Tom Witkowski
Tom Witkowski , born as Günter Klaus Witkowski (born November 29, 1937 in Ohlau (Silesia), today's Oława ) is a German actor , director and lecturer . Witkowski lives in Aachen .
Life
His parents were Konrad Witkowski, who died in 1941, and Erna Martha Frieda Witkowski. As a result of the war events, Tom Witkowski fled with his mother and two of his three siblings via Dresden (shortly before the city was bombed ) across destroyed Germany; Stations were Sondernau and Hoffenheim until he finally settled in Eßlingen am Neckar.
Tom Witkowski completed an acting education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart under the direction of Lilly Ackermann .
A delegation from King Albert II of Belgium congratulated Albert II on the golden wedding anniversary of the actress Michaela Halder on December 7, 2011 , since Witkowski was living in Belgium at the time.
Act
Witkowski played his first television role in The King's Page in the live recording of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart . On December 30, 1956, the ARD broadcast the play Jeanne or The Lark by Jean Anouilh with Liselotte Pulver in the leading role.
In 1958, Tom Witkowski from the traveling theater Der Thespiskarren , Tübingen, founded the Zimmer Theater Tübingen together with his colleagues Heinz E. Johst and Werner Johst . On December 6, 1958, the opening performance, Looking Back, was in the wrath of John Osborne . To mark the 50th anniversary, a commemorative publication by Bernd Mahl was published: Good old future. 50 years of the Zimmertheater Tübingen. A chronicle from 1958–2008 .
Witkowski was an actor in the ensemble at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with general director Karl-Heinz Stroux . Here she played with Ewald Balser , Maria Wimmer and Nicole Heesters , among others . In 1985, he played the lead role of Behringer in Eugène Ionesco's play The Rhinos .
In 1969 he appeared in the program It's about the head as a cabaret artist at the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen with Lore Lorentz .
At the Theater Krefeld , he starred in The Silk Shoe by Paul Claudel next to Elisabeth Trissenaar directed by Hans Neuenfels , the role of Don Camillo.
Tom Witkowski was the first character player ( protagonist ) in the acting ensemble of the Mannheim National Theater . He played u. a. with Buddy Elias in the two-person piece Revenche and the Nada in the state of siege by Albert Camus . At that time, the first character player was responsible for the practical training of the young students in addition to his duties as an actor. In addition to his work at the Mannheim National Theater, he was director of Edward Albees Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the Theater im Bonn Center in Bonn , founded by Intendant Lothar Schmidt-Mühlisch in 1970 and co-directed by Michaela Halder . .
Witkowski was the first character player at the State Theater in Oldenburg with director Harry Niemann. The main works included The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll and How Mockinpott's Suffering Is Expelled by Peter Weiss . In addition, he had a teaching position for speech technology in the context of the subjects German and art at the Oldenburg- Kolleg .
Tom Witkowski was a member of the ensemble as a director and first character player at the Theater Aachen with the directors Peter Maßmann , Manfred Mützel and Klaus Schultz . Here he played, among other things, Tellheim in Minna von Barnhelm and the parade roles in the pieces Paid Not and Mockery of Fear by Dario Fo .
In the meantime, in 1982 he completed a theater tour with the one-person play Report for an Academy by Franz Kafka . He performed in Australia in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literature at Macquarie University of Sydney , Monash University in Melbourne , the University of Canberra and the University of Adelaide . The piece was then performed in New Zealand at the University of Auckland , the Victoria University of Wellington , the University of Canterbury in Christchurch and at the University of Otago ( Māori : Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo ) in Dunedin .
The director of the Aachen theater, Manfred Mützel, took over the management of the Essen theater in 1985 and asked Witkowski to accompany him to his new place of work as the first character player. Here he played u. a. the role of Möbius in The Physicists von Dürrenmatt and the protagonist Behringer in The Rhinos from Ionesco. In the drama Cromwell by Christoph Hein , directed by Hans Günther Heyme from one of the 12 soldiers (were extras ) unplanned pushed a chair on a ladder. Witkowski stood high on this ladder before a tribunal and was sentenced to death within the role. The firing squad executed him, whereupon he fell dead from the ladder with his back to the seat of the chair, which should not have been there. A spinal cord injury interrupted Witkowski's acting career for twelve years.
While he lived in Hellenbahn , Witkowski wrote the play Das Narrenfest (a festival for clowns and a meal for actors) , which was performed simultaneously in German, Dutch and French. B. in Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany).
For the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1996, the festival of fools was performed under the title Comedia del Regio in Aachen and received the Charlemagne Prize medal.
Aachen from 1995
After Witkowski after 1995 Kelmis moved, he was in Aachen for CEO ( Director ) of acute , the A Achener K ulture u nd T heaterinitiative chosen which the Theater99 operates. He held this position for ten years. AKuT is an association of around 30 amateur theater groups .
In 1996 he founded a theater school, the Akademie ff (Academy for Free Theater Aachen). This led to the Aachen Theater School , which his colleague Ingeborg Meyer has been running since 2011. In addition to his work at Theater Aachen, he was involved in several theater tours, such as the Bertolt Brecht classic Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe and is a member of the Aachen Regio cultural conference .
On the occasion of the European Culture Forum 2013 in Brussels , Witkowski was a member of a three-day gathering of over 1000 cultural professionals from all EU member states. Witkowski's play The Migratory Birds - A Festival for Europe was realized in 10 languages within this language diversity . All actors spoke in their mother tongue, so that a Babylonian tangle arose, but everyone could be understood through a corresponding conception of the play.
Awards
- Witkowski is the holder of the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the Cooperative of German Stage Members (GDBA)
Theater direction (selection)
- 1956: The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni
- 1958: God's Utopia by Stefan Andres
- 1959: Eugène Ionesco's chairs
- 1960: Eugène Ionesco's new tenant
- 1972: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- 1979: The Prince Man by David Wood
- 1980: The Archbishop is there from Peter Sattmann
- 1981: Pinocchio by GA Werth
- 1982: Report for an academy by Franz Kafka .
- 1989: How Mr. Mockinpott's suffering is cast out by Peter Weiss - director
- 1991: Myriam confectionery by Ivan Klima (with Theater Bohème and Stiehlbruch Theater) at Theater99 Aachen
- 1996: Comedia del Regio by Tom Witkowski (for the Charlemagne Award ceremony to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)
- 2003: Tom Witkowski's Festival of Fools (a party for clowns and a meal for actors)
Theater roles (selection)
Tübingen room theater
year role Play author Director 1958 Cliff Lewis Look back in anger John Osborne Heinz E. Johst 1959 Jan The misunderstanding Albert Camus Wolfgang Müller 1959 Jim D. O'Conner The glass menagerie Tennessee Williams Heinz E. Johst 1959 speaker Korczak and the children Erwin Sylvanus Wolfgang Müller 1960 Isidore The price of virtue Guy de Maupassant Wolfgang Müller
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
year role Play author Director 1961 poet Caligula Albert Camus Jean-Pierre Ponnelle 1961 Journeyman Andorra Max Frisch Reinhard Spörri 1962 Hortensio Kiss Me, Kate (musical) with Olive Moorefield Cole Porter Jean-Pierre Ponnelle 1963 Cinna Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Karl-Heinz Stroux 1964 Weeping willow willow Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht Werner Kraut 1965 Weak King Henry IV William Shakespeare Karl-Heinz Stroux 1965 Eighth brother First performance Hunger and Thirst Eugène Ionesco Karl-Heinz Stroux
Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
year role Play author Director 1966 Yussup The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Hans Ernst Jäger Bertolt Brecht Joachim Fontheim 1967 worm Cabal and love (Luise Millerin) Friedrich Schiller Rudolf war 1967 Hortensio Kiss me kitten Cole Porter Joachim Fontheim 1968 Mike Rescued Edward Bond Hans Neuenfels 1968 Don Camilo The silk shoe with Elisabeth Trissenaar Paul Claudel Hans Neuenfels
National Theater Mannheim
year role Play author Director 1969 Nada State of siege Albert Camus Andreas Gerstenberg 1969 Tybald Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Ilo from Janko 1970 The treacherous dignitary wedding Witold Gombrowicz Ernst Dietz 1970 Don Camilo The silk shoe Paul Claudel Ernst Dietz 1970 Earl of Leicester Maria Stuart Friedrich Schiller Ernst Dietz 1971 The bastard King Johann Friedrich Dürrenmatt Andreas Gerstenberg 1972 Stable master August, August, August Pavel Kohut Günter Fischer 1973 Oberon - Theseus A midsummer night's dream William Shakespeare Herbert Kreppel 1974 Milo Tindle Revenge with Buddy Elias Anthony Shaffer Paul Schalich 1975 Dr. Konrad Thoss Storm in a glass of water Bruno Frank Gerd Westphal 1975 Lauterbach Skyward Ödön from Horváth Otto Schnelling 1975 sausage Mockin 'pot Peter Weiss Alois-Michael Heigl
State Theater Oldenburg
