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'''Günther Rühle''' (3 June 1924 – 10 December 2021) waa a German theatre critic, book author and theatre manager. He directed the feuilleton of major newspapers and was regarded as an influential leading theatre critic, beginning in the 1960s.<ref name="Greiner" /> He managed the [[Schauspiel Frankfurt]] from 1985 to 1990. Rühle was a member of the [[PEN-Zentrum Deutschland]]. From 1993 to 1999, he was president of the [[Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste]] in Frankfurt. He published books about the history of theatre in Germany, and its criticism.
'''Günther Rühle''' (3 June 1924 – 10 December 2021) was a German theatre critic, book author and theatre manager. He directed the feuilleton of major newspapers and was regarded as an influential leading theatre critic, beginning in the 1960s.<ref name="Greiner" /> He managed the [[Schauspiel Frankfurt]] from 1985 to 1990. Rühle was a member of the [[PEN-Zentrum Deutschland]]. From 1993 to 1999, he was president of the [[Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste]] in Frankfurt. He published books about the history of theatre in Germany, and its criticism.


== Career ==
== Career ==

Revision as of 12:00, 11 December 2021

Günther Rühle
Born(1924-06-03)3 June 1924
Gießen
Died10 December 2021(2021-12-10) (aged 97)
Bad Soden am Taunus
EducationUniversity of Frankfurt
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Theatre critic
  • Theatre manager
  • Writer
Organizations
Awards

Günther Rühle (3 June 1924 – 10 December 2021) was a German theatre critic, book author and theatre manager. He directed the feuilleton of major newspapers and was regarded as an influential leading theatre critic, beginning in the 1960s.[1] He managed the Schauspiel Frankfurt from 1985 to 1990. Rühle was a member of the PEN-Zentrum Deutschland. From 1993 to 1999, he was president of the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste in Frankfurt. He published books about the history of theatre in Germany, and its criticism.

Career

Rühle was born in Gießen, the sone of an auditor. A famous ancestor was the Prussian general August Otto Rühle von Lilienstern, a friend of Heinrich von Kleist. Günther Rühle grew up first in Weilburg, and from 1935 in Bremen, where he attended the Altes Gymnasium [de] until 1942. In July 1942, he was drafted to Arbeitsdienst, and in October that year to the Luftwaffe. In 1946, he completed schooling with the Abitur.[2] Rühle then studied German studies, history and Volkskunde at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main until 1952, when he was promoted to the doctorate with a dissertation about Andreas Gryphius.[3]

Journalism

He began work as a journalist for Frankfurter Rundschau in 1953, moving to the feuilleton of the Frankfurter Neue Presse a year later, and to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in 1960 where he became an influential theatre critic. He was promoted to head of the department in 1974.[3] From 1990, he held the same position for Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin.[4][5][6]

Intendant

In 1984, Hilmar Hoffmann, responsible for culture in Frankfurt, won Rühle to succeed Adolf Dresen [de] as Intendant (theatre manager) of the Schauspiel Frankfurt.[5] Rühle held the position until 1990, responsible for engaging Michael Gruner [de] and Dietrich Hilsdorf [de] as regular directors, and actors such as Martin Wuttke and Thomas Thieme. In 1985, Hilsdorf directed the controversial Fassbinder play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod in the Kammerspiele of the Schauspiel Frankfurt. Due to alleged antisemitic tendencies in the play, the world premiere was made impossible by the stage being occupied by protesters.[5] Rühle staged a performance for around 150 critics and theatre personnel on 4 November, which the publisher counted as the world premiere. The Frankfurter Rundschau reported that the Frankfurt theatre had proven that the play is not governed by antisemitism.[7] However, due to continued protests, the play was not performed for the public for safety reasons.[5] Rühl promoted the director and poet Einar Schleef,[3] who, coming from East Germany, was first not accepted by audience and critics, but whose 1988 production of Gerhard Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. Hoffmann offered an extension of Rühle's contract in 1989, but he declined.[5][8]

Editor

Rühle wrote a book in two volumes about the history of theatre criticism in Germany, Theater für die Republik. Im Spiegel der Kritik., which appeared in 1988. From 1995, he worked as a freelance editor.[5] He was the key editor of an edition of Alfred Kerr's complete works, by S. Fischer Verlag. He was also president of the Alfred Kerr Foundation [de] in Berlin, and editor of the complete works by Marieluise Fleißer by Suhrkamp.[4] In 2007, he published the first volume of a documentation of the history of theatre in Germany, Theater in Deutschland 1887 bis 1945. Seine Ereignisse – seine Menschen (Theatre in Germany 1887 to 1945. Its events – its people) in S. Fischer, followed in 2014 by a second volume about the years 1945 to 1966.[6] The work was praised for rich details, and has become a standard in the field.[9] A third volume, authored by Hermann Beil [de] and Stephan Dörschel on Rühle's request, is planned.[6]

Günther Rühle died in Bad Soden am Taunus on 10 December 2021 at age 97].[5][6][3]

Awards

Rühle was honorary citizen of Bensheim.[10] In 2009, an award of the Woche junger Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler for the best theatre acting by a newcomer was named Günther-Rühle-Preis.

Publications

  • Theater in unserer Zeit, 3 volumes, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1976/1982/1992
  • (ed.): Bücher, die das Jahrhundert bewegten. Zeitanalysen, wiedergelesen. Piper, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-492-02399-1; S. Fischer Verlag pocket book 5008, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-596-25008-0.
  • Theater für die Republik. Im Spiegel der Kritik. vol. 1: 1917–1925, revised, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-10-068503-2.
  • Theater für die Republik. Im Spiegel der Kritik. vol. 2: 1926–1933, revised, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-10-068504-0.
  • Theater in Deutschland 1887–1945. Seine Ereignisse – seine Menschen. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-068508-7.
  • Theater in Deutschland 1945–1966. Seine Ereignisse – seine Menschen. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-001461-0.
  • Ein alter Mann wird älter. Ein merkwürdiges Tagebuch. ed. by Gerhard Ahrens, Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-89581-576-8.

References

  1. ^ Greiner, Ulrich (3 June 2004). "Dem Neuen eine Chance: Günther Rühle wird 80". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Günther Rühle". Munzinger Archiv (in German). 18 February 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Theaterkritiker und Ex-Intendant Günther Rühle ist tot". Berlin (in German). 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Günther Rühle". S. Fischer Verlag (in German). 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Günther Rühle ist tot / Er war einer der größten Kenner des Theaters in Deutschland". Der Spiegel (in German). dpa. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d "Günther Rühle ist tot". Börsenblatt (in German). 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  7. ^ Schueler, Hans (5 December 1986). "Schonzone und Schonzeit". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  8. ^ Behrens, Wolfgang (2003). Einar Schleef. Werk und Person (in German). Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit. p. 135. ISBN 3-934344-30-5. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  9. ^ "Theater in Deutschland 1887–1945". Perlentaucher (in German). 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Ehrenbürger Günther Rühle mit dem Binding-Kulturpreis ausgezeichnet". Bensheim (in German). 17 June 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2021.

Further reading

  • C. Bernd Sucher [de] (ed.): Theater Lexikon, Autoren, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Dramaturgen, Bühnenbildner, Kritiker. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3.
  • Das, was ich schreibe, wird einmal als Wahrheit gelten. Ein Gespräch mit dem Theatermann Günther Rühle, der heute 95 Jahre alt wird, in: FAZ, 3 June 2019, p. 9.
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