Christoph Nussbaumeder

Christoph Nussbaumeder (* 1978 in Eggenfelden ) is a German playwright and author.

Life

From 1999 to 2004 Nussbaumeder studied law, modern German literature and history at the Free University of Berlin and at the Humboldt University . He also assisted in various theater and film productions, including a. in the films Duell - Enemy at the Gates and The Bourne Supremacy as Location Assistant. He has been working as a freelance writer since 2004.

In 2005 he took part in the International Residency for Emerging Playwrights at the Royal Court Theater London. Nussbaumeder has published short prose in anthologies and has written plays.

Works

Dramas

• With the Gurkenflieger in the South Seas , Premiere: June 3rd, 2005, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
• Mindlfinger Goldquell or We shit on the order of the world , premiere: February 11, 2006, Landestheater Linz
• Love is only one possibility , premiered on October 17, 2006, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
• Open Doors , Premiere: April 5, 2007, Nationaltheater Mannheim
• I will not die / In my bed (short monologue), Premiere: May 16, 2007, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• Now and in Eternity , Premiere: December 15, 2007, Nationaltheater Mannheim
• Murderer Variations , premiere: May 10, 2008, Schauspiel Köln
• Terminator (a play for young people), WP: November 13, 2009, Schauspiel Essen
• The Art of Falling , Premiere: June 3rd, 2010, Schauspiel Köln
• The loneliness of the football fields (short monologue), premier: June 26th 2010, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• Eisenstein , Premiere: September 26th, 2010, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• My godforsaken intrusiveness , WP: September 18, 2012, Sophiensaele Berlin
• Mother Kramer's drive to grace , Premiere: May 15, 2013, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
• Von Affen und Engeln , Premiere: May 13, 2015, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
• Das Fleischwerk , WP: September 12, 2015, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• The water in the sea , WP: May 13, 2016, Landestheater Linz
• Margarete Maultasch , WP: October 5, 2018, Landestheater Schwaben
• In the shadow of cold stars , premiere: October 6, 2018, Theater and Orchestra Heidelberg

Edits for the stage

• An ornament for the association (based on the novel by Marieluise Fleißer ), Premiere: October 15, 2011, Stadttheater Ingolstadt
• The mother-of-pearl color (based on the novel by Anna Maria Jokl ), Premiere: November 7, 2013, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

Awards

• 2004 Thomas Bernhard scholarship from the Linz State Theater
• 2004 Prize of the play competition of the Berlin Schaubühne
• 2005 nomination for the Nestroy Theater Prize
• 2007/8 resident author at the Nationaltheater Mannheim
• 2010 Authors' Prize of the Cologne Art Salon
• 2010 Culture Prize of the district of Dingolfing-Landau
• 2016 IBK sponsorship award

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Nussbaumeder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Suhrkamp publishing house
• Christoph Nussbaumeder: New German Drama: Page of the Goethe Institute
• Christoph Nussbaumeder: Mother Kramer's journey to grace