Mr. Castorf, who works almost exclusively with classics, said he only chose pieces to which he felt a connection.
Otherwise you don’t survive the next pogrom.” Ms. Gysi invited her father to Mr. Castorf’s politically questionable premieres; when Mr. Castorf was fired from his position as director in Brandenburg in 1979, her brother, Gregor Gysi, a laywer at the time and now a well-known politician, defended Mr. Castorf in a lawsuit. He still finds work consuming.
Then it’s dumped recklessly, with humor and sadism, on the stage.” “I don’t have to go to an analyst,” he added.
So in the production, the characters did just that. In 1981 he was put in charge of the theater in a provincial East German city, Anklam: either an exile or an opportunity, depending on who is telling the story. The choir consisted of theater technicians, stage hands, cashiers and other behind-the-scenes workers who came onstage and sang. Volksbühne, Frank Castorf, Berlin, DDR, Chris Dercon, Ernst von Salomon; Kommentare. Mariant avec une virtuosité féroce théâtre et vidéo, il dialogue avec les grandes œuvres du répertoire (Dostoïevski en tête) à l’appui d’un fracassant jeu d’acteurs. La pièce déroule son intrigue complexe à Constantinople, au palais du sultan Amurat, parti assiéger Babylone.
She guided Mr. Castorf’s early career. “Frank said: ‘Do this, go over there, come on, help him!
The state subsidizes 80 percent of the theater budget, so he does not need to concern himself with making a profit. Castorf.)
(The suggestion that he should was made by one of his biographers, the theater critic Robin Detje, after one particularly long interview with Mr. Now 55, with gray hair and slight stoop, Mr. Castorf is still the director of the Volksbühne. “Then we had it,” Mr. Peschel said.
And Ms. Gysi recently joined the Volksbühne as the artistic director.In an e-mail message, Mr. Castorf commented on his reputation as a womanizer: “I like women. They are what they are. He took it all to the limit.”Carl Hegemann, who formerly worked with Mr. Castorf as a dramaturg, said the only endeavor that made sense for him at this point was to direct a traditional play. While Mr. Castorf wasn’t allowed to work for political reasons for a period, he was never jailed. “His method is exhausted.”Rüdiger Schaper, the theater critic for the newspaper Tagesspiegel, said: “We’re tired of nudity. “They were always excusing me. “As part of an assimilated Jewish family — my mother was a very clever woman who survived the Holocaust — you learn to think in constellations. You feel free.” He paused a moment. Darkslide #1 — 9. À la recherche d’un art vivant. O.K., no!’ ” The solution?
Such acceptance can present a problem. “From multitudinous personal catastrophes has arisen a certain radical fantasy,” said Mr. Castorf, whose theater is known for its sexy, aggressive actresses. Neueste zuerst Nur Leserempfehlungen.
Mr. Castorf calls this process “piratery — marauding for aesthetic snapshots.” In the end less than a 10th of the original text might remain, something that has led detractors to dub Mr. Castorf the “text wrecker.”His troupe of actors is as unconventional as he is. The young Castorf studied theater at Humboldt University in East Berlin. After you’ve broken all the rules, what comes next? The new contract he signed in November will keep him in place at least until 2008, and most likely through 2013 under the contract’s automatic extension: a remarkable tenure in a city where five-year contracts are often the norm. Et la confronte à la puissance des mots d’Artaud.Frank Castorf pourrait bien apparaître comme le maître du théâtre allemand si son esprit rageur et sa verve iconoclaste Mr. Castorf had the actor playing Raskolnikov attempt to copulate with a sofa, then had Mr. Peschel pitch in and manually stimulate the Raskolnikov character. The core group has been together for more than a decade; some have been with him for 25 years or more. “I understood the bureaucracy better,” Ms. Gysi said.