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Mourning for Peter Zadek
June 17, 2010 | | Comments Off
Vienna – mourning for Peter Zadek. The German theater director is dead, the 83-year old died in the night after a long illness.
Zadek was one derbedeutendsten deutschsprachigenTheaters and influential directors in the postwar period. As fearless provocateur desbürgerlichen theater education, he formed a half-century screen image of the German theater, many also certified him that he had made the world theater.
Zadek was born in 1926 in Berlin and emigrated after the 1933 takeover of the Nazis with his Jewish parents in England. After studying at Oxford and trained as a director in London, he returned to Germany in 1958.
His first artistic director was Zadek 1972 to 1979 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. From 1985-1989 he served as director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and from 1993 to 1995 and a director of the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble.
Zadek had caused above all with his Shakespeare InszenierungenAufsehen. Tobe the most famous productions include "Othello" mitWildgruber 1976 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg or dasHolocaust piece "Ghetto" by Joshua Sobol with Ulrich Tukur 1984 (Hamburg / Berlin).
Once trumpfteder grand old man of German theater, but in 2008 the theater with Luigi Pirandello HamburgerSt.Pauli parable "Naked" and the beginning of February 2009 a top-class with George Bernard Shaw's comedy "Major Barbara" miteinem ensemble like Julia Jentsch, August Diehl undJutta lamp in Zurich .
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