Dea Loher

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Dea Loher during an interview at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2012

Dea Loher (born April 20, 1964 in Traunstein ) is a German playwright and prose writer.

Life

Dea Loher, the daughter of a forester, was born in Traunstein in 1964. The first name 'Dea' was originally just her stage name, which she later made into her valid first name by changing her name in court instead of 'Andrea Beate'. She studied German and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing her master's degree in 1988, she spent a year in Brazil . From 1990 she took part in the 'Scenic Writing' course with Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke at the Berlin University of the Arts . Her first piece, Olga's Space , premiered in 1991 at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg . Dea Loher lives and works in Berlin today.

In October 2003, Andreas Kriegenburg staged her play Innocence at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . In June 2004, Das Leben auf der Praça Roosevelt followed , premiered under the direction of Andreas Kriegenburg at the Thalia studio stage in Gaußstrasse, which traveled to festivals in São Paulo , Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro in autumn 2004 .

On February 2, 2009 the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , awarded Dea Loher the Berlin Literature Prize endowed with 30,000 euros from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation. At the same time, the Vice President of the Free University of Berlin , Christine Keitel-Kreidt, appointed the laureate to the Heiner Müller visiting professorship for German-language poetics at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University. The literary critic Lothar Müller gave the laudation for the winner. Lisa Hagmeister , Hans Löw and Jörg Pose , actors from the Thalia Theater Hamburg, honored Dea Loher with a staged reading from their play Innocence . In 2017 Loher was awarded the Joseph Breitbach Prize .

She has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 2013 .

Works

Plays

  • Tattoo (first performance Ensemble Theater am Südstern Berlin, 1992)
  • Olga's Room ( world premiere Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg, 1992)
  • Leviathan (premiere of Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover, 1993)
  • Foreign House (premiere of Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover, 1995)
  • Adam Geist (World Premiere of Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover, 1998)
  • Bluebeard - Hope of Women (World premiere Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich, 1997)
  • Manhattan Medea (world premiere steirischer herbst, 1999)
  • Berlin history (premiere of Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover, 2000)
  • Klara's Conditions (World Premiere Burgtheater Vienna, 2000)
  • The third sector (first performance Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2001)
  • Magazin des Glücks (world premieres Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2001–2002)
  • Innocence (world premiere Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2003)
  • Life on the Praca Roosevelt (world premiere Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2004)
  • Quixote in the city (world premiere Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2005)
  • Land without words (world premiere Münchner Kammerspiele, 2007)
  • The last fire (world premiere Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2008)
  • Thieves (World Premiere Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2010)
  • Am Schwarzen See (world premiere Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2012)
  • Gaunerstück (World Premiere Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2015)

Dea Loher's pieces are published by the publishing house of the authors in Frankfurt.

libretto

  • Light . Opera. Music: Wolfgang Böhmer (world premiere Neuköllner Oper Berlin, 2004)

prose

  • Hundskopf , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005
  • Bugatti appears , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012

