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Günter Krämer

b. 1940

German theatre director

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Born 1940. Günter Krämer is a German theatre director and stage director.

Günter Krämer (born December 2, 1940) is a German stage director, especially for opera, and a theatre manager who has staged internationally.

Career Born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Krämer studied German language and literature and gained his first stage experience at the student theatre in Freiburg im Breisgau. He first worked as a grammar school teacher and began his theatre career as assistant director in Wiesbaden. (1975), Canetti's Hochzeit (1976), Schiller's Mary Stuart (1977), Thomas Bernhard's A Feast for Boris (1977) and Ödön von Horváth's (1978).

In 1979 he became senior director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. (1982) and Chekhov's The Seagull (1982). At the Münchner Kammerspiele he performed in Hjalmar Söderberg's Gertrud (1981).

During the 1984/1985 season, he moved to the Theater Bremen, where he was director of acting until 1989. (1986), Goethe's Faust (Faust, Part One 1985, Faust II 1986), and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1992, with Ingrid Andree), Heiner Müller's Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome (1993), Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (1994), Goethe's Faust I (1997) and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1998).

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German theatre director

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Günter Krämer was born on 2 December 1940 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

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Günter Krämer is German.

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· Wikipedia: Günter Krämer

· Wikidata: Q1560711

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