Christine Eder

Christine Eder ( Nestroy 2015 )

Christine Eder (born 1976 in Linz ) is an Austrian director .

life and work

Eder studied political science , journalism , theater studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna . After graduating in 1998, she initially worked as an assistant director at the Phönix Theater in Linz and at the Schauspielhaus Wien , before studying theater directing at the Institute for Theater, Music Theater and Film at the University of Hamburg from 2001 to 2006 . This was followed by productions at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (including Antigone von Sophokles), at the Theaterhaus Jena ( Leonce and Lena , Dantons Tod , Liliom and Burns by Wajdi Mouawad ) and at the Munich Volkstheater . She was invited three times (2006, 2007 and 2010) to the young directors festival Radikal jung in Munich. In 2010 she received the award for the best ensemble performance and the audience award at the Bavarian Theater Days in Regensburg for her production of Eros based on the novel by Helmut Krausser at the Munich Volkstheater .

Eder has been staging regularly at the Schauspielhaus Graz since 2009 . At Anna Badora's house she directed, among other things, the world premiere of Das bin ich by Thomas Glavinic and Ein Volksfeind . She is also a member of the Hamburg Agitprop collective Schwabinggrad Ballett . At the Theater Konstanz she staged Die Geierwally for the first time in the 2010/2011 season and the play want to live in the following season . Together by Ivna Žic . Her staging of Der Sturm followed in 2014 . In plant X she presented in January 2015 a new version of the proles Passion of butterflies . In 2017 she was awarded the Dorothea Neff Prize for the production Alles Walzer, alles brennt for the best directorial work.

Web links

• Christine Eder , Vienna People's Theater
• Christine Eder , Schauspielhaus Graz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neff prizes to Franzmeier, Eder, Locher and Sabitzer . Article dated June 2, 2017, accessed September 28, 2018.