Peter Stein

Birth : 1937-10-01, Berlin, Germany

History

Peter Stein was born on October 1, 1937 in Berlin, Germany. Studied literature and art history in Frankfurt and Munich. Debuted as stage director at the Munich Kammerspiele with Edward Bond's "Saved" (1967). He is known for his work on Klassen Feind (1983), Big and Little (1980) and Peer Gynt (1971). He is married to Maddalena Crippa.

Movies

On the Footsteps of Goethe in Sicily
Self
On April 2nd, 1787, Wolfgang von Goethe arrived in Palermo during a journey that lasted forty days, which he then described in Italian Journey. Peter Stein, a stage and opera director, retraces the footsteps of the German poet, in the company of a film crew. In Sicily, Goethe sought and found classicism, and so does Stein, as he travels to the origins of European culture. After his impressive production of Faust, the high point of Stein's reflections on Goethe, this new journey helps the director compare late-18th-century Sicily to today's, showing unexpected differences and surprising similarities.
On the Footsteps of Goethe in Sicily
Director
On April 2nd, 1787, Wolfgang von Goethe arrived in Palermo during a journey that lasted forty days, which he then described in Italian Journey. Peter Stein, a stage and opera director, retraces the footsteps of the German poet, in the company of a film crew. In Sicily, Goethe sought and found classicism, and so does Stein, as he travels to the origins of European culture. After his impressive production of Faust, the high point of Stein's reflections on Goethe, this new journey helps the director compare late-18th-century Sicily to today's, showing unexpected differences and surprising similarities.
Class Enemy
Writer
Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.
Class Enemy
Director
Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.
Big and Little
Director
Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
Director
Summer Guests
Writer
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
Summer Guests
Director
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
Director
Im Dickicht der Städte
Director
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
Verdi - Don Carlo
Director