Volker Ludwig

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Volker Ludwig in the cloakroom of the GRIPS Theater , 2017

Volker Ludwig , actually Eckart Hachfeld , (born June 13, 1937 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German playwright and theater director. He is the son of the writer Eckart Hachfeld and the older brother of the cartoonist Rainer Hachfeld . Together with his brother, he created the first children's theater piece Stokkerlok and Millipilli . Since then, Volker Ludwig has been considered the founder of modern children's theater. Before that, West Germany had no theater for children of its own . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

cabaret

Hachfeld grew up in Erfurt (Thuringia) in 1939, and in 1948 his mother moved with her three sons to Hamburg, where they did not feel comfortable. When Wolfgang Neuss , whom his father discovered, went to Berlin with a number of other cabaret artists, he moved with his family. From 1953 the family lived in West Berlin , where they liked the atmosphere straight away. After reading Erich Kästner , Berlin was a little familiar to them. He graduated from high school at the humanistic and at the time “stock reactionary ” grammar school in Steglitz .

Volker Ludwig, 1968

At the age of 19 he took the pseudonym Volker Ludwig (Volker was called a cousin, and Ludwig refers to his place of birth Ludwigshafen). He wanted to avoid confusion with his father of the same name, Eckart Hachfeld , as he was a successful author.

From 1957 to 1960 he studied German and art history in Berlin and Munich, which he broke off because he did not like a scientific activity. Since 1959 he has been writing for Die Stachelschweine , for the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen , for the Lach- und Schießgesellschaft and for Wolfgang Neuss . He has been a freelance writer since 1962 and from 1965 to 1971 he was director of the Reich Cabaret in Berlin's Ludwigkirchstrasse, which he founded. This saw itself as part of the extra-parliamentary opposition . In addition to Dieter Kursawe , Detlef Michel and Volker Kühn , Volker Ludwig was one of the main authors.

Children's theater

GRIPS Theater on Hansaplatz

Inspired by the APO - Children shops founded in 1969 Ludwig emancipatory theater for children. From 1972 it was known under the name GRIPS Theater . It developed into the most important German-language children's and youth theater. The program consisted exclusively of in-house productions that were translated into almost 40 languages. Ludwig remained the theater director and main author of the Grips Theater to this day. The musical revue Line 1 , which premiered in 1986 and directed by Wolfgang Kolneder , was one of the greatest successes of the Grips Theater, re-enacted by numerous German theaters and filmed by Reinhard Hauff .

On June 22, 2010, Ludwig announced the end of his activity as artistic director with the start of the 2011/2012 season, his successor was Stefan Fischer-Fels. However, he continues to work as managing director. Due to the widely differing views on the Grips program, Ludwig no longer extended Stefan Fischer-Fels's contract in 2015 and appointed the in-house theater teacher Philipp Harpain as the new artistic director of the children's theater from the 2016/17 season.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Ludwig also retired from management at the end of the 2017 season and handed over responsibility to Harpain. The theater critic Rüdiger Schaper paid him farewell with the words: “Berlin has produced quite a bit of world theater. Volker Ludwig and the brain are part of it. [...] A wonder. What luck to have witnessed that. "

Volker Ludwig also translated numerous songs from Sesame Street into German.

Awards

literature

Movie

  • Make-up removed: Volker Ludwig. TV-portrait, Germany, 2008, 20 Min, written and directed. Johanna Schickentanz, production: ZDFtheaterkanal , Row: abgeschminkt , first broadcast: December 5, 2008 ZDFtheaterkanal, Summary of fernsehserien.de .

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Make-up removed: Volker Ludwig. In: ZDFtheaterkanal , December 5, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c Julia Prosinger and Wolfgang Prosinger : "They called me Stalinist, Maoist and child molesters." In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 28, 2016, interview with Volker Ludwig.
  3. ^ Rüdiger Schaper : Good theater is always on the left. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 13, 2007, interview.
  4. ^ Rüdiger Schaper: New management for the Grips Theater. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 23, 2010.
  5. ↑ Patrick Wildermann: Grips Theater. The encouragement gang. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 24, 2015, interview with Philipp Harpain and Volker Ludwig.
  6. ^ Rüdiger Schaper: On the 80th by Volker Ludwig. The miracle from Hansaplatz. In: Tagesspiegel , June 12, 2017.
  7. ↑ Press release: Third award of the German Theater Prize DER FAUST. From: Deutscher Bühnenverein , September 11, 2008, ( scroll down ).
      dpa : Theaters honor their best. ( Memento from June 1, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Ruhrnachrichten , November 30, 2008.
  8. ^ Sandra Teuffel: Volker Ludwig receives Alice Salomon Poetics Prize 2015. In: Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin , January 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ chr: Palatinate Prize for life's work to Volker Ludwig. In: nachtkritik.de of August 15, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019.
  10. ^ Frank Pommer: Palatinate Prize for Literature: Volker Ludwig awarded for life's work. In: Rheinpfalz , August 8, 2019.


personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hachfeld, Eckart (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein