Georg Büttel

Georg Büttel (born February 13, 1969 in Garmisch ) is a German director and author .

Live and act

Georg Büttel studied philosophy and English at the LMU, Munich, and dramaturgy at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding, Munich.

Since 1992 Büttel has also worked as an actor and cabaret artist. a. in “ Jörg Maurers Unterton”, Munich, and for the open-air theater in Schwäbisch Hall . Since 1994 he has been a copywriter and dramaturgical advisor for magicians (including Gaston Florin, Thomas Fraps, Pit Hartling and Ken Bardowicks ); since 1998 author for Bavarian television (including from 1999 to 2010 for the magazine "quer", moderation: Christoph Süß , various cabaret formats, gala events and the series "Lansing Files", which he also directed in 2017 together with Jochen Müller); also since 1998 artistic director of the Murnau Horváth Days; from 2003 to 2016 he was artistic director of KULTurSOMMER Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He also works as a coach for stage artists and executives. Since September 2018 he has been Head of Script for the series "Dahoam is Dahoam" on behalf of Constantin Television GmbH.

Georg Büttel is the second chairman of the Ödön-von-Horváth-Gesellschaft, artistic advisory board of the Ödön-von-Horváth-Stiftung and first chairman of the Fantastic Society, which is dedicated to the life and work of the writer Michael Ende and to fantastic art.

Theater - productions & arrangements (selection)

• Wilde: "Bunbury" (1992)
• Sternheim: "The Snob" (1993)
• Fo / Rame: "Open two-way relationship" (1994)
• Beaumarchais / Mozart: "Figaro's Wedding" (1994)
• Nestroy: "The Talisman" (1994)
• Schnitzler: "Reigen" (1996)
• Maurer: "The Excess" (1996)
• Horváth: "Back and forth" (1997)
• Zuckmayer: "The Devil's General" (1997)
• Horváth: "The Last Day" (1998)
• Singer / Winfield / Long: "All of Shakespeare's Works - Slightly Abridged" (1998)
• Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999) as part of the KultURKNALL -Festival
• Lane / Weill: "Happy End" (2000)
• Horváth: "A Child of Our Time" (2001) - own version with Sebastian Bezzel , world premiere
• Horváth: “36 hours” (2001) - own version with Angela Hundsdorfer , world premiere
• Horváth: "To the beautiful view" (2001)
• Raimund: "The Alpine King and the Misanthrope" (2003)
• Schönherr: "The Woman Devil" (2003)
• Maurer: "The funeral feast" (2004)
• Horváth: “A young lady is sold” (2004) - world premiere
• Anzengruber: "The Perjury Farmer" (2006)
• Benatzky et al. a .: "Im Weißen Rössl" (2007)
• Thoma: "The Little Relatives" & "First Class" (2008) - in collaboration with the director Harald Helfrich
• Hader / Dorfer: "India" (2008)
• Ende / Hiller: “The neverending story” (2009) - own version with Jana Jeworreck - world premiere
• Florin / Büttel / Ende: “Magic Night's Dream - A Poetic Revue” (2010) - world premiere
• Serner / Holzkamp: "Last Loosening" (2010)
• Schiller: "The Robbers" (2011)
• Barrie / Kästner / Bernstein: "Peter Pan" (2012)
• Nestroy / Zerle / Thompson: "The Talisman", own Bavarian version (2012)
• Ende / Hiller: “Momo” (2013) - own version with Gaston Florin and Jonas Meyer-Wegener - world premiere
• Horváth / Unruh: “The eternal philistine” - own version with Jonas Meyer-Wegener (2013) - world premiere
• Nestroy / Zerle / Thompson: "Lumpazivagabundus" - own Bavarian version (2014) - recorded by Bavarian television
• Büttel / Kerschl: "Richard Strauss lives here - a walk through the theater (2015) - world premiere
• Goldoni / Unruh: "Die Wirtin" - own version (2015)
• Horváth / Unruh: "A child of our time" - own version with Jonas Meyer-Wegener (2016)
• Horváth / Unruh: "36 hours" - own version with Jonas Meyer-Wegener (2017)
• Harwood: "Collaboration" (2017)
• Kästner / Unruh: "The walk to the dogs", tragic comedy based on the original version of the novel "Fabian" - own version with Jonas Meyer-Wegener (2018)
• Cervantes / Ruge: "Don Quichote", version by Sven Schöcker for the Glyptothek theater plays - world premiere (2018)
• March / Stojkovic: "Die wilde Party" - own version with Jonas Meyer-Wegener - world premiere (2019)

Cabaret - texts and direction (selection)

• "Cult Tour" (1993)
• "Murder Considered Fine Art" (1995)
• "Land of Laughter" (1995)
• "Power failure" (1997)
• "Night of Love" (1998)
• "Bezzelbüttelsüß: Are you coming too?" (2000)
• "The men are all criminals / women are not angels" with Verena Nießner, Johanna Effenberger & Stephan Barents (2014)
• "G'schetzt" by and with Tom Kreß (2015)
• "Now I go back and forth - a Horváth revue", musical direction: Harald Helfrich & Ozzy Thompson, co-director: Gaston Florin, dramaturgy: Jonas Meyer-Wegener (2016)
• "Biblical Bavaria", music: Ozzy Thompson (2017)
• "Revolutionary", music: Ozzy Thompson (2018)

Music theater - texts (selection)

• "Haarmann - a German Singspiel", music: Franck Adrian Holzkamp (2003)
• "Edelweiss & Royal Blue - Revue", music: Franck Adrian Holzkamp (2005)
• "Marilyn - the Musical", various composers (2006)
• "Che - the musical", various composers (2007)

Television - texts (selection)

• "Across" (1998-2010)
• Gala: "Prix Jeunesse" (2000)
• "Special Economy" (2004)
• "Schimpf vor Twelve" (2004)
• Gala: "Reopening of the Cuvilliés Theater: Idomeneo" (2008)
• Gala: "Bavarian Television Award" (2008, 2012)
• Gala: "Bavarian Film Award" (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• Series: "Lansing Files" (2017/2018)