Boris Nikitin

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Boris Nikitin (born August 11, 1979 in Basel ) is a Swiss theater director and curator .

Life

He got his Russian surname from his father, who is half Russian, half French and a scientist. Nikitin grew up in his hometown Basel and as a high school student was initially more enthusiastic about film than theater. He had his first internships at the Stadttheater Basel . In 2001 he sat in on director Frank Castorf for the Zurich production “Berlin Alexanderplatz” . As a result, he was allowed to work on several productions by René Pollesch as assistant director at the “Prater” secondary theater of the Berliner Volksbühne .

From 2002 to 2008 Nikitin studied at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Most of the project work there is done collectively. His first really own directorial work “Woyzeck” from 2007 received the jury award of the 100 Grad Festival in Hebbel am Ufer Berlin in 2008 . In the same year, the production was invited to Hamburg by the competition jury of the Körber Studio Junge Regie .

His diploma production F for Falsification was invited as a finalist of the ten best off-theater productions at the international theater festival " Impulse " as was the "Woyzeck" performance in 2009 . There, F for Fälschung received the Dietmar N. Schmidt Prize for the best individual artistic achievement as a production of the Festival Plateaux at Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main in 2009 . The director shared the success with Martin Scholz.

Nikitin has been living in Basel again since 2010. From there he produces his theater projects with independent venues such as Kaserne Basel , HAU Berlin and Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich. His projects such as Imitation of Life (2009) have been seen internationally, including in Johannesburg , Cape Town , the Sakharov Center in Moscow, Stamsund and Zagreb . The theater curator also took on directing assignments throughout the German-speaking region, for example at the Freiburg Theater and the Graz Schauspielhaus . The Graz production “The Village Judge Adam” received an invitation to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt in 2011 .

With universal export. A journey into our brain was created in 2011 for a performance for three actors that Nikitin himself staged in the Basel barracks. The piece shows that humans are self-reprogramming beings.

In April 2013, as part of the Basler Dokumentartage 13 festival curated by Boris Nikitin, six dance and theater productions were performed in the Basel barracks. Contributions by Milo Rau ( Breivik's declaration ) or She She Pop ( drawers ) operated under the festival motto “It's The Real Thing” and examined “the documentary theater's view of reality” in a final symposium .

During the training phase in Giessen he already played a major role in the curation of the international festival for young talent for theater / dance / performance “diskurs” (2005, 2007). In 2010 he organized the festival “The Time Machine 1980-2010 / 30 Years, 30 Artists” in Basel on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of Kaserne Basel.

A piece of your own with the programmatic title Don't be yourself! the theater maker staged for the Schauspielhaus Graz in 2013. The commissioned production for Styrian Autumn is about “identity, authenticity and presence”, the big questions of contemporary theater and life. The production was promptly invited to the Swiss Theater Meeting. Nikitin staged his performance piece How to win friends & influence people in 2014 for the Freiburg Theater as a kind of sermon in a church interior.

In 2014, Nikitin was on the jury of the theater meeting for German-speaking acting students in connection with the 25th competition to promote young actors.

The music theater performance Singer Without Shadow was commissioned by the Ruhrtriennale and was premiered in August 2014 in the Zweckel machine hall in Gladbeck . Karan Armstrong (soprano), Yosemeh Adjei (countertenor), Christoph Homberger (tenor) and Stefan Wirth (piano) played on stage .

One year after his father's death in 2017, Nikitin began capturing the story of his father's ALS illness. This resulted in the 50-minute play Experiment about Dying , a coproduction with Kaserne Basel and Gessnerallee Zurich. The fourth edition of the festival "It's The Real Thing - Basler Dokumentartage", curated by Nikitin, which took place in April 2019, had the motto "Theater of Vulnerability".

Awards

  • 2008: Jury Prize of the Festival 100 ° Berlin , for Performance Woyzeck
  • 2009: Dietmar-N.-Schmidt-Prize of the off-theater festival Impulse , for staging F for falsification
  • 2011: Invitation to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt for The Village Judge Adam Case (Director: Boris Nikitin)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Profile B. Nikitin at Pro Helvetica
  2. ↑ a b Boris Nikitin: Portrait , on the website of the Goethe Institute .
  3. ↑ Körber Studio Junge Regie 2008 - the next generation of directors presents themselves: Search for your own signature. Nachtkritik.de of March 20, 2008, accessed August 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ The Impulse prizes were awarded. Nachtkritik.de of December 6, 2009, accessed August 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ Imitation of Life and Woyzeck in South Africa. ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, accessed August 23, 2014. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prohelvetia.org.za
  6. ^ The case of the village judge Adam - Boris Nikitin, like Kleist once did, doubt the uniqueness of language. Nachtkritik.de of November 27, 2010, accessed August 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ Universal Export. A journey into our brain - an inspiring excursion by Boris Nikitin and three actors. Nachtkritik.de of February 25, 2011, accessed August 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Basel Documentary Days 13: "The actors on the stage are cheaters". Tageswoche.ch from April 4, 2013, accessed August 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ It's the real thing - Festival overview of the Basel Documentary Days 13. Nachtkritik.de of November 27, 2010, accessed August 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ “Don't be yourself!” - In his new piece Boris Nikitin strolls along the abyss of the as-if during the Styrian Autumn. Nachtkritik.de of October 6, 2013, accessed August 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ The selection for the first Swiss Theatertreffen. Nachtkritik.de of February 5, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ “How to win friends & influence people” - director Boris Nikitin blurs the lines between sermon and theater in the Mariastein monastery church. Nachtkritik.de of March 20, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Prizes at the Theatertreffen German-speaking acting students. Nachtkritik.de of June 8, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014.
  14. ↑ Ruhrtriennale: Scenic essay on appearance and being, Boris Nikitin's “Singer without a shadow”. , Review by Ulrike Gondorf in Deutschlandradio Kultur on August 22, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014.
  15. ↑ “Singer without a shadow” - Boris Nikitin traces the power of the human voice with his project for the Ruhrtriennale. Nachtkritik.de of August 22, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014.
  16. ^ Theater / performance attempt on dying , kaserne-basel.ch/de, accessed November 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Nikitin, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater director and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel