Bettina Bruinier

Bettina Bruinier (born March 1975 in Wiesbaden ) is a German director.

Bruinier studied opera and drama directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich from 1995–99 . a. with Cornel Franz . As an assistant director at the Staatstheater Kassel (1999–2001) she worked with Armin Petras , Sebastian Baumgarten and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (2001–2005) with Dimiter Gotscheff , Michael Thalheimer , Armin Petras and Jürgen Kruse . As a freelance director, she staged at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Mainz , the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg , the Theater Konstanz , the Volkstheater Munich (2008 audience award festival "radikal jung") and at the Saxon State Opera . Bruinier was in-house director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt from 2009 to 2011 . Bruinier has been acting director at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken since the beginning of the 2017/2018 season .

Bruinier lives in Berlin and Saarbrücken.

Productions (selection)

Hessian Theater Days Kassel:

• The love that I mean by Robert Woelfl (2002)

At the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding, Munich:

• Rosenkranz and Güldenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard (1997)
• The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten (1998)
• Christmas was last year by Jürgen von Stenglin (1998, WP)
• Under the Milky Forest by Dylan Thomas (1998)
• Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm (1999)
• Quer.Feld.Ein after the State Theater by Maurizio Kagel , as part of the Expo 2000 , German Pavilion, Hanover

Since 2003, smaller productions for the Kammerbar of the Deutsches Theater , Berlin; among others:

• Short interviews with nasty men by David Foster Wallace (2003)
• Wild Cards - playing the future based on texts by Karlheinz Steinmüller et al. (2004)
• Till Eulenspiegel by Erich Kästner (2005)
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (2005)
• My Friend Bunbury by Oscar Wilde (2006)
• The rehearsal by Lukas Bärfuss (2007)

at the State Theater Mainz :

• Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (2005)

at the theater of the city of Heidelberg :

• Calling Patty Hearst by Bettina Bruinier / Marie Enzler (2005)

at the Konstanz Theater :

• Gretchen 89 ff. By Lutz Hübner (2006)
• Like Heaven by Kay Pollack (2007, WP)
• Maria Stuart von Schiller (2008)

at the Volkstheater Munich :

• Schilf nach Juli Zeh (2007, WP) (2008 audience award festival » radikal jung «)
• Alice in Wonderland by Roland Schimmelpfennig based on Lewis Carroll (2008)
• The Cactus of July Toe (2009, WP)
• I hired a contract killer according to Aki Kaurismäki (2010)
• An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen (2010)
• Solaris based on Stanislaw Lem , stage version: Bettina Bruinier and Katja Friedrich (2011, WP)
• Infinite Fun by David Foster Wallace (2012, WP)

at the Dresden State Theater :

• Seven steps to self-dissolution by Marcel Luxinger (2007)
• Nora or a Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (2008)
• The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni in a version by Martin Heckmanns (2013)

at the State Theater Braunschweig :

• Confetti - A magical evening for politically confused people by Ingrid Lausund (2008)

at the Theaterhaus Jena  :

• Anatomy by Anita Augustin (2009)

at the Schauspielhaus Bochum :

• Elevator to bankruptcy by Marcel Luxinger (2009)

at the Schauspiel Frankfurt :

• City of Glass by Paul Auster (2009)
• Germany. A winter fairy tale by Heinrich Heine (2009)
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2010)
• The Longing of Veronika Voss by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2010)
• The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (2011)
• Winter Journey by Elfriede Jelinek (2011)
• X-Freunde von Felicia Zeller (2012, premier) "Piece of the Year 2013", invited to the Mülheim Author Theater Days and the Berlin Author Theater Days
• The dwarf cleans the coat of Anita Augustin (2014, UA)

at the Badisches Staatstheater , Karlsruhe:

• King Lear by William Shakespeare (2010)

at the Saxon State Opera , Dresden:

• Street Scene by Kurt Weill (2011)
• La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2012)

at the United Theaters of Bolzano:

• The wide country by Arthur Schnitzler (2013)
• The Ballhaus - dance through a century based on an idea by Jean-Claude Penchenat (2013)
• Anatevka by Jerry Bock (2015)

at the German National Theater, Weimar:

• Cabal and Love by Friedrich Schiller (2014)
• La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (2014)

at the State Theater Nuremberg:

• The Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist (2014)
• The Wards by Elfriede Jelinek (2016)
• Robert Redford's hands Blessed by Rebekka Kricheldorf (2018)

at the Lucerne Theater :

• The persecution and murder of Jean Paul Marat portrayed by the acting group of the Charenton Hospice under the guidance of Mr de Sade by Peter Weiss (2015)

at the St. Gallen Theater :

• Peter Pan family play after James Matthew Barrie (2016)

at the City Theater Giessen :

• Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2015)

at the Magdeburg Theater :

• Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (2015)

at the Darmstadt State Theater :

• Fist. The tragedy first part by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (2016)

at the Saarland State Theater :

• Nathan or the fairy tale of equality according to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (2017)
• We are the good guys shoot / get treasure / repeat by Mark Ravenhill (2018)
• Das Echte Leben (For Brilka) based on the stage version by Emilia Heinrich, Julia Lochte and Jette Steckel based on the novel by Nino Harati wili (2018)

literature

• Teresa Grenzmann: On the way to wild animals. The director Bettina Bruinier and how she brought Juli Zeh's novel Schilf onto the small stage of the Münchner Volkstheater. In: Kilian Engels & C. Bernd Sucher (eds.): Political and possible worlds. tomorrow's directors. Henschel, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89487-613-5 , pp. 34-43.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bettina Bruinier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Bettina Bruinier