Niklaus Helbling

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Niklaus Helbling (born February 27, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss theater director , dramaturge and author .

Live and act

Niklaus Helbling studied German , history and literary criticism at the University of Zurich from 1980 to 1985 and then worked at independent theaters in Zurich. From 1988 to 1998 he was first assistant dramaturge and then dramaturge at Thalia Theater Hamburg. During this time he was also a lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and at the Zurich Drama Academy . From 1998 he works as a freelance writer, dramaturge and director.

Helbling staged at several theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, for example at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (plays by Sibylle Berg , Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, Andromaque by Jean Racine), for the Nationaltheater Mannheim ( Auguste Bolte by Kurt Schwitters, Isabella of Egypt after Achim von Arnim), at the Schauspiel Köln ( Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), at the Thalia Theater Hamburg ( Better Days by Richard Dresser, Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing), at the Theater Basel ( King Placebo or Die Reise ins Pharmaland by Niklaus and Brigitte Helbling), at the Schauspielhaus Zürich ( Brand by Henrik Ibsen , Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Die Dreigroschenoper by Bertolt Brecht, Wünsch dir was , a musical by Sibylle Berg), at the Schauspiel Frankfurt ( Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Why are we here? Not a dream play by Michael Lentz ), at the Salzburg Festival ( Heimat, your stars ), at the Dresden State Theater n ( Othello by William Shakespeare, The Last Fire by Dea Loher ) and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ( Andromache by Jean Racine). At the Burgtheater Vienna he staged The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakow, Ending Well, All Well by William Shakespeare and world premieres of Das Haus des Richters by Dimitré Dinev , Nur Nachts von Sibylle Berg and Der Boxer or The Second Air of Hans Orsolics by Franzobel .

At the opera of the Oldenburg State Theater he staged the lament evening Nachtwache in 2009 with music from Claudio Monteverdi , Henry Purcell , György Ligeti and Radiohead, among others . The Magic Flute (2011), Otello (2013) and Così fan tutte (2014) followed later . In 2017 he staged A Midsummer Night's Dream at the State Theater Mainz .

Niklaus Helbling founded the interdisciplinary Swiss theater and artist group “Mass & Fieber” in 1996 with the musician Martin Gantenbein and the media technologist Walter Stulzer, for which he works as an author and director. The piece Bambification produced in 1999 was awarded the Impulse Prize. In 2011 the group “Mass & Fieber Ost” was founded in Hamburg . The first production of this group was Fall out Girl at the Theaterhaus Jena in 2012 .

In 2018 Niklaus Helbling was a member of the international jury at the International Fajr Theater Festival in Tehran.

Niklaus Helbling lives in Hamburg. He is married to the author Brigitte Helbling.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helbling Niklaus on lexikon.ads.ch
  2. ↑ Night watch on kulturpur.de
  3. ↑ The far side of the moon. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 16, 2017
  4. ↑ Theater for a New Millennium on the Mass & Fieber website
  5. ↑ Mass & Fieber Ost on the Mass & Fieber website
  6. ^ Curtains go up for Fajr theater festival. In: Tehran Times. 17th January 2018
  7. ↑ Niklaus Helbling on the Mass & Fieber website
  8. ^ The cross-border commuters Niklaus and Brigitte Helbling , WAZ , August 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Helbling, Niklaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater director, dramaturge and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich