Christoph Mehler

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Christoph Mehler (* 1974 in Berlin ) is a German theater director.

Career

Mehler trained as an actor from 1999 to 2003 and then gained his first experience as an assistant at the German Theater Berlin , where he worked with the directors Dimiter Gotscheff , Jürgen Kruse and Armin Petras , among others . Afterwards he managed the box and bar at the same theater until 2009 . Under his direction, the plays Baal by Bert Brecht and Dantons Tod by Georg Büchner as well as Motortown and Pornography by Simon Stephens were performed here.

In the meantime he has received arrangements at the Braunschweig State Theater , the Schauspielhaus Vienna , the Mainz State Theater , the Dortmund Theater and the Nuremberg State Theater . In 2007/2008 he was responsible for the world premiere of Polle Wilberts Am Tag der Junge Talente in Nuremberg and one year later he celebrated great success with the production of Julis Zeh Spielbetrieb in the version by Bernhard Studlar . In the 2009 to 2012 seasons, he directed the classic Richard III. , Kabale und Liebe and finally Woyzeck , with which he received the prize for the best production at the 30th Bavarian Theater Days in Augsburg in 2012 .

Mehler had already been engaged as in-house director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt since the 2011/2012 season , where he staged Liliom , Iwanow and Des Teufels General, among others , as well as the world premiere of Lothar Kittstein's drama The White Wolf in February 2014 . In the meantime he had taken over the direction of the play Othello at the Schauspiel Leipzig in October 2013 on behalf of the German Shakespeare Society . With the staging of Hans Fallada's novel Little Man, What Now? Mehler celebrated its premiere at the Braunschweig State Theater on February 1, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mehler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin