Stefan Zimmermann (director)

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Stefan Zimmermann (born December 16, 1959 in Rheydt ) is a German actor , director and theater producer. Since 2005 he has been directing the a.gon theater production in Munich with Iris von Zastrow .

Life

Stefan Zimmermann spent his school days in Trier , where he graduated from high school in 1979. As a teenager he appeared in the Trier City Theater in his first roles. He received acting lessons from Herbert Steiniger, a former member of the ensemble at the Kölner Schauspiel. From 1992 to 1999 Zimmermann studied modern German literature, history and law at the Hagen Distance Learning University and graduated with a master's degree . His master's thesis deals with the relationship between acting and drama in Lessing's Dramaturgie und Dramatik (1999).

In 1981 Stefan Zimmermann was hired as an actor at the Theater Aachen , where he remained in permanent engagement until 1985. In 1986 he moved to the Vienna Chamber Opera, where he assisted Fritz Muliar and George Tabori . As a dialogue director and dramaturge , he oversaw opera productions, including in Der Bajazzo .

In 1987 Zimmermann moved to Munich, where he initially worked as an actor. The Residenztheater hired him for Heinrich or the pains of fantasy . He was then cast for TV roles and received play contracts for various roles and theater. After further assistant directors (including with August Everding and Ingmar Bergman ), he staged Loriot's dramatic works for the first time in 1989 at the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt am Main . Further Loriot productions followed between 1991 and 2012, several times in the Münchner Komödie im Bayerischer Hof , 1993 in Berlin , 2003 in Heilbronn , 2005 in Stuttgart , 2008 in Cologne and 2008 again in Berlin at the Schillertheater there , on the author's 85th birthday Vicco von Bülow (Loriot).

Stefan Zimmermann worked as a freelance director and actor until 2005. Since 1991 he has staged Gebranntes Kind sucht das Feuer , Frau Warren's trade ( George Bernard Shaw , tour), fish for four (crime comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich), the double seduction (Pierre Charlet de Marivaux, tour), the cherry orchard ( Anton Chekhov ) with the then 98-year-old Johannes Heesters as Fir's servant in the Munich Metropoltheater ; the first production of the a.gon theater (founding production, 2002).

In 2003 he directed A Strange Couple by Neil Simon with Heiner Lauterbach and Uwe Ochsenknecht in Munich (comedy in the Bayerischer Hof), Berlin ( comedy on Kurfürstendamm ) and Hamburg ( Winterhuder Fährhaus ). Further productions followed at the Landestheater Schwaben ( Süßer Vogel Jugend , Der Geizige , The Taming of the Shrew ), at the Fritz-Rémond Theater Frankfurt ( Paris rabbit hunt , friends to eat ), at the Stadttheater Heilbronn and at the Schauspielbühnen Stuttgart .

Stefan Zimmermann has been working at the a.gon Theater since 2005. From then on, he mainly staged for his guest performances in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, such as Enchanted April (German premiere), closing balance , love lies and many more.

Zimmermann he worked on the novel The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz for the stage, the first performance was on November 4, 2014 in Lahr . In 2015 this production received the 3rd prize “Die Neuberin” from INTHEGA. On September 8, 2016, his stage version of the French film Monsieur Claude and his daughters was premiered at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna and was then shown in Hamburg, Frankfurt a. M., Stuttgart and Berlin on the theater schedules. He is the author of the play "Mr. President First", which premiered on March 13, 2019 in Remchingen on a tour of the a.gon Theater.

The theater work for small to medium-sized cities that buy finished productions from their cultural budget occupied Stefan Zimmermann as a separate cultural-political area of ​​responsibility. In 2010 he was a founding member of the Die Theaterinitiative e. V., which, among other things, advocates the preservation of the guest theater on a public law basis and of which he is chairman.

Stefan Zimmermann has three children. He lives in Munich.

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  1. ↑ Cordelia Edvardson in theater heute , issue 5/1991 , p. 29
  2. ↑ compaly.com: New entry in the Munich Commercial Register on December 8, 2010 / Register no. VR 203319 ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 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. (accessed on February 1, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / compaly.com
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt