Volker Canaris

Volker Canaris (born May 22, 1942 in Königsberg ; † May 6, 2012 in Düsseldorf ) was a German dramaturge , theater critic , theater director and film producer .

Live and act

Canaris, son of Constantin Canaris , studied German, history and comparative literature in Munich , Berlin and Bonn . In 1970 he completed his studies with a doctorate.

From 1968 Canaris wrote theater reviews for Theater heute , Der Spiegel and Die Zeit . From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a theater lecturer at Suhrkamp Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . From 1970 to 1979 he worked as a dramaturge in the television drama department at WDR in Cologne . From 1979 to 1985 Canaris was acting director and deputy director at the Schauspielhaus Köln under Jürgen Flimm . From 1986 to 1996 he was general director of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

Canaris died at his home as a result of his second heart attack.

Filmography (as producer)

1973: The scarlet letter
1974: The last days of Gomorrah
1976: Shirin's wedding
1977: Heinrich
1977: From a German life
1978: Good-for-nothing (only dramaturgy)
1978: That's not enough for us
1979: The marriage of Maria Braun (editor)
1980: The world that summer
1980: put aside
1980: Germany, pale mother

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

Literature by and about Volker Canaris in the catalog of the German National Library
Volker Canaris in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Theater head. Unadjusted: On the death of the artistic director Volker Canaris . In: FAZ . No. 108 , May 9, 2012, p. 27 ( online [accessed September 20, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Canaris, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dramaturge, theater critic, theater director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 2012
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Theater head. Unadjusted: On the death of the artistic director Volker Canaris . In: FAZ . No. 108 , May 9, 2012, p. 27 ( online [accessed September 20, 2019]).