Dirk Dobbrow

Dirk Dobbrow (born December 6, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German actor, writer and playwright .

Life

After graduating from high school, Dirk Dobbrow worked as a newspaper delivery man, geriatric nurse and radio announcer. He also attended a private drama school. He was engaged as an actor at the Stadttheater Lüneburg for two years , then at various theaters in Berlin, including the Vaganten stage and the Schlossparktheater .

In 1994 and 1997 Dobbrow received a working grant for writers from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration . In 2003 he received a scholarship from the German Literature Fund . In 2004 he was also able to receive a working grant for writers from the cultural administration of the Berlin Senate and in 2004/2005 he was a scholarship holder of the DrehbuchWerkstatt Munich (at the University of Television and Film Munich ).

Dirk Dobbrow lives as a freelance author in Berlin and writes plays, novels and stories.

Works

Dramas

• Diva , first performance at the Schauspielhaus Bochum on March 2, 1996
• Half-lives were printed as a manuscript by Suhrkamp in 1996
• Late Night , first published in 1998 (2000 edition: ISBN 3-518-13403-0 )
• Legoland , world premiere at the Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder) on January 28, 2000
• Hundemund , premiere of the Maxim-Gorki-Theater (which was housed in the Schillertheater (Berlin) during the renovation in 2000 ) on January 21, 2000
• Alina Westwärts , published 2002 ( ISBN 3-518-13428-0 )
• Get out of here. Training for Utopia (together with Falk Richter , Tankred Dorst and Thomas Barsch), first performance by the youth club JAGO! at the Schauspiel Frankfurt on April 20, 2005
• Paradise , world premiere on the stages of the state capital Kiel on January 28, 2005
• Bomber , premiere of the Saxony State Theaters in the Kamenz vocational school center on December 2, 2005
• Matchstick Palace (The premiere planned by the Theater der Stadt Aalen for March 2007 has been postponed.)
• People in prison ( więzienie Powszechne ) premiere in Teatr Wybrzeze, Gdansk , February 2nd 2008

prose

• The policeman's husband . Novel. 2001 (also screenplay)
• Taxi to Beijing . Script. 2005
• Late disorder . Novel. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89667-391-6

Awards

• 1996: Nomination for the Heidelberger Stückemarkt with half-lives
• 1999: Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for Legoland
• 2001: Else Lasker Schüler Play Prize to promote young German-speaking playwrights for Alina Westwärts
• 2000: Annual award from the magazine Theater heute in the category Young Author of the Year for Legoland
• 2000: Nomination for the Mülheim Dramatist Prize at the 33rd Mülheim Theater Days with Legoland
• 2005: Award for authors of the state stage group in the German stage association for bombers

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Dobbrow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Dirk Dobbrow's work at Literaturport
• Portrait - Dirk Dobbrow at Suhrkamp Verlag
• Dirk Dobbrow , short biography and plays at the Goethe Institute
• Extract from Late Disturbance read in by Dobbrow
• Dwell behind foreheads. Dirk Dobbrow's contribution to the literary bear market , Literaturkritik.de , No. 3, March 2003
• Lerke von Saalfeld: Between guilt and innocence. Dirk Dobbrow: "Late disruption". , Deutschlandfunk , June 2, 2009, accessed December 6, 2010