Bernhard Dechant
Bernhard Dechant (born September 20, 1976 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor and director .
life and work
Dechant played from 1990 to 1993 as a child and youth actor at the Vienna Burgtheater and in the theater in der Josefstadt . From 1997 to 2000 he studied psychology at the University of Vienna and from 2000 to 2003 acting. From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the ensemble at the Theaterhaus Jena . For 2009 he was selected by Christoph Schlingensief as a scholarship holder for the subject of directing at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. As an actor, he worked with Alice Buddeberg , Christine Eder , Eike Hannemann , Markus Heinzelmann , Peter Kern , norton.commander.productions , Claus Peymann , Michael Schachermaier , Tomas Schweigen and Hartmut Wickert, among others .
Under the title The silent majority says YES! initiated Dechant with the director Tina Leisch , the actress Natalie Assmann and other activists and artists (including the singer Gustav , the actors Claudia Kottal , Pippa Galli and Nikolaus Habjan , the directors Nina C. Gabriel and Markus Kupferblum , as well as the authors Eva Schörkhuber and Alma Hadžibeganović ) in July 2015 a permanent vigil "for a more humane refugee policy " in front of the Vienna State Opera .
In September 2015, together with Tina Leisch, he staged "Protected Orders perform Jelineks Protected Orders" with 40 refugees from the Traiskirchen initial reception center, for which he was awarded an Extra Nestroy Prize and the 2016 Prize of the Free Scene Vienna. In "Traiskirchen. Das Musical", which was developed together with Tina Leisch and 40 other artists (premiered as part of the Wiener Festwochen in the Volkstheater on June 9, 2017), the events of the summer of 2015 were sarcastically staged. In May and June 2018, Dechant ran a "Heldinnenzentrale" in the Viennese suburb of Floridsdorf, from which the "1210 superheroes" played in the district. Dechant continues to embody the red superhero "DaRode" in actions and interventions in public space.
Dechant lives as a freelance actor and director in Vienna.
Own projects (direction)
- 2006 The Thomas Münzershow - Jena
- 2007 Don Quichote - Jena, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna
- 2008 Amok - Jena
- 2009 Kinski a description of the state - performance by and with Klaus Kinski - Vienna, Jena, Stuttgart, Munich, Dresden, Graz
- 2010 Problem child campaign - Jena, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Basel.
- 2012 Gaddafi the Musical - Stuttgart
- 2014 Uncompromising downfall. After Oskar Werner - Vienna
- 2015 Wards perform Jelinek Wards - Vienna
- 2017 Traiskirchen. The musical - Vienna
- 2017 wirkommen.at The 1210 superheroes from the Heldinnenzentrale - Vienna - Floridsdorf
Awards
- 2008 audience award of the 100 Grad Festival in Berlin
- 2010 LAG Soziokultur Thuringia KulturRiese 2010 award
- 2013 Winner of the Reutlingen Monospectacle with "Braveheart"
- 2015: Nestroy Theater Prize in the category Best Off-Production for Proletenpassion 2015 ff (Director: Christine Eder)
- 2015: Nestroy Theater Prize Extra price for "Wards perform Jelinek Wards"
- 2016: Prize of the Free Scene Vienna for "Wards perform Jelinek's Wards"
- 2017: Dorothea Neff Prize for "Traiskirchen. The Musical"
Web links
- Bernhard Dechant , website
- Monologue from a rating agency , the musical from Gaddafi
- www.schweigendemehrheit.at
- www.wirkommen.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Asylum: Demo and vigil “until something changes” , diepresse.com , July 25, 2015
- ↑ Tina Leisch: Press release on the non-stop rally: The silent majority says YES! , July 26, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dean, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |