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03/12/10
Hans Hirschmüller Turns 70
An Actor’s and Theater Director’s Comprehensive CV
Hans Hirschmüller will turn 70 on March 15, 2010.
As a young actor, his work brought him to Bremen, where he worked with Fassbinder’s antiteater-group and participated in the film KATZELMACHER. One – if not the key roles – was certainly Hans Epp in THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS. In 1972, he received the Bundesfilmpreis for his rendering of the fruit merchant and former foreign legionnaire. In the WDR production of EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY, the TV viewer reencountered him the workers as Jürgen.
In the ZDF documentary SEHNSUCHT NACH SODOM, Hirschmüller accompanied Kurt Raab, actor and Fassbinder collaborator, who died from AIDS. In 1990, he received the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for the script and his direction.
Whereas the earlier part of his career was dominated by cooperation with Kurt Hübner, Peter Zadek, RWF, Wilfried Minks, Herbert Achternbusch, Werner Schroeter, and Hans Neuenfels, he worked primarily as a director during the last two decades. He received the Bayerischer Theaterpreis in 1994 for his staging of Fassbinder’s play Katzelmacher with the Junges Ensemble of Nuremberg’s Kammerspiele. In 1999, he realized a stage version of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul at Munich’s Theater rechts der Isar. In 2004, he directed Water Drops on Burning Rocks at the Neues Schauspiel in Erfurt.
In the current season, Hans Hirschmüller will once again be part of the Clingenburg Festspiele ensemble in the Bavarian town of Klingenberg. Between June 10 and August 01, 2010, he will appear in the open-air production of Ronja Räubertochter (Ronja the Robber's Daughter), a play based on Astrid Lindgren’s novel for children.
Tickets and dates for the Clingenburg Festspiele
Hans Hirschmüller’s CV
Photograph on left: © Conni Moré
Photograph on right: Hans Hirschmüller in THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS, 1971 © RWFF
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