Stefan Frey (theater scholar)

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Stefan Victor Peter Frey (born July 24, 1962 in Heilbronn ) is a German theater scholar , director and author .

Life

From 1984 to 1989 Frey studied theater studies , modern German literature and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . With a thesis on Franz Lehár with Dieter Borchmeyer , he received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1993 .

During his studies he was involved in a number of projects at the studio stage of the University of Munich. a. with Veronica Ferres , active. He worked at various theaters ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Landestheater Tübingen ), a. a. as an operetta director (staged by Lehárs Paganini ), also with prominent actors such as Sunnyi Melles . From 2004 to 2006 Frey was then head of the studio stage as a scientific employee . In addition to stage internships, u. a. the staging of Ralph Benatzky's Im Weißen Rößl , the student theater festival FREISPIEL 2005 and the film festival Studionale 2006 took place during these months.

Stefan Frey is the founder and former director of the theater in der Tenne, Maierhöfen (including excerpt from Egypt , Winnetou's last trip ); Author of newspaper, lexicon and program booklet articles, radio features (BR, SWR, DLF, DRB, DRS), librettist of the operetta Die Molratte malts , in which the characters of Johannes Heesters and Marika Rökk are to appear, and popular scientific biographies. He is also a member of the advisory board of the "Foundation for the Preservation and Promotion of Operetta" and works for the Munich VHS.

Stefan Frey lives and works freelance in Munich, is married and has three children.

Publications (selection)

  • Franz Lehár or the guilty conscience of light music. Theatron, Vol. 12. Tübingen 1995
  • "What do you think of this success?" Franz Lehár and popular music in the 20th century. Frankfurt a. M. u. Leipzig 1999
  • “Laughing through tears”. Emmerich Kálmán . An operetta biography. Berlin 2003
  • Stefan Frey (collaboration: Christine Stemprok, Wolfgang Dosch ): Leo Fall . Mocking rebel of the operetta. Vienna: Edition Steinbauer 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stage internship: Im Weißen Rößl. LMU, Studiobühne der Theaterwissenschaft, accessed on March 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The molrat is courting. LMU, Studiobühne der Theaterwissenschaft, accessed on March 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Stefan Victor Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn