Renate Klett

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Renate Klett

Renate Klett (born December 4, 1946 in Oberstdorf ) is a Berlin-based author and theater and dance critic.

Life

After completing his studies in theater studies, German literature and sociology in Munich, Klett worked as an assistant director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main , as a dramaturge at the Landestheater Tübingen , the Schauspielhaus Köln , the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Thalia Theater Hamburg . In 1980 she was the initiator and director of the 1st International Women's Theater Festival in Cologne. From 1981 she worked on the foundation of the Festival Theater der Welt, which was operated by Ivan Nagel . In the following years she worked several times as program director and later artistic director of the festival: 1981 in Cologne, 1987 in Stuttgart, 1989 in Hamburg and 1993 in Munich.

In addition, she participated in numerous national and international theater juries. At the Theatertreffen Berlin, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Theaterspektakel Zürich, the International Theater Festival Kontakt in Toruń, Poland, Les Journées théâtrales de Carthage, Tunis, at the International Festival of experimental Theater in Cairo, at the Festival Premio Europa per il Teatro, Taormina , at the National Theater Festival in Piatra Neam, Romania, the “BITEF Festival”, Belgrade, the “MESS Festival”, Sarajevo and the “Ludi Festival” in Russia.

In 1996 Renate Klett was artistic director of the Welt theater festival in Basel. In the run-up to the organization of the international festival "Aller Welt Theater" planned in Weimar in 1999, differences arose, whereupon Klett was dismissed. She sued and the process was ruled in her favor and she was paid off. In the winter semester of 2002/2003 she took on a visiting professorship at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen .

In 2003 she married Ivan Nagel.

Klett later worked as a cultural correspondent for German newspapers in Paris, London, Rome, New York and Vienna. She was also a freelance international theater and dance critic for forty years: from FAZ to TAZ , from DIE ZEIT to Frankfurter Rundschau and Tagesspiegel , from Neue Zürcher Zeitung to Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as "Theater heute" and now writes primarily for "Theater der Zeit" " .

Works

  • Germania d'autunno. Repressione e dissenso nello spettacolo della RFT Ed. By Renate Klett, Ubulibre, Milan, 1979
  • Alain Platel : “Close-up of Alain Platel”. Conversations with Renate Klett. Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 2009 ISBN 978-3-89581-175-3
  • Robert Lepage: "Close-up of Robert Lepage". Conversations with Renate Klett. Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 2009 ISBN 978-3-89581-212-5
    • Translation into Chinese, BeePub Beijing, 2013
    • Translation into Brazilian Portuguese under the title: “Robert Lepage. Conversas Sobre arte e método “, Edicoes Sesc, Sao Paolo, 2016 ISBN 978-85-692989-8-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renate Klett - Directory of authors - Theater der Zeit publishing house. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Renate Klett. Retrieved on March 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ DIE ZEIT (archive): Theater in Cologne: the festival of women: Always only children, kitchen, church? In: The time . March 14, 1980, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 8, 2019]).
  4. ^ Katrin Bettina Müller: Theater critic: The one-woman guerilla . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 11, 2007, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ STAGES AND PREMIES: Festivals . In: Der Spiegel . July 29, 1996 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 29, 2019]).
  6. ↑ MANUEL BRUG: The "languages ​​of the world" remain silent . September 25, 1998 ( welt.de [accessed March 29, 2019]).
  7. ^ Institute for Applied Theater Studies - - Institute - Profile. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
  8. ^ Renate Klett - 1 book - Perlentaucher. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Renate Klett Robert Lepage. Retrieved March 8, 2019 (Chinese (Taiwan)).
personal data
SURNAME Klett, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstdorf in the Allgäu