year role Play author Director 1976 Marinelli Emilia Galotti Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gerhard Jehlen 1976 AA Emigrants Slawomir Mrozek Rudolf Plent 1977 Joxer Daly Juno and the peacock Sean O'Casey Peter Heeg 1978 Mockin 'pot How Mockinpott 's suffering is cast out Peter Weiss Peter Heeg 1978 Louis The dirty hands J. Paul Sartre Otto Wilhelm
Theater Aachen
year role Play author Director 1979 Giovanni There is no payment Dario Fo Wolfgang Nitsch 1980 The old The chairs Eugene Ionesco Wolfgang Nitsch 1981 Pilinte The misanthropist Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hermann Molzer 1982 groom The blood wedding with Martha Mödl Frederico Garcia Lorca Walter Pohl 1983 Petruchio The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare Dieter Loebach 1983 Red Peter Report for an academy Franz Kafka Tom Witkowski 1983 Antonio Scorn of fear Dario Fo Fritz Matthiae 1984 Tellheim Minna von Barnhelm Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Dieter Loebach 1985 Hermann Not fish, not meat Franz Xaver Kroetz Fritz Matthiae
Theater Essen
year role Play author Director 1985 Berenger The rhinos Eugene Ionesco Günther Ballhausen 1985 Oberon A midsummer night's dream Shakespeare Imo Moszkowcz 1986 Möbius The physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt Hans Dieter Black 1987 Choir Manuel The bride of Messina Friedrich Schiller Hansgünther Heyme 1987 sergeant Cromwell Cristoph Hein Hansgünther Heyme
Grenzlandtheater Aachen
year role Play author Director 2002 Intendant Casablanca Ulf Dietrich Manfred Langner 2006 Graham Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses Bertolt Brecht Manfred Langner
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: Jeanne or The Lark - Role: The King's Page
- 1971: Crime scene: On the open road
- 1973: German premiere of the play Der Mitmacher von Dürrenmatt at the Nationaltheater Mannheim
- 2007: three men
Radio plays (selection)
- 1970: ... of the stuff that dreams are made of
- 1972: Midnight thriller The Six Matches
Works (selection)
- The fool's festival (a festival for clowns and a meal for actors)
- Comedia del Regio (For the Charlemagne Prize award to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 1996)
- Randals and instincts freely after Schiller
- The Migratory Birds - A Festival for Europe - (Theater Konvent)
Web links
- Tom Witkowski's website
- 2 short films with Tom Witkowski ( 1. THREE MEN and 2. Umbrella short )
- Zicke Zacke ( student riot) The view of the approximately 50 participating students
- Schauspielschule-Aachen.de/
- Andreas Grude reciter (one of Witkowski's students)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passion for the theater brought the couple together . In: GrenzEcho . December 7, 2011 ( grenzecho.net [accessed March 31, 2017]).
- ↑ ARD-Cronik of December 30, 1956
- ↑ Zimmertheater Tübingen .: Good old future: 50 years of Zimmertheater Tübingen: a chronicle: 1958–2008 . University of Tübingen, Cultural Office, January 1, 2008, OCLC 890617107 .
- ↑ Horst Mahnstein: An animal story. The grandiose transformation of the mime Tom Witkowski . In: Aachener Volkszeitung (ed.): From the cultural life. Aachener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Aachen October 18, 1983.
- ↑ Journal of the GDBA Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members, 69th year December 2017, WWW buehnengenossenschaft.de
- ↑ a b Sabine Rother: Narrenfest: Clowns are incredibly vain ... but very social . Aachener Zeitung No. 205 page 19A of Saturday, September 3, 1994
- ↑ Matthias Hinrichs: The stage never lets go of him. Tom Witkowski continues to shape the theater scene - actor and lecturer . In: Aachener Zeitung (Ed.): Theater January 2002 . Aachener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Aachen January 5, 2002, p. 7 .
- ^ Brecht: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses . In: Aachener Nachrichten (Hrsg.): Local . Aachen.
- ^ European Culture Forum: Tom Witkowski . In: EU Brussels (ed.): Theater Konvent . Brussels 2013.
- ↑ Der Mitmacher ( recording of the German premiere ) by Dürrenmatt - Jim, (director Dürrenmatt)
- ↑ Three men (entire film)
- ↑ ... of the stuff dreams are made of
- ↑ The six matches
- ↑ Gernot Geduldig: "Randale und Triebe" Tom Witkowski and his new piece . Ed .: Aachener Nachrichten. Culture and Society, No. 176 . Newspaper publisher Aachen, Aachen June 1996.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witkowski, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Witkowski, Günter Klaus (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director, lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ohlau (Silesia), today's Oława |