Falk Richter

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Falk Richter (born October 23, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German director and author . He is a professor of performing arts in Copenhagen . From autumn 2020 he will be the lead director at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Life

Richter is the son of a businessman and studied linguistics , philosophy and theater directing a. a. with Jürgen Flimm , Christof Nel and Jutta Hoffmann at the University of Hamburg . In 1996 his final production of silicon took place at Kampnagel in Hamburg.

He works as a freelance writer for plays and radio plays as well as a translator and director for numerous theaters, among others. a. for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus , National Theater Oslo , Royal Dramates Stockholm, Théâtre de L'Europe Odeon, Paris, the Théâtre National Bruxelles, for the Hamburg State Opera , the Frankfurt Opera , the Vienna State Opera , and the Bavarian State Opera . From 2000 to 2004 he was in-house director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , from 2006 to 2010 at the Berlin Schaubühne and 2011–2012 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Since 2015 he has been Artiste associé at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg . Since 2017 he has been working as in-house director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

In August 2018, Richter was voted “Director of the Year” in the critics' survey conducted by the trade journal Theater heute . His production of Elfriede Jelinek's play Am Königsweg in Hamburg was “Production of the Year 2018”. In 2019 he received the Special Teddy Award from the Berlinale .

Richter was visiting professor for directing at the Berlin Academy for Dramatic Art Ernst Busch . In 2019 he was appointed Professor of Performing Arts at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen for five years , where he leads an international master class . At the beginning of 2020 it was announced that Richter will be the lead director at the Münchner Kammerspiele from the 2020/2021 season.

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Richter's pieces, including Gott ist ein DJ , Electronic City , Unter Eis and Trust are available in more than 35 languages ​​and are played worldwide. Richter mostly works with international ensembles of actors and dancers on cross-genre productions. He had invitations and a. to the Salzburg Festival , the Avignon Festival , the Ruhrtriennale , the TransAmériques Festival in Canada, the Spring Festival in Utrecht and the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 2015, his controversial staging of FEAR at the Berlin Schaubühne (2015) caused a sensation , in which he critically dealt with the strengthening of right-wing national tendencies and for which he was awarded the Stonewall Award 2016 and the Kultür Auf Award 2016. In 2018 he was “Director of the Year”; his production of Elfriede Jelinek's play Am Königsweg ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus ) was named “Production of the Year 2018”. Richter's productions met with criticism in right-wing conservative circles. Jan Fleischhauer called Richter's productions in his column on Spiegel Online "Gemeindehaustheater" (community hall theater), which puts the "left catechism" in front of the "already converted".

Richter worked a. a. together with the composers Ben Frost, Malte Beckenbach, Helgi Jonsson, Paul Lemp, Jörn Arnecke, Jörg Mainka, as well as with the video artists Chris Kondek and Björn Melhus, and the set designers Katrin Hoffmann, Jan Pappelbaum and Robert Cousins. In recent years, together with the Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk and the Israeli choreographer Nir de Volff, Richter has developed a staging concept that brings dance and drama together on an equal footing and uses an ensemble of actors, musicians and dancers.

FEAR debate

In his play FEAR , which Richter brought out at the Berlin Schaubühne in October 2015, he took a critical stance on the rise of new right-wing national and fundamental Christian movements in Germany and their protagonists, among others. a. Beatrix von Storch , Frauke Petry and Hedwig von Beverfoerde broke up and received death threats. There were graffiti at the theater and disruptions from the AfD press spokesman during a performance. Anonymous callers threatened to set the theater up in flames. Online petitions called for the play to be discontinued. The German Cultural Council as well as the parliamentary groups of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen stood behind the director and his play, spoke out against dismissal and called on the AfD to distance itself from the death threats. Beatrix von Storch and Hedwig von Bevervoerde assumed a connection between the play and attacks on von Bevervorde's company and tried unsuccessfully to take legal action against the play.

After a total of one and a half years of legal dispute, the publicist and sociologist Gabriele Kuby , who was also criticized and reviled in FEAR, was unable to prevail on most points against the Schaubühne and judges in an appeal hearing before the Berlin Higher Court on July 18, 2018 . The Court of Appeal, however, forbade the theater “to put sentences like 'I hate against Jews' or 'What we need are fascists' in their mouths. Kuby must also not be described as a 'wrinkled, parched, gloomy soul'. That hurts their human dignity. "

Katharina Röben describes the production of FEAR in the newspaper Die Welt as “surprisingly concrete”, she puts “real actors in focus” and explores “the fear behind hatred and xenophobia”. However, it persists “in an exact inventory - current, rhythmic, well-known”, it “does not provide any answers” ​​but is “wonderfully funny, silly and performative”. Zeit journalist Daniel Müller found the piece “tough” and “impressive”. It is not illegal. It goes "in Richter's play about the question of how these dangerous thoughts can be put out of the world again. The thoughts, mind you, not the people who carry them into the world ”. The world theater critic Jan Küveler, on the other hand, described the play as a “sad” and “cowardly” event that does not touch taboos and merely serves prejudices and clichés. Alexander Kissler diagnosed the online offer of the magazine Cicero that the evening propagated "destruction, not discourse". It is "a declaration of war, not an offer for discussion" and an "intellectual declaration of bankruptcy". Peter Laudenbach reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the play was subject to "the same logic as the right-wing forums and blogs, whose participants incite one another to increasingly shrill attacks against democracy, the press, the Chancellor and other dissenters: inability to discourse as a program".

Works

Fonts

  • The system. Materials - Conversations - Text versions of "Unter Eis", ed. Anja Dürrschmidt, Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2004
  • Under ice. Plays 1993-2004. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag 2005
  • Trust. Edited by Nicole Gronemeyer, (contains: materials, text version, CD recording), Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2010
  • "Small Town Boy" and other pieces. With an essay by Daniel Richter, Theater der ZeitBerlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-062-9 .
  • I am Europe. "Fear" and other plays. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2017. ISBN 978-3-95749-122-0
  • Disconnected. Theater dance politics. Saarbrücken poetry lecturer for drama. Ed. V. Johannes Birgfeld, Alexander Verlag , Berlin, 2018. ISBN 978-3-89581-460-0
  • Theater. Dance. Politics. Two Lectures and Three Plays: Under Ice, Small Town Boy, and Fear English translation by David Tushingham, Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3-89581-514-0

Dramas

  • All in one night , premiere 1996 Hamburger Kammerspiele, Fischer-Verlag
  • Kult - Stories for a Virtual Generation, (trilogy) / Premiere 1996 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus: Portrait Image Concept (Part 1), Section (Part 2), KULT (Part 3), Fischer-Verlag
  • God is a DJ , premiered 1998 Staatstheater Mainz, Fischer-Verlag
  • Nothing Hurts , UA 1999 Utrecht, Fischer-Verlag
  • Peace , UA 2000 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Fischer-Verlag
  • Electronic City , (seven seconds), Fischer-Verlag
  • Das System , UA 2004 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Fischer-Verlag
  • Unter Eis , UA 2004 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Fischer-Verlag
  • Hotel Palestine , premiere 2004 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Fischer-Verlag
  • The Disturbance , World Premiere 2005 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Fischer-Verlag
  • Injured Youth , World Premiere 2009 Liége Festival / Theater National Bruxelles Fischer-Verlag
  • Trust, UA 2009 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Fischer-Verlag
  • My Secret Garden, UA Festival d'Avignon, 2010, L'Arche Éditeur, Paris, 2010, Fischer-Verlag

Awards

literature

  • Birgfeld, Johannes / Garde, Ulrike: Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk's “Complexity of Belonging”. Exploring internationalization in contemporary theater. In: German Life and Letters 71: 3 (July 2018), p. 353-373.
  • Birgfeld, Johannes: “ The only question that remains is: How could we live like this? Why didn't we do anything about it? ”Falk Richter's concept of a political theater of the battered subject. In: Falk Richter: Disconnected. Dance theater politics. Saarbrücken poetry lecturer for drama. With an afterword ed. v. Johannes Birgfeld. Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 2018, pp. 169–179
  • Richter, Daniel: Identities in the Global Village. In: Falk Richter: “ Small Town Boy” and other pieces. With an essay by Daniel Richter, Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2015, pp. 7–23
  • Schreiber, Daniel: Why we go to the theater. In: Falk Richter: I am Europe. "Fear" and other plays. Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2017, pp. 7–10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Merschmeier, Der Theaterverlag: free. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Falk Richter Professor in Copenhagen , nachtkritik.de of March 2, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019
  3. ↑ Theater maker Falk Richter: Many men behave toxic. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Falk Richter receives Stonewall Award. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Johannes Kram: Falk Richter: “In film, theater and television, discrimination against LGBT actors must finally stop!” In: I have nothing against gays, but. Retrieved on July 6, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Open the door! Accessed July 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer: Culture: Are you leftists or mice? In: Spiegel Online . March 13, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 22, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Morgenpost: The hatred of AfD and Pegida can be directed against anything.
  9. ↑ "FEAR": Fear of art over fear. In: zeit.de . December 17, 2015, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Litigation - Right to Fear. In: sueddeutsche.de . December 15, 2015, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Christine Dössel: Fear and freedom of art. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 23, 2018, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Zschäpe and the other zombies: Falk Richter's "Fear". Die Welt, October 27, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Daniel Müller: In the name of the people. In: time online. December 17, 2015, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Jan Küveler: Hate Theater . A dramatic relationship. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-50160-5 , p. 134 .
  15. ^ Alexander Kissler : Theater as a show trial. In: Cicero . November 11, 2015, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Peter Laudenbach: AfD populists don't want to be zombies. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 12, 2015, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: “For the disconnected child” receives Friedrich-Luft-Preis. September 19, 2014, accessed on April 16, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ 5th poetry lectureship 2016: Falk Richter. Saarland University with the City of Saarbrücken / Saarländisches Staatstheater / VHS Regionalverband Saarbrücken, accessed on March 18, 2019 .
  19. ^ French order for Falk Richter for contribution to the broadcasting of the arts , nachtkritik.de of October 18, 2018, accessed January 24, 2019
  20. ↑ Teddy Prize for director Falk Richter , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Falk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg