Anna Bergmann (director)

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Anna Bergmann (* 1978 ) is a German theater director. In 2017 she was appointed Drama Director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe from the 2018/2019 season. She is the first woman in this position.

Life

Anna Bergmann grew up in Kläden near Stendal in the GDR . She lives in Berlin.

Professional background

She completed a directorial training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin . At the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater she staged Illness of Youth (with Antje von der Ahe and Gunnar Solka ), Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (with Dorothea Arnold, Mareile Bettina Moeller and Marc Benjamin Puch ), Tom Lanoyes Mamma Medea (with Brigitte Zeh , Simon Böer , Elisabeth Degen , Jenny Caron ) and Alkestis (with Elisabeth Degen).

Bergmann staged at the German National Theater in Weimar Finnish and breakfast, at the State Theater Tübingen the Minna von Barnhelm and God is a DJ, the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken Intrigue and Love , the Oberhausen Theater The three birds in Göttingen John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and the City Theater Konstanz Lessing's Emilia Galotti with Claudia Hübschmann in the title role.

She also directed various theaters in Berlin. Bergmann, whose teachers included Manfred Karge and Peter Zadek , meanwhile gave courses with François Veyrunes in France.

In 2006 she staged the German premiere of Sera Moore Williams Crash at the Oldenburg State Theater , and in 2008 Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . After the world premiere of Ulrike Syhas Gewerbe in 2007 , Bergmann staged Ibsen's Die Frau vom Meer at the Stadttheater Heidelberg , and also in 2007 at the Lübeck Theater the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata and Ödön by Horváth's Kasimir und Karoline .

In 2009 the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini followed again at the Oldenburg State Theater and the adaptation and staging of Vicki Baum's People in the Hotel at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (with Maja Beckmann and Peter Lohmeyer ). In 2010 she staged the world premiere of Juliane Kanns Fieber with Ruth Reinecke at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . In 2011, for example, the Munich Volkstheater Ödön von Horváths Unknown from the Seine, the Lübeck Yerma Theater , the Oldenburg State Theater Tolstois Anna Karenina and the Vienna Burgtheater premiered Die Froschfotzenlederfabrik. In addition to plays at the Burgtheater, she also staged Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . For this production she was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize for Best Director.

In 2015 she staged the opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini and the comedy Drei Schwestern by Anton Chekhov at the Karlsruhe State Theater . In Sweden she staged a Midsummer Night's Dream and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at the Malmö State Theater, as well as her own version of Bizet's Carmen in Uppsala in 2017 . In addition to Carmen and La Bohème , Bergmann also staged La Douce at the Berlin State Opera and Der Freischütz in Klagenfurt.

In 2017 it was announced that Bergmann will be acting director of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 2018 . She is the first woman in this position and one of the few women with a management position in the theater world. She plans to let women direct. On October 6, 2018, she opened her first season at the State Theater with the performance of Nora, Hedda and their sisters .

In 2019 Bergmann's adaptation of Persona at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and Malmö Stadsteater was invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin.

reception

In 2011, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called Bergmann “the exploding Miss Wonder of the German theater business”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christine Dössel: Radically feminine. In: sueddeutsche.de . April 20, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ News - Current Issues - Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In: Staatstheater.karlsruhe.de. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - Persona. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung March 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1978