Deborah Epstein (actress)

Deborah Epstein (born April 26, 1955 in Karlsruhe ) is a Swiss actress .

Epstein studied from 1977 to 1980 at the Zurich Acting Academy . She played (chronologically) at the Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal , the Schauspielhaus Zürich , the Städtische Bühnen Dortmund , the Stadttheater St. Gallen and the Theater Basel (where she founded the theater workshop series Jugendtreff with Marcus Mislin ). In 1995, with Mislin, she created the sequence of scenes on the acting profession of theater until you like it and staged Hanoch Levin's Jakobi and Leidental in the Roxy Birsfelden Theater . Since 1996 she has been a freelance director at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , the Maxim Gorki Theater , the Lucerne Theater , the Freiburg Municipal Theaters and the Graz Theater .

Epstein created his own productions at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, among others, by Roland Schimmelpfennig's Die Arabische Nacht (2001), August Strindberg's Miss Julie (2002) and at the Stadttheater Konstanz, sixty-five, rising - Ein Heimatabend (2001) and Der Sandmann (2005) based on ETA Hoffmann . She was also an actress at the Neumarkt Theater and the Zurich Schauspielhaus, among others . She also had radio play and television roles and was a lecturer at the Theater Academy Zurich , at the University of Music and Theater Bern and at the University of the Arts Berlin .

Web links

• Literature by and about Deborah Epstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deborah Epstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tanja Stenzl: Deborah Epstein . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 537.