Walter Ruppel

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Walter Ruppel (born April 17, 1927 in Hamburg ; † December 22, 2016 there ) was a German dramaturge and theater director .

Life

Walter Ruppel grew up in Berlin as the son of a doctor. He began his theater career in 1950 at the Hamburger Theater im Zimmer , first as an actor and assistant to the founder Helmuth Gmelin , and later as a dramaturge. From 1956 he was head of the press office at Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart for 1 ½ years , after which he worked as a dramaturge for the Berlin stage publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch . In 1961 Ruppel returned to Hamburg and, under the directorships of Willy Maertens and Kurt Raeck, took over not only the post of dramaturge at the Thalia Theater , but also the management of the artistic management office. Ruppel was then from 1969 to 1974 artistic director at the Regensburg Theater and from 1974 took over the artistic director at the Bremerhaven City Theater , which he ended in 1981 in the course of a caricature that he published and satirizing the participation model at the theater.

In 1983 Walter Ruppel returned to Hamburg and until 1985 ran the Thalia Theater together with Peter Striebeck . In 1985, Ruppel succeeded Konrad Hansen at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater as artistic director , making him the first director of this stage who was unable to speak Low German. He continued the line of his predecessor and increasingly included High German stage literature in Low German translations in the program. B. Dat Schörengericht , a Low German adaptation of the Kleist play Der zerbrochne Krug , directed by Ilo von Jankó , as well as pieces by Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann . Under Ruppel's aegis, the Ohnsorg Theater received an invitation to the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen for the first time , and the stage also made a guest appearance in Japan with the play Lütte witte Siedenschöh by Ingo Sax . Further foreign guest appearances during this period led to New York and the Spanish island of Mallorca .

In 1994 Walter Ruppel, who had worked in three radio play productions of the then NWDR in the 1950s , resigned from the artistic director position for health reasons. His successor was Thomas Bayer . He died on December 22, 2016 in Hamburg at the age of 89.

Radio play productions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography on the Ohnsorg Theater website , accessed on July 7, 2015
  2. ^ New dramaturge: Walter Ruppel , Hamburger Abendblatt of August 18, 1961 , accessed on July 7, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Monika Nellissen: Ohnsorg-Seele Walter Ruppel is 80 years old , Die Welt from April 17, 2007 , accessed on July 7, 2015
  4. ^ History of the Bremerhaven City Theater , accessed on July 7, 2015
  5. ↑ Former Ohnsorg director Walter Ruppel has died. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 28, 2016. Accessed December 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ruppel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2016
Place of death Hamburg