Alexander Giesche

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Alexander Giesche (born 1982 in Munich ) is a German theater director and performance collective leader.

Life

Giesche went to Gießen to study applied theater studies and continued it in 2011 with a one-year master’s program at the Academy for Experimental Theater and Music DasArts in Amsterdam . While still a student, he (together with Lea Letzel) was invited to the Körber Studio Junge Regie with the half-hour multimedia Parforce piece Record of Time . It opened the festival and became a high point, "a Sisyphosiad between stress and slapstick-like comedy" "that won not the festival competition but the critic's prize.

After completing his studies in 2012, Alexander Giesche was artist in residence at Theater Bremen from 2012 to 2014 . In the theater critic survey conducted by the trade journal Theater heute , Giesche was elected Young Director of the Year in 2014 and again in 2016 . In 2015 he was invited to the Radikal jung festival in Munich with the production The Perfect Person at Theater Bremen .

In the seasons from 2015 to 2017 he was involved with his multi-season project “Future Shock” at the Münchner Kammerspiele . To this end, he created the youth-driven theater collective GIESCHEand , of which he remains the artistic director. Its productions as part of the “Future Shock” project were regularly funded by the Doppelpass fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation. In terms of content, the central theme is the question of the effects of progress and technology on our world experience.

With his technology-based projects, Giesche attracted the attention of international festivals and juries. He has directed works at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Frascati Theater Amsterdam , the Kaaitheater Brussels, Theater der Welt Mannheim , SPIELART Munich, Theaterformen Braunschweig , Festival d'Automne Paris , Young Dogs Festival Aarhus , Festival d'Automne Paris and the G2T Festival in Gennevilliers , at the Radikal jung Munich Festival and the Lucerne Theater .

Outstanding awards were invitations to the Swiss Theatertreffen (2018) and the Berlin Theatertreffen (2020). Giesche is currently working as in-house director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

Important productions

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ What are we doing here now? , nachtkritik.de of March 30, 2011, accessed March 4, 2020
  2. ↑ Normcore staging , muenchner-kammerspiele.de, accessed March 4, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Staging 8 1/2 million , muenchner-kammerspiele.de, accessed March 4, 2020
  4. ↑ Profile Alexander Giesche and GIESCHEand , muenchner-kammerspiele.de, accessed March 4, 2020
  5. ↑ Short biography Alexander Giesche , berlinerfestspiele.de from February 2019, accessed March 4, 2020
  6. ↑ When the world slips away from us , tagesanzeiger.ch from January 26, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020
  7. ↑ 2019/20 program of the Schauspielhaus Zürich: “Theater is about thinking opposites” , accessed March 4, 2020
  8. ↑ Elske Brault: The Talents of Tomorrow , review on nachtkritik.de of March 15, 2017, accessed March 4, 2020
  9. ↑ Tim Schomacker: Men from the Moon , review on nachtkritik.de of March 14, 2015, accessed March 4, 2020
  10. ↑ Stefan Schmidt: Draußen auf dem Platz , review on nachtkritik.de from June 15, 2016, accessed March 4, 2020
  11. ↑ Geneva Moser: Apocalypse reloaded , review on nachtkritik.de of March 15, 2017, accessed March 4, 2020
  12. ↑ "Im Rutsch mit der Natur" , nachtkritik.de of January 23, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Giesche, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giesche, Alexander-Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich