Erich-Alexander Winds
Erich-Alexander Winds was a German theatre director and actor.
Life
Born in Dredsden as son of a director and an actress, Winds started his career in Leipzig at the age of 18 with the knowledge he had acquired at home. Via several stations he came to Wuppertal, where in 1945 he again took up the post of artistic director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen, which he had only resigned from in 1944. From there, he was engaged at the as drama director from 1 June 1953. In 1955, he went to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he was chief director until 1969. In 1966, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.He took part in several television films and DEFA films as a director as well as an actor. He also directed radio plays.
Winds was married in second marriage to the actress.
Winds died in Berlin at the age of 71.
Theatre
- 1946: Massenet: Manon – direction
- 1953: Schiller: Die Jungfrau von Orleans – direction
- 1954: Sartre: The Respectful Prostitute – direction
- 1954: Hedda Zinner: Der Teufelskreis – direction
- 1955: Hebbel: Judith – direction
- 1955: Beethoven: Fidelio – direction
- 1955: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – direction
- 1955: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – direction
- 1956: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida – directione
- 1956: George Bernard Shaw: Die Häuser des Herrn Sartorius – direction
- 1957: Borodin: Prince Igor – direction
- 1958: Eugen Suchoň: Krútňava – direction
- 1958: Prokofief: Betrothal in a Monastery – direction
- 1958: : Kaution – direction
- 1958: Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle – direction
- 1959: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – direction
- 1959: Jean Kurt Forest: Der arme Konrad – direction UA
- 1960: Gerhart Hauptmann: Fuhrmann Henschel – direction
- 1960: Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – direction
- 1960: Verdi: Don Carlos – direction
- 1961: Kurt Schwaen: Leonce und Lena – direction
- 1961: Egk: Peer Gynt – direction
- 1962: Wagner: Tannhäuser – direction
- 1962: Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – direction
- 1962: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – direction
- 1962: Verdi: Un ballo in maschera – direction
- 1963: Donizetti: Don Pasquale – direction
- 1963: Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – direction
- 1964: Verdi: Lady Macbeth – direction
- 1964: Prokofief: The Story of a Real Man – direction
- 1964: Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos – director Erhard Fischer
- 1965: Nestroy: Einen Jux will er sich machen – direction
- 1965: Mozart: Così fan tutte – direction
- 1968: Henze: Der junge Lord – direction: Joachim Herz
Filmography
- 1955: ''Wer seine Frau lieb hat''
Radio plays
- 1957: Sartre: Nekrassov –
- 1958: /Karl Wagert: Der Fall van der Lubbe –
- 1958: Henrik Ibsen: Stützen der Gesellschaft –
- 1958: Pavel Kohout: So eine Liebe –
Awards and honours
- 1961: Title: Professor
- 1965: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver
- 1969: Honorary member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden