 1988 to 1990 . Stövesand remained director of the Friedrichstadtpalast even after the “ political change ”, but had to allow his own contacts to the Ministry for State Security . After the fall of the Wall, Stövesand tried to hire western artists to perform in the Friedrichstadtpalast, so u. a. Harald Juhnke , and established contacts with ZDF for television recordings.

From 1990 he was engaged by Helmut Bläss , the then director of the Mitteldeutsche Landestheater, first senior stage director and then from 1996 to 2000 director of the Mitteldeutsche Landestheater Wittenberg . Here he staged a. a. in the 1998/99 season, the operetta The Merry Widow . As a guest director, Stövesand u. a. at the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt the musicals My Fair Lady (1992) and Cabaret (1996).

In 2000 Reinhold Stövesand officially retired because he did not want to handle the winding up and liquidation of the Mitteldeutscher Landestheater Wittenberg himself. He ended his contract in the middle of the 1999/2000 season "without a song". In the same year he was made an honorary member of the Dresden State Operetta. Occasionally Stövesand continued to appear in the theater. From 2009 he took on the role of the old Emperor Franz Joseph I in the operetta Im Weißen Rößl at the Dresden State Operetta . In this role he appeared in over 40 performances at the Dresden State Operetta. In June 2011 he finally said goodbye to the theater stage with this role. In December 2011 in Dresden he read Advent stories in a series of events organized by the Societaetstheater in the Dresden Museum of Early Romanticism .

Stövesand also worked in a few cinema and television productions for DEFA and television in the GDR . In the feature film Every Hour (1959/1960), directed by Heinz Thiel, he played the border soldier Martin, who falls in love with the farmer's daughter Renate, but who has already been promised to the son of the rich farmer Grabow. In the television film A Strange Girl (1967), directed by Achim Hübner , he played a leading role alongside Monika Woytowicz . He played Günter, the friend of the girl Anne, who falls in love with another man and realizes that she likes Günter but doesn't love him.

As a radio play speaker, Stövesand u. a. to hear as Akimov in the play Enemies of Maxim Gorky ; the recording after a production by the Dresden State Theater was released on record on the GDR label Litera .

Stövesand was a long-time member of the SED . He died on January 25, 2015 at the age of 75; his death was announced by his family on January 31, 2015.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: Block on the leg
  • 1958/1959: Captains stay on board (movie)
  • 1959/1960: every hour (movie)
  • 1967: A Strange Girl (TV Movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhold Stövesand died at the age of 75 ( memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Death report and obituary in: Sächsische Zeitung of January 31, 2015. Accessed on February 9, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  2. ↑ a b c Reinhold Stövesand died in Dresden Death report and obituary in: Wittenberger Sonntag from February 7, 2015. Retrieved on February 9, 2015
  3. ↑ Schiller's Don Carlos on the Dresden stages in: Potz Blitz . House newspaper of the schiller garden in Dresden-Blasewitz. Assignment May 2010. page 17. Accessed February 9, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Reinhold Stövesand says goodbye to the stage ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Dresden State Operetta from June 24, 2011. Accessed on February 9, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsoperette-dresden.de
  5. ↑ Harz Mountain Theater. Confusing story of legendary king in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from July 6, 2003
  6. ^ Peter Gunold: Intendant Reinhold Stövesand (1978–1987) . In: 50 years of the Dresden State Operetta - 225 years of musical folk theater in Dresden . Edited by Peter Gunold. Weimar: Läzer 1997. pp. 171-173.
  7. ↑ Andreas Schwarze: Metropolis of Pleasure - Musical Volkstheater in Dresden from 1844 to today Dresden: SAXO'Phon 2016. ISBN 978-3-943444-59-9 . S. 151. In the literature, the different dates of the year are explained by this sequence.
  8. ↑ From Feenplast to the State Operetta in Buffo . The magazine of the Dresden State Operetta. Issue August 60, 2012. Page 3. Accessed February 9, 2015
  9. ^ Dresden State Operetta . Musical Boulevard.de. Retrieved February 9, 2015
  10. ↑ a b c Peter Stolle : End times with the puppets. SPIEGEL editor Peter Stolle on the East Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast and entertainment in the GDR in DER SPIEGEL . Issue 6/1990 of February 5, 1990
  11. ↑ Helmut Bläss: Theater in Wittenberg in: Jens Hüttmann / Peer Pasternack (ed.): Wissensspuren. Education and science in Wittenberg after 1945 . Page 282. Drei-Kastanien-Verlag Wittenberg 2004. ISBN 3-933028-85-X
  12. ↑ ADVENT STORIES IN THE DRESDNER BAROCKVIERTEL - it reads: Reinhold Stövesand Event information . Official website of the Societaetstheater . Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  13. ↑ SONDERBARES MÄDCHEN, EIN (1967) Online encyclopedia of GDR television films. Retrieved February 9, 2015
  14. ↑ Enemies content, production details and cast. DDR-Hoerspiele.net. Retrieved February 9, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Stövesand, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2015
Place of death Dresden