Ulrich Heising

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Ulrich Heising (born April 15, 1941 in Königsberg ; † January 24, 2013 ) was a German theater director and film director .

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Heising studied theater studies in Cologne and Berlin . 1964/65 he was assistant director at the Städtische Bühnen Köln , 1965 to 1968 at the Münchner Kammerspiele and 1968 at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg .

He made his directorial debut in 1969 in the Werkraum of the Münchner Kammerspiele with Albee's Box-Mao-Box , other productions there included Sperr's hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria in 1969 and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the version by Christian Enzensberger in 1971 . In 1969 he directed O'Casey's Kikeriki at the Schauspielhaus Zürich .

From 1972 to 1979 Heising worked as a director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . His productions here included the world premiere of Kroetz ' Stallerhof (1972), Valentin's obsessions (1975), Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz (1977) and the world premiere of Wolf Christian Schröder's dream killer - Edgar Poe meets Peter Kürten (1978).

From 1979 Heising worked as a freelance director. He was particularly active at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus , for example in 1980 with Schiller's Maria Stuart (1980), Kortner's Donauwellen (1980), Strauss ' Known Faces, Mixed Emotions (1981) and Horst Laubes The Perpetual Piano Player (1988).

Other productions included Sperr's Hunting Scenes From Lower Bavaria at the Manhattan Theater Club New York (1981/82), Strauss ' Kalldewey, Farce (1983, Cologne), Heiner Müller's Quartet (1983, Münchner Kammerspiele), the world premiere of Ludwig Fels ' The Ape Murderer (1985, Münchner Kammerspiele), Dario Fos Accidentally a Woman (1985, Residenztheater ), Kusz ' A Rua is, Bua! (1984, Münchner Volkstheater ), Reinshagens Doppelkopf (1986, Münchner Volkstheater), Herzmanovsky-Orlando's Wiesenhendl (1987, Münchner Volkstheater), Rosenows Kater Lampe (1979, Freie Volksbühne Berlin ), Lenz / Brechts Der Hofmeister (1988, Freie Volksbühne Berlin) , Bernhard's A Festival for Boris (1989, Freie Volksbühne Berlin) and Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1991, Theater Ulm ).

Heising worked as a director frequently for radio and occasionally for television. From 1967 to 1970 he was a teacher at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and from 1975 to 1979 at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . He also taught as a guest at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , at the Theater Studies Institute at the University of Munich and from 1991 to 1994 at the Institute for Drama, Theater Direction, subject concept development at the University of Hamburg . From May 1994 to 1996 he was the director of the Otto Falckenberg School.

He was married to the actress Christa Berndl .

Filmography

  • 1981: Hangover lamp
  • 1982: Afflictions in agony
  • 1984: The disappearance of harmony

Radio plays

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Heising, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2013