Boris from Poser

Boris von Poser (* 1967 in Munich ) is a German theater director .

Live and act

Growing up in Heidelberg, von Poser first studied directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . He comes from the von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz family . Between 1990 and 1992 he was assistant director to Peter Zadek at the Vienna Akademietheater and the Münchner Kammerspiele . He then took on engagements at various theater stages, including the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg , the Schauspiel Leipzig and the Münchner Kammerspiele.

His production of Gesine Danckwart's Girls Nightout in the Sophiensaele (Berlin) was nominated for the Friedrich Luft Prize in 2002; the following year the magazine Theater heute nominated von Poser in the category “Young Director of the Year”.

In addition to stage adaptations of prose works (e.g. by FM Dostojewski, H. Melville, R. Musil and several works by Leonora Carrington ), Boris von Poser has often staged world premieres - for example the 2001 world premiere of Tankred Dorst 's Kupsch at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and the German premieres of John Patrick Shanley 's Doubt (2007, Staatstheater Karlsruhe) and Joan Didion 's The Year of Magical Thinking (2008, Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg).

Von Poser works in both acting and musical theater. Since 2008 he has been teaching at various drama schools and is the author of the book Traumberuf Director .

At the Brandenburger Theater , von Poser led the Brandenburger Bürgerbühne from 2016-2018, a theater group in which amateurs and professional actors worked on performances under professional conditions. In 2018 Sommer in Brandenburg in Paretz was created for theater.land based on the novel by Urs Faes based on the same principle .

Productions (selection)

• 1995 Korbes , Tankred Dorst, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
• 1996 The nights of the Brontë sisters, Susanne Schneider, Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
• 1998 The Festival of the Lamb, Leonora Carrington, Theater K., Aachen
• 2001 Ippolit postponed his death until the day after tomorrow to meet you, after FM Dostojewski, Sophiensaele, Berlin (guest performances at the Hanover Theater and the Zurich Theater, from 2001 to 2005 in the repertoire of the Münchner Kammerspiele)
• 2001 Kupsch , Tankred Dorst, Deutsches Theater Göttingen (world premiere)
• 2002 GIRLSNIGHTOUT, Gesine Danckwart, Sophiensaele, Berlin
• 2003 Spinnen, Sabine Wen-Ching Wang, Kammerspiele Munich (Author Days)
• 2003 The Lost One, after Hans Ulrich Treichel, Sophiensaele, Berlin
• 2003 Gier, Sarah Kane, Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2004 Before / After, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2004 Licht, opera based on Dea Loher, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin
• 2004 Blaubart, Ludwig Tieck, Leipzig Theater
• 2005 Wilde / Man with Sad Eyes, Handel Klaus, Kammerspiele Munich
• 2005 A moon for the loaded, Eugene O'Neill, Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2006 Down Below, based on Leonora Carrington, Staatstheater Karlsruhe
• 2007 Doubt, John Patrick Shanley, Staatstheater Karlsruhe (German premiere)
• 2008 The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg (German premiere)
• 2010 Lunatics, a music theater project with works by Arnold Schönberg, Peter Maxwell Davies and Luigi Nono, Kunstfest Weimar pèlerinages
• 2013 The contracts of the businessman, Elfriede Jelinek, Neuhardenberg Foundation
• 2014 Das Hörrohr, based on Leonora Carrington, Renaissancetheater Berlin
• 2015 Amphitryon, Heinrich von Kleist, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau
• 2016 A picture by Ivan, based on Paula Fox, Schauburg Munich
• 2017 jacket like pants, Manfred Karge, Brandenburger Theater
• 2017 Queen of Spades, based on Alexander Puschkin, Kleines Theater am Südwestkorso, Berlin
• 2018 Bartleby, after Herman Melville, Vertebra Theater, Shanghai
• 2018 summer in Brandenburg, based on Urs Faes, theater.land, Paretz
• 2019 Der Zauberberg, dance theater based on Thomas Mann (co-director and dramaturgy), choreography: Olaf Schmidt, Theater Lüneburg
• 2020 Törless, based on Robert Musil, Kleines Theater am Südwestkorso, Berlin

Works

• Dream job director. Henschel Verlag, 2011 ISBN 3-89487-687-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Boris von Poser. (No longer available online.) Lehnschulzen Hofbühne Viesen, archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; Retrieved January 4, 2013 . 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Boris von Poser. (No longer available online.) Münchner Kammerspiele , formerly the original ; Retrieved January 4, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Web links

• Boris von Poser's website [1]