Brigitte Fürle

Brigitte Fürle (* 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater scholar and Romance philologist. She has been Artistic Director at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten since 2013 .

Life

Brigitte Fürle did her doctorate in 1987 at the University of Vienna and from 1995 to 2000 she was teaching at the Institute for Theater Studies on the subject of "New Theater Forms". In addition, she was a journalist for various specialist magazines and curator for various festivals, including the Styrian Autumn 1990 "Bis unter die Haut".

As a program dramaturge at the Wiener Festwochen from 1993 to 1998, Brigitte Fürle was the driving force behind new forms of theater under the direction of Klaus Bachler , where she made names such as DV8, Robert Lepage and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio known throughout Europe as part of the Halle G / Neues Theater program . The highlights of these programs included productions such as “The Seven Streams of the River Ota” by Robert Lepage, “Hell Bent” by Nigel Charnock and “Enter Achilles” by DV8, as well as “Le péplum” by Royal de Luxe on Vienna's Rathausplatz and “Chimère” by Théâtre Zingaro, a horse opera on the Danube Island.

As a dramaturge at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel , Brigitte Fürle worked from 1999 to 2000 with Stéphane Braunschweig and Udo Samel in “Woyzeck”, among others .

Brigitte Fürle was the first program curator of the Young Directors Project at the Salzburg Festival from 2002 to 2004 under the direction of Jürgen Flimm and established its success as an international highlight of the Salzburg Festival's theater program. In 2003 it showed the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis for the first time at a European festival , whose production "Revizor" won the Montblanc Award.

At schauspielfrankfurt under the direction of Elisabeth Schweeger , Brigitte Fürle was dramaturge and responsible for international contacts and festival curator of the 15th Festival of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe from 2000 to 2006. In Frankfurt she also curated the theater program of the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of the guest country Korea in 2005 and Russia in 2003 and was a member of the jury for the European Theater Prize.

“Spielzeit'europa”, the theater and dance season of the Berliner Festspiele , was founded by Joachim Sartorius as a program series for the Haus der Berliner Festspiele (formerly Freie Volksbühne) as a season lasting several months . From 2006 to 2012, under the artistic direction of Brigitte Fürle, “spielzeit'europa” received not only audience approval, which is also reflected in the occupancy figures in the Haus der Berliner Festwochen with 1,000 seats (occupancy regularly 85 - 90%), international media attention and cooperation international organizers and counted internationally as a production and co-production partner of artists, companies and festivals.

In 2013 Brigitte Fürle followed Joachim Schlömer as artistic director at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten .

Web links

• Biography Brigitte Fürle - Festspielhaus St. Pölten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Fürle succeeds Joachim Schlömer , in: derStandard.at , March 29, 2012 (accessed October 23, 2013,)