2024-01-26 17:36:28
He started as an assistant director for Claus Peymann and was director at the Schauspiehaus Bochum for many years. Frank-Patrick Steckel has now died at the age of 80.
Berlin.
The German director and former theater director Frank-Patrick Steckel is dead. Steckel died on Thursday evening at the age of 80, as his family announced to the German Press Agency. The director was born in Berlin in 1943 and is considered a great theater maker. He was awarded the Authors’ Prize in 2013 for his translations of Shakespeare. Between 1986 and 1995 he was director of the Bochum Schauspielhaus. He would have been 81 years old on February 10th.
“Frank-Patrick Steckel thought of the theater as a political and aesthetic place, uncompromising in his moral convictions and committed to his artistic visions,” said the director of the Bochum Schauspielhaus Johan Simons on Friday, according to the statement. “As such, he is still a role model for the theater generations that came after him and will come after him.”
Nora Hertlein-Hull, director of the Theatertreffen Berlin, described Steckel as a “great and influential theater man.” Between 1971 and 2000 he was invited to the summit of German-speaking theaters five times with productions.
Steckel studied German and literary studies in Hamburg and two semesters of theater studies in Berlin. The Berlin native began his career as an assistant director to the theater maker Claus Peymann at the studio stage at the University of Hamburg. After positions in Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen, he took over as director of the Bochum Schauspielhaus. After 1995 he worked as a freelance director and translator. His daughter Jette Steckel is also a theater director. (dpa)
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