Berndt Stübner


Berndt Stübner was a German actor, puppet maker, playwright and theatre director.

Life and career

Born in Leipzig, Stübner already participated as a child in the in Leipzig and in 1961 in the children's theatre of the. From 1965 to 1969, he trained at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg.
He played his first roles in the studio of the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam under and then worked at the Theater Magdeburg until 1974 and in parallel at the Puppentheater. From 1974 to 1976 he was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Karl-Marx-Stadt. There he gave acting classes at the Studio Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1976 to 2014 he worked at and gave acting classes at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig. In 2017–2020 he received a guest performance contract at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig. He has also appeared in numerous radio dramas.
After 1989, he wrote and directed in collaboration with dancer Werner Stiefel for the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig plays and fairy tales for children, for which he also built the puppets – the plays Hansel and Gretel, Tretesel, Streitesel, Hinter der Dornenhecke, Der Fischer und seine Frau.
Guest performances have taken him to Frankfurt, the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Schauspiel Köln and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

Theatre plays (selection)

Magdeburg

  • 1971: Seán O'Casey: Das Ende vom Anfang – director
  • 1971: Friedrich Schiller: The Robbers – director Konrad Zschiedrich
  • 1972: Friedrich Schiller: Fiesco – director Werner Freese
  • 1973: William Shakespeare: Hamlet – director Werner Freese

Leipzig

Filmography

Source:

Films

Television

Radio plays

  • 1969: Armin Müller: Auskunft über Franziska Lesser, zwanzig – director:
  • 1977: Christopher Marlowe: Das Massaker von Paris – director:
  • 1979: Hans Bach: Risse in einem gläsernen Netz – director
  • 1980: Günter Spranger: An einem Abend im September – director: Annegret Berger
  • 1980: Karl Heinz W. Schröter: Der Fall Bielek – director:
  • 1985: Detlef Raupach: Bis bald, Liebster – Polterabend – director:
  • 1988: Hannelore Steiner: Blutgruppe A – director: Annegret Berger
  • 1988: Rita Herbst: Der Denkfehler – director: Günter Bormann
  • 1989: Klaus G. Zabel: Da Capo – director: Günter Bormann
  • 1990: Heinz Pelka: Die Puppe – director: Günter Bormann
  • 1990: Michael Unger: Tod in der Tiefgarage director: Günter Bormann
  • 2002: Samuel Shem: House of God – director:
  • 2004: Robert Merle: Die geschützten Männer – director:
  • 2004: Martin Andersen Nexø: Pelle the Conqueror – director:
  • 2007: : Queen Mary 3 – director:
  • 2007: Marina Lewycka: Kurze Geschichte des Traktors – director: Oliver Sturm
  • 2009: Mordecai Richler: Barneys Version – director: Götz Fritsch
  • 2009: Torsten Enders: Bachs Reiche – director:

Awards