Carl Ceiss

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Carl Ceiss (* 1959 in Leipzig ) is a German - Austrian playwright .

Career

After childhood in Weimar , school and studies in Berlin , he had an engagement at the Volksbühne Berlin from 1982 to 1985 . He then worked as a dramaturge and director at the Stadttheater in Quedlinburg and at the Institute for Drama Directing BAT in Berlin. In 1989/90 he was head of dramaturgy at the Altmark Theater in Stendal . From 1989 to 1992 he was a co-founder, partner and employee of the theater publishing house authors' college in Berlin. After that he worked as a dramaturge and director at the Landestheater Detmold until 1997 .

In 1997, Ceiss was a member of the jury for the Christian Dietrich Grabbe Dramatist Prize and had an engagement at the Wolfgang Borchert Theater in Münster . Today he works as a freelance author and lives in Berlin and Vienna.

Memberships

Awards

  • 1991 Literature grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture
  • 2011 Stuttgart Author Award 2011 for his political tendency piece "Im Delirium"

Works (selection)

  • 1988/91 Minotaur automaton, tragedy; First part of the Minoan trilogy
  • 1989 The pale horse, dramatic collage
  • 1990 wallpaper treatise, (created in 1988) monologue, as a radio play in the Sender Freies Berlin
  • 1991 An den Dreizehnten, (Requiem for an old man) World premiere at the Mecklenburg State Theater Parchim (Director: Marcus Lachmann)
  • 2001 Persephone or the Balancing of the Worlds, composer Günter Neubert , libretto by Carl Ceiss, concert premiere at the Leipzig Opera House
  • 2001 Alphatext, fragment by Carl Ceiss, as a radio play in the Sender Freies Berlin 2003
  • 2006 The Yeti - the share of unemployment in people becoming apes (created in 2002) WP : "projekttheater dresden" (director: Andreas Hüttner)
  • 2009 Engel von Bremen, Moritat, as a radio play on Radio Bremen / Saarländischen Rundfunk

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dramatikerunion.de/vorstand.php
  2. ↑ http://www.seismocordermedia.de/B004.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.hoerdat.in-berlin.de/
  4. ^ Leipzig Almanac
  5. ↑ http://www.theatrikos.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=82

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personal data
SURNAME Ceiss, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig