Frank Alva Buecheler

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Frank Alva Buecheler (born August 8, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German theater director , author , university professor and migration expert. He lives in Berlin and Hamburg.

Life

Buecheler began studying architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and then studied German literature, theater studies and sociology at the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin . He was an assistant director in Salzburg , Lübeck , Hamburg and Berlin.

He made his director's debut in 1984 with his production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Freiburg im Breisgau . For a short time Buecheler was senior director at the Hildesheim City Theater . Mostly he worked as a freelancer in Germany and abroad.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Buecheler has appeared again and again as an internationally operating theater producer. So he founded the Theater im Hafen in Hamburg in 1993 and then worked as its director from 1994 to 2000 ( Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story ). In addition, Buecheler helped set up the musical theater in Bremen , where it produced the European premiere of the musical Jekyll & Hyde in 1999 ; later the production could be seen for years in the Theater an der Wien and in Cologne .

From 1997 to 2003 Buecheler was Associate Producer of GTA German Theater Abroad in NYC and was one of its Board of Directors.

Together with Anne Maar and Michael Ballhaus , Buecheler produced the film Sunday Air in 2005 , which shows his staging of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach . With Ibsens En Folkefiende / Ein Volksfeind , Buecheler put the entire building of the Nordic embassies in Berlin in a spectacular scene in 2006 .

For the Bad Hersfeld Festival in 2008, Buecheler brought Jekyll & Hyde onto the stage together with texts by Friedrich Nietzsche . In 2009 he took on the world premiere of Edgar Allan Poe at the Halle Opera House with the composer Eric Woolfson ( The Alan Parsons Project ) to give the plot of the musical more plausibility and drama. Even though Buecheler implanted the musical Sweet Charity in a poem by Heinrich Heine (2011), he described himself as a passionate opponent of German Regietheater by relying on respectful cooperation with actors and team. Nino Haramicwili was amazed at the quality of her play Liv Stein in Buecheler's last production in 2016 with Eva Mattes in the title role.

In 2014 Buecheler started volunteering for refugees, in 2015 he founded the FREEARTUS artists + refugees united for freedom gGmbH together with Gitte Hænning , Jan Tenhaven and other artists, which he has been running the business with Bachar Hassoun ever since. Numerous humanitarian and cultural projects led Buecheler in particular to Lebanon and Syria, but also to many other Arab countries. In 2017, FREEARTUS opened the LAWRENCE culture forum in Berlin-Mitte, which with its gallery and large oriental restaurant quickly became a hotspot for international exchange and was awarded the #Farbenbekennen Award Jury Prize 2019.

Buecheler teaches at various academies and universities - Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Düsseldorf, Beirut - and from 1991 to 1992 also at the Bauhaus in Dessau .

Pieces: Die Helden von Bern (together with Klaus Stawecki and Raymond Tarabay , premiere 2004 at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern), Arbeit macht frei - der Kommandant speaks 2007, In May / In May Pop Chamber Opera together with Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ) 2011, The devious dogs of the time Scenic song cycle together with Volker M. Plangg (music) 2011.

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SURNAME Buecheler, Frank Alva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, author and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg