German theatre director (1925–2016)
Carl Weber (7 August 1925 – 25 December 2016) was atheatre director and a professor ofdrama atStanford University .[ 1] [ 2] Bertolt Brecht 's directing assistant and adramaturg and actor at theBerliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952. After Brecht's death in 1956, Weber remained as a director of the company. He directed in major theatres in Germany, America, Canada and elsewhere since 1957. He produced English translations of Germandramatist Heiner Müller .
He was born inDortmund , Germany, and died in Los Altos, California.[ 1]
The Day of the Great Scholar Wu , Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany, 1955Private Life of the Master Race , Berliner Ensemble, 1957Puntila , Friedrich Wolf Theater, Neu-Strelitz, Germany, 1958Mad Money , Luebeck, Germany, 1959Mother Courage , Luebeck, 1960Die Hose , Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany, 1961Trumpets and Drums , Luebeck, 1962Andorra , Luebeck, 1962The Parasite , Luebeck, 1962The General's Dog , Luebeck, 1963, then Wuppertal, 1964The Big Ear , Luebeck, 1963Threepenny Opera , Aarhus, Denmark, 1963The Caucasian Chalk Circle , Actors Workshop, San Francisco, CA, 1963The Tutor , Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, CA, 1963, then Wuppertal, 1967The Country Wife , Front Street Theatre, Memphis, TN, 1964Two Gentlemen of Verona , Little Theatre, Stanford, CA, 1964Woyzeck , Wuppertal, 1964Incident at Vichy , Wuppertal, 1965Gaspar Varro's Right , Wuppertal, 1965The Snob , Aalborg, Denmark, 1966Drums in the Night , University of California at Los Angeles, 1966Chicken Soup with Barley , Schaubuehne, Berlin, Germany, 1966The Birdlovers , National Theatre, Oslo, Norway, 1966A Man Is a Man , Aalborg, Denmark, 1967Cyrano de Bergerac , Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, New York City, 1968Enrico IV , Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1968The Caucasian Chalk Circle , Asian Theatre Institute, New Delhi, India, 1968The Miser , Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, 1968The Empire Builders , National Theatre of Canada, Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, 1970The Forest , Wuppertal, 1970Naechtliche Huldigung , Schauspielhaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1970Die Hose , Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany, 1970Soldaten , Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany, 1970The Madman and the Nun , Seventh Street Theatre, New York University, 1971Ride across Lake Constance , Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, 1972Kaspar , Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1973The Waterhen , Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1973The Entertainer , McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 1973The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1974Die Raeumung , Wuppertal, 1974Julius Caesar , Arena Stage, 1975JoAnne , Theatre at Riverside Church, New York City, 1976Lincoln , Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1976Heaven and Earth , Off-Center Theatre, New York City, 1977Scenes from Country Life , Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1978Starluster , American Place Theatre, New York City, 1979They Are Dying Out , Yale Repertory Theatre, 1979Fueherbunker , American Place Theatre, 1981Here the NY Times Mel Gussow's review:
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/03/theater/stage-snodgrass-s-fuehrer-bunker.html
The Broken Pitcher , Martinique Theatre, New York City, 1981The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , Bad Staattestheater, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1982Happy End , New York University, Second Avenue Theatre, New York City, 1984Arden of Faversham , Little Theatre, Stanford, CA, 1986The Affair in the Rue de Lourcine , Nitery, Stanford, 1989The Physicists , Little Theatre, 1991In the Jungle of the Cities , Little Theatre, 1994Between East and West , Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1997The Threepenny Opera , Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, 1999Toured as assistant director of Berliner Ensemble in Poland, 1952, Paris,France, 1954 and 1958, London, England, 1956, Moscow and Leningrad, U.S.S.R.(now Russia), 1957, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), 1958, Stockholm, Sweden, 1959, and Helsinki, Finland, 1959; toured as director with Buehnen der Hansestadt Luebeck in Denmark, 1960, 1961, and 1963.
Young peasant, Mother Courage, Berliner Ensemble, 1952 La Fontaine, Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc, Berliner Ensemble, 1953 Secretary Kan Dshen, Hirse fuer die Achte, Berliner Ensemble, 1954 Bizergan Kazbeki, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Berliner Ensemble, 1955 First tank Commander, Winterschlacht, Berliner Ensemble, 1955 Pickpocket, Trumpets and Drums, Berliner Ensemble, 1955 Young man, Mother Courage, Palace Theatre, London, England, 1956 Mucius, Life of Galileo, Berliner Ensemble, 1957 Various roles, The Investigation, Wuppertal, 1966 Director
Laughter in Mexico, Fernsehfunk (Berlin, Germany), 1957 Die Unadlige Graefin, Fernsehfunk, 1958 Infamien durch Melodien, Fernsehfunk, 1959 Wasser fuer Canitoga, Fernsehfunk, 1960 Falsch Baerte und Nasen, Fernsehfunk, 1961 The Countess, Fernsehfunk Television appearances [ edit ] Episodic
Narrator, "Brecht and Handke and the Kabarett," Camera Three, CBS, 1972 Narrator, "Peter Handke-Theatre and Ideas," Camera Three, CBS, 1973 Stage Plays
(withPeter Palitzsch ) The Day of the Great Scholar Wu, Berliner Ensemble, 1955 (Editor and translator)Heiner Mueller , Hamletmaschine and other texts for the stage, Performing Arts Journal Publications (New York City), 1984 (Editor and translator) Heiner Mueller, The Battle: Plays, Poetry, Prose by Heiner Mueller, Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1989 (Editor and translator) Heiner Mueller, Explosion of Memory: Writings by Heiner Mueller, Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1989 (Editor and translator) DramaContemporary: Germany, Johns HopkinsUniversity Press (Baltimore, MD), 1996 Teleplays
Episodic
"Brecht and Handke and the Kabarett," Camera Three, CBS, 1972 "Peter Handke-Theatre and Ideas," Camera Three, CBS, 1973
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