Gilla Cremer

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Gilla Cremer (born December 19, 1956 in Königswinter , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German freelance actress and author / producer of her own solo pieces.

biography

Gilla Cremer grew up as the fourth of five children in Königswinter am Rhein. Her father was a merchant, her mother a gardener.

After graduating from high school in 1976, Gilla Cremer lived in the USA for two years. In Austin / Texas and New York she took modern dance lessons with the dancer and performance artist Deborah Hay, among others, and followed lessons at the Actors Studio . Influenced by the writings of the theater directors Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski , she went to Bali / Indonesia for a year and studied mask dance, mask carving and kung fu there. In 1979 she met Eugenio Barba from Odin Teatret and in the following years took part as a drama student at the "International School for Theater Anthropology - ISTA" in Bonn, Volterra, Holstebro and Bologna. Acting seminars with Günther Einbrodt (Tabori Group), Ingemar Lind, Werner Schroeter , Augusto Fernandez and others followed. a.

In 1981 she was co-founder of the free group “Theater Tilbut” in Frankfurt. After the birth of her first child in 1984, she began working as a soloist. Since 1987, Gilla Cremer has been producing, writing and playing her solo productions under the name “Theater Unikate”. In the meantime she has 13 productions in her repertoire with which she is touring at home and abroad. She worked with the directors Max Eipp , Hans-Ulrich Becker , Johannes Kaetzler , Michael Heicks , Eva-Maria Martin , Brigitte Landes and Dominik Günther .

In cooperation with the “Magdalena Project”, an international network by and for women from different theater branches, she also shows her plays in English and has made guest appearances in Denmark, France, Poland, Hungary, New Zealand and the Netherlands.

In addition to her solo work, she played in 1999 in the production "Kohelet" directed by David Mayaan and his group Akko / Israel in Weimar and at the Wiener Festwochen . In 2006 she was a guest at the Hanover Theater in the production "Mobil". From 2001 to 2009 she was a guest at the Thalia Theater Hamburg in "Damen der Gesellschaft" as well as with her solo productions "Meeresrand" and "So oder so - Hildegard Knef ".

In her socially critical plays, the actress rubs against extremely contradicting female figures, illuminates German sensitivities from 1933 to the present day, and repeatedly puts her work at the service of social concerns. With her production “Meeresrand” she is committed to the issue of child poverty and the needs of single mothers. “Die Kommandeuse” and “Vater hat Lager” appear in connection with educational campaigns at schools.

theatre

  • 1981: “The narrow way to the deep north” by E. Bond, Frankfurt
  • 1984: "Shanghai Express" by Theater Tilbut, Frankfurt
  • 1986: “The turkey” by S. Mrozek, Frankfurt
  • 1987: "Odyssey Embryonale - a fetodrama" by G. Cremer and Max Eipp
  • 1989: “Roaring with Laughter” by Ch. Durang, Theater am Turm Frankfurt
  • 1991: "Once I Live" by Natascha Wodin, Gallus Theater Frankfurt / Kampnagel Hamburg
  • 1993: "Rita - alone against the Mafia" by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
  • 1995: "Die Kommandeuse" by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg
  • 1997: "Morrison Hotel" by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg
  • 1998: Guest performances in Denmark, Holland, France, Poland, Hungary and New Zealand
  • 1999: “Kohelet” with the Israeli group Akko, Wiener Festwochen
  • 1999: "Father has a warehouse" by Carl Friedman , TiK, Thalia in the Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2000: "medea" by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
  • 2001: “Ladies of Society”, guest at the Thalia Theater
  • 2003: “Meeresrand” by Véronique Olmi, Theater Bielefeld and Thalia in Gaußstrasse
  • 2004: "One way or another - Hildegard Knef" by G. Cremer, St. Pauli Theater / Thalia Theater
  • 2006: “Mobil”, guest at the Hanover Theater .
  • 2007: “Why the child cooks in the polenta” by A. Veteranyi, Hamburger Sprachwerk
  • 2008: "Mobbing" by Annette Pehnt, Theater Bielefeld / Hamburger Kammerspiele
  • 2010: "On all fronts: Lili Marleen & Lale Andersen" by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele / Theater Wolfsburg
  • 2014: “The things of my parents” by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele / Theater Wolfsburg
  • 2016: "#Freundschaft" by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
  • 2018 "Halftime" - an anniversary road movie and a retrospective for the 30th year of theater by Theater Unikate

TV / movie

Radio plays

  • 2006: Ludwig Fels : Hello, I'm Glen Sherley - Director: Christiane Ohaus (radio play - RB )
  • 2003: Véronique Olmi : Meeresrand - Director: Wolfgang Stockmann
  • 2005: So or So - Hildegard Knef - directed by Holger Rink / Wolfgang Stockmann

Awards

  • 2008: Rolf Mares Prize - special prize for long-standing exceptional achievements in the context of Hamburg's theater life
  • 2015: Inthega special price for special individual achievement
  • 2018: Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal

Web links

Commons : Gilla Cremer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website G. Cremer
  2. ↑ Prize winners 2008
  3. ^ The INTHEGA prices since 1985
  4. ↑ Gilla Cremer receives Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Gilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany