Andreas Schäfer (director)

Andreas Schäfer (born June 29, 1957 in Solingen ) is a German director , author and artistic director .

Professional background

After graduating from high school in Schwertstrasse in 1977, he worked as a bookseller and from 1981 to 1983 as a proofreader for the Bundesanzeiger- Verlag. From 1985 to 1990 he was an advisor to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament member Ernst Martin Walsken . At the same time , Andreas Schäfer studied philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . From 1990 he worked as artistic director , first until 1994 at the Volksbühne Solingen and then until 1996 at the Solingen cultural center Cobra , where he is one of the founders and initiators. He attended the Master Class of Actors Studio co- founder Robert Lewis in 1991.

Since then, Schäfer has worked as a freelance writer, director and artistic director. Until 2013 he headed the artist collective Artcore , then the successor Astronautenkost , of which the actor Günter Lamprecht was and is the patron . He directed two Federico Fellini films for the first time for the theater. For his theater projects he often chooses unusual locations such as a former garbage dump, gardens or discos. In 2014 he initiated and curated the exhibition Socks for Life with works by Robert Wilson , Elfriede Jelinek , Ruprecht von Kaufmann and René Böll in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels , for which he received the European Best Event Award in silver.

Andreas Schäfer regularly publishes essays on art and theater and was a guest lecturer at the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef-Bonn . He has been writing for Event Partner magazine since 1998 . For this purpose, he oversees a long-term series of interviews, which also forms the basis for his first book as an author. Since 2009 he has been editor-in-chief of the artist magazine showcases , for which he has been able to attract celebrities such as Richard Rogler , WestBam and Sarah Wiener as guest authors.

Schäfer's artistic focus is on materials by artists persecuted by the Nazis such as Else Lasker-Schüler , Henriette Hardenberg , Lili Grün or Charlotte Salomon with the 2006 audio book award winner Bodo Primus . In 2011 he staged a live radio play in the Solingen theater about Shalom Sechvi , a survivor of the Holocaust and a citizen of Solingen's twin town in Israel , Ness Ziona . The Else transit room project started in Stockholm in 2017 . Actresses Claudia Gahrke and Inger Nilsson were involved . Further positions followed in Dublin, Zurich, New York and Pacific Palisades. In the Feuchtwanger villa, Villa Aurora , Lainie Kazan performed alongside Claudia Gahrke. In London it was John Nettles .

In 2018 he realized the project (UN) SICHTBAR for the Solinger Kunstverein , in which students and a lecturer from the Art Academy for Media made the Solingen synagogue visible again on a bunker that was built on the site where the synagogue was in 1938 by SA people and was destroyed by a Solingen mob in the pogrom night .

In 2020, Schäfer is one of five nationwide winners of the Open Call Digital Dramaturgy competition of the NRW KULTURsekretariat .

Director (selection)

• King Ubu by Alfred Jarry , with the Auer Orchestra, Solingen
• The nights of the Cabiria by Federico Fellini , Solingen
• La Strada by Federico Fellini , Solingen
• Quartet by Heiner Müller Solingen, London
• Sid & Nancy by Ben Becker , Düsseldorf
• All Around the World " , EXPO 2000 for Deutsche Telekom, Hanover
• I am a microbe , Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , Dresden
• ContractFuture 2030 , Initiativkreis Ruhrgebiet , Essen
• Real Poetry by Else Lasker-Schüler , Wuppertal, Breslau, Cologne, Berlin
• Life? Or theater? by Charlotte Salomon , Wuppertal, Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv
• Me and Me from Else Lasker-Schüler , Solingen, Wuppertal
• Transit Lounge Else via Else Lasker-Schüler, Stockholm, Zurich, New York, Pacific Palisades, London, Dublin

Publications

• Double Volume: Waiting for Freedom & Paintings • Graphics • Drawings. Duisburg: swws verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-9812100-0-2 (as publisher)
• Through the human cosmos. Berlin: Uni-Edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-942171519

Contributions

• Craft and magic in the fourth dimension - On the basics of dramaturgy and staging , in: Event & Marketing 2 , Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Fachverlag 2004. ISBN 3-87150-859-4 , pp. 107–118.
• It all depends on the attitude. Mixed remarks on stagings in the field of communication, meaning and meaning , in: Handbuch Erlebnis-Kommunikation , Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3 503 16641 1 , pp. 197–204.
• Events of Evil? , in: Atmospheres des Popular II , Berlin: Uni-Edition 2016. ISBN 978-3-944072-78-4 , pp. 317–323.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Schäfer. Xing, accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
• charlottesalomon.de ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• andreas-schaefer.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Project website www.salle-de-transit.com. Astronaut food, accessed January 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Campaign: Silver Elephant for creative people from Solingen. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Post, October 30, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 8, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Memo Media Blog. Memo Media Verlag, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Annemarie Kister-Preuss: Shalom Sechvi has forgiven. Rheinische Post, October 15, 2011, accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Pogrom Night is a reminder for today. (No longer available online.) Solinger Tageblatt, November 10, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 19, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
6. ↑ Five winners of the Open Call Digital Dramaturgy. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .