André Bastian

André Bastian (born June 1, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German theater director , dramaturge , translator and author .

Life

After high school graduation (1988) and community service, Bastian began studying history, philosophy and Romance studies in his native Hamburg in 1991 and switched to the University of Granada (Spain) in 1992, where he received his master's degree in Spanish language and literature, philosophy and art history in 1998 completed.

During his studies in Spain he started his first productions at the Centro Dramático Elvira . Back in Germany he worked as assistant director at the Westfälische Kammerspiele Paderborn and at the Landesbühne Hannover (Gerhard Weber, Rolf Heiermann, Hartmut H. Forche and others). There he staged six productions, including a. Yasmina Reza's art (2002) in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum (Hanover) and the rap adaptation of a modern Wedekind classic as Spring Awakening 2003 (2003) with freestyle rapper Spax .

From 2003 to 2006 Bastian was a director and dramaturge at the Reutlingen Theater Die Tonne . During this time he gave performances of numerous pieces of Beckett to Shakespeare , and woke in the year of the Nobel Prize for the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek enacting a three-part Princess Dramas I-III with critics and audience attention.

During his time in Reutlingen, André Bastian also translated and staged the Spanish baroque drama With women is not to be joked by Antonio Mira de Amescua and initiated an interdisciplinary theater project on the subject of Jewish culture and authenticity . As a result of this cooperation between a team of authors (André Bastian, Jörg Schade and Spax ), the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Tübingen , the Friedrich-List-Gymnasium Reutlingen and the Theater Reutlingen, the production faker! ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - A youth piece with rap (2006).

André Bastian has lived in Melbourne ( Australia ) as a freelance director, translator and writer since autumn 2006 . He has also been teaching Spanish, German, pedagogy and dramaturgy at the University of Melbourne and Monash University since 2007. In 2014 he received his doctorate from Monash University with a thesis on "Recovering Jelinek for the English-Speaking Stage - Problems of Intercultural Transfer in Elfriede Jelinek's Plays and Theatrical Strategies to Fill the 'Gap of Translation'". In 2011 Bastian directed Princess Dramas: Snow White (I) as part of this project . Sleeping Beauty (II). Jackie (IV) by Elfriede Jelinek is the Austrian author's first work in Australia.

Productions

La Mama Theater, Melbourne (Australia)

• Samuel Beckett : Beckett's Shorts - Five Short Plays by S. Beckett . Set designer: Peter Mumford . Prem .: April 14th. 2009
• Werner Schwab : Holy Mothers (The Presidents) (AUE). Set designer: Peter Mumford. Prem .: February 20, 2019

Celle Castle Theater

• Walter Jens after Euripides : The downfall after the Trojan women . Set design: Manfred Breitenfellner . Prem .: November 19th. 2010
• Tom Lycos and Stefo Nantsou : Stones . Set design: Manfred Breitenfellner. Premiere: February 19th. 2009

Red Stitch Actors Theater, Melbourne (Australia)

• Elfriede Jelinek : Princess Dramas: Snow White (I), Sleeping Beauty (II), Jackie (IV) (AUE). Set designer: Peter Mumford. Prem .: June 10, 2011
• Christian Lollike : The Work of Wonder or The Re-Mohammed-Ty Show (AUE). Set designer: Peter Mumford. Prem .: Nov. 21, 2008

Reutlingen Theater The bin

• André Bastian, Jörg Schade u. Spax : faker! - A youth piece with rap . Equipment: Tijen Berber. Prem .: March 17, 2006
• William Shakespeare : Richard II . Set designer: Michael Bachmann . Prem .: Oct. 20, 2005
• Elfriede Jelinek : Princesses I-III . Equipment: Tijen Berber. Prem .: Apr. 14, 2005
• Marsha Norman : Night, mother . Equipment: Tijen Berber. Prem: Sep 30, 2004
• Antonio Mira de Amescua : Women are not to be joked with ( DSE ). Translation : André Bastian. Set designer: Michael Bachmann. Prem .: Jun 10, 2004
• Samuel Beckett : Happy days . Equipment: Tijen Berber. Prem .: Sept. 10, 2003

Landesbühne Hannover

• George Bernard Shaw : Heroes . Set design: Christina Wachendorff . Prem .: Jan. 10, 2004
• Frank Wedekind / Spax : Spring Awakening 2003 . Set designer: Peter Gross. Prem .: March 20, 2003
• Agatha Christie : Prosecution witness . Set designer: Michael Bachmann. Prem .: Oct. 30, 2002
• Peter Oppermann n. Karel Čapek : As a play arises . Set designer: André Bastian. Prem .: Sept. 2003
• Yasmina Reza : Art . Set designer: André Bastian. Prem .: Feb. 23, 2002
• Peter Blaikner : Knight Kamenbert . Music. Children's piece. Set design: Johanna Maria Fischer . Choreographer: Peter Andreas Landerl . Music. Head: Andreas Unsicker . Prem. Red / blue season: 14./22. Nov: 2001
• Israel Horovitz : The Indian wants to go to the Bronx . Set designer: André Bastian. Patronage : Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice u. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung : Prem .: April 30, 2001

Centro Dramático Elvira

• Max Aub : Tres obras cortas: Los muertos . Uno de tantos . Dramoncillo . Co-directed with Chabela G. Roa . Prem .: October 24, 1997
• Mira de Amescua : No hay burlas con las mujeres . On behalf of the Int. Congress ü. Mira de Amescua and the Spanish Theater of the 17th Century. Prem .: Oct. 28, 1994

Translations

• Johns, R .: The Birthday Book of the Dead ( The Birthday Book of Death ). 2015 (2017).
• Johns, R .: Black Box 149 . ( Black Box 149 ). 2012 (2015).
• Brooke Robinson : Danger in view . ( Dangerous Lenses ). 2012 (2014).
• Tom Holloway : Sky Red Morning . ( Red Sky Morning ). 2008 (2009).
• Antonio Mira de Amescua : Women are not to be joked with . (No hay burlas con las mujeres). 1630? (2003).

Pieces

• André Bastian, Jörg Schade u. Spax : faker! - A youth piece with rap . 2006

Publications (books)

• André Bastian (ed.): Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia - Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner . North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017.
• André Bastian: Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia - Poetics, Ethics, Politics . St. Ingbert: Rombach Verlag, 2016.

Web links

• faker! A youth piece with rap ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• ( ABMA Aula Biblioteca Mira de Amescua ( Memento from February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))
• https://monash.academia.edu/Andr%C3%A9Bastian