Benjamin Baumann

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Benjamin Baumann (born July 21, 1969 in Hanau ) is a German director and author . He directed numerous plays and musicals, including the nuns show Nunsense the US author Dan Goggin .

biography

Baumann studied theater, film and media studies, German studies and art education at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and wrote his master's thesis on off-Broadway musicals.

Since 1995 he has directed numerous plays and musicals, including Non (n) sens by Dan Goggin (544 performances) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita . For the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Festival in Hanau he worked for several years as a director and author. As a translator and songwriter, he has translated numerous musicals into German, including a. the Broadway classic Bye Bye Birdie and various sequels to Goggin's Nuns series. In 1994 he received the Main-Kinzig-Kreis Culture Prize for his artistic work. As a teacher for the performing arts and arts, he passes on his experience to young people at an upper secondary school in Bruchköbel. He also works as a freelance coach and gives courses in the areas of phonetics, rhetoric and theater.

Projects (selection)

  • 2015: Im Weißen Rössl , Ralph Benatzky u. a., musical project, Nidderau (director); The Addams Family , Musical Family Hanau (Coaching)
  • 2014: Non (n) sens , Dan Goggin, Musical Company Austria, Salzburg (direction, stage); Sex Today, Love Tomorrow , Israela Margalit (Translator)
  • 2013: Evita , Andrew Lloyd Webber, Landesbühne Rheinland-Pfalz (direction, stage); Knef - It's supposed to rain red roses for me , JE Lyons, Comoedienhaus Hanau (direction, set design)
  • 2012: Nunset Boulevard , Dan Goggin (translation)
  • 2011: Sister Robert Anne's Musical Course , Dan Goggin (translation); Summer Lovin ' , musical project based on Grease , performing arts course, Bruchköbel (director, script)
  • 2009: All Shook Up , Elvis -Musical, Joe DiPietro (translation book)
  • 2008: Romance / Romance , Keith Herrmann, German-language premiere, Hanau (director, translation)
  • 2007: Paris , Troja-Musical, English / Mackay (translation)
  • 2006: Cinderella , play with music by Thomas Gabriel , Hanau Fairy Tale Festival (direction, text)
  • 2005: All nuns again , Dan Goggin, German-language premiere, Hanau (direction, translation); The hare and the hedgehog , play with music by Thomas Gabriel , Hanau (direction, text)
  • 2004: Bye Bye Birdie , Charles Strouse (translation); Evita , resumption, amphitheater Hanau
  • 2003: Frau Holle , musical (see below), resumption, Hanau fairy tale festival
  • 2002: Evita , Andrew Lloyd Webber, Amphitheater Hanau (direction, stage, production)
  • 2001: Die Taffetas , musical revue of the 50s, Rick Lewis, Hanau (direction, stage)
  • 2000: Frau Holle , musical, music by Thomas Gabriel , Hanau Fairy Tale Festival (director, libretto, role: Baron); Snoopy! , Larry Grossman, Hanau (direction, role: Snoopy, stage)
  • 1999: Jorinde and Joringel , musical, music by Thomas Lorey and Ronald Schöppe, Hanau Fairy Tale Festival (direction, lyrics); One night in February , children's play, Staffan Göthe, Hanau (director)
  • 1998: Sister Amnesia's Country & Western Non (n) sense , Dan Goggin, European premiere, Hanau (director, translation)
  • 1997: Der kleine Horrorladen , Alan Menken, Hanau (director, role: Seymour); Witch Hunt , Arthur Miller, Seligenstadt (Director)
  • 1996: Eating Raoul , Paul Bartel, Hanau (directors)
  • 1995: Non (n) sens ( Non (n) sense ), Dan Goggin, Hanau and Tour (direction, stage, production)

Discography (selection)

  • Non (n) sense , Hanau Cast (in German), 1996
  • Mrs. Holle , 2000
  • Evita , single (in German), 2002
  • Fairytale , 2006
  • Romance / Romance , single (in German), 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau