Geertje Boeden

Geertje soils (* 3. August 1985 in East Berlin ) is a German musical theater - director and writer .

Life

Born into a family of actors, at the age of twelve she got the continuous role of student Antje van Rheeden in the KiKA series Schloss Einstein , which she embodied from the first season from 1998 to 2001. Then Boeden studied theater studies from 2005 to 2009 at the Free University of Berlin . In 2017 she made another cameo as a thief in episode 887 of the series .

During her studies she started working as an assistant director for the British director David Pountney , with whom she has worked for many years. New productions, new productions, symposia and stage takeovers have taken her from the Ruhrtriennale to the Bregenz Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, ​​the Teatr Wielki Warszawa (where she herself embodied the female lead on stage) and the Lincoln Center Festival New York. She co-directed Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor with Pountney at the Bregenz Festival 2014 , for which she also translated the newly written dialogue version.

After her years as an evening director and assistant director, from 2009 to 2012 at the German National Theater Weimar and from 2012 to 2015 at the State Opera Stuttgart, she has directed all of her own projects since 2016. Her first (fairy tale) novel Irgendland was published in 2018 . Also in 2018 she returned to the Nationaltheater Weimar as a director for the world premiere of the musical theater piece Nathan and his children . Her premiere as an author and director in personal union at the Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater (GHT) Görlitz followed in February 2019 with greetings from Muskau , a self-composed music theater evening about the amorous machinations of Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau and the secret of eternal love. After staging the Magic Flute (WA Mozart) at the Oder-Spree Opera in summer 2019, also with self-written dialogues, Boeden returned to GHT Görlitz in October / November 2019 as director for the Opéra comique Dinorah von Meyerbeer. In December 2019, her new piece Ein Waldmärchen was performed at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. ^[obsolete] In March 2020, Geertje Boeden will stage Elektra von Strauss as a staged concert with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Poole, UK.

Filmography

• 1998–2001: Schloss Einstein (continuous series lead role as Antje van Rheeden )
• 2017: Einstein Castle ( cameo as a thief )

Web links

• Geertje soils in the Internet Movie Database (English)