Andreas Kriegenburg

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Andreas Kriegenburg (born November 15, 1963 in Magdeburg ) is a German theater director .

Life

Kriegenburg initially learned the trade of model maker and worked as a carpenter in the workshop of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Magdeburg . This was where his enthusiasm for making theater began, and in 1984 he became assistant director in the small Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Zittau . In 1988 he was given the opportunity to work independently as a director at the larger Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) .

After the fall of the Wall , he moved to the Berliner Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 1991 and was a permanent director there until 1996. In addition to Frank Castorf's productions, he brought a breath of fresh air to the German theater landscape with his work . His production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck was selected for the Berlin Theatertreffen . The stations of Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover (1997–1999) and Burgtheater Vienna (1999–2001) followed as in-house director .

Since 2001, Andreas Kriegenburg has been director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . In addition to his work in Hamburg he staged as a guest of the Munich Kammerspiele 2002, the Oresteia of Aeschylus , 2004, the Nibelungen by Friedrich Hebbel , 2006 Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov and 2008 , the process of Franz Kafka and was 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 with these productions invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen . In 2006 he made his debut as an opera director at the Theater Magdeburg with the performance of Orpheus and Eurydice based on Christoph Willibald Gluck . In September 2009 he moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin together with director Ulrich Khuon .

Kriegenburg worked with the costume designer Andrea Schraad and - if he wasn't doing the set himself - with the set designer Harald B. Thor .

His production of Die Nibelungen at the Münchner Kammerspiele was awarded the coveted Nestroy Theater Prize for the best German production of 2005. His production The Last Fire at Hamburg's Thalia Theater was awarded the 2008 Faust Theater Prize. His 3.5-hour staging of Dea Loher's play Diebe at the Deutsches Theater Berlin caused a sensation during a guest appearance at the Cameri-Theater Tel Aviv.

In 2016, Kriegenburg was awarded the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities . The award, endowed with 30,000 euros in prize money by the European Commission (distributed among all five winners), honors artists or theaters who have made a contribution to the EU-Europe theater in an original and innovative way.

Andreas Kriegenburg has also been working as a freelance director since 2016 .

About the work of Andreas Kriegenburg

“Kriegenburg's theater is very differentiated in terms of body language, choreography, acrobatics, dance are formative elements. Like no one else in the theater, he has mastered the art of slapstick in all its forms. For Kriegenburg, as with Buster Keaton , his idol, it is an expression of forlornness: 'a struggle for survival - falling down, to get up again, to fall down again and get up again…' He does not always succeed in the economy of means. Sometimes Kriegenburg's lust for fabulous stories gets lost with him, his ideas get bogged down in the small, cluttered, even in the overly artificial. His best works, however, are so full of tenderness, humor and sad poetry that it tightens your heart - with pain and happiness. "

- Christine Dössel, theater critic

“The director and set designer Andreas Kriegenburg is a true visionary of the theater - an artist whose drama is fed by remarkable and original images. Yet there is no singular, clearly assignable "Kriegenburg style" - his work is extremely diverse, his visual vocabulary adapted to the respective template. His beginnings in the theater were humble and practical; He began his work as a stage worker and carpenter before he went on to direct himself and finally to furnish his own productions. He was able to celebrate his first successes at an early age - at the age of 27 he already attracted attention with his Woyzeck production at the Volksbühne Berlin, which was invited to the Theatertreffen in 1991. "

- Sven-Eric Bechtolf , Drama Director of the Salzburg Festival

Awards

  • 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize for a "pioneering achievement" as the best German production of 2005 for his production of "The Nibelungs" at the Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 2008: German Theater Prize DER FAUST for his production “The Last Fire” at the Hamburg Thalia Theater. Also in 2008 he received the professorship certificate from Elmar Lampson from the Hamburg theater school for his lectures, directing courses, workshops and directing and acting graduate supervision.
  • 2009: best author of the year in the critics' survey of the magazine " Die Deutsche Bühne " (with one of the best results ever achieved)
  • 2009: Awarded by the magazine “ Theater heute ” and a jury consisting of 41 theater critics for the best stage design for the play “Process” based on Franz Kafka
  • 2010: For his production of “Prince Friedrich von Homburg” and the world premiere of Dea Loher's “Thieves”, he was named set designer of the year in the annual survey by the magazine Theater heute.
  • 2014: 50 music critics from Europe and America voted for his production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's “The Soldiers” at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as the performance of the year in a survey by the industry journal Opernwelt.
  • 2016: European Theater Prize : "XIII Europe Prize Theatrical Realities" for "special impulses for European theater" following the guest performance of "Nathan the Wise" in Craiova, Romania.

Productions

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Salzburg Festival 2014
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Pernerinsel , Hallein
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Traute Hoess , Sabine Haupt
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Director: Andreas Kriegenburg

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haaretz of March 20, 2012: Theatrical revolution - A German production at the Cameri used a large wheel to move both its set and the actors, to stunning effect.
  2. ↑ European Theater Awards , nachtkritik.de of March 18, 2016, accessed May 19, 2019
  3. ^ Profile of Andreas Kriegenburg , nachtkritik.de, accessed May 19, 2019
  4. ↑ Portrait: Andreas Kriegenburg ( Memento from July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kriegenburg, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg