Hans-Werner Kroesinger

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Hans-Werner Kroesinger (* 1962 in Bonn ) is a German theater director and author . He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of documentary theater in German-speaking countries.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1982 at the Collegium Josephinum Bonn , Kroesinger began studying law, German and philosophy in Bonn . Kroesinger, who wanted to “either do something with theater or with law”, moved from Bonn to the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1984 , where he studied “Drama / Theater / Media” with Andrzej Wirth and Hans- Thies Lehmann . Kroesinger valued the Giessen approach to training: “In Giessen you could learn to create contexts that go beyond the text of the play. In the case of the Büchner texts, for example, I have always been interested in the historical sources, the deposits of reality in the literary text. "

During his studies, Kroesinger worked as an assistant director and dramaturge for Robert Wilson from 1987 to 1989 . He participated in the performances of Die Hamletmaschine in New York, Salome in Milan and The Forest in Berlin. His first own production was Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in Dallas. In 1989 Heiner Müller engaged him as an artistic assistant for the production of Hamlet / Hamletmachine at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Kroesinger has been working as a writer and director since 1993. He performed his play Don't look now at the 1997 documenta X in Kassel . He is also known for productions such as Rwanda Revisited about the genocide in Rwanda , which was invited to the Impulse Festival 2009, or the youth play Kindertransporte , for which he was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize in 2007 .

Kroesinger has staged at various stages in German-speaking countries, both at state and city theaters - for example at the Berliner Ensemble , the Stuttgart State Theater , the Bavarian State Theater , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater or the Theater an der Parkaue - as well as in the independent scene especially on Hebbel am Ufer , in Sophiensælen , in Radialsystem V , and in Palais Podewils , in FFT Düsseldorf , in Festspielhaus Hellerau or Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich.

Kroesinger's pieces have been shown at various national and international festivals, for example at Politik im Freie Theater (Hamburg 2003), Cultura Nova ( Heerlen 2008) and Impulse (NRW 2009). In addition to his theater work, Krösinger is also a lecturer at various universities and academies. His piece Stolpersteine ​​Staatstheater ( Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe ) was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2016 .

Theatrical aesthetics

In his documentary theater evenings, Kroesinger collages original historical texts, current documents and literary or theoretical texts. “Not a single line is invented or linguistically smoothed out to make it easier to speak, everything is assembled from the original texts of the documents.” Documentary set pieces are not commented or ironicized, but rather clearly displayed. At the center of these theater projects are mostly political issues and questions, especially violent conflicts, in which Kroesinger believes that society negotiates with itself: “In rich countries, for example, there is always only the local absence of war. This should not be confused with peace. The fact that there is no war here does not mean that we are not involved in violent conflicts. Theater is a good place to negotiate. "

Awards

Productions

  • 1993: You could get pleasure ... - A Wozzeck commentary , State Opera Stuttgart
  • 1994: Aventures - Nouvelles Aventures by György Ligeti , Gulbenkian Center Lisbon
  • 1995: Words and Music by Morton Feldman / Samuel Beckett , Days for New Music, Stuttgart
  • 1996: Q&A - Questions & Answers (on the Eichmann process ), Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Podewil , Berlin
  • 1996: Sextet by Andreas Stahl , Podewil, Berlin
  • 1996: Silent department , production for the installation Camera Silens by Moonen & Arndt, ZKM Karlsruhe, Podewil, Berlin
  • 1997: Chinese patricide , Berliner Ensemble
  • 1997: Don't look now , documenta X
  • 1997: Twenty Minutes. An evening to "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" by John Cassavetes , Theater am Halleschen Ufer
  • 1998: Faustus 53 - an evening with Hanns Eisler , Berliner Ensemble
  • 1998: Don't look now II , Podewil, Berlin
  • 1998: SOP = Standard Operation Procedure , Podewil, Berlin
  • 1999: The Human Weapon , Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz , Berlin
  • 2000: MorTal Combat - The Kosovo Files , Staatsbank, Berlin
  • 2001: Journey through the heart of darkness , European Capital of Culture Rotterdam - Goethe-Institut Rotterdam
  • 2001: TRUTH Part one , Forum Free Theater , Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Gladius Dei , Bavarian State Theater Munich, House of Art
  • 2002: TRUTH - Commissioned by the Heart of Darkness , Podewil, Berlin
  • 2003: Hyena Heart / Dream of a Kamikaze Flyer by Paul M. Waschkau , Orphtheater Berlin
  • 2003: suicide bombers on air. PRIMETIME , Sophiensæle, Berlin, Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, guest performances: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich, LOT-Theater Braunschweig, Junge Theater Bremen
  • 2003: Coming Home , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Forum Free Theater, Düsseldorf
  • 2004: Voyeur , Forum Neues Musiktheater, State Opera Stuttgart
  • 2004: Road to Baghdad and Return , Sophiensæle , Berlin / Junge Theater Bremen
  • 2005: Thunderbolt revisited , European Center for the Arts , Hellerau
  • 2005: The Days of Commune - A Performance and Time seems to be running faster at the moment (The 11th and 12th meeting of the central round table of the GDR), Maxim Gorki Theater , Berlin
  • 2005: In safe hands , Theater Hebbel am Ufer , Berlin
  • 2005: HERERO 100 , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2005: Plan Gelb - Liberators, Occupiers and Population , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Huuse van Bourgondie, Maastricht
  • 2006: FREMD , Forum Neues Musiktheater, State Opera Stuttgart
  • 2006: Peer Gynt , Sophiensæle, Berlin
  • 2006: The raft of the Medusa , Theater Aachen
  • 2006: KINDERTRANSPORTE , Theater an der Parkaue , Berlin
  • 2007: Border area Heimat Festspielhaus Hellerau , Dresden
  • 2007: Beware of firearms , Stuttgart State Theater
  • 2007: Werther - Last Letters , Theater Aachen
  • 2007: Beirut Report , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2007: HISTORY TILT , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2008: The report of Matthäus , Rundfunkchor Berlin, Radialsystem, Berlin
  • 2008: The last days of humanity , State Theater Stuttgart
  • 2008: King Alcohol , Theater Aachen
  • 2008: Child soldiers , Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin
  • 2009: Walling up , Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
  • 2009: i. Cyborg? Freiburg Theater
  • 2009: Rwanda Revisited Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2010: Blackwater Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2010: CAPITALPolitics Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2011: Karlsruhe - City of the Just , Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  • 2011: Company Hunger , Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2011: The plague or people under siege according to Albert Camus , Theater Aachen
  • 2011: Darfur - Mission Incomplete , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2013: Failed States One: Somalia , Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2014: FRONTex SECURITY , HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2014: 1914/2014 - Battlefield Memory , HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • 2014: Operation Big Week , Theater Augsburg
  • 2015: Musa Dagh - Days of Resistance , Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
  • 2015: Stolpersteine ​​State Theater , Documentary Theater . First performance at the State Theater in Karlsruhe
  • 2016: Graecomania - 200 years Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, HAU 3, world premiere on January 30, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater of the time: Hans-Werner Kroesinger
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Laudenbach: The theater center for political enlightenment . In: Theater heute, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 37–41, here p. 39
  3. ^ Peter Laudenbach: The theater center for political enlightenment . In: Theater heute, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 37–41, here p. 40
  4. ↑ Impulse Festival: Rwanda Revisited ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2007-2011.festivalimpulse.de
  5. ↑ Theater play publisher: Kindertransporte
  6. ^ Peter Laudenbach: The theater center for political enlightenment . In: Theater heute, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 37–41, here p. 38
  7. ↑ Lily Kelting: Get Infekted by Hans-Werner Kroesinger June 20, 2016 (English)
  8. ↑ Hans-Werner Kroesinger: Productions website of the Goethe-Institut , accessed on May 31, 2018
  9. ↑ The killer feeds the bird , HW-Kroesinger stages Paul M. Waschkau 's "Hyänenherz", taz Berlin v. August 23, 2003.
  10. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Staatstheater in the season archive 2014/15 of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, accessed on November 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kroesinger, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and dramatist of documentary theater
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn