André Bücker

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André Bücker (* 1969 in Harderberg , Lower Saxony ) is a German theater director and director .

Life

During his studies in theater, film and television studies, history and philosophy in Bochum , André Bücker worked as an assistant director and realized his own productions in the independent theater scene in Bochum, Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen . From 1994 to 1998 he was assistant director a. a. with Michael Simon , Hans Peter Cloos , Sewan Latchinian , John Dew and director at Theater Dortmund . This was followed by a time as in-house director, head dramaturge and deputy director at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven from 1998 to 2000 .

André Bücker worked for the Weimar Art Festival and staged a. a. in Dortmund, Hanover, Graz, Nuremberg, Bremerhaven, Göttingen, Senftenberg, Mannheim and for the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) . He also realized numerous interdisciplinary projects and theaters in public spaces, such as B. “Not a beautiful country. -fragment schleef- "(2004)," The equal is missing the grief "(2005), Kurt Weill's" Weg der Verheißung "(2006) and the big city project" Auf die Orte "in September 2007. He staged in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm the Shakespeare project “Landscape - Critique of Love” (Luisium Palace Park, 2011) and Goethe's “Iphigenie auf Tauris” (amphitheater on the rocky island of Stein, 2013). Much of this work was carried out as collaborations, e.g. B. with the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (New York) , the Kulturstiftung des Bundes , the Moses Mendelssohn Academy, the Standing Conference of Central German Baroque Music and the Lautten Compagney Berlin (Wolfgang Katschner) . André Bücker has been repeatedly invited to festivals and numerous guest performances with his theater and music theater productions.

From 2005 to 2008 Bücker was director of the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater Halberstadt / Quedlinburg, one of the founding spokespersons of the Halberstadt Cultural Council and was general director at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau from the 2009/10 season . In addition to other large projects such as “The Beggar's Opera / Polly” (based on Gay / Pepusch, 2014) and “Götz von Berlichingen” (2015), he staged Richard Wagner's opera tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” as “The Ring of Classics” Modern “(2013–2015) with clear references to the aesthetics of the Bauhaus . This production was shown as a cycle at the International Richard Wagner Congress in Dessau in May 2015. His contract was not renewed by the city and his position was advertised in August 2015. He decided not to apply again. Bücker is a sharp critic of the cuts in the cultural sector in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

On November 17, 2015, the Süddeutsche Zeitung announced that Bücker will be appointed as the successor to the outgoing director Juliane Votteler as director of the Augsburg Theater for the 2017/18 season . His directorship officially began on September 1, 2017.

Bücker is a member of the board of the East Regional Association of the German Stage Association and lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He is the patron and sponsor of several projects and until 2013 was the artistic director of the international music festival "Heaven on Earth - The Cultures of the World as Guest in Luther's Wittenberg", which was held under the patronage of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann from the Federal Cultural Foundation was funded from 2010 to 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. The same is missing the grief. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jan-Pieter Fuhr: André Bücker. In: andre-buecker.de. February 2, 2019, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  3. The Ring of the Nibelung in the Bauhaus city of Dessau
  4. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 24, 2014: "Summer talk with André Bücker:" Begging would be undignified ""
  5. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 23, 2014: Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau: Critics of the austerity course Bücker should go , by Heidi Thiemann and Kai Gauselmann , accessed on July 26, 2014
  6. André Bücker becomes the new director In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, article from November 17, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015