Ulrich Waller

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Ulrich Waller (born January 1, 1956 in Marburg an der Lahn ) is a German director , theater director and author .

Life

Ulrich Waller grew up as the son of a doctor in Tübingen and studied after graduating from the Uhland-Gymnasium German and history in Tübingen and Munich . In 1976 he went to the Schauspiel Frankfurt as assistant director to Peter Palitzsch and in 1979 to Jürgen Flimm at the Schauspiel Köln and in the same year brought out his first production in Bremen under the drama director Frank-Patrick Steckel : Ella von Herbert Achternbusch with Ignaz Kirchner and Circe , which subsequently is taken over by Jürgen Flimm to Cologne and shown in the Stollwerck factory.

At the beginning of the 1980s he was engaged as a director and dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under the management of Niels-Peter Rudolph . a. Susn von Achternbusch with Hannelore Hoger (1981), Shadow of a Rebel by Sean O'Casey with Burghart Klaußner and Imogen Kogge (1982), as world premiere (premiere) Lämmermann by Ludwig Fels (1983) and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart as premiere Das Kurz Leben der Snow clouds by Wolfgang Bauer u. a. with Elke Lang (1983). In 1986 he brought out the adaptation of the last chapter of Joyce's " Ulysses " under the title Penelope with Barbara Nüsse in the Hamburg Kampnagelfabrik . New version for the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and in Thalia-Gaußstr. again with Barbara Nüsse (2014). In 1988 he became a member of the artistic direction of the Frankfurt TAT (together with Elke Lang and Tom Stromberg ). Here he led u. a. Directed Kiss of the Spider Woman with Circe and Michael Weber (1987), along with Elke Lang at Seven Doors of Botho Strauss (1988) and worked together with Christof Nel projects Wortpest on a text by Kleist (1989) and Memories measures itself the speed of oblivion (1991).

Waller wrote various plays, including a. Küssebisserisse - a comedy about men (premiere 1986 at the Schauspielhaus Wien), the world doesn't end there - a piece of Berlin history (premiere 1991 Schillertheater Berlin), zapping - the comedy of the new generation (premiere 1995 Kampnagel-Fabrik Hamburg, invited 1996 to the North German Theatertreffen in Schwerin), together with Ulrich Tukur Blaubarts Orchester (premiere in 1993 Schmidts Tivoli in Hamburg), Once Casanova (premiere in 1997 Hamburger Kammerspiele ), Die Jungs with the Tüdelband - Die Gebrüder Wolf-Story (premiere in 2002 Hamburger Kammerspiele), together with Tukur and Frank Göhre Der Lord von Barmbeck (premiere 2005 St. Pauli Theater Hamburg), together with Udo Lindenberg and Thomas Brussig the Lindenberg musical Hinterm Horizont (premiere 2011), together with Peter Huth and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre 100 years in 100 Minutes , a revue about Axel Springer (premiere 2012) and together with Markus Busch the Hamburg revues line S 1 (2013) and Hamburg Royal (2015).

Since 1987 he has headed the annual Hamburg Cabaret Festival , he wrote and staged numerous cabaret evenings for the stage and television, which have been awarded the German Cabaret Prize several times . a. with Matthias Beltz , the Frankfurter Fronttheater , Horst Schroth , Achim Konejung , Richard Rogler , Arnulf Rating , the Missfits and Matthias Deutschmann , in the early 1990s the ensemble projects Reichspolterabend II and III with Beltz, Schroth, Pachl, Rating u. a. and most recently the cabaret pieces Ruhrrevue (premiere 1999) and Fußballfieber (premiere 2006) a. a. with Herbert Knebel and the Missfits. 2003 Start of collaboration with the singer and musician Udo Lindenberg , including at Atlantic Affairs , a revue about German-speaking composers in exile (2004), Thirty Years of Panic Orchestra (2006), Strong as Two (2008) and, most recently, Ich mach mein Ding (2012) .

From 1995 he was initially together with Ulrich Tukur , and since the 2000/01 season he was the sole artistic director of the Hamburger Kammerspiele, where he staged a. a. Borchert's Outside Front Door with Ulrich Tukur and Gerhard Garbers (1995), the world premiere of Laederach's Fräulein Stefan with Elke Lang in the title role (1996), Be a Casanova with Ulrich Tukur (1997), Beckett's The Last Volume with Ulrich Wildgruber as Krapp (1997), the Brecht collage From Augsburg to Bilbao with Ulrich Tukur (1998), Harwood's Der Fall Furtwängler with Tukur and Peter Fitz (1999), Beckett's Happy Days with Barbara Nüsse and Peter Franke (1999), Der Totmacher with Christian Redl as Fritz Haarmann (2000), Anne Frank with Caroline Ebner (2001) as a co-production with the schauspielhannover (invited to the North German Theatertreffen 2002), Three times the life of Yasmina Reza with Barbara Auer , Burghart Klaußner , Rudolf Kowalski and Leslie Malton (2001), Lieder am Abgrund with Ulrich Tukur (2001), Die Gebrüder Wolf -Story Die Jungs mit dem Tüdelband with Peter Franke and Gerhard Garbers (2002), Thomas Bernhards Am Ziel with Barbara Nüsse (2002), Ein Stück vom Himmel with Kat yes Riemann , Imogen Kogge, Max Hopp, Natalia Wörner and others in co-production with the Deutsches Theater Berlin (2002).

Since autumn 2003 he has been artistic director of the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg and has staged, among other things, Auf der Reeperbahn ...- a St. Pauli revue (2003), Brecht's The Threepenny Opera a . a. with Eva Mattes , Stefanie Stappenbeck , Maria Bill, Christian Redl , Peter Franke and Ulrich Tukur (2004), Der Lord von Barmbeck von Göhre / Tukur / Waller with Ulrich Tukur (2005), Totaler Filmriß (Die Affaire Rue de Lourcine) with Peter Franke and Christian Redl (2005), Cabaret with Gustav Peter Wöhler , Anneke Schwabe , Peter Franke, Elisabeth Schwarz a. a. (2005), The Piggy Bank after Labiche with Kristian Bader , Heinrich Pachl, Arnulf Rating, Michael Quast and Horst Schroth (2006), Men Talks by Morten Feldmann (UA 2006), Winners (National Anthems) by Dennis McIntyre and others. a. with Uwe Bohm (DEA 2007), Der Gott des Gemetzels by Yasmina Reza with Barbara Auer, Herbert Knaup, Rudolf Kowalski and Anne Weber (2008), together with Jérôme Savary Happy End by Dorothy Lane / Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill with Angela Winkler and Peter Lohmeyer (2008), Waiting Room Germany by Klaus Pohl (2009), Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen with Angela Winkler, Eva Mattes, Uwe Bohm and Christian Redl (2009), one long day's journey into the night of O'Neill with Ben Becker and others and David Bennent (2010), at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin the Udo Lindenberg musical Hinterm Horizont (co-production Stage-Entertainment and St.Pauli Theater, 2011 / new version in the Operettenhaus Hamburg, 2016), the DEA by Florian Zellers The truth among others with Herbert Knaup and Thomas Heinze (2011), the musical Anatevka with Gustav-Peter Wöhler and Adriana Altaras as Tevje and Golde (2011), the DEA of Zeitstillstand by Donald Margulies with Leslie Malton (2011), Sonny Boys by Neil Simon with Christian Redl and Ger hard Garbers (2012), your version of the game by Yasmina Reza with Hannelore Hoger, Volker Lechtenbrink and Tatja Seibt (2013), the Hamburg-Revue line S 1 (2013), in San Gusmé (SI) together with Matteo Marsan and Dania Hohmann Albicocche rosse - Bloody Apricots , a German-Italian theater project about a massacre of German soldiers in an Italian village, with Adriana Altaras, George Meyer-Goll and Peter Jordan (2014), the DEA One Hour Rest by Florian Zeller and others. a. with Herbert Knaup, Johanna Christine Gehlen and Stephan Schad (2015), the DEA by Der Vater , also by Florian Zeller a. a. with Volker Lechtenbrink (2015), the Hamburg-Revue Hamburg Royal (2015), Bella Figura by Yasmina Reza, with Judith Rosmair, Stephan Schad, Boris Aljinovic, Angela Schmid and Johanna Gehlen (2016), Amara terra mia - Mein bitteres Land, a project about migrants (together with Matteo Marsan and Dania Hohmann), with Adriana Altaras and Daniela Morozzi (2016), invited to the Festival Theater der Welt in Hamburg 2017, the DEA from Behind the Facade by Florian Zeller with Herbert Knaup (2016), the DEA of 4000 days by Peter Quilter with Gustav Peter Wöhler, Boris Aljinovic and Judy Winter (2017), Große Freiheit Nr.7 with Volker Lechtenbrink as Johnny Kröger (2017), new version with Stefan Gwildis (2019), together with Dania Hohmann and Matteo Marsan in San Gusmè (SI) La grande gelata - The Great Frost , a German-Italian theater project about the Italian migrants after the war, the guest workers, etc. a. with Adriana Altaras, Daniela Morozzi, Peter Franke, Gianni Ferreri, George Meyer-Goll, Anneke Schwabe and Jörg Kleemann (2017), the DEA of Monsieur Claude and his daughters , based on the film of the same name, with Michael Prelle and Angela Schmid (2017) , the baroque opera La divisione del mondo by Giovanni L Limiti at the Kiel Opera House together with the conductor Alessandro Quarta (2018), together with the ZEIT editor-in-chief Giovanni di Lorenzo, on behalf of the Hamburg theater festival in the Hamburg Kampnagelfabrik Chor des Hasses with Iris Berben , Claudia Michelsen, Dietmar Bär and Robert Stadelober, an evening about hate mail to politicians (2018), consensus from Nina Raine, u. a. with Johanna Gehlen, Patrick Heyn, Stefan Schad and Bettina Engelhard (2018), the recital Come on quietly with Volker Lechtenbrink (2019), the premiere of Let me in peace by Klaus Pohl with Eva Mattes and Edda Wiersch (2019), the DEA by Der Sohn von Florian Zeller with Herbert Knaup, Johanna Gehlen, Peter Franke and Dennis Svensson (2019) and Christmas Eve by Daniel Kehlmann with Barbara Auer and Johann von Bülow (2020).

Since 2009 he has also performed at the Hansa-Theater (Hamburg) together with his partner Thomas Collien .

Since 2006 he has been a lecturer at the Theater Academy Hamburg.

He is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg and the German Academy of the Performing Arts.

Private

Waller's first marriage was to actress and director Elke Lang , who died in 1998. In 2009 he married the director Dania Hohmann . He lives in Hamburg and Italy.

Directorial work (television / film)

  • The horny east, a journey through the last days of the GDR (with Wigald Boning and David Dunster , NDR 1990, 45 min)
  • Heimatabend , an emotional box office crash with cabaret and music and the sitcom Shameless The centerpiece of a satirical-musical annual review with Ulrich Wildgruber, Brigitte Janner, Kay Maertens, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Beltz, Horst Schroth and guests u. a. Burghart Klaußner, Gerhard Garbers, Georg Schramm, Elke Lang, Michael Schönborn, Matthias Fuchs, Gustav Peter Wöhler and Ulrich Tukur. (10 episodes, NDR 1990-99, 90 min / nominated in 2000 for the 36th Adolf Grimme Prize in the "Special" category)
  • The unexpected east, second trip to the test area of ​​the future (with David Dunster, NDR 1994, 45 min)
  • Last and first days, a review of memories with Alfred Biolek, Ulrich Wickert, Udo Lindenberg, Tim Fischer, Ulrich Tukur, Marianne Rosenberg, Esther Ofarim, book Horst Königstein / Rüdiger Hoffmann (Radio Bremen, 1995, 120 min)
  • Visiting Ulrich Tukur , nine-part talk show with guests a. a. Karl Schönboeck, Heinz Both , Margot Hielscher , Ilse Werner , Nadja Tiller , Robert Kempowski, Erich Kludas, FJ Krüger, Horst Winter and the Rhythmus Boys, (NDR 1996-98, 45 min)
  • Poets in Hamburg , six-part series on the trail of poets who came from Hamburg or who lived in Hamburg. u. a. with Christian Quadflieg , Ulrich Tukur, Otto Sander and Ulrich Wildgruber . (NDR 1997-99, 45 min)
  • A satirical review of the year (ran under different names) with Peter Lohmeyer and guests a. a. Georg Schramm, Horst Schroth, Matthias Beltz , Hagen Rether, Michael Schönborn, (10 episodes, NDR 2000–2009, 90 min)
  • Two boys from Hamburg - Biermann meets Tukur , gala for Wolf Biermann's 70th birthday (NDR 2006, 90 min)
  • The forgotten war - San Gusmè and the theater of remembrance , (co-director with Eduard Erne), u. a. with Adriana Altaras, Carlo Gentile, Dania Hohmann, Peter Jordan, Christiane Kohl, Matteo Marsan, Daniela Morozzi, David Riondino, Bebo Storti, Ulrich Tukur, (in cooperation with NDR and BR 2015, 88 min, invited to the Hamburg Film Festival 2015, for 35th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal (Canada) 2017 and for the Montelupo International Independent Film Festival Italy 2017)

Books

  • Vera, Nikolas and the fire - a dragon story. with illustrations by Andrè Aurich . Klöpfer and Meyer publishing house, Tübingen 1993.
  • My journey takes longer - Elke Lang: director, actress. Achilla press Hamburg 1999.
  • Nothing but theater - the history of the Hamburger Kammerspiele. (together with Ulrich Tukur), Christians-Verlag Hamburg 2003.
  • Broadway on the Kiez - 175 years of the St. Pauli Theater (together with Claus G. Budelmann and Thomas Collien), Ellert and Richter-Verlag, Hamburg, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Waller, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, theater director and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg on the Lahn