Igor Bauersima

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Igor Bauersima (born June 23, 1964 in Prague ) is a Swiss author , director , architect and set designer .

From the end of the 1990s he became one of the main actors in the new German theater. The innovative combination of acting and large format video projections distinguishes many of his works. His pieces, which are often critical of culture and media, are based on philosophical concepts. He pays particular attention to the problems of integrity, human identity, the individual and his relationship to society.

Life

Bauersima is the son of Nadia Antipová and Ivo Bauersima . The family emigrated to Switzerland in 1968 after the crackdown on the Prague Spring . Igor Bauersima studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and graduated with a diploma. In addition to his job as an architect, he has worked as an author and director for theater and film since 1989 .

In 1994, together with the actors Pascal Ulli , Alexander Seibt and Ingrid Sattes , he founded the independent theater group OFF OFF Bühne , for which he wrote and staged plays over the following six years. In 1995 he co-founded the architectural office W3A Architekten together with Coco Wydler .

He celebrated his first national theater success with Forever Godard (1998). In 2001, the play norway.today received the public vote at the Mülheim Theatertage , and Bauersima was voted the young German author of the year 2001 in the critics' survey by Theater heute magazine and was awarded the Bern Book Prize. norway.today was the most staged play on German stages in 2003 and 2004, has been translated into over twenty languages ​​and played in over a hundred theaters around the world. Bauersima was nominated in 2002 and 2004 for the Nestroy Theater Prize in the category of best equipment and in 2004 in the category of best director .

With Réjane Desvignes , who played a role in Forever Godard in 1998, he founded the production company sonimage in 1999 .

Plays and productions

  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago , David Mamet (1994, R, OFF OFF stage )
  • Plane Thoughts (1994, B / R, U: OFF OFF stage)
  • Tourist Saga (1995, B / R, U: OFF OFF stage)
  • The Duty to Be Happy (1996, B / R, U: OFF OFF stage)
  • Snobs (1997, B / R, U: OFF OFF stage)
  • Mixed (1997, B / R, U: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee )
  • Forever Godard (1998, B / R, U: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee)
  • Context (1999, B / R, U: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee)
  • Exile (2000, B / R, U: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee)
  • norway.today (2000, B / R, U: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus )
  • Moody summer , based on Vladislav Vančura (2001, B / R, U: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus)
  • Factory (2001, B, U: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee)
  • Future de Luxe (2002, B / R, U: Schauspiel Hannover )
  • Tattoo , co-author Réjane Desvignes (2002, B / R, U: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus)
  • The Measure of Things , Neil LaBute (2002, R, U: Burgtheater Wien)
  • Film , co-author Réjane Desvignes (2003, B / R, Schauspiel Hannover)
  • Danton's death , based on Georg Büchner (2003, B / R, Schauspiel Hannover)
  • 69 (2003, B / R, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus)
  • Bérénice de Molière (2004, B / R, Burgtheater Vienna - 1st part of the trilogy 1670 )
  • Black & White (2004, B / R, U: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus)
  • Lucie de Beaune , co-author Réjane Desvignes, (2005, B / R, U: Schauspielhaus Zürich - 2nd part of the 1670 trilogy )
  • Oh die See - Die Rock das Boot Show (2006, B / R, U: Schauspielhaus Hamburg )
  • Boulevard Sevastopol , co-author Réjane Desvignes (2006, B / R, U: Akademietheater Wien)
  • Le comte Ory , Gioachino Rossini (2007, B / R, State Opera Stuttgart , Stuttgart)
  • Teseo , Georg Friedrich Händel (2009, B / R, State Opera Stuttgart, Stuttgart)
  • Death in the Neck , co-author Réjane Desvignes (2009, B / R, Uto-Kinotheater, Zurich)
  • The Rage of Life , Elena Kats-Chernin & Igor Bauersima (2010, B / R, U: Vlaamse Opera . Antwerp and State Opera Stuttgart , Stuttgart)
  • Kap Hoorn , (2010, B / R, U: Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna)
  • Suburbia , Eric Bogosian (2011, R, Theater im Palais , Graz)
  • Dream novel , freely based on Arthur Schnitzler (2011, B / R, U: Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna)
  • Jackpot , Réjane Desvignes (2012, D / S, P: Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna)
  • The healing regression of Mr. S , (2013/14, A / D / S, P: Bern)
  • Die and see Naples , (2014, B, Tanzhaus, Zurich)
  • From the sun, (2016, B, zUf)
  • Complicated! , co-author (2016, B / S, TAG)

Radio plays

Movies

  • Terminal Diner (New York, 1989)
  • Bowling (Czech Republic, 1992)
  • 50% absolute (Hungary, 1995)
  • Dr. Younamis' couch (Zurich, 1996)
  • Making Off (Zurich, 1999)
  • Un Regard Sur Deux (France, 2001)
  • Black White (USA / D, 2009)

Prizes and awards

  • Prize for the best independent theater production at the Impulse Festival NRW 1998
  • Invitation to the Mülheim Theater Days 2001
  • Bern Book Prize 2001
  • Best young author of the 2001/2002 season in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater heute with norway.today
  • Young Directors Salzburg 2003 directing award

Reception in German-speaking countries

“Igor Bauersima occupies a special position among contemporary German-speaking dramatists and directors. Bauersima's pieces and productions have the effect of familiar, loving fairy tales and, on the other hand, provoke through radical social criticism. They shine through precise analysis and at the same time hit the heart. They play in internet forums or in the 17th century. They are elaborate constructs and yet not artificial. They cannot be assigned to any school and still usually tell straightforward stories. This heterogeneity of topics and narrative styles is a method: an efficient and defiant way not to allow yourself to be absorbed by what Schiller called “fashion”; and a way of rolling out the carpet for the most important thing in the theater: the story and the actor. "

- Deutsches Schauspielhaus , Hamburg

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Rothenbühler: norway.today, King's Explanations . Ed .: C. Bange Verlag GmbH. [Place of publication not identified], ISBN 978-3-8044-7030-9 , p. 144 .
  2. ^ Frei, Nikolaus .: The return of the heroes: German drama at the turn of the century (1994–2001) . G. Narr, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-8233-6230-5 .
  3. ↑ Bürger-Koftis, Michaela .: One language, many horizons: the eastward expansion of German-language literature; Portraits of a new European generation . Praesens, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7069-0492-6 .
  4. ↑ Waniek, Ellen .: Saved? : Reflections of the precarious meaning-subject in the young German directorial theater . 1st edition Tectum-Verl, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8288-9348-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Bauersima, Igor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss playwright and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague