Ulrich Schwab (theater manager)

Ulrich Schwab (born July 9, 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a German theater director .

Life

Apprenticeship and first years of employment

Schwab studied law , business administration and theater studies in Munich and Lausanne . During his time as a trainee lawyer in Munich, he received acting training from Hanna Burgwitz and made his first assistant directors and studio productions.

1969 after his second state examination he was a lawyer down with his own practice in Munich and joined simultaneously engaged as assistant director , shortly afterwards as personal assistant to the director Helmut Henrichs at the Bavarian State Theater , Residenz Theater , in Munich.

Theater directors in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Mannheim

From 1972 to 1979 Schwab was, alongside opera directors Christoph von Dohnányi and Peter Palitzsch, as a member of the board of directors of the “codetermined” Schauspiel Frankfurt, administrative director and thus a member of the trio of the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters . In 1979 he was appointed as “General Manager” as the sole artistic and commercial founding manager of the “ Alte Oper Frankfurt ”, which reopened in 1981 and which he managed until he was resigned in 1984 without notice. At that had occurred in connection with his project, which Fassbinder -Stück Garbage, the City and Death perform.

From 1985 to 1989 he was general manager and deputy director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under director Peter Zadek . He then returned to Frankfurt as general manager of the Städtische Bühnen and headed the Frankfurt Opera from 1990 to 1991 as managing director. From 1992 to 1995, on the initiative of the director Stephan Barbarino, he was the managing founding partner of Dreamking GmbH for a musical about Ludwig II at the original location near Neuschwanstein Castle , founded the Musisches Zentrum Altusried, led seminars and theater courses there and staged with Altusrieder Amateurs Italian Night by Ödön von Horváth , The Palestinian Woman by Joshua Sobol and Kabale und Liebe by Schiller .

From 1996 to 2005 Schwab was general manager at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he staged Peter Turrini's Endlich Ende , Franz Wittenbrink's recital secretaries and Richard Wagner's Lohengrin , and Tristan and Isolde himself. He has also directed in this time Theaterkästle Altusried The master class by Terrence McNally with opera singer Hildegard Schwab Heichele than Callas.

Theater works 2005–2014

In summer 2005 Schwab staged Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans for the Allgäu open-air theater Altusried with 500 participants .

In April 2006 Ulrich Schwab took over the staging and stage design by Edward Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the Altusrieder Theaterkästle. He played the role of George , Hildegard Schwab-Heichele the role of Martha .

In October 2006, he staged Amadeus by Peter Shaffer as opening premiere of the 21st season of the Theaterkästle Altusried and created the role of Salieri.

In May 2007 Ulrich Schwab took over the role of 1st chairman of the sponsoring association “Fränkischer Theatersommer eV” on an interim basis for one year. His activities focused in particular on a substantial increase in grants from the Free State of Bavaria and the Upper Franconian District . Under his chairmanship, the name of the sponsoring association could therefore be expanded to include the addition "Landesbühne Oberfranken".

In the 2008/2009/2010 seasons Schwab was "Artist in Residence" for the theater in Kempten, where he staged Terrence McNally's play Meisterklasse with his wife Hildegard Schwab-Heichele as Maria Callas and two multi-part musical and literary searches for Goethe - A life in songs and Friedrich Schiller - beautiful world, where are you? initiated and moderated. His production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar premiered there at the end of June 2009 - with him in the role of Marc Antony. In November 2009 he staged and played the one-person play Endlich Ende by Peter Turrini in the Altusried theater box . As president of the Rotary Club Kempten-Residenz, he staged the integration theater project “Romeo and Juliet” in July 2010 at the Kempten City Theater with around 90 participants from the city's socially and ethnically diverse population groups. In October 2011, his production of The Measure of Things by Neil LaBute opened the 2011/2012 season in the Altusrieder Theaterkästle. His production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters followed there in the 2012/2013 season . In summer 2013 he took over the production management of Verdi's Rigoletto in the production of his daughter Ulrike Schwab (musical director: Sebastian Tewinkel ) for the Schlossoper Haldenstein / Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden . In February 2014, his Kempten “Romeo and Juliet” production with actors from Altusried was successfully resumed in the Altusried theater box.

Others

From 2000 to 2006 Ulrich Schwab was President of the "Free Academy of the Arts Mannheim", of which he is still a member today as well as of the " German Academy of Performing Arts ".

In August 2006 he was re-admitted to the bar for the Munich Higher Regional Court district with his seat in Altusried. His specialty: stage law .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Das Haus. The history of the theater
2. ↑ Sausages in the Blue Wonder in: DER SPIEGEL , 15/1991
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} https://www.mz-altusried.de/Produktionen.html Performances
4. ^ Nationaltheater Mannheim ( Memento from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Artistic staff
5. ^ Vita-Oper und Festgesang website of the singer Tanja Hamleh
6. ↑ Revelation in the ditch performance review online music magazine
7. ↑ Nationaltheater Mannheim ( Memento from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), season booklet 2009/2010
8. ^ Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde performance review in: S & H International Opera Review
9. ^ "The Maiden of Orleans" ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Allgäuer Freilichtbühne Altusried