Rudolf Donath (actor)

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Rudolf Donath (born October 27, 1932 ; † July 3, 2016 in Dresden ) was a German actor , director and radio play speaker .

Career

Donath came from Upper Lusatia . He first worked as a porcelain painter at the Meissen porcelain factory . Since 1951 Donath played in the amateur play group in Meißen . After an unsuccessful acting aptitude test with Hans Finohr from the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, he began to study drama in Weimar, but broke off shortly after starting his studies in order to be able to be with his wife and daughter in Meißen. He worked as a press illustrator and broadcaster and continued to play amateur theater and at the Meissen Theater.

After an interview with Ottofritz Gaillard , Donath was engaged at the Dresden State Theater from 1960 to 1996 , where u. a. of Melchior in Jutta or The Children of Damutz , the Hagen in Die Nibelungen , the Adam in The Broken Jug , of King Lear , of Arthur in The Knights of the Round Table to his signature roles belonged. The character actor has appeared in more than 100 premieres. He also directed there. Guest appearances led him to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich and in 1989 for a four-year engagement to Frankfurt am Main . He gave his last guest role at the Dresden State Theater in 2001 as Firs in Der Kirschgarten . The last time Donath stepped on the Theaterkahn Dresden in The Panther by Felix Mitterer on. He has also appeared in several films, including the TV series Polizeiruf 110 , Tatort and The Public Prosecutor Has the Word .

In the 1960s Donath directed the workers' theater of the record works “Max Dietel” in Meißen, with which he staged The Mother of Brecht at the Meißen Theater in 1966 . In 1976 Donath founded the dramatic circle of the large graphic company Völkerfreundschaft, which later bore the name of the workers' theater "Hans Otto" and in 1989 became HOTheater. Donath was the sole director of the amateur drama group until 1992, where u. a. and Jan Josef Liefers received his acting training, and by 2003 its artistic director.

In 2003 Donath gave up the artistic direction of the HOTheater for reasons of age. Most recently he lived, almost blind, in a nursing home.

Filmography (selection)

Theater activity (selection)

HOTheater 1976-2004 director

  • 2003: Nachtasyl & Abendrot - Scenes from the depths using Maxim Gorkis Nachtasyl
  • 2000: The Old Lady's Visit (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
  • The Sheep ( Stanislaw Stratiew )
  • On the bottom (after Maxim Gorki's night asylum)
  • The 55 Minute Opera, a musical balm for the soul with criminal and other background information for Threepenny Opera fans in memory of the great smoker (self-produced by Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill Die Threepenny Opera )
  • 1983–1984: and am as smart as before ... (An encounter with Goethe's Urfaust )
  • 1981–1982: Hangover lamp (Emil Rosenow)
  • 1980–1981: Tales of Building (ch) (own version based on Kurt Bartsch )
  • 1978–1979: Never becomes today! (Sequence of scenes from Bertolt Brecht's play The Mother )

Staatsschauspiel Dresden 1960–2001 as an actor

Staatsschauspiel Dresden - director

speaker

  • 2003: Edgar Wallace - A life like in a film, Media & Communication Systems GmbH Saxony (audio book)

literature

Rudolf Donath: But not as a tray holder . In: Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller, Felicitas Zürcher (eds.): Staatsschauspiel Dresden - 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus . The anniversary book. 1st edition. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-01-1 , p. 238 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A festival for two Meißner originals in: Meißner Official Journal, Volume 18, September 24, 2010 No. 9
  2. ↑ 160 years of Theater Meißen in: Meißner Official Journal, year 19, October 28, 2011 No. 10
  3. ^ Theater der Zeit: Rudolf Donath from 2012. Accessed on July 5, 2016
  4. ↑ Theaterhaus Rudi: HOTheater ( Memento of the original from July 5, 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. Retrieved July 5, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rudi-dresden.de
  5. ^ Dresden State Theater - 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus . Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller, Felicitas Zürcher (Eds.), Pp. 238–241
  6. ^ Workers' theater plays Brecht's "mother" in: Neues Deutschland, November 17, 1966
  7. ↑ Theater of the time: The association . Retrieved July 6, 2016
  8. ↑ HOTheater ( Memento of the original from July 5, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rudi-dresden.de
  9. ^ Rainer Kasselt: Wise King and Cool Murderer . In: Saxon newspaper . July 8, 2016 (for a fee online [accessed July 8, 2016]).
  10. ^ Sächsische Zeitung online: Scenes from the Depth of March 26, 2003. Accessed July 6, 2016
  11. ↑ Theater of the time: productions . Retrieved July 5, 2016
  12. ^ Television of the GDR: Jutta or Die Kinder von Damutz (1982) . Retrieved July 6, 2016
  13. ↑ Dresden Latest News: The Dresden actor Rudolf Donath turns 80 on October 27, 2012. Accessed on July 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Donath, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1932
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July, 2016
Place of death Dresden