Achim Benning
Achim Benning ( born January 20, 1935 in Magdeburg ) is a German actor, theater director and theater director.
Life and work
Benning studied from 1955 to 1960 Philosophy in Munich and Vienna. Its blend of actor training at the Max -Reinhardt-Seminar in 1959, he completed successfully. In the same year he started his activity as Schauspielereleve at the Burgtheater. His most important roles as an actor were Orestes in Sophocles' Electra, Lvov in Chekhov's Ivanov, Erwin in Grass's The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966) and Warwick in Shaw's Saint Joan.
Since 1971 he works as a director. 1976 appointed him Minister of Education Fred Sinowatz ( Benning 2012: a remarkable, modern -minded man ), the Directorate of the Burgtheater, which he held until 1986. Benning opened the Burgtheater increasingly for guest directors like Erwin Axer, Dieter Dorn, Adolf Dresen, Hans New Rock, Peter Palitzsch, Johannes Schaaf, Manfred Wekwerth and Leopold Lindtberg. He tried to ... as cautious modernizer who came quickly in the crosshairs of a self-appointed keepers of tradition, summed Ronald Pohl 2012 in the Viennese newspaper Der Standard, a conversation with Benning. This recalled the Kronen-Zeitung had a campaign against its management out: The castle will linksideologisch infiltrated because we played Elias Canetti's comedy of vanity.
In 1989 he became director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich and remained so until 1992. Since then he has worked as a freelance actor and director.
His opera productions in Vienna Strindberg include The Father (1973) and Dance of Death (1977 ), Gorky's Summer Guests (1979 ), Feydeau Someone has the fool be (1980 /81) and its A Ball And Chain ( 1985) and Hotel Ultimus (1991 ), Büchner's Danton's Death (1982 ), Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard (1985 ), the world premiere of Klaus Pohl's the Old country (1984 ), Turgenev's A month in the Country (1986) and Nestroys Torn Apart ( 1993) and which he wants to be a joke make (1996).
At the Zurich Schauspielhaus, he directed the world premieres of Hürlimann The last guest (1990 ) and his The Messenger (1991).
From 1993 to 2003, Achim Benning Full Professor for Director at the Max -Reinhardt - Seminar ( University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ), after his retirement, he taught until 2005 Role design.
Awards
- Invitation for its staging of the summer guests of Maxim Gorky to the Berlin Theatre Meeting ( 1980)
- Kainz Medal for his Burgtheater -enactment of the summer visitors of Gorky (1981 )
- Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna (2006)