Wolfgang Rumpf (director)

Wolfgang Rumpf (born December 8, 1948 in Bernburg (Saale) ) is a German theater director and artistic director .

Rumpf completed his studies in acting and directing at the State Drama School in Berlin . He was a directorial aspirant to Wolfgang Heinz at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Since 1975 Rumpf has staged plays by Bertolt Brecht , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Gerhart Hauptmann , Agatha Christie , Felix Mitterer and other authors at various German theaters . He also directed operettas and cabaret.

In 1990 he became director of the Berlin cabaret Die Kneifzange . After 22 years of directorship, the cabaret closed at the end of October 2011.

In 2000 he and his long-time dramaturge and management partner Wolfgang Seppelt took over the management of the " Berliner Kriminal Theater " they founded .

In 1975 Rumpf was awarded the Handel Prize , the art prize of the city of Halle an der Saale . He lives in Leegebruch .

Important productions

• The eight millionaires ( Robert Thomas )
• The Mousetrap ( Agatha Christie )
• Dangerous Obsession ( Norman J. Crisp )
• Prosecution Witness (Agatha Christie)
• Confession ( Felix Mitterer )
• The Twelve Jurors ( Reginald Rose ), 2006
• Before the Frost ( Henning Mankell ), 2007
• The Hound of Baskerville ( Arthur Conan Doyle ), 2008
• The Dead Maker ( Romuald Karmakar ), 2008
• Arsenic and lace cap ( Joseph Kesselring ), 2009
• The Name of the Rose ( Umberto Eco ), 2011
• The Birds ( Conor McPherson ), 2018

Web links

• BERLIN CRIME THEATER: Wolfgang Rumpf is celebrating his 60th birthday. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 28, 2008, accessed September 4, 2015 . 
• Biography on Kriminaltheater.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2007 ; Retrieved September 4, 2015 . 
• Closure of the "pincers"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Director Wolfgang Rumpf celebrates his 70th In: Märkische Allgemeine , December 7, 2018