Awards

literature

  • Michael Börgerding: In search of the many answers. About Dea Loher and her pieces - a personal confirmation . In: Theater heute , 10, 2003, pp. 42–46
  • Michael Börgerding: What does Irmgard Möller's bare chest tell in SPIEGEL . In: Groß, Khuon (ed.): Dea Loher and the Hanover Theater . Pp. 82-88
  • Jean-Claude Francois: Dea Loher: Dramaturge de l'Allemagne nouvelle . In: Allemagne aujourd'hui , 160, 2002, pp. 171-186
  • Birte Giesler: Everywhere perpetrators: Gender criticism in Dea Loher's "Bluebeard - Hope of Women" . In: Forum Modernes Theater , Volume 20: 1, 2005, pp. 77–95
  • Jens Groß, Ulrich Khuon (Ed.): Dea Loher and the Hanover Theater . Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover, 1998
  • Birgit Haas: The renaissance of dramatic drama . In: Birgit Haas: Plea for a dramatic drama . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2007, pp. 177–219
  • Birgit Haas: Dea Loher. Imagination . In : months booklet , 99, 2007, pp. 269–277
  • Birgit Haas: The reconstruction of the deconstruction in Dea Loher's dramas, or: The return of political drama . In: Monatshefte , 99, 2007, pp. 280–298
  • Birgit Haas: Dea Loher's theater: Brecht and (no) an end . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2006
  • Birgit Haas (ed.): Dea Loher. Special issue . In: MONTHS , 99, 2007
  • Birgit Haas: Gender Performance and Power. (Post) feminist myths in Sarah Kane and Dea Loher . In: Birgit Haas (ed.): Power - Performance, Performativity and Political Theater since 1990 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, pp. 197–227
  • Birgit Haas: History Through the Lens of the Uncertainty Principle: Dea Loher's Leviathan . In: Journal of the M / MLA , 39: 1, 2006, pp. 73-88
  • Birgit Haas: Sexual Abuse: Dea Loher's Tattoo (1992) . In: Birgit Haas: Modern German Political Drama 1980–2000 . Camden House, New York 2003, pp. 146-148
  • Birgit Haas: The Red Army Faction: Dea Loher's Leviathan (1993) . In: Birgit Haas: Modern German Political Drama 1980–2000 . Pp. 170-173
  • Ulrich Khuon: The game of writing and its impetus. Dea Loher and the Author Theater in Hanover . In: Groß, Khuon (ed.): Dea Loher and the Hanover Theater . Pp. 9-14
  • Nils Lehnert: Relevant to society, but not openly 'committed'. On the didactic and aesthetic potential of Dea Loher's theater texts Diebe (2010), Am Schwarzen See (2012) and Gaunerstück (2015) . In: Marijana Jeleč (ed.): Trends in contemporary literature. Literary studies and literary didactic perspectives . Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, pp. 307–329.
  • Sascha Löschner: Dea Loher: Injured language . In: piece-plant 1 . Internationales Theaterinstitut, Berlin 1997, pp. 71–73
  • Alexandra Ludewig: Dea Loher's play Adam Geist . In: Forum Modernes Theater , 15, 2002, pp. 113–124
  • Alexandra Ludewig: Young Theater in Germany in the 1990s: Dea Lohers Adam Geist . In: New German Review , 1998, pp. 55-73
  • Malgorzata Sugiera: Beyond Drama: Writing for Postdramatic Theater . In: Theater Research International 1, 2004, pp. 16-28
  • Malgorzata Sugiera: Realne światy / Możliwe światy. Niemiecki dramat ostatniej dekady (1995-2004) . Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2005
  • Sandra Umathum: Unhappy Utopians . In: Christel Weiler, Harald Müller (ed.): Piece-Werk 3 . Center for the Federal Republic of Germany of the International Theater Institute, Berlin 2001, pp. 101–105
  • Birte Werner: The drama is reality. Theater texts by female authors from the 1990s. Gesine Danckwart, Dea Loher, Theresia Walser . In: The German Lessons; Contributions to its practice and scientific foundation , 58: 4, 2006, pp. 63–73
  • Peter Yang: Dea Loher . In: The Literary Encyclopedia - 1 (4.1: German-language Writing and Culture) , 2017, litencyc.com
  • Peter Yang: Innocence (Innocence) by Dea Loher (2003) . In: The Literary Encyclopedia - 1 (4.1: German-language Writing and Culture) , litencyc.com

Web links

Commons : Dea Loher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breitbach Prize to Dea Loher - "Bold and Unique" . boersenblatt.net , May 5, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2017.
    Dea Loher receives the 2017 Joseph Breitbach Prize . buchmarkt.de , May 5, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Dea Loher receives the Ludwig Mülheims Theater Prize 2013. Accessed on July 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Loher, Dea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and prose writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein