Tag: Berlin Ensemble
Benno Besson: Memoirs of a Player – Culture
After the military coup in Turkey, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, then a young Turkish actress, really wanted to go to the famous director Benno Besson – in the early 1970s for…
Berliner Ensemble: Stefanie Reinsperger in “The Theater Maker” – culture
Stefanie Reinsperger, an actress like an unlocked hand grenade and a specialist in extreme conditions, can of course play anything. But she particularly likes to devote herself to figures that…
Berliner Ensemble: Puppet Show “Brecht’s Ghosts” – Culture
At least since the death of the famous head of the house 66 years ago, there have been a lot of ghosts in the Berliner Ensemble. After Bertolt Brecht’s death,…
Many theaters are complaining about an enormous loss of audience – others are not. – Culture
By Peter Laudenbach and Egbert Tholl Oliver Reese, the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble, is on vacation, but he knows the occupancy figures for his theater by heart. “In…
Matthias Brandt in an interview about his return to theater – culture
Actor Matthias Brandt in conversation: About the return to the stage, modern theses theater, postural problems in celebrities – and the word “cultural workers”. Matthias Brandt, 60, is one of…
Matthias Brandt as Max Frisch’s “Gantenbein” in Berlin – culture
Of course that doesn’t work at all, not in times of wokeness, feminism and criticism of representation: A middle-aged man from the upper middle class who is only interested in…
Director Robert Wilson turns 80 – culture
This was supposed to be an interview, question and answer. But with Robert Wilson Arranging for a meeting is complicated, even at times when you can meet online. Wilson is…
Threepenny Opera in Berlin: Toothless, conservative, lots of tinsel – culture
A whole stage curtain made of tinsel. Is it Christmas already today? With the Berliner Ensemble already after finally, after long, corona-related difficult rehearsal phases, with a half year delay,…