Wolfgang Kolneder

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Wolfgang Kolneder (born May 9, 1943 in Graz , † November 14, 2010 in Berlin ) was an Austrian theater director .

Life

Wolfgang Kolneder was born in Graz as the son of the musicologist Walter Kolneder . He learned to play the piano at an early age and later attended the European School in Luxembourg . After heading the Zimmertheater Tübingen , Kolneder became the first dramaturge of the Berlin Grips-Theater in 1974 , whose artistic profile he decisively shaped for fifteen years as a director and dramaturge together with Volker Ludwig .

Kolneder's staging of the youth play That can't be held in my head was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1976 . He also played a key role in the creation of the successful musical Linie 1 , which premiered in 1986 and which, like Eine Linkist Geschichte (1980), is still played in Kolneder's original version at the Grips Theater to this day. As a director he also celebrated successes with Stronger Than Superman , The Most Beautiful Time in Life , Alles Plastik and Leonie Ossowski's Full Role , under his direction numerous re-productions of the Grips Theater were made all over the world.

Grave of Wolfgang Kolneder in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

He also directed at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and at the Seoul Metropolitan Opera, as well as at the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen . Kolneder, who originally came from cabaret himself , was also responsible as a director for the stage programs of the chanson trio Malediva . All in all, he worked for more than four decades as a director and artistic director at theaters, dance theaters and opera houses in Germany and abroad. The Berliner by choice also taught at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, the National Theater School in Montreal and the National School of Drama in New Delhi . In 1994 the documentary Daffke…! Was made with and about Inge Deutschkron . The four lives of Inge D. His last directorial work took Kolneder to Japan.

Wolfgang Kolneder died unexpectedly on November 14, 2010 at the age of 67 of heart failure. His grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-K-22/23).

Publications

  • Wolfgang Kolneder (Ed.): The Grips Theater. History and stories. Experiences and conversations from a children's and youth theater. Wagenbach , Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8031-2021-7
  • Wolfgang Kolneder and Stefan Fischer-Fels: The Grips Theater Book. Stories. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89468-106-3
  • Wolfgang Kolneder (Ed.): Daffke…! The four lives of Inge Deutschkron. 70 years of politics. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89468-144-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kolneder died . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 15, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kolneder died . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 15, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 489.
personal data
SURNAME Kolneder, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2010
Place of death Berlin