Claudia Grehn

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Claudia Grehn (born January 8, 1982 in Wiesbaden ) is a German playwright .

Life

Claudia Grehn was born in Wiesbaden and grew up in Trier . She completed the scenic writing course at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

For her first two plays, Heimlich Bestialisch and Harvest , she received the advancement award for new drama at the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen as well as the Kleist advancement award. On behalf of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, she and the playwright and artistic director Armin Petras translated the play Let's go, the car is waiting by the Russian author Jurij Klavdiev (* 1974). Together with Roman Lebsky she translated other pieces by the author: The Slow Sword and the children's play Pig and Fish . In 2008 she wrote a dramatization of the novel City of the Blind by Jose Saramago for the Munich Akademietheater , which was premiered by Moritz Schönecker for the reopening of the reactor hall of the Prinzregententheater . Together with Darja Stocker she produced in Weimar and Leipzig in 2011 Isn't it enough to say I want to live , the play was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage in 2012 . In 2012 she developed the performance piece "My heart will go on" in the Jena Theater together with activists from refugee camps.

Works

  • Secretly bestial - I can wait to love in heaven . World premiere on February 23, 2008 at the Landestheater Tübingen
  • Harvest / work . World premiere on May 18, 2008 during the authors' festival Ohne alles 2 for dramatic miniatures at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • Germany has no money . World premiere on June 27, 2010 during the authors' festival Ohne alles 3
  • Harvest (with texts by Lena Müller) First performance on December 19, 2010 in the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. Director: Dominic Friedel
  • Isn't it enough to say I want to live (together with Darja Stocker). World premiere on June 30, 2011. A coproduction of the German National Theater Weimar with the Leipzig Theater. Director: Nora Schlocker
  • My heart will go on . Performance and development in collaboration with actors from refugee camps and activists. World premiere on March 29, 2012 in the Theaterhaus Jena. Director: Moritz Schönecker

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SURNAME Grehn, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden