Dan Thy Nguyen

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Dan Thy Nguyen (born December 13, 1984 ) is a German director , actor , essayist and singer of Vietnamese descent.

Live and act

Dan Thy Nguyen was born in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . After breaking off his training as an actor , he studied Islamic studies and sociology at the University of Hamburg . In 2010 he began to write short theater performances for the street and performed them in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel . His performance "Pissoirs" was discovered by the Hamburg Journal broadcast on NDR and a first report was broadcast about him. Work as a performer followed a. at the theater project The Last Gem , at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and in Kampnagel , Hamburg.

In 2012 he received the "150% Debutantes Ballroom" grant from the theater festival 150 Percent Made in Hamburg for his directorial work "Le Chantier", which premiered at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg . At the same time he began his research on the racist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992. The premiere of the resulting play entitled "Sunflower House " took place in 2014 at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg and has since been shown in various theaters, among others. a. at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg.

This work caused some controversy in the media because Dan Thy Nguyen, based on interviews with contemporary witnesses, showed the perspective of survivors who had to fight back without killing. He also publicly criticizes the culture of commemoration and remembrance of the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. In 2015, the radio play version of this production won the Hörnixe , a prize for radio T's non-commercial radio plays .

In 2015 he began touring theaters and museums in Germany and Poland with his lecture performance "Thinking was Tomorrow". With this work he reflects on his family history as a child of Vietnamese boat people and his experiences as a victim of racist attacks. This work was u. a. shown at the Clinch Festival in the Theater im Pavillon in Hanover and at the Malta Festival in Poznań , Poland .

Since 2017, as a director and essayist, he has been increasingly concerned with the rise of right-wing and nationalist movements and parties in Germany. His musical revue "Yesterday never died" premiered in April 2017 at the HausDrei cultural center in Hamburg and shows the gradual brutalisation of European society from the perspective of a young artist.

Since 2016 he has been a member of the theater advisory board of Lower Saxony.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Thy Nguyen: Dan Thy Nguyen - Pissoirs. May 21, 2013, accessed October 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dan Thy Nguyen: Hamburg Journal Dan Thy -Theater - November 6, 2010. May 21, 2013, accessed October 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ seeyou GmbH: The last gem: Ensemble. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2017 ; accessed on October 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.das-letzt-kleinod.de
  4. ↑ LIBRETTO - Mousonturm. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2017 ; accessed on October 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mousonturm.de
  5. ^ Dan Thy Nguyen: Sons of Dragons and Fairy Daughters - Radio Bremen. May 9, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Theater Kampnagel Hamburg: Schwabinggrad Ballet / Arrivati: Beyond Welcome! In: Theater Kampnagel Hamburg . ( kampnagel.de [accessed on October 14, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Awarded scholarship holders - Godot - Das Hamburger Theatermagazin. Retrieved October 14, 2017 (German).
  8. ↑ Sunflower House - Godot - The Hamburg theater magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2017 (German).
  9. ↑ Manthey, Florian Frederik: "I wasn't afraid." - Dan Thy Nguyens and Iraklis Panagiotopoulos' play and radio play "Sunflower House". New perspectives on the culture of remembrance on the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen . In: Geschichtswerkstatt Rostock e. V. (Ed.): Contemporary history regional. Messages from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . 20th year (2016), No. 1 , p. 47-55 .
  10. ↑ detail . October 9, 2017 ( ernst-deutsch-theater.de [accessed October 14, 2017]).
  11. ↑ CLINCH interdisciplinary festival . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation - Calendar Foundation Network . ( boell.de [accessed October 14, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Human Mic / Think Was Tomorrow, Dan Thy Nguyen - Malta Festival Poznań 2017. Accessed October 14, 2017 (Polish).
  13. ↑ Yesterday never died - House Three eV In: House Three eV ( haus-drei.de [accessed on 14 October 2017]).
  14. ^ MWK Lower Saxony: The current cast of the theater advisory board . December 6, 2016, accessed October 14, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nguyen, Dan Thy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, actor, essayist and singer of Vietnamese descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1984