Ewald Palmetshofer
Ewald Palmetshofer (born August 15, 1978 in Linz ) is an Austrian playwright .
Life
Palmetshofer grew up in a rural environment in Mönchdorf in the Mühlviertel . In Vienna , he first studied theater studies and German and then switched to theology and teaching philosophy and psychology. In the 2007/08 season he was brought to the Schauspielhaus Wien by Andreas Beck as a resident author and worked there as a guest dramaturge .
He was selected as a 2008 up-and-coming author in Theater heute critics' poll . His plays “hamlet is dead. No gravity” 2008, “faust has hunger and chokes on a grete” 2010 and “die unmarried” 2014 were invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage . The Burgtheater production of “die unmarriedete” was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 2008 he received the Dramatist's Prize from the German Business Culture Association . Also in 2008 he was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize in the Best Young Talent category for the Hamlet play. In 2015 he received the Mülheim Dramatist Prize for the unmarried . In 2018 he was awarded the Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize and in 2019 the Gert Jonke Prize .
His plays were premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater , the Schauspielhaus Wien, the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz , the Theater an der Ruhr and the Theater Basel , where he has been a dramaturge since the 2015/16 season.
Works
- heroes , 2005
- sauschneidn. ein mütterspiel , 2005, Retzhofer Dramapreis for young drama
- dwell. unter glas , 2006, Authors Workshop Days 06 at the Vienna Burgtheater
- Translation Ştefan Peca, Romania 21 , Heidelberg Pieces Market Innovation Award 2007
- hamlet is dead. no gravity , 2007
- The end is yet to come , 2008
- Faust is hungry and chokes on a grete , 2009
- animal. please be underclass , premiere: September 11th 2010, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
- Body weight. 17% , 2009.
- <robber. schuldengenital> , WP: December 20, 2012, Akademietheater (Vienna) , director: Stephan Kimmig
- die unmarriedete , premiere: December 14, 2014, Akademietheater (Vienna) , director: Robert Borgmann
- Edward II. I am love according to Christopher Marlowe , Wiener Festwochen 2015
- Before sunrise according to Gerhart Hauptmann , Theater Basel , November 26, 2017.
- The Lost , World premiere: October 19, 2019, Residenztheater Munich , director: Nora Schlocker
literature
- Iuditha Balint: Interior and Surface. Incorporated economy in works by John von Düffel, Ernst-Wilhelm Händler, Ewald Palmetshofer and Elfriede Jelinek , in: Cornelia Logemann, Miriam Oesterreich, Julia Rüthemann (eds.): Body Aesthetics. Allegorical embodiments as an aesthetic principle . transcript, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 93-107.
- Iuditha Balint: Economy and the search for the good life. Ewald Palmetshofer's "fist is hungry and chokes on a grete" , in: Andreas Englhart, Artur Pełka (ed.): Young pieces. Theater texts by young authors in contemporary theater. Bielefeld: transcript 2014, pp. 211–222.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mühlheim Dramatist Prize to Ewald Palmetshofer on ORF-Online from June 5, 2015, accessed on June 5, 2015
- ^ Orf.at: Gert Jonke Prize to Ewald Palmetshofer . Article dated March 25, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palmetshofer, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th August 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |