Daniel Call

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Daniel Call (* 1967 in Aachen ) is a Berlin based writer , playwright and director .

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Calls play tumult at Villa Shatterhand . A Karl Mayade in five acts was premiered on November 29, 1997 at the Schauspielhaus Dortmund . The director was Marcus Lachmann, the main roles were played by Claus Dieter Clausnitzer as Karl May , Achim Conrad as “Der Fremde” alias Adolf Hitler and Astrid Gorvin as Klara May . There were further performances in 2003 in Mainz .

Call's piece The Devil Comes from Düsseldorf was premiered at the theater there to mark the opening of Anna Badora 's artistic director . The plays Gardens of Horror and Weather Lights were premiered in quick succession at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Malersaal) and at the Schauspiel Dortmund. Weather lights were invited to the Mühlheimer Stücketagen and published in the trade journal Theater heute . Call worked for several seasons as an in-house author and director at the Volkstheater Rostock and the Städtische Bühnen Chemnitz . There he brought his Alzheimer's drama Weg mit Dir (2007) to the stage. Further stations in his career were the Residenztheater Berlin , where he worked briefly as a dramaturge, the Saarbrücken State Theater and several city and state theaters , where he worked as both an author and a director.

His complete dramatic oeuvre comprises more than 40 pieces, plus a large number of translations ( Noël Coward , Israel Horovitz , Israela Margalit ), arrangements and reviews, essays and columns published in various publications (including in Theater Heute , Die Deutsche Bühne , Siegessäule ). He became internationally known for his plays Weather Lights , Gardens of Horror and Das Kammerspiel , the monologue of a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp. His musical Romy - The World of Gold was premiered in 2008 at the Heilbronn Theater. His musical Der Ring (composer: Frank Nimsgern ) was premiered at the Bonn Opera and experienced a furious success in 2016 with the new production at the Theater Hof . It is meanwhile being played in the Füssen Festival Hall .

reception

Calls pieces are received cautiously by the criticism. Der Spiegel calls his play, the Schiller couple, a "riot show: sex, lies and social porn from the fashionably polished spirit of Max Frisch's school theater classic Biedermann und die Brandstifter ", calls his plays "raw", his language is "... often enough just colored junk TV series rumble and boy poetry ”. The Schwäbisches Tagblatt rated Daniel Call's Alzheimer's piece, Ways with You, as “mixed” despite the great success with the public and criticized the “kitschy framework”. The world writes about the Rostock performance of the play Phobiker! , the author delivers “… language schnitzel half-heartedly roasted in Udo-Jürgens-Schmalz” and the “result of the well-oiled dialogue machine of the phobics! [...] is boredom ”. The Badische Zeitung describes his play "Schocker" as "crazy theater about theater". The comedy is "an enjoyable parody of modern theater and of Goethe's Faust".

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ And the hunting grounds beckon forever. Review of the premiere in the Berliner Zeitung ( memento of the original from May 5, 2010 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinonline.de
  2. ^ Wolfgang Höbel: Ballad by Mausi and Mausi . Der Spiegel, No. 12. 1998.
  3. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt. Tagblatt.de. November 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Henrike Thomsen: Sprachschnitzel in Udo-Jürgens-Schmalz: Daniel Call set up the world premiere of his play "Phobiker!" In Rostock. In the world. March 3, 2000.
  5. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/bad-saeckingen/ein-aberwitziges-theater-rund-ums-theater--101526102.html

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personal data
SURNAME Call, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen