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Carl Weber Biography (1925-)

Born August 7, 1925, in Dortmund, Germany; son of Carl M. (a manufacturer) and Hedwig (Graeve) Weber; married Marianne Rossi (an actress), November 29, 1961. Career: Director, writer, and teacher. Zimmertheater, Heidelberg,West Germany, 1949-50; Theater der Freundschaft, Berlin, Germany, actor, 1950-52; Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, actor, director, and dramaturg, 1952-61; Buehnen der Hansestadt Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany, resident director, 1961-63; Wuppertaler Buehnen, Wuppertal, Germany, prinicipal director and dramaturg, 1964-66; Ticsh School of the Arts, New York City, master teacher of directing, 1966-84; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, professor of drama, 1984-. Visitingprofessor and director at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1961,Stanford University, 1963-64, National Theatre School of Canada, 1965, University of California, 1966, Columbia University, 1969, Princeton University, 1973, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 1980, and Temple University,Philadelphia, PA, 1981. Member: International Brecht Society, Societyof Stage Directors and Choreographers (member of the board of directors, 1980-87), Association for Theatre in Higher Education, PEN-West. Awards, Honors: Jylland Critics Award, Denmark, 1960, for Mother Courage; ObieAward, 1973, for Kaspar; Villager Award, 1978, for Scenes from a Country Life. Addresses: Office: Department of Drama, Stanford Univeristy, Stanford, CA 94305-5010.; Agent: The Elisabeth Marton Agency, 1 UnionSquare West, Room 612, New York, NY 10003-3303.

Nationality

German

Gender

Male

Occupation

Director, writer, educator

Birth Details

August 7, 1925

Dortmund, Germany

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Work
• Director
• The Day of the Great Scholar Wu, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany, 1955
• Private Life of the Master Race, Berliner Ensemble, 1957
• Puntila, Friedrich Wolf Theater, Neu-Strelitz, Germany, 1958
• Mad Money, Luebeck, Germany, 1959
• Mother Courage, Luebeck, 1960
• Die Hose, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany, 1961
• Trumpets and Drums, Luebeck, 1962
• Andorra, Luebeck, 1962
• The Parasite, Luebeck, 1962
• The General's Dog, Luebeck, 1963, then Wuppertal, 1964
• The Big Ear, Luebeck, 1963
• Threepenny Opera, Aarhus, Denmark, 1963
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Actors Workshop, San Francisco, CA, 1963
• The Tutor, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, CA, 1963, then Wuppertal, 1967
• The Country Wife, Front Street Theatre, Memphis, TN, 1964
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, Little Theatre, Stanford, CA, 1964
• Woyseck, Wuppertal, 1964
• Incident at Vichy, Wuppertal, 1965
• Gaspar Varro's Right, Wuppertal, 1965
• The Snob, Aalborg, Denmark, 1966
• Drums in the Night, Univeristy of California at Los Angeles, 1966
• Chicken Soup with Barley, Schaubuehne, Berlin, West Germany (now Germany), 1966
• The Birdlovers, National Theatre, Oslo, Norway, 1966
• A Man Is a Man, Aalborg, Denmark, 1967
• Cyrano de Bergerac, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, New YorkCity, 1968
• Enrico IV, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1968
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Asian Theatre Institute, New Delhi, India, 1968
• The Miser, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, 1968
• The Empire Builders, National Theatre of Canada, Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, 1970
• The Forest, Wuppertal, 1970
• Naechtliche Huldigung, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,1970
• Die Hose, Schauspeilhaus, Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), 1970
• Soldaten, Kammerspiele, Munich, West Germany (now Germany), 1970
• The Madman and the Nun, Seventh Street Theatre, New York University, 1971
• Ride across Lake Constance, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, 1972
• Kaspar, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1973
• The Waterhen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1973
• The Entertainer, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 1973
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1974
• Die Raeumung, Wuppertal, 1974
• Julius Caesar, Arena Stage, 1975
• JoAnne, Theatre at Riverside Church, New York City, 1976
• Lincoln, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1976
• Heaven and Earth, Off-Center Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Scenes from Country Life, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1978
• Starluster, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1979
• They Are Dying Out, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1979
• Fueherbunker, American Place Theatre, 1981
• The Broken Pitcher, Martinique Theatre, New York City, 1981
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bad Staattestheater, Karlsruhe,West Germany (now Germany), 1982
• Happy End, New York University, Second Avenue Theatre, New York City, 1984
• Arden of Faversham, Little Theatre, Stanford, CA, 1986
• The Affair in the Rue de Lourcine, Nitery, Stanford, 1989
• The Physicists, Little Theatre, 1991
• In the Jungle of the Cities, Little Theatre, 1994
• Between East and West, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1997
• The Threepenny Opera, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, 1999
• Major Tours
• Toured 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 withBuehnen der Hansestadt Luebeck in Denmark, 1960, 1961, and 1963.
• Stage Appearances
• 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
• Television Work
• 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
• Also directed The Countess, Fernsehfunk.
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• Narrator, "Brecht and Handke and the Kabarett," Camera Three, CBS,1972
• Narrator, "Peter Handke-Theatre and Ideas," Camera Three, CBS, 1973
• WRITINGS
• Stage Plays
• (With Peter Palitzsch) The Day of the Great Scholar Wu, Berliner Ensemble, 1955
• (Editor and translator) Heiner Mueller, Hamletmachine and Other Textsfor 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: Writingsby 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