Sewan Latchinian

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Latchinian at the 7th GlückAufFest of the Neue Bühne Senftenberg

Sewan Latchinian (* 1961 in Leipzig ) is a German theater director , actor and author with Armenian roots on his father's side. From August 2019 he will be the new Artistic Director of the Hamburger Kammerspiele .

Sewan was a co-inventor of the barracks of the German theater in Berlin . From 2004 to 2014 he was artistic director of the Neue Bühne Senftenberg and from 2014 to 2016 in the same function at the Volkstheater Rostock .

Life

Sewan Latchinian was described in 1979 as a 17-year-old student by the director of his extended secondary school in Leipzig during lessons as "unworthy of the GDR and socialism" and as "unworthy of doing the Abitur". The reason for this was Latchinian's refusal to do three years of military service, which was a requirement for permission to study.

Career

After NVA - Military Service Sevan Latchinian graduated from 1981 to 1985 studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" Berlin , where he made a degree actor. He then got an engagement as an actor at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . In 1986 he made his debut as a playwright with the play Grabbes Grab , which was premiered at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin.

From 1988 to 1997 he had an engagement as an actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Latchinian worked with the directors Christoph Schroth , Frank Castorf , Friedo Solter and Thomas Langhoff . He has also appeared in the film and television productions The Disappeared Miniature (1990), The Land Behind the Rainbow (1991) and Liebling Kreuzberg (1997). In 1987 he played the ex- Foreign Legionnaire Eddy in Jörg Foth's feature film Jungle Time .

One of his first productions as a director was the German premiere of The Disneykiller by Philip Ridley at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Since 1993 he has worked as a director at the theaters in Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, the Cottbus State Theater and the Volkstheater in Munich . Latchinian was also an acting lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen . From 1997 to 2003 Latchinian was senior director at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss . In 2004 he became director of the Neue Bühne Senftenberg .

Latchinian's play Eine Verbotene Liebe premiered in Senftenberg in 2009, which is a dramatization of Ettore Ghibellino's theses on the presumed love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Princess Anna Amalia , and deliberately differentiated from Peter Hacks ' play A Conversation in the Stein House about the absent Herr von Goethe was written.

As part of the theater spectacle 6th GlückAufFest “Grab (b) e!”, Sewan Latchinian staged his play Grabbe's Grab and Die Hermannsschlacht by Christian Dietrich Grabbe . The critic Martin Linzer rated the production Die Hermannsschlacht in Theater der Zeit 11/09 as a rehabilitation of the play.

The 7th Glück AufFest “Dostoprimetschatelnosti” comprised five important pieces of Russian drama. The focus was on Chekhov's The Three Sisters (director: Sewan Latchinian). Theater heute judged the production to be a "high point of the Senftenberg theater work, which is always rooted in the present day".

For the 8th GlückAufFest , Latchinian Hofmannsthals staged Jedermann in the version by Manfred Wekwerth . In addition, the much discussed, current text celebrated Stéphane Hessel's Outrage! German premiere.

The New Stage launched a “creative strike” in 2012 with the 9th KEIN GlückAufFest . With reference to the precarious financial conditions for the theater work, the French song program Parlez moi d'amour (director: Sewan Latchinian) was followed by the production of The Miser of Molière, also directed by Latchinians. The critic Martin Linzer then judged Theater der Zeit : "The Senftenberg Theater should be at the top of the Deutsche Post happiness atlas."

The 10th Glück AufFest opened the 2013/2014 season under the title “Reality” and comprised five productions, four of which were world premieres. There were: a play version of the novel Weiskern Nachlass by Christoph Hein (premiere), a stage adaptation of the essay Our beautiful new clothes by Ingo Schulze (premiere), a theater adaptation of the story Die hellen Haufen by Volker Braun (premiere) and a reading of the novel Johann Holtrop by Rainald Goetz. Each was directed by Sewan Latchinian. The end of the theater evening was the “aerodynamic song program” at the airport at half past twelve ... by the songwriter, musician and poet Hans-Eckardt Wenzel .

Sewan Latchinian has been artistic director of the Rostock Volkstheater since September 2014 . The main committee of the Rostock citizenship commissioned Lord Mayor Roland Methling (independent) to commit Latchinian for five years.

He opened the 2014/2015 season with the three-part spectacle 1. Launching , which from then on should mark the beginning of every season. Under the motto “New Beginning”, he staged the play-along opera Untergang der Titanic by Wilhelm Dieter Siebert, the world premiere of the Volkstheater version by Uwe Johnson's Ingrid Babendererde and the theater play Wie im Himmel by Kay Pollak, named after the Swedish film of the same name .

From 2007 to 2014 Sewan Latchinian was a member of the board of directors of the German Stage Association (deputy chairman since 2010) and of the committee for artistic issues. His resignation from all offices and functions in January 2014 was in protest against the collective bargaining agreement for orchestras in 2013, which provides for an increase of 8.9% for orchestral musicians and in connection with which the Rostock Volkstheater left the German Stage Association in December 2013 .

On March 31, 2015, Latchinian was dismissed without notice from the Main Committee of the Citizenship at the request of Mayor Roland Methling for his criticism of the cuts in the cultural sector and a controversial comparison with the IS regime . After numerous protests in Rostock and expressions of solidarity from all over Germany, the citizens of the Hanseatic City of Rostock withdrew Sewan Latchinian's termination without notice. The Lord Mayor of Rostock, Methling, took a 14-day period to consider this decision and on April 27, 2015 lodged an objection to the decision made by the city council to continue employing the director. On May 6, 2015, the majority of the citizens rejected this objection, Sewan Latchinian again expressed confidence, so that the mayor had to reappoint him to his post. At the same time, a resolution was passed on the construction of the Rostock Volkstheater.

In February 2016, a newspaper report said that Latchinian was allegedly seeking to terminate his contract in Rostock, which was denied shortly thereafter in the same paper.

On June 6, 2016 Sewan Latchinian was dismissed without notice as director of the Rostock Volkstheater after a vote by the main committee of the Rostock citizenship. Latchinian sued this dismissal and took action against it with the help of the lawyer Gregor Gysi . In December 2016, the Rostock regional court ruled that this dismissal without notice was ineffective. In December 2017, the higher regional court of Rostock confirmed this decision of the regional court again after an objection by the Hanseatic city of Rostock and the Volkstheater Rostock GmbH. On November 27, 2018, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) dismissed a non-admission complaint against these lower court judgments. The verdict that Sewan Latchinian's dismissal without notice was unlawful is therefore final. In the meantime, the status of the Rostock Volkstheater as a four-part theater has been established for ten years through the so-called "Theater Pact" 2018 of the state government MV and the theater-carrying municipalities. "I'm happy about the rehabilitation," said Sewan Latchinian to Nachtkritik.de . He informed the dpa : "With the judgment, the correctness of my position is now also legally confirmed that the four-part theater in Rostock is worth preserving and preserving."

Sewan Latchinian will be the artistic director of the Hamburger Kammerspiele from August 2019 . His first tasks in Hamburg include a role in the play "The Nervensäge" and the direction of the play "No to Money".

family

Sewan Latchinian is the older son from the marriage of Professor Sarkis Latchinian (1930–2012) - an Armenian whose parents only barely survived the Armenian genocide - with the German Adelheid Latchinian nee. Skonietzki. His mother passed the best Abitur in Weimar in 1955 and was nevertheless only allowed to study with GDR President Wilhelm Pieck after intervening because of her Christian faith . Latchinian's parents met while studying in Bulgaria . From 1975 to 1990, the father was a full professor for political economy of capitalism at the economics section of the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, the mother worked as a lecturer for literature at the University of Leipzig from 1970 to 1998.

Sewan Latchinian has two younger siblings, sister Kohar and brother Haig Latchinian (* 1968; journalist and author).

The Leipziger Volkszeitung published on 23 April 2015 by Andreas Debski authored, detailed portrait of Latchinian family under the title: The Armenian Genocide and trauma of Latchinians - As a Leipzig family with the expulsion from the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago bypasses .

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Productions (selection)

1994
1995
  • Set tables - Langhoff (world premiere, DT Baracke, Berlin)
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
  • An enemy of the people - Ibsen (Rheinisches Landestheater)
  • The last hole - Welsh (German premiere, Rheinisches Landestheater)
  • The festival - Rukov / Vinterberg (Rheinisches Landestheater)
2002
2003
  • Joyful anticipation - Panic (German premiere, Rheinisches Landestheater)
  • I'll shoot you - Rhue (German premiere, Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin)
2004
2005
  • Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses - Brecht (New Stage Senftenberg)
  • Cabal and love - Schiller (New Stage Senftenberg)
  • Modern Death - Wijkmark (German premiere, Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
2006
2007
2008
  • The electrician - The story of David Salz - Rosh, Jakob, Lühning, Schlender (Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare (Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
  • The bridge from Varvarin - Wallow (New Stage Senftenberg)
2009
2010
  • The Three Sisters - Chekhov (New Stage Senftenberg)
  • The Suicide - Erdman (Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
  • Bad Sex 1–3 - Ming (world premiere, Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
2011
2012
2013
  • The Swiss Disease - Uta Bierbaum (World premiere as part of the Long Night of Authors 2013, Deutsches Theater Berlin )
  • Our beautiful new clothes - Ingo Schulze (world premiere, Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
  • Weiskern's estate - Christoph Hein (world premiere, Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
  • Johann Holtrop - Rainald Goetz (New Stage Senftenberg)
  • The bright heaps - Volker Braun (world premiere, Neue Bühne Senftenberg)
2014
2015
2016
2019

actor

Plays

  • Grabbe's grave (published 1984 in Temperamente - Blätter für Junge Literatur 2/1985, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, Lic.Nr .: 303/305/2/85, world premiere in 1986 at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin)
  • Berlin , Henschel-Verlag Berlin 1987
  • Eine Verbotene Liebe , 2009 in collaboration with Ettore Ghibellino (based on the book Goethe and Anna Amalia - Eine Verbotene Liebe )

Filmography (selection)

  • 1985: Visiting van Gogh
  • 1987: jungle time
  • 1990: King Phantasios (TV movie)
  • 1991: An Angel Called Flint (TV series)
  • 1992: The land behind the rainbow
  • 1992: The Vanished Miniature (TV movie)
  • 1994: Darling Kreuzberg: Among us machos

Radio plays

  • 1991: After Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm : Sex fairy tale for the night (Frosch) - Director: Barbara Plensat (fairy tale for adults - Funkhaus Berlin )
  • Das Lied von der Eule Lua (published in 1988 in Temperamente - Blätter für Junge Literatur , first broadcast on Berliner Rundfunk)
  • Autostrich (first broadcast on Berliner Rundfunk 2001)

Awards and nominations

  • 1987: awarded for the theater play Berlin with the sponsorship award of the Verlag der Automobiles, Frankfurt am Main, world premiere at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 1995: Nomination for the Friedrich-Luft-Preis, Berlin, for set tables , Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 1997: Nomination for the Friedrich Luft Prize, Berlin, for Lebensstoff , Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2005: Under the direction of Sewan Latchinian, the Senftenberger Theater was voted "Theater of the Year" by the renowned magazine Theater heute in a survey of critics.
  • 2006: International Quirinus Prize of the City of Neuss
  • 2008: Nomination in the category “Best Director” for the German Theater Prize Der Faust for the staging of Faust I and II at the Neue Bühne Senftenberg , see Faust Award 2008

Web links

Commons : Sewan Latchinian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Lüddemann: Sewan Latchinian goes to the Hamburger Kammerspiele. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , online portal, February 27, 2019. Retrieved on February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b roll backwards . In: Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on November 3, 2013
  3. ↑ The end for Sewan Letchinian . - Der Tagesspiegel , June 6, 2016
  4. ↑ Rostock theater director Latchinian dismissed without notice . - Focus Online , June 6, 2016
  5. ^ Theater Senftenberg: Sewan Latchinian from September 1st, 2014 new director at the Rostock Volkstheater. ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2013 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. On the website of the Senftenberg Theater, accessed on January 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-senftenberg.de
  6. ^ Berliner Zeitung : A director resigns. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ Schweriner Volkszeitung: Rostock theater director Latchinian dismissed
  8. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Rostock-entlaesst-Theaterintendant-Latchinian-,theaterrostock150.html
  9. ^ Nachtkritik.de : Press review from April 15, 2015 - Intendant Sewan Latchinian in an interview with the OZ about his recall to the Rostock Volkstheater . In: Nachtkritik.de , accessed on April 27, 2015
  10. ↑ 3sat : Latchinian should stay In: 3sat , accessed on April 27, 2015
  11. ↑ rathaus.rostock.de: Lord Mayor Roland Methling calls for cooperation instead of confrontation in the theater debate ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Homepage of the Hanseatic City of Rostock @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rathaus.rostock.de
  12. ^ "Sewan Latchinian remains director at the Rostock Volkstheater". Lausitzer Rundschau-online, May 7, 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2015 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.lr-online.de
  13. ↑ http://www.svz.de/lokales/rostock/latchinian-will-vertrag-aufloesen-id12757291.html
  14. ↑ http://www.svz.de/regionales/mecklenburg-vorpommern/latchinian-und-methling-pokern-um-abfindung-id12766941.html
  15. ↑ nachtkritik.de: Rostock's artistic director Sewan Latchinian dismissed without notice
  16. ↑ http://www.svz.de/lokales/rostock/ex-intendant-zieh-mit-gysi-vor-gericht-id14344781.html
  17. ↑ https://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16147&Itemid=100190
  18. ↑ https://www.welt.de/regionales/mecklenburg-vorpommern/article184905514/BGH-entscheidet-zugunsten-von-Ex-Intendant-Latchinian.html
  19. ↑ https://www.regierung-mv.de/Landesregierung/stk/Theaterpakt
  20. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16147&catid=126&Itemid=100089
  21. ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/bgh-entscheidet-zugunsten-von-ex-intendant-latchinian-4260331.html
  22. ↑ Stefan Lüddemann: Sewan Latchinian goes to the Hamburger Kammerspiele. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , online portal, February 27, 2019. Retrieved on February 28, 2019 .
  23. ↑ GND 121712222
  24. ^ Obituary notice in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from September 11, 2012
  25. ↑ GND 106754394
  26. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the Leipzig University website
  27. ↑ Andreas Debski: The genocide of the Armenians and the trauma of the Latchinians - How a Leipzig family deals with the expulsion from the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , April 23, 2015, page 3
personal data
SURNAME Latchinian, Sewan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, author, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig