Ulrich Rasche

Ulrich Rasche (* 1969 in Bochum ) is a German director and set designer .

Life

Ulrich Rasche has made a name for himself as a director with strict choral projects. After studying art history, Rasche gained theater experience with Jürgen Kruse in Bochum and with Edith Clever , Dieter Sturm and Robert Wilson at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz . He was also a fellow at the Wilsons Watermill Center near Southampton (USA). This was followed by work at the Stuttgart State Theater , the Volksbühne Berlin , the Theater Bonn , the Sophiensaele Berlin and at the Wiener Festwochen . In 2010 he directed “Wilhelm Meister. A theatrical broadcast ”. In 2014 he co-produced “The Cosmic Octave” by Nis-Momme Stockmann with the Sophiensaele Berlin, the Kunstfest Weimar, the Schauspiel Frankfurt and Kampnagel Hamburg . His staging of “Danton's Death” in 2015 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt was celebrated as the “overwhelming revolution oratorio” ( SZ ). Rasche was also awarded the Art Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2013.

Work criticism

In 2017, his design for Die Räuber at the Münchner Residenztheater was voted stage design of the year by the critics' survey by the magazine Theater heute .

In the Krikenrundschau of Nachtkritik.de , K. Erik Franzen is quoted from the Frankfurter Rundschau : "Rasche shows a world that has been in constant motion, in a mass movement ... Almost torn away by the force of this perpetual motion machine of a collective, extremely uniformed man Development frenzy is not only felt by the audience, but ultimately also by 'The Robbers'. "

His production of The Bacchae of Euripides at the Vienna Burgtheater was created by Stephan Hilpold in default praised as "a great theatrical Statement" and Norbert Mayer in the press as "massive-striking, sophisticated multi-faceted, full force" described. On Deutschlandfunk , Christoph Leibold said : "Against the background of rampant right-wing populism in Europe, Ulrich Rasche is reversing the situation ... in the sense that a little cool rationality cannot do any harm wherever more and more perceived truths are being argued." The aesthetics of the Bacchae were too close to a few who rated them “rather simple in terms of their message and artistic implementation”. The theater critic Bernd Noack said: “Even the most patient critic soon can't think of anything about Ulrich Rasche, because the German director always does the same thing with the urge to overwhelm. The dubious concept with rotating disks and endless treadmills, on which well-trained actors hack language - and meaning - in a continuous march, has now literally become boring. "Uwe Mattheis called the staging of the Bacchus " Strange undercomplex " :" Above the uniformity of his Quick distinctions have been lost. [...] The performance simply fails to recognize the continued effect of the gender difference in the discourse of power. "

Janis El-Bira classified his staging of 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane at the Deutsches Theater Berlin as "... an exemplary performance of a post-dramatic classic, which will continue to be a reference beyond the current season". Christine Wahl gave a similar verdict in the Tagesspiegel: "A really great, benchmark evening!" "4.48 Psychosis" sounds with Rasche "not only surprisingly contemporary, even diagnostic of the time. Rather, the staging reveals above all a supra-individual, existential dimension in the fundamental experience of self-insecurity, which was obscured by the biographical context." Rasche succeeds "with an above-average ensemble" in "actually getting this figure (...) out of the victim's perspective". In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Simon Strauss described Ulrich Rasche as the "most formidable director among current directors" and stated that "the monumental metaphor, believed to be worn out, of the mechanical cruelty of our society, once again achieved a new level of impact here in his first work at the Deutsches Theater ... Up until now, when Rapid Work was primarily focused on the working collective alongside the machine, it leaves more room for the individual to play. " Peter Laudenbach headlined in the Süddeutsche Zeitung "This is how desperation feels: Ulrich Rasche stages Sarah Kane's" 4.48 Psychosis "at the Deutsches Theater Berlin with a strong choir on treadmills. A shocking exercise."

Invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen and Nestroy Awards

In 2017 Ulrich Rasche was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen with his production The Robbers . The jury wrote in its reasoning:

“In an era of emerging mass movements, when enemies of democracy are forming on marketplaces and on social media platforms against the open society, Ulrich Rasche's unconventionally strict choral theater, which has been refined over the years, offers the work of art of the hour. Rasche places his players on huge treadmills that rotate like armored chains, rise towards the sky and tilt towards the abyss. Regardless of whether it is Moor's household, which is hijacked by the intriguer Franz, or the horde of robbers around Karl Moor - all of them walk like galley slaves; all get caught up in the maelstrom of the crowd, which Rasches composer Ari Benjamin Meyers congenially orchestrates with meditative, archaic drum compositions . On this operatic, gloomy evening, the breakthrough fantasies and the criticism of the authorities, which ignite Schiller's protagonists, condense into an apocalyptic memorial. "

Because of the particularly elaborate set design, the production itself could not be seen at the Berlin Theatertreffen. Instead, on May 21, 2017, a TV recording made by 3sat of the Munich production was shown as a "preview".

In 2017, Rasches Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller , staged at the Residenztheater Munich, was awarded the Nestroy Prize for the best staging in the German-speaking area in Vienna.

In 2018, Rasches Basel's Woyzeck production was selected for the Theatertreffen.

In 2018, The Persians by Aeschylus , edited by Durs Grünbein, were awarded the Nestroy Prize in Vienna as the best performance in the German-speaking region.

In 2019, both Die Perser , a co-production between the Salzburg Festival and the Schauspiel Frankfurt, and Das Großes Heft at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden were nominated for the selection of 10. The latter production was invited to Berlin.

Direction and stage (excerpt)

• 2015 Danton's death of Georg Büchner at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2015 The earthquake in Chili by Heinrich von Kleist at the Konzert Theater Bern
• 2016 The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller at the Residenztheater in Munich
• 2017 Woyzeck by Georg Büchner at the Theater Basel
• 2018 The big magazine by Ágota Kristóf at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden
• 2018 The Persians of Aeschylus at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, a co-production with the Salzburg Festival
• 2019 Elektra by Hugo von Hofmannsthal at the Residenztheater Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Rasche. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; accessed on February 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Urge - Yes, pathos. In: Friday. September 26, 2018, accessed March 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ http://www.schaefersphilippen.de/index.php?id=308
4. ↑ derStandard.at: Joachim Meyerhoff voted "Actor of the Year" . Article dated August 31, 2017, accessed August 31, 2017.
5. ^ [1] Frankfurter Rundschau, September 26, 2016
6. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17130:die-bakchen-burgtheater-wien-ulrich-rasche-eroeffnet-die-intendanz-von-martin-kusej-mit-einem-maschinentheater -monumental-euripides & catid = 80 & Itemid = 100190
7. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/viel-getoese-um-wenig-das-burgtheater-gefaellt-sich-gar-sehr-ld.1508869
8. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/viel-getoese-um-wenig-das-burgtheater-gefaellt-sich-gar-sehr-ld.1508869
9. ↑ https://taz.de/Die-Bakchen-am-Wiener-Burgtheater/!5625999/
10. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17572:4-48-psychose-deutsches-theater-berlin-ulrich-rasche-sarah-kane&catid=38&Itemid=40
11. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17572:4-48-psychose-deutsches-theater-berlin-ulrich-rasche-sarah-kane&catid=38&Itemid=40/
12. ↑ https://edition.faz.net/faz-edition/feuilleton/2020-01-21/3c9277aca36601d1633bd691c47d9804/?GEPC=s5/
13. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/schmerztheater-rasender-stillstand-1.4763974/
14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/theatertreffen/archiv_tt/archiv_tt17/tt17_programm_wahl/tt17_veranstaltungsdetail_wahl_206952.php
16. ↑ https://www.nestroypreis.at/show_content2.php?s2id=284
17. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ↑ https://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16101:nestroy-preise-vergabe&catid=126&Itemid=100089
19. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - productions under discussion in 2019. Accessed on May 14, 2019 . 
20. ↑ https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/theatertreffen/programm/programm-2019/wahl-2019/wahl-2019.html
21. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ https://www.residenztheater.de/inszenierung/die-raeuber
24. ↑ https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/Woyzeck/ozSASzSk/Pv4Ya/
25. ↑ http://www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de/spielplan/az/das_grosse_heft/
26. ↑ Schauspiel Frankfurt: Schauspiel Frankfurt - The Persians, by Aeschylus. Retrieved November 25, 2018 . 
27. ↑ https://www.residenztheater.de/inszenierung/elektra