Thomas Schulte-Michels

Thomas Schulte-Michels (born November 4, 1944 in Strasbourg ) is a German actor , theater and opera director .

Life

From 1966 to 1972 he studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Bonn . After a private acting training, he gave his first productions on the student stage. From 1971 to 1975 he was an actor and assistant director at the Bonn City Theater .

He worked as a director in Moers , Dortmund , Krefeld , Bonn and Neuss and from 1977 to 1979 he was in charge of the Moers Castle Theater in Moers Castle on behalf of Holk Freytag . From 1979 to 1981 he was a director at the Stadttheater Mainz .

In 1980 he caused a stir with a controversial staging of The Investigation at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , which Heinz Galinski criticized in the Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung as frivolous banalization .

From 1981 to 1986 he worked at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , where he directed Heinar Kipphardt's brother Eichmann in 1983 . Guest productions have taken him to various other theaters, including the Münchner Kammerspiele , where he directed Endspiel in 1985 and Harold Pinter's Homecoming in 1986 . In 1984 he directed "Die Frau vom Meer" (H. Ibsen) at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin .

From 1985 to 1992 he was engaged as a director at the Bavarian State Theater. His work here included the German premiere of John MacLachlan Gray & Eric Peterson's Billy Bishop Rises (1986) and Jane Bowles ' In the Summer House (1987), as well as Closed Society (1988), Marat / Sade (1988), The Green Cockatoo (1989), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Six People Looking for an Author (1990), Frank Wedekind's Marquis von Keith (1991), Maria Stuart (1991), Julien Greens There is no tomorrow (1991), the German premiere of Peter Flannerys Singer (1992) and Sam Shepard's Shocks (1993).

In the Theater in der Josefstadt he directed Victor or the children in power (1991) and Tartuffe (1992, with Helmut Lohner ). Since 1993 he has mainly worked at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . Performances under his direction here included Tom Stoppard's Artist, Descending a Staircase (1993), Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993/94), The Visit of the Old Lady (1995), Armando Llamas' Die Morde der Jewishischen Prinzessin (1996, German premiere ), The Devil's General (1997) and Woody Allen's Bullets on Broadway (1997).

From 2001 he staged at the Thalia-Theater Hamburg , the Schillertheater Berlin , the Kammerspiele Munich and the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Lately he has performed interpretations of Schiller's Robbers , Gogol's Auditor , Aristophanes ' Birds and Ben Johnson's Volpone at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken .

Since 1987 he has directed numerous music theater productions, including at the German National Theater Weimar , the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , the Theater Basel , the Theater Biel Solothurn , the Salzburg Festival , the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and the Volksoper Vienna .

Awards

• Karl Skraup Prize

Web links

• Thomas Schulte-Michels at Operabase (productions)
• Thomas Schulte-Michels in the Internet Movie Database (English)