Christian Schäfer (director)

Christian Schäfer (* 1975 in Müllheim ) is a German director and theater director . Between 2007 and 2013 he ran the Zimmer Theater Tübingen together with Axel Krauße , and since May 2013 he has been artistic director of the Gütersloh Theater .

Life

Christian Schäfer grew up in the "Fauststadt" Staufen im Breisgau . From 1995 he assisted in the annual Staufen Music Week (week for early music and vocal music) and in Auerbach's Keller Theater in Staufen. From 1997 to 2000 he studied acting and theater history in Freiburg and at the same time increasingly worked as a director. In the 2000/2001 season he was assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble with Philip Tiedemann and George Tabori . From 2001/2002 he directed a. a. in Augsburg, Memmingen and Bregenz.

Since 2007 he has been running the Zimmer Theater Tübingen together with Axel Krauße . In 2010 he was also appointed to the management advisory board of the Tübingen Cultural Office for the old Löwen cinema and was thus responsible for the planning, implementation and editorial support of the cultural program there. In 2012, the room theater was awarded the first culture prize of the Tübingen Community Foundation, endowed with 10,000 euros (celebratory speech: Marc-Oliver Hendriks , Staatstheater Stuttgart). The Zimmertheater received several festival invitations under the direction of Schäfer, as well as positive mentions in annual surveys / reports from the specialist magazines Theater heute , Theater der Zeit and Die deutsche Bühne .

Since May 2013 he has been artistic director at the Gütersloh Theater . There he initiated his own productions for the first time and founded the "Junge Theater Gütersloh". His contract, which originally ran until 2017, was prematurely extended for an unlimited period by the city of Gütersloh . In 2016 he received a "Culture Star of the Year" from the Neue Westfälische Zeitung for his successful management activities and his production "The Last Cowboy (Solitary Man)".

Directorial work

Christian Schäfer's productions include La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi at the Massener Herbstwochen (Mengen 1998), the Austrian premiere of Fritz Kater's We are Camera (Bregenz 2005), the world premiere of Joachim Zeler’s Alpha Park (Tübingen 2007, guest performances, among others, at the OpenOhr -Festival in Mainz and in the polittbüro Hamburg), as well as the German-language premiere of Ivana Sajkos Europa , (Tübingen 2008, invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2008). In 2008/09 he staged the opening premiere of the anniversary season 50 years of Zimmertheater Tübingen: Weisman and Rotgesicht by George Tabori and Diesseits by Thomas Jonigk as an Austrian premiere in Bregenz, for the opening of the 2009/2010 season The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller , then the national lot noted the premiere of Professor Lear by Joachim Zelter. In May 2010 he directed the double evening Romantik is dead! at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, which included the German-language premiere of Zastrozzi ( George F. Walker ) and the world premiere of Die Lieb-Haberin (Joachim Zelter). In 2010 he staged the second production of Elfriede Jelinek's Nathan / Abraumhalde and Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon in Tübingen. This was followed by the premiere of She sleeps on the novel by Dietmar Dath in cooperation with the Polittbüro Hamburg and Stella by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in cooperation with the Boys Room Theater and the Berlin band music Klez.e . He also staged the German-language premiere of Anna Jablonskaja's mono dialogues There is no end (premiere in May 2012 at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen) and the official Tübingen summer theater 2012 Das Wirtshaus im Spessart . In March 2013, on the occasion of Walter Jens' 90th birthday, he and the actor Endre Holéczy developed the play JUDAS! , after "I, a Jew: Defense speech of Judas Iscarioth".

In May 2014 he staged the first in-house production of the Gütersloh Theater, the world premiere Island one way by Fink Kleidheu and Svavar Knútur, as a coproduction with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen. In September 2014, the first performance of the monologue followed Page One of Johannes Kram , with Ingolf Lück . The staging is then u. a. can also be seen in Berlin Tipi at the Chancellery , Hamburg Hamburger Kammerspiele and Cologne. In autumn 2015, the world premiere of Die Schildbürger by Christian Hansen at the Theater Gütersloh, followed by Die Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka , the first production of the Junge Theater Gütersloh, which was initiated by Schäfer. For the Ruhr Festival in May 2016, he staged the play DER LETZTE COWBOY (solitary man) by Fink Kleidheu (text) and Thommie Bayer (inspiration and dramaturgy) as a co-production with Theater Gütersloh during the premiere festival . In 2017 he premiered the first play by Bachmann Prize winner Tilman Rammstedt Raushauen in Gütersloh. In 2018 the world premiere of "Loreley (Sinking Ships)" by Kleidheu / Rammstedt / Knútur followed at the Ruhr Festival, which entered the nachtkritik.de charts at number 5. In autumn 2018 followed by the second production of the Junge Theater Gütersloh "Die Marquise von O ...." by Heinrich von Kleist .

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SURNAME	Schäfer, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muellheim