The director of Wolfgang Engel is lifeless. He used to be one of the vital vital theatrical producers of GDR and died on Friday on the age of 81. It introduced a spokesman for Leipzig Theater, pointing out the circle of relatives. He used to be the director in Leipzig since 1995. till 2008. years. As well as, Dresden State spectacle used to be one of the vital vital cells in his occupation segment.
The Vendor's son and the respectable got here to state task in Dresden 1980. years. His most renowned works come with Schillere Maria Stuart, the Goldini's servant of the 2 Lord and Becketts are looking ahead to Godot, whose GDR efficiency used to be particularly common within the target audience. He remained at a distance of the SED state, and the theater guy used to be 1989. rejected the Nationwide Award of GDR.
First West, then the director of the drama in Leipziga
Right through the Nineteen Eighties, a few of his productions made it west: in Saarbrucken, Angel Angel Angel used to be in this system in 1983, 1984. and 1986. years. In 1988, his Nibelungen extremely joyful in Dusseldorf, the place they have been celebrated “as a different form of playing German history.” 12 months later, Engel mentioned that years in Dresden have been crucial skilled years in their existence. After the autumn of the wall, Engel to begin with went utterly to the West – as a director of the sport on Drama in Frankfurt am Primary. However the director returned to Saxony within the mid-Nineties. He was the director of Drama Laipzig.
On the age of 65, he forgiven himself as a director and he gave the management of Leipzig Drama. In 2011, Engel used to be commemorated for his existence with the German Theater Award “Der Faust”. A number of occasions he returned a number of occasions as a contract director on his long-standing get dressed position: in 2010. years within the town of Elbe on the the city of State Theater in line with Ms. Callakamp. And about ten years in the past, Engel on Dresden State Spectacle used to be one among two brief heads for a yr.
“A big theatrical man”
Germany loses a “great theater man who decades the German phases for decades,” explains the Cultural Minister Claudia Roth (inexperienced). Engel used to be now not simplest one of the vital vital director of GDR “, but after the crash of the Berlin Wall in Reunited Germany”. Engel referred to as the theater as a spot the place society faces his contradictions and abyss, says Roth. “We'll be very missing.”
“Due to long years of work on various phases, especially on Landesbuhnen in Radebeul, he regularly inspired audiences and performed great merits for cultural land of Saxony,” says Saxon Minister of Cultural Earth Barbara Klepsch (CDU). “This sad news about the death of Wolfgang Engel hit me hard.”
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There also are reactions from Engel's former jobs. He used to be now not simplest one of the vital vital director of GDR, who additionally formed the Dremedenic State's profile in its political dedication, says his director Joachim Clement. “I will miss you.”
Laipzig Theater, Enrico Lubbe says, “Wolfgang was the most important sponsor of my theatrical work. I am very grateful for everything he did for me, but also for acting Leipzig.”
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