René Pollesch

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René Pollesch (born October 29, 1962 in Dorheim / Friedberg , Hessen ) is a German playwright and director .

Life

René Pollesch studied from 1983 to 1989 in the first year at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the University of Gießen with Andrzej Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann . He was involved in various projects with visiting professors Heiner Müller , George Tabori , Robert Wilson and John Jesurun . After various positions at German theaters, including from 1992 at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main, Pollesch received a working grant at the Royal Court Theater in London in 1996 . In 1997 he received a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In the 1999/2000 season he was a director at the Lucerne Theater , and in autumn 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . From 2001 to 2007 he managed the small Prater theater of the Volksbühne Berlin at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.

Pollesch received the Mülheim Dramatist Prize in 2001 . In 2002, he was voted the best German playwright for the Prater trilogy in the critics' survey conducted by Theater heute magazine .

In 2006 he was awarded the Mülheim Dramatist's Prize endowed with 15,000 euros for his play Cappuccetto Rosso in the production of the Volksbühne Berlin and Salzburg Festival , and at the same time he was awarded the Audience Prize. In 2007 he received the Nestroy Theater Prize for the best play for his play The Purple Birthmark .

In May 2012 Pollesch was accepted as a new member of the Akademie der Künste (section “Performing Arts”) in Berlin.

Pollesch positions himself anti-capitalist, anti-racist and feminist.

Works

Plays

  • 1999: Heidi Hoh
  • 1999-2000: Java in a box 1-10
  • 2000: Heidi Hoh no longer works here; JavaTM shows feelings; www slums 1-7; Woman under the influence
  • 2001: UFOs & Interviews; www-slums 8, 9 & 10; Heidi Hoh 3 - The interests of the company cannot be the interests of Heidi Hoh; City as booty ( Volksbühne im Prater , Berlin); Home insourcing. People in shitty hotels; smarthouse
  • 2002: City as Loot 2; Sex (Volksbühne im Prater, Berlin); The Candidate (1980). You live!; 24 hours are not a day
  • 2003: soylent green is human flesh, says it all to everyone; freedom, beauty, truth & love - the revolutionary company; Männniskor på skithotell (Rikstheater Stockholm ); Splatter boulevard; The Leopard of Singapore; Sex ( São Paulo )
  • 2004: Telefavela; Svetlana in a favela; Pablo in the Plus branch; Hello hotel ...!; City without properties
  • 2004–2005: Prater saga: 1000 demons wish you death, two-pence two-pence and the voodoo counter, In this neighborhood the devil is a gold mine, diabolo - it's a shame that he's the devil, the magic of despair
  • 2005: The occult charm of the bourgeoisie in creating wealth; Houses versus cases; Cappuccetto Rosso ( Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin); Defile your neoliberal biographies! ( Münchner Kammerspiele ); Notti senza cuore - Life is the new hard! (Volksbühne Berlin); People in a case ( State Theater Hannover )
  • 2006: Strepitolino - i giovanotti disgraziati (Volksbühne, Berlin); Soylent green is money (benisan pit - tpt, Tokyo ); When can I finally go to a supermarket and buy what I need just with my good looks? ( State Theater Stuttgart ); L'affaire Martin! Occupe-toi de Sophie! Par la fenetre, Caroline! Le marriage de Spengler. Christine est en avance. (Volksbühne Berlin); The purple birthmark ( Burgtheater Vienna )
  • 2007: Death of an intern (Volksbühne Berlin); Solidarity is suicide (Münchner Kammerspiele); Ragazzo dell'Europa (TRWarszawa); РРШ / Rolling Road Show (Druzba 1, The Lake / Sofia); Love is colder than capital (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Dictator wives I (Volksbühne Berlin); The world as a guest with rich parents ( Thalia Theater Hamburg ); Hello hotel night porter (Volksbühne Berlin); Be carried away by your tragic circumstances ( University of the Arts Berlin )
  • 2008: Darwin-Win & Martin Loser-Drag King & Hygiene on Tauris (Volksbühne Berlin); Valley of the Flying Knives (Mülheim / Volksbühne); Fantasma (Burgtheater)
  • 2009: You messed up my pan, you fried egg of terror (Volksbühne, Berlin); Ping Pong d'Amour (Munich Kammerspiele); One choir is very wrong (Volksbühne Berlin); If the actors want to have an evening off, Hedley Lamarr (Staatstheater Stuttgart) takes over; JFK (Thalia Theater Hamburg), Cinecittà Aperta (Mülheim / Volksbühne); Calvinism Klein ( Schauspielhaus Zurich )
  • 2010: I look you in the eye, social delusion! (Volksbühne Berlin), Girls in Uniform - Ways out of Self-Realization ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus ), Peking-Opel ( Akademietheater (Vienna) ), The Perfect Day (Volksbühne Berlin), Three Westerns ( Staatstheater Stuttgart ), Socialist actors are more difficult from the idea convince a director ( Schauspiel Frankfurt ), XY Beat ( Münchner Kammerspiele )
  • 2011: Throw away your ego! (Volksbühne Berlin); Whatever you do, don't do it yourself ( Stadttheater Freiburg ); Fahrende Frauen ( Schauspielhaus Zürich ), art was much more popular when you weren't an artist! (Volksbühne Berlin), Jackson Pollesch (TR-Warszawa); The love for the unprecedented (Akademietheater Wien)
  • 2012: Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia (Volksbühne Berlin); We are good enough already! (Frankfurt theater); Your big issues are gone (Münchner Kammerspiele); News from the permanent state (Deutsches Schauspielhaus); Don Juan (Volksbühne Berlin); Do it for you! (Zurich theater)
  • 2013: KapiTal der Puppen ( Staatsschauspiel Dresden ); Revolver of the surplus ( Schauspiel Stuttgart ); The General (Volksbühne Berlin); Splendor and misery and the courtesans (Volksbühne Berlin); Cavalcade or Being a Holy Motor (Akademietheater Vienna); Gasoline Bill (Münchner Kammerspiele)
  • 2014: Come in! In! I breathe you in! (Zurich theater); Je t'adorno (Frankfurt Theater); House for Sale (Volksbühne Berlin); You just don't know what the job is (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Rocco Darsow (Schauspielhaus Hamburg)
  • 2015: By one who moved out because he could no longer afford the rent, music by Dirk von Lowtzow (Volksbühne Berlin); Love / No Love (Schauspielhaus Zurich); Nobody thinks they are beautiful (Volksbühne Berlin); Service / No service (Volksbühne-Berlin)
  • 2016: Clear the stage for Mick Levčik (Zurich Theater); I love you, but I've chosen de-dramatization (Volksbühne Berlin); World Youth Stadium (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Discourse about the series and reflection booth (it only starts with three), which made it great again, etc. In short: Volksbühnen discourse. Part 1: I speak to the walls, Part 2: It only starts at three. (Volksbühne Berlin)
  • 2017: High (you know what from) (Schauspielhaus Zürich); I can no longer (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg); Carol Reed (Akademietheater, Vienna); Discourse about the series and reflection booth (it doesn't start until three), which made the qualified rascal great again, etc. In short: Volksbühne discourse, part 3: Dark Star (Volksbühne Berlin); What holds us together like a ball the players of a soccer team? (Stuttgart theater)
  • 2018: Hello, Mister MacGuffin! (Schauspielhaus Zurich), Cry Baby (Deutsches Theater Berlin); I don't know what a place is, I only know its price (Manzini studies) (Schauspielhaus Zürich)
  • 2019: Black Maria (Deutsches Theater Berlin); Problems problems problems (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg); Highfield landfill (Burgtheater Vienna); (Life on earth can be sweet) Donna (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

Opera

Fonts

  • Wohnfront 2001–2002 , ed. by Bettina Masuch / Volksbühne Berlin. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2002.
  • www-slums , ed. by Corinna Brocher. Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2003.
  • 24 hours are not a day . Synwolt, Berlin 2003.
  • Zeltsaga - Polleschs Theater 2003/2004 , Lenore Blievernicht (ed.). Synwolt, Berlin 2004.
  • Prater saga , ed. by Aenne Quinones / Volksbühne Berlin. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89581-149-4 .
  • The superfluous , published by Volksbühne Berlin / Malte Ubenauf. The volume contains articles by and about René Pollesch. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • Requiem for the program. Obituary for Baudrillard . In: Theater heute , issue 4, April 2007 pp. 1–3.
  • Love is colder than capital , ed. by Corinna Brocher, Aenne Quinones. Rowohlt TB, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009.
  • Kill Your Darlings , ed. by Nils Tabert. Rowohlt TB, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26758-1 .
  • I need the drama in [ Carl Hegemann :] identity and self-destruction . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89581-445-7 .

Movies

Radio plays

  • Heidi Hoh (DLR / WDR 2000)
  • Heidi Hoh no longer works here (DLR 2001)
  • Heidi Hoh 3. The company's interests cannot be the interests of Heidi Hoh (DLR 2002)
  • Death of an intern (DLR 2007)

Awards

literature

  • Thomas Assheuer : Throw away your ego. A portrait by René Pollesch . In: Die Zeit , No. 38/2014.
  • Christine Bähr: Work Subjects in Theoretical Theater Text. René Polleschs “Insourcing the home. People in shitty hotels ”. In: Dies .: The flexible person on stage. Social drama and time diagnosis in the theater at the turn of the millennium. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, pp. 335-380.
  • Natalie Bloch: I don't want to tell anything about myself. Subversive Techniques and Economic Strategies in René Pollesch's Theater Practice. In: Thomas Ernst, Patricia Gozalbez Cantó, Sebastian Richter, Nadja Sennewald, Julia Tieke (Eds.): SUBversions: On the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the present. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008.
  • Diedrich Diederichsen : Maggie's agency. In: René Pollesch: Prater-Saga, ed. v. Aenne Quiñones. Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz / Alexander, Berlin, pp. 1–19.
  • Muriel Ernestus: From political theater and flexible working environments. Thoughts on theater texts by Widmer, Richter and Pollesch. Sine Causa, Berlin 2012.
  • Karen Knoll: Disorder in the Sensual. About René Pollesch's political theater. Dissertation University of Frankfurt / Main 2010.
  • Claudia Löschner: Pollesch, René . In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area , ed. v. Wilhelm Kühlmann in connection with Achim Aurnhammer et al. Berlin / New York 2010, vol. 9. p. 294f.
  • Matthias Naumann, Michael Wehren (Eds.): Interview with Fabian Hinrichs Do it for you! In this. (Ed.): Spaces, Places, Collective. Neofelis-Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 153-173.
  • Katharina Pewny: Precarious artists as successful models. Jochen Roller - René Pollesch. In: Dies .: The Drama of the Precarious. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 221–241.
  • Johann Reisser: Archaeological cuts, colliding growths: The post-bourgeois drama of the self in René Pollesch's Theater des Sagbaren . In: Artur Pelka, Stefan Tigges (Ed.): The drama after the drama. Transformations of dramatic forms in Germany since 1945 . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 287-302.
  • Tim Schuster: Spaces, Thinking: the theater of René Pollesch and Laurent Chétouanes. Neofelis-Verlag, Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversation between René Pollesch and Frank M. Raddatz in Lettre International 108, spring 2015, p. 119.
  2. ↑ a b c d Claudia Löschner: Pollesch, René. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann in connection with Achim Aurnhamme u. a. (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Berlin / New York 2010, pp. 294–295.
  3. ↑ a b c René Pollesch. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 3, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Pollesch, René in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 3, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available).
  5. ↑ a b c Till Briegleb: René Pollesch. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 3, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Repeat winner. Mülheimer Prize to René Pollesch In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 128, June 3, 2006, p. 37.
  7. ↑ News. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 19, 2012, p. 12.
  8. ↑ Tobias Haberl: Tolerance is not a solution for racism. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ-Magazin, issue 17/2012.
  9. ↑ Revolver of the surpluses ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Stuttgart theater. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
  10. ^ The empty space in FAZ of December 5, 2015, page 15.
  11. ↑ Christoph Fellmann: Rauch over Thebes. In: nachtkritik.de. April 1, 2016, accessed August 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Anne Peter: Flood and smoke. In: nachtkritik.de. May 4, 2016. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  13. ↑ World Youth Stadium. (No longer available online.) Schauspiel Stuttgart, archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; accessed on August 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
  14. ↑ Michael Wolf: I speak to the walls. In: nachtkritik.de. October 18, 2016, accessed August 16, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Christoph Fellmann: Talking after the Big Bang. In: nachtkritik.de. January 7, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  16. ↑ I can't anymore. DeutschesSchauSpielHausHamburg, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Stefan Schmidt: The battalion of the canaries. In: nachtkritik.de. February 25, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Eva Biringer: You have to walk across bridges of light. In: nachtkritik.de. April 29, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Simone Kaempf: In the spaceship towards the black hole. In: nachtkritik.de. June 9, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Sleepless with Schiller . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 2010, p. 116 ( online ).
  21. ↑ Sascha Ehlert: “I can't do anything”. In: nachtkritik.de. September 29, 2016. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Niagara. Schauspiel Köln, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Karen Knoll: Disorder in the Sensual. About René Pollesch's political theater . (PDF) Diss. University of Frankfurt / Main 2010
personal data
SURNAME Pollesch, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg , Hesse