Willy Praml

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Willy Praml in the Willy Praml Theater (2017)

Willy Praml (born August 31, 1941 in Landshut ) is a German theater maker and director . He is the co-founder and director of the Willy Praml Theater in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Willy Praml during the theater project Der Rabbi von Bacharach in Bacharach (2013)

In 1960, Praml graduated from the German Gymnasium in Freising. From 1961 to 1968 he studied German, history and geography at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. From 1968 to 1971 he was a full-time federal advisor for arts education at the Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder in Berlin, where he implemented the Franco-German friendship treaty ( Élysée Treaty ) with theater courses. From 1971 to 2000 he worked as a full-time employee for theater and cultural work at the state Hessian youth education center in Dietzenbach . During this period he practiced sustained theater work with laypeople, mostly with young workers and young people from former guest worker families (see the Frankfurt Teatro Siciliano, I MACAP and others). With some of these self-produced pieces (e.g. “Mensch Maier”) he has made guest appearances on many German theaters (Frankfurt Theater am Turm , Volksbühne Berlin / Ost, Impulse (theater festival) , Theatertreffen der Jugend etc.). In 1979, together with Hansjörg Maier, Praml received the Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin, endowed with 10,000 Marks, for their "exemplary theater-pedagogical work with young people at the Hessian youth education center in Dietzenbach and the Wannseeheim for youth work in Berlin . From 1979 to 1990 Willy Praml developed new forms of theater in Hessian villages, especially in the municipality of Brechen near Limburg an der Lahn. This resulted in several theater productions with sometimes more than 100 participants, including “Die Nirrerländer” (recording on ZDF, 1981) and “His blood comes over us - Requiem in the shadow of those overcome Night ”as a co-production with the Alte Oper Frankfurt .

In 1991 Praml founded the free theater Willy Praml in Frankfurt am Main and has been playing with it in the Naxoshalle in Frankfurt am Main since 2000 . In 1994 he performed Goethe's Faust in Frankfurt's Paulskirche for the 1200th anniversary celebration of Frankfurt with professionals and amateurs .

In 2000 the Hessian youth education center in Dietzenbach was closed and Willy Praml was transferred to the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer . With the winter 2006/07 he was retired since Willy Praml is exclusively dedicated to the management of him, along with the actors, set and costume designer Michael Weber, founded Theater Willy Praml . The work of this theater company is characterized by large, expansive productions that use the aesthetic possibilities and the “industrial cathedral” character of their venue, the Naxoshalle and the public space.

In 2011, the City of Frankfurt awarded him the Binding Culture Prize, which is worth € 50,000 and is awarded every two years, for his diverse contributions to culture .

Works

Web links

Commons : Willy Praml  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Praml in the Frankfurter Faces series of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Praml, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut