Eva Diamantstein

Eva Diamantstein (* 1954 in Munich ) is a German theater director and writer .

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Diamantstein studied painting from 1975 to 1981 at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris and at the Stuttgart Art Academy . From 1982 to 1985 she was assistant director to George Tabori , Andrea Breth and Achim Freyer .

In 1982 she appeared at the Essen Theater with Edward Albee's Die Zoogeschichte and Herbert Achternbusch's Die Olympiaiegerin as a director. At the Freiburg Theater she staged Wolfgang Bauer's Magic Afternoon and Bertolt Brecht's Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit in 1985 and Heinar Kipphardt's brother Eichmann in 1986 .

In 1988 Caryl Churchill's Top Girls followed at the Konstanz City Theater and Judith Herzberg's Und / Oder at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich . In 1988/89 she worked at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . From 1991 to 1994 she worked particularly at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen . This is where George Tabori's cannibals (1991), Schiller's The Maiden of Orleans (1992) and Lessing's Nathan the Wise (1994) were created. In 1996 she staged Gombrowicz ' Yvonne, the Burgundy Princess at the Karlsruhe State Theater and in 1997 at the Freiburg Theater Camus ' Die Gerechten .

In 2000 she received a grant from the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing to work on the project perpetrators . She staged the world premiere of the work Nachtmahl , based on interviews and documentary research, in 2001/02 as a coproduction by Spielartfestival München, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and Schauspielhaus Wien . Another performance took place in 2002/03 at a political festival in Hamburg .

In 2001 she founded the “Laboratorium Geschichte” in Munich with the visual artist Claire Angelini. In 2003 she directed the performance of her play Transit / Stopp at the Phönix Theater in Linz . Diamantstein, who is also active as a set designer and visual artist, published her volume of poetry in 2008, Go in a No Man's Land .