Bjorn Bicker

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Björn Bicker will be presenting his book "Was Glaubt ihr denn. Urban Prayers" at the 2016 Wortspiele in Munich.

Björn Bicker , pseudonym Polle Wilbert (born November 7, 1972 in Koblenz ) is a German author , director , curator , project developer and dramaturge .

Life

Björn Bicker studied literature, philosophy and rhetoric in Tübingen and Vienna . From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a dramaturge assistant and dramaturge at the Burgtheater in Vienna , from 2001 to 2009 he was dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele under Frank Baumbauer . There he developed the city projects "Bunnyhill" (2003-2006) and "Illegal" (2007-2008) together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner . With Malte Jelden he curated the project “Doing Identity - Bastard Munich” (2008) at the Kammerspiele, where he also co-developed and directed the project “Hauptschule der Freiheit” (2009). In 2010, the Münchner Kammerspiele received the BKM Prize for Cultural Education .

He is also a lecturer for dramaturgy , theater history and drama writing at various universities ( Otto Falckenberg School (Munich), Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding , Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg), Zurich University of the Performing Arts , LMU Munich ) active.

Björn Bicker has been working as a freelance writer and artist since 2009. He writes plays , radio plays , prose and essays . For various city and state theaters, he develops and leads artistic projects that are at the interface of art, politics and social practice. The focus is mostly on topics from the German and European immigration society. The projects include a. about staging diversity, participation and encounter as the engine of social change.

Awards

Plays

  • Seven moons. WP Cologne 2004 holiday camp.
  • Marie's party. UA Landestheater Detmold. 2005.
  • Why 1 happy ending makes me sad. UA. State Theater Tübingen 2005.
  • The chainring massker. Why Mr. Scharping can't make it up the mountain. Premiere Pathos Transport Theater Munich 2006.
  • Pension Schiller. Drama Cologne. Nationaltheater Mannheim 2007. Play development with David Gieselmann, Dirk Laucke a. a.
  • On the day of young talent. Premiere at the Nuremberg State Theater in April 2008.
  • Killer song 1-3. Premiere Schauspielhaus Bochum 2008 (Without Everything Festival)
  • Illegal. Premiere Munich Kammerspiele June 2008.
  • Troll man's fight. Sinti city of Hanover. Premiere at the State Theater in Hanover April 2010.
  • My carpet is my orient. Piece. Premiere Theater Bielefeld September 2010.
  • miss glamor. Premiere as part of the project "Cabinett" Theater Freiburg // garajistanbul October 2010.
  • The navigator. Introduction to Zombie Nation. Premiere at the State Theater in Hanover in September 2010
  • Deportation Cast. UA State Theater Hanover. September 2011
  • URBAN PRAYERS (MUC). WP Münchner Kammerspiele. June 2013
  • The island. WP Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. NEW HAMBURG Festival. October 2014.

Radio plays

Novels, short stories

  • What we inherit . Novel. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-818-0 .
  • Illegal. We are many. We are there . Publisher Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2009.
  • What do you think? Urban Prayers . Publisher Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016

Artistic direction, curation

  • BUNNYHILL 1, Münchner Kammerspiele, Stadtraum München 2004 .: Artistic director (together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner)
  • BUNNYHILL 2 - Who owns the city, Münchner Kammerspiele, Stadtraum Munich 2005/2006: Artistic direction (together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner)
  • DOING IDENTITY - Bastard Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele, Stadtraum 2008: Artistic director (together with Malte Jelden)
  • ILLEGAL. A project. Münchner Kammerspiele 2008: Artistic Director (together with Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner)
  • MAIN SCHOOL OF FREEDOM. Urban space Munich 2009: Artistic direction (together with Christine Umpfenbach, Peter Kastenmüller, Michael Graessner).
  • CABINET. A German-Turkish theater project. Artistic direction together with Viola Hasselberg. Peter Kastenmüller and Michael Graessner. Theater Freiburg October 2010.
  • URBAN PRAYERS. A city project by the Münchner Kammerspiele. June 6th - July 14th 2013. Artistic director (together with Malte Jelden and Julia Lochte)
  • NORTH - A district turns. State Theater Stuttgart. June 27 - July 18, 2014. Artistic director (together with Malte Jelden, Michael Graessner and Katrin Spira)
  • NEW HAMBURG. Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. NEW HAMBURG Festival. October 3 - October 26, 2014. Artistic director (together with Malte Jelden and Michael Graessner)
  • OPEN BORDER CONGRESS. Münchner Kammerspiele , October 16-18, 2015. The start of the conversion project MUNICH WELCOME THEATER. Artistic direction, together with Malte Jelden, with the participation of numerous artists, journalists, experts and initiatives such as Heribert Prantl , Carolin Emcke and CUCULA supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation , among others . The aim was to “bring local initiatives, refugee organizations and supraregional actors into contact with one another and [to] present their work to the public.”, With a focus “on innovative and future-oriented projects that are committed to the idea of ​​participation, democratization and empowerment to have".
  • MUNICH WELCOME THEATER. A conversion project by Björn Bicker and Malte Jelden. Münchner Kammerspiele 2015/2016. The aim is to open up the city theater in a joint process with the employees of the house for the topic of escape and arrival at all levels of the company.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Literatur/Preise-Literatur/Tukanpreis/2016.html
  2. ^ BR radio play Pool - Bicker, Illegal ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Affair and Stasi im Eifeldorf , review by Edelgard Abenstein on Deutschlandradio Kultur from March 18, 2013, accessed March 18, 2013
  4. ^ [1] , review by Eva Corino in the Berliner Zeitung of July 2, 2009
  5. ^ Message from the Federal Cultural Foundation on Munich Welcome Theater and Open Border Congress  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de, accessed on October 18, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de