Peter Stein
Peter Stein ( born October 1, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German theater, opera and film director and former theater director. He is the director of internationally relevant stages. Many of his productions have written the history of theater, especially the groundbreaking performances at the Berlin theater, which he had renewed content and time, made one of the most important theaters in the world.
Life
Youth
Peter Stein is the grandson of Rudolf Stone, who owned a motorcycle factory in the 1920s and led. His father, Herbert Stein studied mechanical engineering in Hanover and later went to Berlin for the company ATE Alfred Teves as technical director in the area of engine and after the war as a plant manager in South Baden. Peter Stein visited the Frankfurt Lessing -Gymnasium and fell because of domestic disputes in the performance greatly. Still, he could catch up to high school graduation in 1956 and again become one of the best graduates. He studied literature and art history from 1956 to 1958 in Frankfurt am Main and from 1958 to 1964 in Munich. A dissertation on ETA Hoffmann's tales, he broke from dissatisfaction with his work again.
First theater experiences and successes
In Munich, he regularly visited the Munich Chamber Games and enthusiastic about the work of Fritz Kortner. After finishing his studies he started at the intimate theater as Kortner assistant. In 1967, he got there first opportunity for its own production: Saved by Edward Bond. The magazine Theater wrote today that with stone " a new generation in the German theater " had appeared. For a complete scandal he caused by a collection of donations after a performance of the Vietnam discourse of Peter Weiss 1968. Stein was then dismissed by Artistic Director August Ever thing.
First, he went to Zurich and then to Kurt Huebner theater in Bremen. At the Theater Bremen Hübner collected in the 1960s, some emerging young directors and many talented actors around. So also wore Peter Zadek, with its productions of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Friedrich Schiller's Robbers at the best theater in West Germany at that time at. Peter Stein 1969 could contribute to this series of productions that were committed to the Pop Art, Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Torquato Tasso - one of today's paradigmatic staging.
Stage
In 1970, stone with his grown in Bremen and Zurich ensemble to the stage at the Hall Ufer in Berlin, he, influenced by the political events around 1968, by virtue of a participation theater headed. Applications developed with the theater ensemble, and he perfected his directing style, and some of the combatants developed into theater stars such as Edith Clever, Jutta Lampe, Otto Sander, Udo Samel, Serious Stötzner and Bruno Ganz. The successful productions in the very small Theater am Ufer hall enabled him in 1981 to move into a new house, which was built according to his wishes. It originated with the Schaubühne Place a multifunctional house whose technical standard to this day (2011) in the German theater scene is second to none.
1985 by Stone, the artistic director of the house down, began working as a freelance artist and came only project back to the stage. From 1991 to 1997 he headed the spectacle at the Salzburg Festival.
Faust project
For the Expo 2000 in Hanover, he directed the complete Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe - unabridged with all 12,110 verses of the first and second part. For this 15 - million - euro production Stein started his own company with about 80 employees. The ensemble here was composed of 35 actors, including as guest stars in the lead roles Bruno Ganz, Johann Adam Oest, Robert Hunger -Bühler and Dorothee Hartinger.
Wallenstein
Stone staged with the Berliner Ensemble from May 2007 on the site of the old Kindl brewery in Berlin- Neukölln, the eleven acts of " Wallenstein " by Friedrich Schiller in a ten -hour performance. Klaus Maria Brandauer played the title role.
Private life
Stone was 1967-1984 married to actress Jutta Lampe and from 1985 to 1990 with Beatrice Leppert. Since 1999, he is married to Italian actress Maddalena Crippa. For several years, Stone lives with his wife in the estate of San Pancrazio near Rome and also operates agriculture with the cultivation of olives, vines and fruit there.