Sebastian Hartmann (theater director)

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Sebastian Hartmann (born May 18, 1968 in Leipzig ) is a German theater director and from 2008 to 2013 was the artistic director of the Leipzig Theater with the venues Centraltheater, Skala, Spinnwerk and White House. His half-sister is Julia Hartmann .

Life

Hartmann worked after studying acting at the theater school "Hans Otto" Leipzig (1988–1991, graduated in 1992), initially as a theater and television actor, including between 1991 and 1993 at the German National Theater Weimar and 1993–1994 at the Carroussel Theater in Berlin, before he began to stage himself.

In 1997 he founded the independent drama group wehrtheater hartmann, from 1999 he worked for two years as in-house director at the Volksbühne Berlin , after which he mainly directed at large theaters such as Hamburg and Cologne, but also abroad, e.g. B. in Vienna . Between 2001 and 2005 Hartmann was in-house director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and also worked as a freelance director at various theaters in German-speaking countries.

He caused a sensation in 1997 with the staging of Sarah Kane's anti-war play Zerbombt , which was banned by the rights holder because it was "not staged as intended by the author". 2006, his Frankfurt production sparked the massacre game of Ionesco a theatrical scandal move, the actor Thomas Lawinky under the act the critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gerhard Stadelmaier snatched the notebook out of his hand and him verbally was concerned ( "spiral notebook affair").

In April 2007 the Leipzig city council elected Hartmann as the new artistic director of the Leipzig Theater . In the 2008/2009 season he succeeded Wolfgang Engel . In 2011 he announced that he would not extend his contract, which expired in 2013. In 2014/15 he staged two hotly debated plays at the Stuttgart State Theater as a freelance director with Staub based on Seán O'Casey and Im Stein by Clemens Meyer .

Work technique

According to Munzinger, Hartmann intends to disturb the audience with his pieces by "almost completely reinventing" his pieces. They should "confuse, anger and help to see the issue on a different level than before". Especially during his time as a freelance director, according to Christian Rakow, he tried again and again in his productions to “cross the border to the auditorium”.

Hartmann's productions are not about “telling someone something, but about a mutual reflection that does not end with the performance”, writes the theater journalist and dramaturge Alexander Kohlmann. With the premiere “the audience takes part in the endless rehearsal work”.

Hartmann's staging techniques are also part of his rejection of the current local theater world. In an interview with the Leipziger Volkszeitung , he found that German theater had been revolving around itself for a certain time and that the directors were all focused on the Berlin Theatertreffen without knowing why they should go there. Instead, Hartmann advocated a generation change within the directorships.

Productions (selection)

St. Matthew Passion 2008: Photo of the Leipzig production (R.Arnold / CT)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hartmann, Sebastian in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 19, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely accessible).
  2. ↑ a b Christian Rakow: Sebastian Hartmann. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ Quoted from Hartmann, Sebastian in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 19, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available).
  4. ↑ Leipzig director gives up. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 216, September 16, 2011, p. 33.
  5. ^ Ensemble: Sebastian Hartmann ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Schauspiel Stuttgart, accessed on December 23, 2015
  6. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/daemonen-am-schauspiel-frankfurt-vollendet-unfertigkeit.691.de.html?dram:article_id=310395
  7. ^ Sebastian Hartmann: German theater in crisis. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on February 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Schauspiel Stuttgart - Communication & Marketing: Schauspiel Stuttgart - Dust. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Hartmut Krug: Berlin Alexanderplatz - Sebastian Hartmann tells Alfred Döblin's novel at the Deutsches Theater Berlin as a dance of death passion story. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Frauke Adrians: Gespenster - Sebastian Hartmann builds a family-drama Ibsen Strindberg collage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Elena Philipp: Ulysses - Sebastian Hartmann directs the novel by James Joyce at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  12. ^ Matthias Schmidt: Humiliated and Offended - At the Dresden State Theater, Sebastian Hartmann lets art riot with Dostojewski. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Janis El-Bira: The Long Night of Authors - The Autorentheatertage at DT Berlin show plays by Simone Kucher, Miroslava Svolikova and a stage pound by Sebastian Hartmann based on Björn SC Deigner. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Simone Kaempf: Hunger. Peer Gynt - Sebastian Hartmann mixes Knut Hamsun with Henrik Ibsen for a feverish rush of pictures at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  15. ^ Matthias Schmidt: Guilt and Atonement - Staatsschauspiel Dresden - Sebastian Hartmann paints the 20th century in black and white with Dostojewski and Wolfram Lotz. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ Christian Rakow: Lear / Die Politiker - Deutsches Theater Berlin - Sebastian Hartmann aims with a double evening from Shakespeare and Wolfram Lotz on the global human crisis. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig