Anna Langhoff

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Anna Langhoff (born May 30, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German writer , director and dramaturge .

Life

origin

Anna Langhoff is the only daughter of the theater director Matthias Langhoff , the granddaughter of the actor and director Wolfgang Langhoff and the niece of the director Thomas Langhoff . Since 1978 the family lived in Switzerland , later in France .

Theater work

From 1983 to 1988 Anna Langhoff was an assistant director at theaters in Zurich , Bochum and Hamburg . From 1990 she worked as a dramaturge at the Berlin Schiller Theater and from 1992 to 1995 as an author and director at the Berliner Ensemble . On behalf of Heiner Müller , she wrote the piece Schmidt Germany - Der Rosa Riese for the Berliner Ensemble and was a member of the Berliner Ensemble's authors' workshop.

She has also directed at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Volksbühne Berlin , the Deutsches Theater Almaty Kazakhstan, in France, Portugal, and other places. She was also a lecturer at the drama school of the Theater Nationale de Bretagne in Rennes, France, from 1991 to 1992 . Since 1992 she has occasionally worked as a freelance director at various theaters, but above all as a writer and as a translator for plays and scripts .

In 2008 she tried to develop a new profile for the theater as the new artistic director of the grandstand, which was founded in 1919 , but was decided by the directors after four months of preparation and only ten days after the reopening premiere with Love - The Most Beautiful Story because of "irreconcilable artistic and personal differences" dismiss. In a public protest letter, well-known artists declared that “this private entrepreneurial approach” was driving out those artists and sponsors - including the undersigned - who wanted to support the restart of the theater. In addition, the artists pointed out that the 600,000 euros subsidy from the Berlin Senate in 2008 "not least" went to Langhoff's concept and called for "a review of the management structure of the tribuene", which consists of two managing directors, namely the couple Thomas and Corinna Trempnau, which in turn did not provide enough money for artistic projects. In the following year, the Berlin Senate stopped funding the tribuene under the direction of the Trempnau directors. Among the signatories were the actors Tina Engel , David Bennent , Ernst Stötzner , Dörte Lyssewski , the set designer Peter Schubert , the artist Brigitte Maria Mayer , the director of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Jean-Baptiste Joly and various sponsors.

Langhoff has been working as a freelance writer and translator since 2008/09, including for the CTB Companhia de Teatro de Braga theater in Portugal, where she has also been the artistic director of the company since 2011. In 2013, together with Alexei Schipenko and Stipe Erceg , she founded the film production company Nondual Production , which pursues various film projects and, together with the CTB theater, has been combining theater work and film work in a process- oriented manner since 2014 . In 2014 and 2015, the documentary Semana Santa and the feature film Fideliche (with Stipe Erceg, Rui Madeira, Carols Feio and Fumie Kimura) were made. In 2015 Anna Langhoff shot the documentary LESS together with Alexej Schipenko / Nondual Productions about women who decided against breast reconstruction after a bilateral mastectomy. Since 2017 she has been the lead dramaturge at the Volkstheater Rostock .

Author

Since its first publication in 1986, Herz Schuss (Ammann Verlag), Langhoff has been working as a freelance writer and has published prose and poetry. Since 1991 she has also been known as a playwright, her theater texts are represented by the Henschel Schauspiel Verlag. She is the author of narrative works , poems , plays and radio plays .

Private

Anna Langhoff is married to the writer, director and musician Alexei Schipenko . She is the mother of three sons, including the playwright Juri Sternburg and the director Léon S. Langhoff .

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Heart shot , prose, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1987
  • Vielliebchen , poetry, Ammann-Verlag, Zurich 1990
  • Construction site Berlin , essay, edition l'UBU
  • Golem , piece version for the Volksbühne at Rosa Luxemburgplatz Berlin 1994
  • Transit Heimat / covered tables , play, Berlin 1993
  • Schmidt Germany. The Pink Riese , play, Berlin 1995
  • Peace, Peace , Play, Berlin 1996
  • Symple stories based on Ingo Schulze, play, Leipzig 1998
  • Parrot meat , play, Berlin 1999
  • Immortal and Rich , play, Berlin 1999
  • Antigone report , play, Berlin 1999
  • Eisfelder , play, Berlin 2000
  • Am Toten Mann , play, Dessau 2001
  • Banquet of the Sea , play, Berlin 2001
  • Actor , play, Berlin 2002
  • The sun is shining , play, Berlin 2006
  • Peace Peace , radio play, first broadcast in 1998, Radio France Culture
  • Antigone report , radio play, first broadcast in 1999, Radio France Culture
  • Party , radio play, first broadcast in 2000, Radio France Culture
  • Immortal and Rich , radio play, first broadcast in 2000, SFB
  • Slash-and-burn Berlin , radio play, first broadcast in 2003, SWR

literature

  • Kerstin Dietrich: "GDR literature" as reflected in the German-German literary debate. Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkstheater Rostock: Anna Langhoff | Volkstheater Rostock. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Langhoff, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin