Werner Düggelin

Werner Düggelin (second from right) in 1964 rehearsing a piece by Carl Zuckmayer (Zuckmayer in the center of the picture)

Werner Düggelin (born December 7, 1929 in Zurich ; † August 6, 2020 in Basel ) was a Swiss theater director .

Life

Werner Düggelin grew up in Siebnen, Schwyz, as the son of the Cantonal Council and master carpenter Josef Düggelin and Marie, née. Eugster up. He studied German and Romance languages at the University of Zurich . He found his way to the theater by working as a lighting technician at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . Before he started directing, Düggelin worked as assistant to the director Leopold Lindtberg . He advised him to go to Paris. In the 1950s he learned to direct the theater there. He was one of the first German-speaking directors to direct plays by Samuel Beckett , Eugène Ionesco , Georges Schehadé , Albert Camus , Jean Genet and Paul Claudel in German. From 1968 to 1975 he was director of the Basel Theater . Since then he has worked as a freelance director.

In 1995 he received the Culture Prize of the City of Basel and in 2014 the Art Prize of the City of Zurich .

Productions (selection)

• 1964: Leopold Ahlsen : You will die, Sire - Schlosspark Theater Berlin
• 1972: Cenodoxus by Dieter Forte after Jakob Bidermann - Salzburg Festival , set by Jean Tinguely
• 2007: Bunbury - Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2007: Favorite people - Theater Basel
• 2008: Don Juan - Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2009: The Just - Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2011: The lesson of Eugène Ionesco - Theater Basel: Acting - Small Stage. Premiere: November 16, 2011.
• 2013: Beautiful by Jon Fosse - Schauspielhaus Zürich
• 2014: The citizen as nobleman of Molière - Schauspielhaus Zurich

Movies

• 1985: Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes Passion . - TV movie. Book: Maja Hoffmann and Werner Düggelin. Production: Swiss TV DRS, WDR Cologne, SFB Berlin. Director: Werner Düggelin.

literature

• Thomas Blubacher : Werner Düggelin . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 495 f.
• Hansruedi Lerch: Werner Düggelin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 20, 2004 .
• Werner Düggelin in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Düggelin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Düggelin (1929), theater director. In: The full life. People over 80 at Frank Baumann . SRF, June 14, 2009.
• Christoph Schneider: Dügg came, saw and knew everything better. In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 7, 2020 (obituary).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hansruedi Lerch: Werner Düggelin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 20, 2004 , accessed August 10, 2020 .
2. ↑ Daniele Muscionico: Werner Düggelin has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung online, August 6, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020.
3. ↑ Obituaries Werner Düggelin In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung Obituaries, August 6, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Keizer: “Today there aren't that many weirdos anymore”. In: Swissinfo . December 6, 2004, accessed August 6, 2020.
5. ^ Gerhard Stadelmaier: On the death of Werner Düggelin: The best of all listeners . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 14, 2020]).
6. ↑ Werner Düggelin ( memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
7. ↑ Peter von Matt : The light and the boards. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 30, 2014, accessed August 6, 2020.