BONDY, LUC

(1948- )

Director. Through the 1970s and 1980s Bondy was among the most celebrated of free-lance directors in the German theater. A string of invitations to theBerliner Theatertreffen, beginning with his 1974 Bavarian State Theater production of Edward Bond'sThe Sea, led to several others, among them his 1976 Frankfurt am Main production of Marivaux'sThe Game of Love and Chanceand later Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux'sThe Triumph of Love(Berlin Schaubühne, 1986). Bondy's 1978Hamburg Deutsches Schauspielhausproduction of Ibsen'sGhosts, two 1981 productions inCologne(Samuel Beckett'sHappy Daysand Witold Gombrowicz'sYvonne, Princess of Burgundy), andWilliamShakespeare'sThe Winter's Talein 1990 at the Berlin Schaubühne were also invited.

Bondy studied acting with Jacques LeCoq in Paris before beginning work in Germany as a directing assistant at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. He got his first directing job inMunichin 1973. He has also worked extensively in the French theater, most notably directing new translations of plays byArthur Schnitzlerin Nanterre and by Ibsen in Lausanne. In the 1990s Bondy began directing operas in several European opera houses.