Christoph Frick (director)

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Christoph Frick, 2018

Christoph Frick (born July 22, 1960 in Tuttlingen , Germany) is a Swiss theater director .

Life

Christoph Frick stages contemporary and classical theater texts and develops his own plays and projects. 1989–1994 he led the Pix theater group together with Jo Dunkel and Markus Wolff. There he realized his first production now-now-now , with which he became known nationwide and was invited to the theaters of the world , impulse and spielart festivals.

In 1991, together with Jordy Haderek, he founded the group KLARA Theaterproduktionen , which he still leads today and for which he develops and directs his own projects.

His productions and in-house productions have been seen at numerous festivals and theaters, including: Mülheimer Theatertage , Heidelberger Stückemarkt , Theater der Welt , Impulse (theater festival) , Theater Biennale Wiesbaden , Bonn Biennale , International Schiller Days Mannheim, Styrian Autumn Graz, Time Festival Gent, Kaaitheater Brussels , Garaj Istanbul, Festival Ouch we live Bern, Zurich theater spectacle .

Christoph Frick has been directing at city and state theaters since 1999. An important pioneer for him was the artistic director Barbara Mundel . In the following years he worked at various German-speaking state theaters, including the Hanover Theater, the Schauspielhaus Cologne , the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Theater Freiburg and the Theater am Neumarkt .

From 2006 to 2009 he was in-house director at the Freiburg Theater .

Productions

  • 1989 - Now-Now-Now by Christoph Frick and Ensemble, PIX Basel, tour CH, D
  • 1991 - Klara! - a melodrama by Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek, tour CH, D
  • 1992 - Welcome Idiot 1 by Christoph Frick and Ensemble, Pix Basel / World Exhibition Seville
  • 1993 - Evening by Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek,
  • 1994 - Welcome Idiot 2 by Christoph Frick and Ensemble, Pix Basel
  • 1995 - Pola - a simple story by Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek, Basel / Tournee CH, D, B, A, SLO, PAK
  • 1996 - The Coronation , KLARA Basel / Tournee CH, D
  • 1997 - A Poet who is also an Orangutan by Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek, Basel
  • 1998 - 1000 opportunities from Christoph Frick and Jordy Haderek, Basel / Alte Kiosk AG Basel; The consequence of the competition is the show by Christoph Frick, Basel / Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich
  • 1999 - More Money - a project by Christoph Frick, Lucerne Theater, Basel
  • 2000 - Disrupted superiors of Christoph Frick, Basel, Zurich, tour CH, D, B; The Piggy Bank by Eugène Labiche , Lucerne Theater
  • 2001 - All hunters thank you - a project by Christoph Frick, steirischer herbst, Graz, Basel / Theater im Bahnhof, Graz
  • 2002 - The carefree cheerfulness of the entrepreneurial hearts of Christoph Frick and Suzanne Zahnd, Basel / Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, tour CH, D; Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller , Lucerne Theater
  • 2003 - Snack Bar Tragedy - a project by Christoph Frick, Basel / Campo, Gent, tour B, NL, F, CH; Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen , Lucerne Theater
  • 2004 - The Tempest by William Shakespeare , Stadttheater Bern; Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti von Bertolt Brecht, Hanover Theater; Death of a traveling salesman from Arthur Miller , Hanover Theater
  • 2005 - DNA - A family saga by Christoph Frick and Suzanne Zahnd, Basel / Basel, tour CH; Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Hanover Theater
  • 2006 - Eldorado by Marius von Meyenburg ; Inside Abroad - a project by Christoph Frick and Suzanne Zahnd, world premiere at Stadttheater Bern; Othello by William Shakespeare, Freiburg Theater
  • 2007 - Moby Dick based on the novel by Herman Melville , Schauspiel Hannover; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Schauspielhaus Cologne; Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth , Freiburg Theater, The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller , Hanover Drama
  • 2008 - The Nibelungs by Friedrich Hebbel , Theater Freiburg; The European Constitution - Theatricalization of the Treaty of Lisbon , premiere Theater Freiburg; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee , Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2009 - Beggar Opera - a play with music by Christoph Frick and Bernadette La Hengst, world premiere at Theater Freiburg; Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses by Bertolt Brecht, Freiburg Theater; Impostors and cardsharps - a project by Christoph Frick, world premiere, Basel / pvc dance / theater Freiburg, tour D, CH, TUR; State of siege by Albert Camus , Kammerspiele Munich
  • 2010 - Lie in my face by Paul Brodowsky , world premiere at Theater Freiburg; The visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Freiburg Theater; Nature is often not even beautiful by Christoph Frick and Bo Wiget , premiered at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2011 - father, mother ghost train from Martin Heckmanns , world premiere Staatsschauspiel Dresden; The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht , Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2012 - Last Worlds - physical theater by Christoph Frick and Gavin Weber, world premiere Theater Freiburg, Basel, tour D, CH; Die Unbeschulbaren - a project by Christoph Frick, world premiere at Theater Freiburg; Elementary particles based on the novel by Michel Houellebecq , Freiburg Theater
  • 2013 - The state of siege by Albert Camus , Theater der Künste Zurich; On the change of words after the story Das Deutschlandgerät by Ingo Schulze , world premiere at Staatsschauspiel Dresden; America based on the fragment of a novel by Franz Kafka , Theater Freiburg; You can send it all! Talking in a democracy. A training camp - a project by Christoph Frick, Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2014 - Melting Pot a project by Christoph Frick and Joanne Leighton (choreography), Theater Freiburg, Junge Theater Basel, Center Choreografique National De Franche-Comté à Belfort, Europaallee by Christoph Frick, Martin Schütz, Bo Wiget and Ensemble, Theater am Neumarkt , Zurich
  • 2015 - An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen , Theater Freiburg; Naturzwei by Christoph Frick, Martin Schütz and Bo Wiget, Theater Freiburg, Kaserne Basel, Festival Alpentöne
  • 2016 - Ivanov by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov , Theater der Künste, Zurich; Butcher! by Tom Lanoye and Luk Perceval , Theater Freiburg
  • 2018 - Das Weisse Band , theater adaptation by Christoph Frick, based on the script by Michael Haneke , Staatstheater Darmstadt
  • 2019 - Palmasola - a research project about the prison of the same name in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, KLARA theater productions, Goethe Center Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Basel barracks
  • 2019 - FIFA - Faith, Love Corruption , by Christoph Frick and Ensemble, Konzert Theater Bern

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personal data
SURNAME Frick, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss director
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen , Germany