Wilfried Minks. Bühnenbauer

In 1966 Wilfried Minks brought Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Crak!" to the stage for Peter Zadek's production of "Die Räuber", and a year later he filled it with red, yellow and blue light bulbs for Zadek's production of "Maß für Maß". He became the most formative stage designer of the Federal Republic of Germany and one of its most important directors. Now he is presenting his autobiography. Lively Minks tells of his childhood in Bohemia and the rise of National Socialism, he tells of his flight to Saxony and takes the reader to the stations of his theatrical life: to Leipzig, Berlin, Stuttgart, Ulm, Bremen and Frankfurt. With Minks the reader meets Kurt Hübner and Peter Stein, Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, but also his wives and children. In this book you can read how Minks' very own way of thinking, building and directing theatre is gradually developing.