Ruth Walz

Ruth Walz (born January 2, 1941 in Bremen ) is a German theater photographer , known for her work at the Berlin Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in the 1970s and 80s and her longstanding collaboration with (among others) directors Peter Stein and Klaus Michael Grüber , Luc Bondy , Peter Sellars , Pierre Audi and Robert Wilson .

Life

Ruth Walz is the daughter of Richard Bertram-Nothnagel and Lore Bertram-Nothnagel. After studying at the Berliner Lette-Verein , she began her photographic career as a still photographer for Ulrike Meinhof's film Bambule (TV play) and in advertising (e.g. for the Berliner Kindl brewery ) before she took a permanent position at the Berlin Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in 1976 . She has been working as a freelancer since 1990 (e.g. for the Salzburg Festival , the Wiener Festwochen and De Nationale Opera ).

She lives in Berlin . Her longtime partner was the actor Bruno Ganz .

Works

• Der Verwandler - Klaus Michael Grüber (An illustrated book by Ruth Walz and Karl-Ernst Herrmann with texts by Bruno Ganz , published in 2010, Alexander Verlag Berlin, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-89581-211-8 )
• Jutta Lampe - Träume sucht Spiel (An illustrated book by Ruth Walz and Karl-Ernst Herrmann with texts by Botho Strauss , Christian Meier , Peter Stein and many others, published in 2010, Verlag Akademie der Künste, ISBN 978-3-88331-150-0 )
• Goethe's Faust, Peter Stein's staging in pictures (photo documentation of the complete performance "Faust I and II" by Peter Stein , published in 2003, DuMont Reiseverlag, ISBN 978-3-7701-5628-3 )
• Schaubühne - Am Halleschen Ufer, Am Lehniner Platz 1962–1987 (by Ruth Walz, Karl-Ernst Herrmann and Peter Krumme , editor Peter Stein , year of publication 1988, Propylypen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-549-05766-7 )

Web links

• Ruth Walz in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth Walz from alexander-verlag.com accessed on February 20, 2019
2. ↑ Bruno Ganz at deutsches-filmhaus.de, accessed on February 20, 2019