Edith Clever
Edith Clever ( born December 13, 1940 in Wuppertal ) is a German actress and director.
Life
After graduating from high school and the drama training at the Munich Otto -Falkenberg School Clever received a first engagement at the Staatstheater Kassel. 1966-1970 she played in the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, but also took guest offers true at the Munich Chamber games and at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. 1971-1989 she was a member of the Berlin stage where they are in the collaboration with Klaus Michael Grueber and Luc Bondy, but especially with Peter Stein profiled ( Varvara in Gorky's Summer guests; Ruth in Botho Strauss's trilogy of reunion; Clytemnestra in Aeschylus' Oresteia; Chekhov's Three Sisters ).
Your participation in Hans -Jürgen Syberberg aesthetically radical Parsifal film adaptation (1982 ) led to an intensive artistic connection with this director. The results of this work presented at the reception willingness of the public high demands - eg the two -part film The Night (1985 ) with a six-hour monologue about night or solo recitals as the staged reading of Schnitzler's Fräulein Else. 1987 Clever impressed the Parisian public for five hours with Kleist's Penthesilea, which they all roles taking over as " Verstragödie in 24 appearances " lectured.
1992 Clever presented with Goethe's Stella first time as a director. 1994 Peter Stein undertook the actress as Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for the Salzburg Festival. 1996 directed and performed it at the Berlin stage the Medea of Euripides, 1997, staged by Rudolf Borchardt The home visit. In 1998, she sat at the premiere of Botho Strauss piece Jeffers - continue the personal union of director and actress act I and II in the Hebbel Theater in Berlin.