Christina Friedrich

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Christina Friedrich

Christina Friedrich (born April 10, 1965 in Nordhausen ) is a German director, writer and illustrator.

Life

After training as a skilled worker for hydrogeology in Johanngeorgenstadt and graduating from the evening school in Erfurt, Friedrich studied directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Her first productions were created during her studies at the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater (bat), the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Nationaltheater Weimar .

Immediately after her studies, artistic director Klaus Pierwoß hired her as in-house director at the Bremen theater, where she a. a. staged the German premiere of Tony Kushner's Perestroika . Christina Friedrich then worked as a director in Germany, Israel, Austria and Switzerland. Among other things, she staged the world premieres of the novels Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche and Rummelplatz by Werner Bräunig , as well as the Swiss premiere of Snow by Orhan Pamuk .

From 2000 to 2006 Friedrich was initially a lecturer, then professor of directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, and later a lecturer in directing and acting in Aix-en-Provence, the Warsaw Theater Academy and Tel Aviv University , the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam, the Zurich University of the Arts, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Matsumoto Performing Arts Center Japan, the Technical University Berlin and the Academy for Performing Arts Art Baden-Württemberg, as well as for stage and costume design at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2018 she was Artist in Residence at the Institut Francais in Fès, Morocco.

From 2011 she worked with Michael Brauchli on the performance Keep Me in Mind , a direct examination of lived reality and its contemporary witnesses, in which the life stories of seven survivors of the Shoah are told by messengers. After its world premiere in Israel, the performance premiered in Germany, France, Canada, Lithuania and Poland.

Christina Friedrich's first novel Tomorrow I Have to Go From Here was published in 2008.

Christina Friedrich has one daughter and lives in Berlin.

Productions

Book publications

Teaching

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Night review: World premiere of the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
  2. ↑ Night review: World premiere of the novel Rummelplatz by Werner Bräunig
  3. ^ Swiss radio and television: Swiss premiere of the novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  4. ↑ Die Zeit: Holocaust Survivors - Fates That Go on a Journey
  5. ↑ Verlag CHBeck: Tomorrow I have to get away from here from Christina Friedrich
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen