Günter Senkel

Günter Senkel (2013)

Günter Senkel (* 1958 in Neumünster ) is an author . Together with Feridun Zaimoglu , he has written scripts, plays and adaptations of dramas.

Life

At the end of the 1970s, according to Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Senkel worked “alternately as a military force decomposer for the German Armed Forces and on the construction site in Brokdorf”. He also began to study physics, which he gave up to run a bookstore at Kiel University. He started working as a freelance writer around 1997.

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Branding

Just one year later, Brandmal , a script by Senkels written together with Feridun Zaimoglu, was awarded the Screenplay Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Media Foundation , a forerunner of the Schleswig-Holstein Film Prize and the North German Film Prize. This was inspired by events surrounding the Lübeck arson attack . The fictional story begins with an armed robbery for which the Turk Irfan is sentenced to five years in prison after his accomplice Husni, an Egyptian, incriminated him and received relief from the public prosecutor's office. From then on, full of thoughts of revenge, Irfan strives for good leadership and finally achieves early release. A little later, the apartment building in which Husni lives goes up in flames. Husni, who may have been targeted by the attack, is the only one to survive. When Husni surprisingly confesses to the arson shortly afterwards, the case appears to have been resolved. A reporter who is at the beginning of her career does not trust the confession and starts her own research. When Husni was soon killed in an exchange of fire with the police, she discovered that the Egyptian could not have been shot at in self-defense, but was actually executed. While the Federal Border Guard has long been trying to cover up, the young reporter, who is tracking down one secret after another, is increasingly finding herself in life-threatening situations.

Although the screenplay was not made into a film, it was performed publicly in 2000 by Mavie Hörbiger , Götz Otto , Thorsten Nindel and others as part of the Readings series of events . Another reading took place in the same year at the German Schauspielhaus Hamburg . Here read u. a. Julia Jäger , Andreas Brucker and Michael Schönborn .

Drama adaptations and stage texts

After this early appreciation, after further scripts and adaptations of the drama, the first stage play performed based on its own subject, Casino Leger , was commissioned for the Frankfurt theater . Drastic text versions of theater classics were created especially for Luk Perceval's performances : William Shakespeare's Othello and Molière were created for the Münchner Kammerspiele . A passion that premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2007 . Both adaptations caused quite a stir. Senkel / Zaimoglu rewrote Romeo and Juliet for the Theater Kiel . With Nathan Messias (2006), a piece inspired by Lessing's Nathan the Wise was also created .

Black Virgins of the pieces based on their own material have been particularly successful to this day, with the Senkel and Zaimoglu 2007 a. a. were invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage, which was played at the Burgtheater in Vienna and edited as a radio play in 2008. New translations and plays by Senkel / Zaimoglu also appeared in print.

Performed theater texts (together with Feridun Zaimoglu)

• Othello , based on Shakespeare, UA Kammerspiele Munich, 2003
• Casino Leger , UA Schauspiel Frankfurt 2003
• Yes. Do it. Now. , UA Young Theater Bremen, 2003
• Half so wild , UA Theater Kiel, 2004
• Lulu Live , based on Wedekind, UA Kammerspiele Munich, 2006
• Black Virgins , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, 2006
• Romeo and Juliet , based on Shakespeare, UA Theater Kiel, 2006
• Molière , UA Salzburg Festival, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 2007
• Max and Moritz , based on Wilhelm Busch, UA Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2007
• Shadow Voices , UA Schauspiel Köln, 2008
• Nathan Messias , UA Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, 2009
• Hamlet , based on Shakespeare, UA Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2010
• Discount Diaspora (Libretto), Premiere Neuköllner Oper, Berlin, 2011
• Julius Caesar , based on Shakespeare, UA Theater Kiel, 2011
• Alpsegen , UA Kammerspiele Munich, 2011
• Picture stories , part I "Love, this side, beyond", UA Theater Kiel in cooperation with the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2011
• Picture stories , part II "Raben", UA Theater Kiel in cooperation with the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2012
• Aufstand (libretto), WP Wuppertaler Bühnen, 2012
• Moses , UA Passionstheater Oberammergau, 2013
• Siegfried's heroic deeds , UA Volkstheater Munich, 2015
• The 10 Commandments (Leningrad), UA Theater Kiel, 2016
• Antigone , based on Sophocles, UA Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2016
• Luther , UA Theater Kiel, 2017
• Siegfrieds Erben , UA Nibelungen Festival Worms , July 20, 2018
• The Abduction from the Seraglio (monologue for Bassa Selim), based on Mozart / Stephanie, premiere Musik & Theater Saar / Oper im Zeltpalast, Merzig
• Babylon , UA Summer Games Melk, June 19, 2019
• Siegfried , UA Bayreuth Festival, August 13, 2019