Stephan Suschke

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Stephan Suschke (* 1958 in Weimar ) is a German theater director , artistic director and author.

Life

Suschke studied theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1982 , graduating in 1987 with a diploma. He then worked until 1990 as a dramaturge at the Greifswald Theater . Jochen Schanotta from Georg Seidel was one of Georg Seidel's own directing work at this time .

In the late 1980s and early 1990s he worked closely with Heiner Müller in his productions at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He worked, for example, on Müller's productions of Der Lohndrücker , Hamlet / Machine and Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui and in 1993 was assistant director for Müller's Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival . He reported on his collaboration with Müller in the 2003 book Müller macht Theater. 10 productions and an epilogue . He also worked on Müller's autobiography War Without Battle .

In Berlin he was co-organizer of the exhibition “The Enditude of Freedom”. He wrote the book for the documentary film “I'm alone with my fear - The poet Martin Pohl ” and co-directed it.

In 1994 he directed (overall director Peter Zadek ) "Ich bin das Volk" at the Berliner Ensemble . In 1995 he directed the radio play “Wasteland an Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts” for CBS Canada and directed readings of “Liebesbriefe an Hitler” by Franz Xaver Kroetz , read by Marianne Hoppe and Bernhard Minetti , among others . In 1995 he became deputy director of the Berliner Ensemble. In the same year he directed “Eva - Hitler's Beloved” by Kroetz at the premiere at the Berliner Ensemble. From 1997 to 1999 he was artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble. During this time he directed "Die Bauern" (Heiner Müller), "Der Sturm" (Shakespeare) and "Philoktet" (Heiner Müller)

Since 1999 he has worked as a freelance director. He directed several times at the Saarländisches Staatstheater and Theater Ulm , there about 2007/2008 of Der Freischütz and 2009/2010 of Woyzeck and 2011 of Hamlet and staged at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . He also worked abroad, including at the Theater National de la communauté in Brussels, at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne and at the Castillo Theater in New York. At the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg he staged various music theater productions: 2005 "Das Herz" (Hans Pfitzner); 2007 "The Vampire" (Heinrich Marschner), 2010 the world premiere of "The Other Side" (Michael Obst), 2012 "Macbeth" (Verdi) 2014 "Rakes Progress" (Stravinsky), 2015 "Fidelio" (Beethoven). Since 2005 he has directed a. a. "Oedipus" (Hölderlin / Müller), 2007 "Maria Stuart"; 2012 "Hermannsschlacht", 2013 "King Lear" (Shakespeare), "The Miser", 2014 "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare) "Mollath" (Melle), 2015 "Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe" (Brecht), "The order "(Heiner Müller)," Der Revisor "(Gogol)," Quartet (Heiner Müller). At the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg he staged "Baal", "The Good Man of Sezuan", "Fatzer", " Leben des Galilei ". In 2013, together with Mark Lammert, he was the curator of the exhibition" Horst Sördert - Zwischenwelten "at Neuhardenberg Castle. In the 2016/2017 season, Suschke took over the position of drama director at the Landestheater Linz .

Fonts

  • Müller makes theater. 10 productions and an epilogue , Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-934344-31-3
  • Fear of happiness (with Walter Schmidinger ), Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2004
  • Horst Sagt: Zwischenwelten (Besides the ranks) (as editor together with Mark Lammert), Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Suschke, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and director as well as author
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar