Alexei Pavlovich Schipenko

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Alexei Pavlovich Schipenko ( Russian Алексей Павлович Шипенко ; born October 3, 1961 in Stavropol , Soviet Union ) is a Russian writer, screenwriter, (film) director, musician and actor. He also appears as a (film) director under the pseudonym Prem Kavi or with the name spelling Alexey Shipenko .

Life

Alexei Schipenko studied acting from 1979 to 1983 at the Moscow Art Theater School of the MChAT ( Chekhov Art Theater Moscow ) with Anatoli Wassilijew . From 1983 to 1985 he was engaged in theaters in Tallinn and Moscow .

He wrote his first play The Observer in 1984. It premiered in Vasilyev's Theater of Dramatic Art. The German premiere took place in West Berlin in 1988 in the Metropoltheater. Schipenko appeared in the performance as an actor and also as a musician.

Also in 1984 Schipenko founded the rock band "Theater" in Moscow, for which he wrote and sang texts. Two LPs have been released. In 1988 he founded the band "Can Guru". Two LPs were also released. From 1990 Schipenko's plays were also performed in Germany. His play Archeologia was named best foreign play in Theater heute magazine in 1990 .

Schipenko moved to Berlin, where he has lived as a freelance writer, director and musician ever since. He has directed at the Volksbühne Berlin , the Bremer Theater , Theater Kassel, Deutsches Theater Alma-Ata , Théâtre des Capucins Luxembourg, the Akademie der Künste Berlin , the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Staatstheater Kassel . He was also a visiting professor of directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" Berlin Berlin and playwriting at the University of the Arts Berlin .

Schipenko's plays have been performed in the USA, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France and Great Britain, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Tashkent and Omsk.

In 1997 the novella 77 appeared in the edition Solitude . In 1998 his novel Das Leben Arsenijs was published by Suhrkamp Verlag . In 1999 the book of coincidences appeared in the edition Solitude .

Since the beginning of 2002 he has appeared again as an actor in Germany. In the production of Hedda Gabler at the Bochum Theater under the direction of Ernst Stötzner , he played the role of Løvborg alongside Dörte Lyssewski and Irm Hermann .

Schipenko has also been performing as a musician since 2004, alone as Løvborg and together with Fabian Feyerabendt from Toktok in the band “contemporary household”. Fabian Feyerabendt mixes the beats; Schipenko wrote the lyrics, guitar and vocals. The first single she said was published. In January 2008 Schipenko (vocals, guitar, bass) released the CD Løvborg Winter together with Thomas Bloch-Bonhoff alias Serafin (piano, organ, celesta, accordeon) .

Since 2006 he has been in-house author and director at the CTB Companhia de Teatro de Braga theater in Portugal and has been an artistic assistant in the management there since 2011. At the CTB he staged his own plays such as Leben als Example / A Vida Como Exemplo (2006), Praça de Touros (2007), Jardim (2011) as well as other texts, e.g. B. Último Acto / Last Act (2008) by Anna Langhoff or Os Lusíadas / Die Luisiaden (2008), by Luís de Camões .

As a co-founder and member of the artist group “Berlin united theater”, he regularly works at theaters in Germany and abroad and also writes plays and film scripts for Russia. The film he wrote, The Goat , directed by Igor Voloshin, won the award in the Best Short Film category at the Kinotaur Russian Film Festival in Sochi . To Mongol , the first part of an originally conceived as a trilogy film project about Genghis Khan , Schipenko wrote the script, as the planned but unrealized sequel.

In 2008/09 Schipenko worked with the director Pyotr Viktorovich Buslow , whose film Bumer and Boomer 2 is one of the greatest successes in current Russian cinema. In 2010 he starred in Buslow's short film Sunrise / Sunset , a film by the Wrigley-sponsored short film project Experiment FIVE , in which, in addition to Buslow, directors Alexander Veledinsky, Igor Voloshin, Andrei Svyagintsev and Aleksej Popogrebski took part.

Schipenko has been working as a screenwriter for various Russian producers and directors since 2010, and he continues to direct at various theaters in Europe. In 2011 he translated Oedipus, Tyrann. after the translation by Friedrich Hölderlin and adaptation by Heiner Müller into Russian for a performance at the Saratov TUZ Theater.

In March / April 2014, the Russian director Pyotr Viktorovich Buslow began filming Родина / Vaterland , screenplay Alexej Schipenko and Andrej Migachev, which was largely filmed in India .

Together with the actor Stipe Erceg also founded Alexei Schipenko 2013, the film production company "Nondual Productions" that so far the films Synchronized and Globo de Fogo has produced and tracked since 2014 different along with the theater CTB Companhia de Teatro de Braga / Portugal film projects, combine theater and film work. In 2014 and 2015, the documentary Semana Santa and the feature film Fideliche were made .

Alexei Schipenko has four children and is married to the author and director Anna Langhoff . His son Klim Schipenko is a Russian film director.

Works

Movies

Plays

  • Love - the most beautiful story
  • The Observer / Archeologia / Suzuki / Suzuki 2 / La-5 in the air; S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt
  • Moscow - Frankfurt 9000 meters above the earth's surface / Zyrikon
  • From the life of Komikaze / DasKind / My White Mercedes
  • Last Russian Play / My home is the USSR / Bábki
  • Smoking chains stories / Lenin - McCartney / Berlin.Winter.
  • porte ouverte de 7h a 21h / BinLaden.Wunder lamp.

Novels

  • Life Arsenij, Suhrkamp Verlag
  • "77", edition Solitude

Radio plays

  • The inner German voice / Secret wisdom / Becker and sons

Scholarships

  • 1993 & 1997 literature scholarship from the Berlin Senate
  • 1995 and 1996 scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude
  • 1965 scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts
  • 1998 scholarship in the artist village Schöppingen
  • 1999 scholarship at Wiepersdorf Castle
  • 2001 Alfred Döblin grant
  • 2002 Baldreit scholarship in Baden-Baden
  • 2003 Scholarship from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
  • 2009 literature scholarship from the Berlin Senate

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com: Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) - Trivia , accessed January 7, 2012

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Schipenko, Alexei Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шипенко, Алексей Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, director, musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavropol , Soviet Union