Rolf Mares
Rolf Mares (born June 16, 1930 in Travemünde ; † May 1, 2002 ) was the artistic director and administrative director of the State Opera and State Theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Hamburg politician ( non-party ) and member of the Hamburg Parliament for the CDU .
Private
Rolf Mares grew up in Hamburg and initially trained as a carpenter and carpenter after leaving school. This was followed by an administrative apprenticeship with the city of Hamburg and from 1949 to 1953 a job as an administrative officer at the tax authorities, where he learned the basics for his later activities as administrative director in practice.
His greatest hobby was music. In addition, he was an avid tennis and soccer player and volunteered in sports clubs.
In 2002 Mares died after suffering from severe leukemia . He left behind his wife and two sons. Mares was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Culture and theater
In 1964 he was appointed administrative director at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus under the artistic director Oscar Fritz Schuh . Culture Senator Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen had removed him from the tax authorities and promoted him.
In 1966 he moved to the Thalia Theater and took on the position of administrative director and deputy director for seven years while he was the directors of Kurt Raeck and Boy Gobert .
From 1974 to 1988 he was State Opera Director, Managing Director and Deputy Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera . There he worked with the directors August Everding , Christoph von Dohnányi , Kurt Horres as well as Rolf Liebermann and the choreographer John Neumeier from the Hamburg Ballet . Opera performances of the highest artistic quality took place at the Hamburg State Opera. Highlights that were rarely seen later were Otello with Placido Domingo , who started his world career with it, James Levine as conductor in a production by August Everding or Elektra conducted by Karl Böhm with the cast of Astrid Varnay , Leonie Rysanek , Birgit Nilsson or love potion with Luciano Pavarotti . Rolf Mares directed the large ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera with the frequent absence of the artistic directors. In addition, he financially enabled the development of broad artistic imagination and the highest quality. He fought relentlessly for financial stability.
1979 to 1980 he also worked in a double function as interim director or managing director with the actor Günter König at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus. The traditional theater on Kirchenallee was to be renovated for 30 million during the 80/81 season and connected to a new car park. This was only possible through an interim directorate, because none of the proposed directors accepted an activity without a permanent house and staff. With the directorship of Ivan Nagel (1972 to 1979), a contemporary theater of provocative productions had established itself at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus. Rolf Mares worked here with Rudolf Noelte , Giorgio Strehler , Manfred Karge , Luc Bondy , Wilfried Minks , Claus Peymann , Peter Zadek , Jérôme Savary and Matthias Langhoff . The renovation resulted in extreme cost-cutting measures that hardly allowed an artistic program. His knowledge of the Hamburg scene enabled him to carry out the extensive renovation work with alternative quarters, such as the Operettenhaus on Spielbudenplatz and the Kampnagelfabrik, where alternative theater concepts were to take place later. In the experience with the contemporary repertoire in the campaign nail factory, Mares saw a programmatic approach, which he then used to attract new groups of visitors by playing on alternative venues at the Hamburg State Opera.
During this time, the Hamburg State Opera opened up new audiences by discovering unconventional venues and innovative activities. Rolf Mares played a decisive role in the initiation.
In 1975 the studio stage Opera stable was founded as an experimental stage and has existed since then as a small (not only contemporary) music theater. A newly proclaimed Hamburg composer's prize secured the artistic program with outstanding world premieres in this extravagant venue. Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm (1979) and the White Rose by Udo Zimmermann (1986) had sensational success . As a counterpart to this, the Opera mobile was founded , with which guest performances a. a. could be contested in retirement homes and penal institutions. The world premiere of Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg (libretto), George Gruntz and Rolf Liebermann (music), Robert Wilson (stage design and direction) in the Kampnagelfabrik in Hamburg's Barmbek district left a particularly lasting impression .
In 1988 Mares founded the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus. From 1988 to 1999 he was director of the Comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus and developed the venue in cooperation with the Wölffer-Bühnen under Christian Wölffer, like the Komödie and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin to become the most popular private theater in Germany. During this time, the comedy made a name for itself with a somewhat riskier upscale repertoire that differed significantly from other private theaters in Hamburg and Berlin. Most recently he was able to gain 12,000 subscribers. Mares quote: The audience trusts us. In the selection of the pieces we are clearly between very good and good, in the service the same.
In 1999 he retired as a theater maker.
From 1975 to 2002 he taught cultural management at the University of Music and Theater .
politics
In the 16th electoral term from 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . For the CDU parliamentary group , he was the specialist spokesman for culture in the state parliament and chairman of the culture committee . Because of his advanced illness, after the change of government in 2001, he turned down the offer to join Ole von Beust 's Senate as Senator for Culture .
In 1998, as a cultural politician, he demanded a cultural concept for the year 2000 in the city council meeting. In 1999, Mares protested in the citizenship as spokesman for the culture committee against the rigid austerity measures at the Hamburg State Opera and spoke of a catastrophe for the opera and the city.
Honorary positions
- Since 1979 Mares was on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank, Hamburg.
- Since 1989 he has been a member and chairman of the advisory board of the Hamburger Symphoniker .
- From November 1998 to July 19, 1999 he was Chairman of the Board of Hamburger SV .
- From 1989 to 2002 he was an advisor to the Wölffer-Bühnen: Komödie and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin, Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus, Komödie Dresden.
Awards
- In 1997 he received the title of professor from the University of Music and Theater .
- In 2001 and 2002 Rolf Mares was awarded the Biermann-Ratjen Medal by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for his services to the city's culture.
Fonts
- Mares, Rolf: Operational forms of today's theater. In: Research Institute for Music Theater of the University of Bayreuth (ed.): Structural problems of music theater in the Federal Republic of Germany. (= Writings on music theater, vol. 1, editor: Dorothea Glatt-Behr). Bayreuth Mühl'scher Universitätsverlag (1978). ISBN 3-921733-03-0 .
- Mares, Rolf: Contribution; in: The Dammtorbrother. on the occasion of Herbert Paris' 75th birthday (director of the Hamburg State Opera from August 1, 1955 to December 31, 1973) December 1, 1984.
Hamburg Culture Prize
The Rolf Mares Prize, known as the “Hamburg Theater Oscar”, is one of the Hanseatic city's coveted awards.
Social engagement was very important to Rolf Mares. During his lifetime he initiated an important culture award, which was named after him posthumously . The Rolf Mares Prize is intended to honor special performance in the theater field in various categories. Rolf Mares would have deserved the special prize contained therein for many years of exceptional performance in the context of Hamburg's theater life.
Web links
- A theater life Interview of the magazine for opera choir and stage dance with Rolf Mares
- Obituary for Mares in “Die Welt” on May 6, 2002 and in the Hamburger Abendblatt on May 2, 2002 .
- Labskaus and potato pancakes . Rolf Mares, speaker of the culture committee in the citizenship, 1999
- Short financial ceiling Rolf Mares' proposal for theater in the room is very simple
- Thanks. Rolf Mares / Life for Culture, series in the Hamburger Abendblatt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press material ( Memento from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ SV press conference in gettyimages
- ^ HSV Rolf Mares
- ↑ Mares the other legacy Hamburger Abendblatt of July 13, 2002, accessed on March 6, 2016
- ^ Eminence gray of Hamburg's cultural policy: Rolf Mares dies Article in Schwäbische Zeitung from May 2, 2002
- ↑ Hamburg Ballet
- ↑ Rolf Mares was always at the side of the ensemble article in Die Welt of October 2, 2002
- ↑ A theatrical life. Rolf Mares talking interview with Rolf Mares & Opera Dance , Edition 2002/2.
- ↑ Opera salaries: List prices for Stars in the time of 23 April 1976th
- ↑ Chronic clinch in Der Spiegel from November 12, 1984.
- ↑ Noelte in Need in Die Zeit of September 28, 1979.
- ↑ History of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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.
- ↑ Come and go in Der Spiegel, December 31, 1979.
- ^ Founding director Rolf Mares Mentioned in the book Kulturverführer .
- ^ The director of the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus Rolf Mares
- ↑ Rolf Mares, ex-boss of the Winterhuder Fährhaus fights against leukemia in the UKE Hamburger Morgenpost, on February 15, 2000.
- ↑ Rolf Mares: I learned a lot Article in Hamburger Abendblatt from September 7, 1999.
- ↑ Rolf Mares - A great theater man resigns from article in Die Welt from September 6, 1999.
- ^ Rolf Mares died in DerStandard from May 1, 2002.
- ↑ Mares, Rolf Interview with Armgard Seegers in Hamburger Abendblatt Vol. 51, No. 58 from 1998.
- ↑ Labskaus or potato fritters in Der Spiegel of May 17, 1999.
- ^ Deutsche Bank banking history
- ^ Dr Hermann Rauhe Hamburger Symphoniker and Rolf Mares report in juramagazin.
- ^ Rolf Mares HSV
- ↑ Rolf Mares ordered the article to be discussed in the Hamburger Morgenpost from January 15, 1999
- ^ Rolf Mares Prize
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mares, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director and politician (independent), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Travemünde |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 2002 |