Andreas Erdmann

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Andreas Erdmann (born 1971 in Cologne ) is a German playwright and dramaturge . He has been the head dramaturge at the Landestheater Linz since 2016 .

life and work

From 1991 Erdmann studied acting direction at the Institute for Music Theater, Theater and Film at the University of Hamburg . In 1995 he went to Switzerland, where he worked as an assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , freelance writer and employee of the weekly newspaper WoZ . Erdmann has published radio plays and plays, was a scholarship holder at the Royal Court Theater in London in the summer of 2000 . In 2002 he was engaged by Matthias Hartmann as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and in 2005 he moved to the Schauspielhaus Zürich. From 2009 he was managing dramaturge at the Schauspiel Frankfurt .

From 2012 Erdmann was engaged as head dramaturge at the Vienna Burgtheater and was among other things production dramaturge of the successful productions Onkel Wanja (2012), Lumpacivagabundus (coproduction with the Salzburg Festival 2013) and The Last Witnesses (also 2013), as well as Dorst 's Parzival (2014 ), the Kleist'schen Käthchen von Heilbronn and the presidents of Werner Schwab (both 2015).

Since the 2016/17 season Erdmann has been the lead dramaturge for drama at the Landestheater Linz . There he oversees a number of new productions, such as Grillparzer's Goldenes Vlies , Raimund's Alpine King and Misanthrope , Shakespeare's Storm or the comedy Bitch by Béla Pintér . So far he has worked in Linz with the directors Andreas von Studnitz and Stephan Suschke .

Theater texts

  • Place of the skull or the conversion of St. Mary , world premiere in 1999 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (D: Andreas Erdmann)
  • Terrorists , world premiere in 2000 at the Schauspiel Essen (D: Katharina Kreuzhage )
  • Stage version of Have I already told you ..., A fairy tale for everyone by Sibylle Berg , world premiere in 2004 at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen (Director: Katja Fillmann )
  • Stage version by Janne Teller's Nothing - What is important in life , German-language premiere 2011 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (director: Marco Storman )

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personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne