Iris Disse

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Iris Disse (* 1956 in Lüneburg ) is a German theater maker , actress and feature writer.

Life

Disse was born in Lüneburg in 1956 as the daughter of a councilor and a teacher and grew up in Lüdenscheid in the Sauerland. She studied philosophy, politics and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then trained as an actress and director. In Munich she founded the Disse-Gries Companie DGC with Gero Gries and staged various plays in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, among others. The staged pieces included the German premiere of Pier Paolo Pasolini Orgia for the Kampnagel summer theater. In addition to theaters, she repeatedly performed her plays in factories.

Disse also worked as an actress in various cinema and television films, including Tatort: ​​Moltke , directed by Hajo Gies . Disse worked in the early 1990s as the artistic director of the Werkheater Wedding and, together with her partner David Höner, developed a multimedia performance concept in 1993, the Pirates of the Voice , with which they toured various countries in the following years, each time together with performing artists and musicians from the respective countries worked together.

In 1991 Iris Disse began to deal intensively with the art of hearing. In 1993, together with Sainkho Namtchylak and Grace Yoon , she received the BBC Prize of the Prix Futura for the radio play Tunguska-Guska , a production of the Bavarian Radio . In the following year, the German Academy of Performing Arts chose the radio play Last Jumps , which it had developed with David Höner for Norddeutscher Rundfunk, as radio play of the month . In 1994 Disse moved with her family to Ecuador , where she was involved in setting up a cultural radio, among other things. She founded the Red Artistica Experimental Latinoamericana (RAEL) foundation with artists from various fields in order to create works of acoustic art and to experiment with new narrative forms in video and radio. RAEL, today Oido Salvaje , took part in EXPO 2000 in Hanover to present the creative and experimental media concept. Disse was invited to the first to fifth international radio biennials in Mexico City as a lecturer for acoustic art and experimental radio and staged several live performances for this biennale.

From 2001 to 2006 Disse lived and worked mainly in Switzerland and Berlin; she staged theater plays and worked in the audio arts sector, including the radio play Der Tod tanzt mit . The documentaries Forests of Hope, Ecuador and Forests of Hope, Indonesia were made for the broadcaster arte . From 2006 to 2011 Disse lived again in Ecuador, where she built up the Latin American film network La Mirona . Several documentaries were made on social issues. She completed her first feature film, Siguiendo Las Estrellas , in 2010. In 2014 Disse founded Durga's Tiger School for Yoga, Tantra and Shamanism in Quito , which trains yoga teachers.

Disse is the mother of a son born in 1990. She lives as an author, film and radio maker in Berlin and Ecuador.

Filmography

As an actress (selection)

As a director (selection)

  • 2010: Siguiendo Las Estrellas
  • 2011: Los tiempos están cambiando (documentary)

Radio plays

  • 2009: Author with David Höner : News from the Hungarian Plain - Die Poisonmörderin von der Theiss - also directed with David Höner ( Feature - RBB / WDR / NDR )
  • 2011: O holy death, Santisima Muerte, Days of Death in Mexico (Eva) - author, director and role (radio play - RBB)

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personal data
SURNAME Disse, Iris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater maker, actress and feature writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg