Agnes Gerstenberg

Agnes Gerstenberg (* 1985 in Berlin ) is a German author, dramaturge and theater director . She writes and stages plays for children, young people and adults.

Life

She attended the Hans-and-Hilde-Coppi-Oberschule . At the age of 14 she wrote the children's book The Thing With Sense , illustrated by Marion Hallbauer , which was published in 2001 by Geest-Verlag. Agnes Gerstenberg studied general and comparative literature and theater studies in Berlin from 2006 to 2009 . From 2011 to 2013 she took part in the Forum Text , a support program for scenic writing by uniT - Association for Culture at the KF-Uni Graz. In 2012 she was a guest at the Stuttgart Writer's House as a scholarship holder . Since the 2015/16 season she has been a dramaturge at the Junge Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

theatre

At the age of 18, Agnes Gerstenberg wrote her first play Weightless - Consideration for Losses , which premiered in a workshop production in 2004 as part of the “Drama X Competition” in Vienna. The following year she was invited to Australia with the piece to “World Interplay”, a world festival for young authors. This was followed by invitations to the Authors 'Forum in 2005 in Frankfurt am Main, to the dramatists' workshop “Pieces writing” in Wolfenbüttel and in 2006 to the Interplay Europe Festival in Liechtenstein. In 2006 she ran the Franco-German writing workshop at the Thalia Theater in Halle together with Frederique Bruyas and in 2008 the workshop for young authors at the same theater together with Claire Renegade.

In 2007 her youth piece Ein Schuss für Jeden , directed by Mareike Mikat, premiered at the Thalia Theater in Halle and was shown in 2008 as a guest performance at the Theater der Junge Welt in Leipzig.

In 2011 she wrote the play Ich Fisch, Du Fisch for children from the age of five as part of the Berlin Children's Theater Prize 2011 in collaboration with the Berlin Grips Theater .

At the Kaltstart theater festival in Hamburg in 2012, her piece Zwanzig Komma Drei Meter Ruhe was presented in a scenic reading and excerpts were shown at the Schauspielhaus Wien in the same year .

At the Staatstheater Braunschweig in 2011 her text When I Last Died, Sommer was shown as a workshop production directed by Lisa Kempter.

In 2013 Agnes Gerstenberg worked as a dramaturge at the Junge Ensemble Stuttgart, among other things for the performance of the Goethe play Clavigo . During that time, she also ran a writing workshop for scenic writing with eight young people between the ages of 12 and 19. The writing workshop took place as part of the “Dialoge” project in cooperation with the German Children's and Youth Theater Center.

In 2014 she received the advancement award of the Baden-Württemberg Youth Theater Prize for her play “I saw you”, which was awarded to her on May 22, 2014 in the Junge Ensemble Stuttgart. In autumn 2015, her play "To another season. Maybe" was broadcast for the first time on SWR2 in the Tandem series.

Publications

Prose / poetry

• The thing with the sense , children's book, Geest Verlag, Ahlhorn, 2001, ISBN 3-934852-93-9
• The night I'm waiting for is ... - poem, published in the tear anthology by Cornelia Eichner , Geest-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-934852-42-4

theatre

• Weightless consideration for losses , youth play and first novel project
• A shot for everyone , youth piece
• Tell me! , Awakening piece
• Mau Mau , youth piece
• Another time of year. Maybe , adult play
• I fish, you fish , children's play
• Twenty point three meters of calm , adult piece

radio play

• At a different time of the year. Perhaps , an adult theater piece broadcast as a radio play on SWR2

Web links

• Biography, Drama Forum
• Agnes Gerstenberg and Paul Wiersbinski at the Kaltstart Theaterfestival Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Participants Forum Text
2. ↑ ^{a b} scholarship holders 2012, Stuttgarter Schriftstellerhaus
3. ↑ Playwright Delegates, Interplay Europe 2006. (PDF) Retrieved on May 4, 2015 (English). 
4. ↑ The Thalia-Theater Halle gives a guest performance in the Theater der Junge Welt with Agnes Gerstenberg's “A shot for everyone”, Leipzig Almanach
5. ↑ Kaltstart Theaterfestival Hamburg 2012 ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Start of work in 2012, Schauspielhaus Wien
7. ↑ Schedule of the Braunschweig State Theater ( Memento from August 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ Lisa Kempter director “Eltest”; Episode 1: A text by Agnes Gerstenberg (2011)
9. ↑ Manfred Jahnke: The story of a career , review in: Die Deutsche Bühne, 2013
10. ↑ Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany
11. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Youth Theater Prize
12. ↑ [1]
13. ↑ Association of German Stage and Media Publishers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ TM Theater Verlag Munich
15. ^ Association of German Stage and Media Publishers
16. ↑ [2]
17. ↑ [3]