Anna-Sophie Mahler
Anna-Sophie Mahler (* 1979 in Kassel ) is a German freelance theater and opera director .
Life
Anna-Sophie Mahler is the daughter of the doctor, visual artist, psychoanalyst and university professor Eugen Mahler . She studied stage direction at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin . Since then she has specialized in experimental, especially documentary forms of music theater. After graduating, she worked as an assistant director at the Basel Theater from 2002 to 2004 . In addition, she later took on assistant directorships with Christoph Marthaler (at the Bayreuth Festival ) and Christoph Schlingensief ( The Flying Dutchman at the Amazonas de Ópera Festival in Manaus , Brazil).
From 2004 she worked independently as a freelance stage director for productions in the entire German-speaking DA-CH region , for example for the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Schauspielhaus Graz , the Zurich Neumarkt Theater , the Oper Stuttgart , the Theater Konstanz . She founded her own free performance group CapriConnection in 2006 in Basel . The basic concept of this group of three women is to link documentary texts with music theater and video images. CapriConnection's play Ars moriendi was invited to the Impulse theater festival in 2011 .
Due to Schlingensief's cancer, the development of the opera Scenes from the Life of St. Johanna von Walter Braunfels at the Deutsche Oper Berlin was in danger of failing in 2008. Mahler stepped in as assistant and brought the production onto the big stage according to his notes. There is a 44-minute TV documentary film about the development process by Alexander Kluge from the same year. In 2012 she directed the production Infinite Fun - 24 hours through the utopian west of the Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, a 24-hour marathon performance based on the novel Infinite Fun by David Foster Wallace , in cooperation with Anna Viebrock , Gob Squad , She She Pop , Peter Kastenmüller , Philippe Quesne, Richard Maxwell and Jan Klata , who took over other sub-locations.
In the staging of Whistleblower / Elektra at Theater Neumarkt in 2020 , Mahler addresses the career of food safety specialist, toxicologist and whistleblower Yasmine Motarjemi, who initiated a bullying process against Nestlé. With the comparison to Elektra, who was also alone in her struggle, Mahler draws parallels to the Greek tragedy. In the performance she puts Elektra and Yasmine Motarjemi on stage together.
Most recently, in 2021, she staged her own stage version of noon based on the novel by Dörte Hansen at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Puccini opera La Bohème at the Schauspiel Leipzig.
Mahler will be in-house director at the Schauspiel Leipzig from the 2021/22 season . In the previous season, she presented herself for the first time in Leipzig in 2020 with the world premiere of the musical play Eriopis - Medea's surviving daughter tells everything to the Finnish author EL Karhu .
Productions (selection)
2016
- Don Quijote de la Mancha , opera by Hans Zender , with the Ensemble Modern , Frankfurt LAB
- Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti , Theater Bremen
2017
- “Das Böse” - Eine Götterdämmerung , a production by CapriConnection, performances: Gessnerallee Zurich , Kaserne Basel , Theater Chur , Münchner Kammerspiele
- Rusalka , lyric fairy tale opera in three acts by Antonín Dvořák , Theater Bremen
2018
- The Roommate by Jen Silverman, German-language premiere, Theater Biel Solothurn
2019
- Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi at the Freiburg Theater
- Hotel der Immigranten a music theater project by Anne-Jelena Schulte and CapriConnection, coproduction with Gessnerallee Zurich, Kaserne Basel and Theater Chur
- The Seven Deadly Sins / Seven Heavenly Sins ; Ballet with singing by Kurt Weill and Bert Brecht / Love Testimonial by Peaches , a co-production of the Stuttgart State Opera, the Stuttgart Ballet and the Stuttgart Theater
2020
- Whistleblower / Elektra at the Neumarkt Theater
- Waldesruh, a tent camp without trees with Morton Feldman at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Awards
- 2016: Invitation of her production of Mittelreich based on the novel by Josef Bierbichler at the Münchner Kammerspiele to the Berlin Theatertreffen
- 2017: Invitation to the Biennale di Venezia Teatro with two works
Web links
- Literature by and about Anna-Sophie Mahler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anna-Sophie Mahler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anna-Sophie Mahler is present on the web blog
- Web presence of the Basel performance group CapriConnection
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Entry Anna-Sophie Mahler , March 2016, accessed on July 8, 2021
- ↑ a b Profile Anna-Sophie Mahler in the nachtkritik.de -Lexikon, accessed June 13, 2021
- ↑ see IMDb
- ↑ Nikolaus Merck: Infinite Fun - The 24-hour HAU trip with the novel by David Foster Wallace through the utopian west of Berlin , review on nachtkritik.de of June 2, 2012, accessed on June 16, 2021
- ↑ a b Andreas Klaeui: "Alone in their struggle": Anna-Sophie Mahler's documentary theater evening finds the tragedy with music by Richard Strauss in now , nachtkritik.de of November 5, 2020, accessed July 4, 2021
- ↑ Katrin Ullmann: Thalia Theater - Anna-Sophie Mahler stages Dörte Hansen's turn-of-the-times novel as an acting theater , review on nachtkritik.de from June 12, 2021, accessed on June 15, 2021
- ↑ Anna-Sophie Mahler becomes in-house director at the Schauspiel Leipzig , Leipziger Zeitung from May 7, 2021, accessed June 13, 2021
- ↑ "When Mama is a Myth", idiosyncratic version of the Medea material , nachtkritik.de of March 6, 2020, accessed June 13, 2021
- ↑ Biographical profile of Anna-Sophie Mahler on berlinerfestspiele.de from March 2016, accessed June 13, 2021
- ↑ Profile Anna-Sophie Mahler at the Bavarian State Opera, accessed June 13, 2021
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahler, Anna-Sophie |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German theater and opera director |
| BIRTH DATE | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |