Johannes Schaaf
Johannes Schaaf ( born April 7, 1933, Stuttgart ) is a German film director.
Life
The son of a police Chief Commissioner studied medicine in Tübingen and Berlin. At the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart he was in the fifties actor and assistant director. In 1958 he went to the theater Ulm, where he first directed. In 1962 he moved to Bremen.
In the sixties, Schaaf was known for numerous film and television productions. His film Tattoo 1967 was one of the first, the theme of a former generation gap at the beginning of the student revolt. In addition, he was always himself as an actor in various productions. As a performer, he has appeared in Rainer Erler primroses (1961 ), in The Seagull (1963 ), every year by Ulrich Schamoni (1966 ), Jaider, the Lonely Hunter ( Director: Volker Vogeler, 1970), the wrong weight (directed: Bernhard Wicki, 1970), the reserve (directed by Peter Beauvais, 1973) The Commissioner - Fall from height ( director: Michael Brown, 1975), If I am afraid ( director: Christian Rischert, 1983). In 1969 he was appointed jury president of the Berlinale 1969.
1980/81 was Schaaf together with the set designer Wilfried Minks for a short time on the Executive Board of the participation model at the Theatre Frankfurt.
Since the 1980s, he has specialized in drama and opera productions. He staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Berlin's Schiller Theater, Munich Residenz Theater and at the Salzburg Festival ( Leonce and Lena, Nathan the Wise, the great day of Beaumarchais ). Since the mid- 80s, he devotes more and more opera productions, including in the Salzburg Festival with " Capriccio ", " The Magic Flute" and " The Abduction from the Seraglio ." At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, he directed "Idomeneo" and one cycle of the three Da Ponte operas. For the Vienna State Opera, he directed Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1987 ( conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt ), Così fan tutte by Mozart 1989 ( Harnoncourt conductor ). He also staged at the Bavarian State Opera, De Nederlandse Opera, and the Staatstheater Stuttgart: " Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ", " Wozzeck ", " Rigoletto ", " Simon Boccanegra ," " Hansel and Gretel ", " Falstaff " and " The Queen of Spades ".
At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he interpreted, among others Boris Godunov, which he also choreographed the opening of the new Opera House in Tel Aviv. In Stockholm he brought out a new production of "Othello". In Amsterdam, he directed "Fidelio ", " Die Fledermaus ," " Eugene Onegin " and " King Roger " by Karol Szymanowski. At the Zurich Opera worked Johannes Schaaf Verdi's " Aida " and a highly acclaimed revision of Weber's " Oberon". " Cosi fan tutte " was "Le nozze di Figaro " the second new production of Johannes Schaaf at the Aalto Theater in Essen.
Johannes Schaaf lived and worked together with actress Rosemarie Fendel; He is married to the opera singer Stella Kleindienst since 1984.
1967 and 1971 Schaaf was awarded the German Critics Prize. For great love he received special recognition in 1966 with the TV movie award of the German Academy of Performing Arts.