Eva-Maria Voigtländer

Eva-Maria Voigtländer (born 1958 in Hanover ) is a German dramaturge who has been working at the Burgtheater in Vienna since 2015 .

Life

Voigtländer studied philosophy , theater studies and modern German literature in Berlin from 1979 to 1985 . Then she was hired by the artistic director Jürgen Flimm as a dramaturge at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. From 1991 to 1992 she was dramaturge-in-residence at the Nottingham Playhouse , from 1992 to 1995 dramaturge at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and then for five years at the Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart . In 2000 she was the managing dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

From 2001 Voigtländer worked as a freelance dramaturg and lecturer - among others for the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin and for the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . She was lecturer and juror for the workshop days at the Burgtheater in Vienna, dramaturge at the Salzburg Festival in 2005 and 2006, where she worked with the director Dieter Boyer on Ambrosia by Roland Schimmelpfennig . She was hired as a production dramaturge by directors Martin Kušej , Stephan Kimmig and Ute Rauwald , among others . Kušej engaged her for his productions of Horváth's Zur Schöne Aussicht (2006) and Ibsen's master builder Solness (2007) at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg . From 2007 to 2011 she worked for the Ruhrtriennale , from 2009 as chief dramaturge.

Voigtländer was brought in by artistic director Manfred Weber as designated chief dramaturge at Schauspiel Düsseldorf in October 2013 , but already resigned in April 2014 after Weber was dismissed and Günther Beelitz was appointed . She has been working at the Burgtheater in Vienna since 2015, including productions by the directors Andreas Kriegenburg and Antú Romero Nunes .

Since 2000 Voigtländer has been teaching at the Institute for Theater, Music Theater and Film at the University of Hamburg, now the Hamburg Theater Academy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pieces 2016: Short biography Eva-Maria Voigtländer , accessed on February 24, 2016
2. ^ Night review: Termination after changing course , April 5, 2014