Wolfgang Vienna

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Wolfgang Wiens (born April 3, 1941 in Stettin ; † May 16, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German dramaturge and theater director .

Life

After graduating from the Helmholtzgymnasium in Frankfurt , Vienna studied theater studies and German studies in Frankfurt , Berlin and Vienna from 1960 to 1964 . In Frankfurt he staged plays for the student theater and volunteered at Suhrkamp Verlag .

From 1965 Vienna's assistant director at the Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt, from 1966 also director and dramaturge. In 1969 he founded the publishing house of the authors in Frankfurt together with Karlheinz Braun and a few young playwrights . In 1971, together with Claus Peymann, he directed Handke's “Der Ritt über den Bodensee” at the Berlin Schaubühne and then headed the Frankfurt TAT for three years with Wolfgang Deichsel. From 1974 to 1977 Wiens worked as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , then in the same function at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Bremen Theater , the Schauspiel Köln , the Hamburg Thalia Theater and the Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , until 1993. Wiens joined as a guest dramaturge in 1986 of New York University Robert Wilson's production of Heiner Müller's “Hamlet Machine” and in 1987 Wilson's “ Salome ” at La Scala in Milan . After that, Wiens worked on ten other Wilson productions, including " The Black Rider ", "Alice", "Time Rocker" and "Dantons Tod".

From 1994 to 1999 Wolfgang Vienna was chief dramaturge at Hamburg's Thalia Theater. Until 2006 he was the head dramaturge at the Vienna Burgtheater . Since then he has worked as a freelance writer, mainly as a dramaturge for Robert Wilson and Andrea Breth .

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  1. ↑ Der Standard : Burgtheater dramaturge Wolfgang Wiens died , May 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Vienna, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2012
Place of death Hamburg