Jörg Fürst

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Jörg Fürst (* 1969 in Tönisvorst ) is a German theater director and author .

Life

Jörg Fürst is the founder of the independent Cologne theater group A.TONAL.THEATER (since 2002), co-founder of the Cologne ensemble network Freihandelszone (since 2004) and in the artistic direction of the international Cologne dance and theater festivals GLOBALIZE: COLOGNE (2006-2016) and URBÄNG! (since 2017). Since 2013 he has been artistic director of the VolXbühne - Ensemble of Generations at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He was also a guest director a. a. for the Schauspiel Bonn , at the house of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, in the Studiobühne Cologne and the theater in the building tower - free theater in Cologne. He previously worked as a freelance assistant director with Achim Freyer ( Berliner Ensemble ), Dietrich Hilsdorf ( Schauspiel Bonn ) and Robert Wilson ( Ruhrtriennale ).

Jörg Fürst holds a master's degree from the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. He lives in Cologne.

honors and awards

In 2005 (with Wir im Finale - A German Requiem by Marc Becker ) and 2011 (with Faust I by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ) he was awarded the Cologne Theater Prize. In 2019 he received the Kurt Hackenberg Prize for political theater in Cologne as one of the artistic directors of the international dance and theater festival URBÄNG !. In 2004, his production WUALITZAAA with poems by Ernst Jandl was awarded the main prize of the 11th Theaterzwang Festival in Dortmund (today "Favoriten Festival") and was nominated for the renowned IMPULSE Festival as one of the 23 best theater productions of 2002. In 2015 his adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's "Winterreise" was nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize and the Kurt Hackenberg Prize for political theater in Cologne.

Productions (selection)

  • EVERYONE: ANY TIME (UA, 2020)
  • FREMD 4.0 - A music theater about the view of the stranger on us (WP, 2019)
  • The hole. Doom and Utopia (WP, 2018)
  • Strange ... these are the others (UA, 2018)
  • HEIMAT 4.0 - An Eerie Citizen Theater (WP, 2018)
  • The possibility of an island , based on a novel by Michel Houellebecq (2017)
  • traumA - A cross-media theater project about the dreams and traumas of different generations , (UA, 2016)
  • Winter Journey by Elfriede Jelinek (2015)
  • mülheim_bombay_satellites , ( WP , 2014)
  • Me, Myself and I: Amphitryon after Heinrich von Kleist (2013)
  • Exit Mundi , after Maarten Keulemans, (UA, 2012)
  • The sun on your tongue by Werner Fritsch, (WP, 2011)
  • Faust - The Tragedy First Part by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (2011)
  • All inclusive - A Tourism Trilogy (WP, 2010)
  • Salome by Oscar Wilde (2010)
  • Basquiat: Re-Mix09 ( WP , 2009)
  • End and beginning by Roland Schimmelpfennig, German premiere (2008)
  • Margot and Hannelore by Marc Becker (2007)
  • Don Karlos by Friedrich Schiller (2007)
  • The Mourners by Franz Xaver Kroetz, ( WP , 2006)
  • We in the final by Marc Becker (2005)
  • Solarplexus- new poets love world premiere with poems by Albert Ostermaier and songs by Moritz Eggert (WP, 2004)
  • The natives by Franz Xaver Kroetz (2003)
  • Night: Greed by Sarah Kane (2002)
  • Wualitzaaa , world premiere with poems by Ernst Jandl (2002)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Fürst on the A.TONAL.THEATER website. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Peter Ortmann: "You are challenged very differently". trailer-ruhr.de. December 18, 2014, accessed October 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Tönisvorst