Stephan Müller (director)
Stephan Müller (born July 7, 1951 in Basel ) is a Swiss theater and opera director , dramaturge and lecturer in plurimedial aesthetics .
Life
Stephan Müller's theater career began in 1972 at the Basel Theater under the management of Werner Düggelin as an extra and assistant director, soon afterwards he became head dramaturge at the Basel Theater. In 1975 he traveled to the USA for several years and worked with Robert Wilson , Richard Foreman , Mabou Mines , Meredith Monk , Ric Zank , Lee Breuer and founded his own theater group mixed media . From 1978 he worked at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where he headed the laboratory. 1980–1988 he worked as a freelance director in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Tübingen, Basel, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg ( Kampnagel ), San Francisco and New York (Public Theater) and lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1988 he returned to Theater Basel as a director under the directorship of Frank Baumbauer . From 1993 to 1999 he and Volker Hesse directed the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at the Vienna Burgtheater as a director and dramaturge. He is currently the head of the Master of Arts course for directing at the Zurich University of the Arts and staging at various German-speaking theaters and opera houses.
Productions
- Project for nothing based on Samuel Beckett , Schauspielhaus Zurich
- A young lady after August Strindberg , Schauspielhaus Zurich
- The speeches and actions of the father in the cornfield according to Peter Handke , Schauspielhaus Zurich
- Jakob von Gunten after Robert Walser , Theater Basel
- Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist , Theater Basel
- What you want from William Shakespeare , Theater Basel
- Antigone by Sophocles , Theater Basel
- At that time by Samuel Beckett , Theater Basel
- Phaedo after Plato , Theater am Neumarkt
- The Orphan by Samuel Beckett , Theater am Neumarkt
- Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss , Theater am Neumarkt
- The Black Rider by Robert Wilson and Tom Waits , Theater am Neumarkt
- Symposium according to Plato , Theater am Neumarkt
- The ride across Lake Constance by Peter Handke , Theater am Neumarkt
- Nothing / Special after Warhol / Cale / Reed, Wiener Burgtheater
- Old Masters after Thomas Bernhard , Vienna Burgtheater
- Dog, woman, man by Sibylle Berg , Vienna Burgtheater
- Oblomov after Gontscharow , Vienna Burgtheater
- The woman from earlier by Roland Schimmelpfennig , premiere, Wiener Burgtheater
- A sports piece by Elfriede Jelinek , Zurich Festival
- Cabal and love by Friedrich Schiller , City Theater Bern
- Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek , Zurich Festival
- Attention Artaud A séance for Antonin Artaud , Zurich Festival
- "Platon's Party" based on Plato, Vienna Burgtheater
- "Visit of the old lady" by Dürrenmatt, Theater an der Josefstadt, Vienna
Opera works
- The Blind by Walter Zimmermann , Oper Frankfurt
- Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell , Lucerne Theater
- Le Nozze Di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , City Theater Bern
- Werther by Jules Massenet , Lucerne Theater
- Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Lucerne Festival
- The Creation by Joseph Haydn , Vlaamse Opera Antwerp
- Phaedra by Hans Werner Henze, Lucerne Festival
- The City of the Blind by Anno Schreier, Zurich Opera House
- Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner, Staatstheater Kassel
literature
- Paul Schorno: Stephan Müller . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1288 f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Müller, Stephan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss theater and opera director |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Switzerland |