Jan-Christoph Gockel

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Jan-Christoph Gockel (born July 9, 1982 in Gießen ) is a German theater and film director and playwright. He is co-founder and artistic director of the theater company peaches & rooster .

Jan-Christoph Gockel in the set of Meister and Margarita .

Live and act

Jan-Christoph Gockel grew up as the oldest of six brothers near Kaiserslautern and studied theater, film and media studies in Frankfurt am Main a . a. with Hans-Thies Lehmann and directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . He completed his studies in 2009 with the world premiere of Nina Ender's Die Wissenden at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz and then worked as a freelance director.

With his work, Gockel received invitations to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He often develops the texts himself and in collaboration with ensembles such as Grimm. A German fairy tale, Ramstein Airbase: Game of Drones , I have no regrets (about the life of Edward Snowden ) and the seventh continent - a trip to the largest landfill on earth.

Since 2013 he has been working intensively on the African continent. The relationship between Europe and the former colonies, the effects of colonialism and economic dependencies became the subject of Kongo – Müller , Herz der Finsternis , The Order: Danton's Death and Coltan Fever, which premiered in 2014 during the popular uprising in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . The Burkinabe revolution of 2014 was the subject of Gockel's first feature film, the revolution eats its children . In addition, Gockel also edited numerous novels for the stage, including a. Empire and I will be here in the sunshine and shadow of Christian Kracht , oil ! by Upton Sinclair , The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith , The Ice Cream by Vladimir Sorokin and The Subject by Heinrich Mann .

Gockel has been a director at the State Theater Mainz since 2014 , where he a. a. Die Ratten , Macbeth and Die Nibelungen staged - always together with Michael Pietsch. The two have had an intensive working relationship since their youth together. Together they made guest appearances a. at the Schauspielhaus Graz , Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Schauspiel Frankfurt and Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. In 2017 they founded their own company "peaches & rooster" together.

For the 2020/21 season, Jan-Christoph Gockel will be part of the management team of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Theater productions (selection)

  • 2008: h ha hamlet , bat-Studiotheater, Berlin, invited to the Körberstudio Junge Regie 2008
  • 2009: God is Beauty by Kristian Smeds, German-language premiere at the Osnabrück Theater, invited to the »theaterszene europa« festival, Cologne
  • 2010: Psychiatry! World premiere at Kabelwerk Wien, nominated for the Nestroy Special Prize 2010
  • 2011: The talented Mr. Ripley after Patricia Highsmith, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
  • 2012: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  • 2012: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
  • 2013: Metropolis based on the film by Fritz Lang and the novel by Thea von Harbou, arranged for the stage by Jan-Christoph Gockel & David Schliesing, Theater Bonn
  • 2014 :. Coltan fever , a theater project by Jan-Christoph Gockel & Ensemble, world premiere in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Kinshasa (DR Congo), Cologne; the production toured the DR Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Germany and Austria
  • 2014: Kongo-Müller , theatrical case study by Jan-Christoph Gockel, Laurenz Leky and Nina Gühlstorff, world premiere at Theater die Rampe, Stuttgart
  • 2015: Ramstein Airbase: Game of Drones , a project by Jan-Christoph Gockel, world premiere, Staatstheater Mainz
  • 2015: Merlin or Das wüsten Land by Tankred Dorst, collaboration with Ursula Ehler, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2016: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Staatstheater Mainz
  • 2016: Imperium based on Christian Kracht, Schauspielhaus Wien, nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2016 ("Best Director")
  • 2017: Kästner's watchword! by Jan-Christoph Gockel using original texts by Erich Kästner, world premiere at Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2017: The assignment: Danton's death , with texts from Heiner Müller's The assignment and Georg Büchner's Dantons death, Schauspielhaus Graz, Nestroy Theater Prize 2017 (“Best Federal State Performance”)
  • 2018: Frankenstein after Mary Shelley, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Prix de la Critique (Création artistique et technique)
  • 2018: Moby Dick after Herman Melville, Schauspiel Stuttgart
  • 2019: Lyod - The Ice - The Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin, Staatstheater Mainz, Shortlist Theatertreffen 2020
  • 2019: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, with texts by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Heiner Müller, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2020. Oresty by Aeschylus, German by Peter Stein, Schauspiel Frankfurt

Movies

The revolution is eating its children!

The revolution is eating its children! (a production by Schauspielhaus Graz , AT / Burkina Faso , 73 min, distributor: sixpackfilm ) is Gockel's first feature film, which should have premiered on March 25, 2020 as part of the Diagonale '20 festival of Austrian film competition . Due to the corona pandemic , however, the festival was canceled, so the film has not yet had a premiere.

In The revolution eats its children! Different global realities collide: theater and film, fiction and documentation, puppet shows and re-enactments. At the center of the story is a theater group that sets out for Burkina Faso and gets lost in a revolution. Jan-Christoph Gockel experienced this himself in 2014.

State ceremony for the Day of German Unity 2017

For the State Act on the Day of German Unity 2017, Gockel directed two short films (text: Harald Martenstein ), accompanied live by the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz under the direction of Hermann Bäumer , broadcast on ZDF . A figure built by Michael Pietsch can be seen in the main role , his father Rhein. In the two films and in a scene played live on stage, father Rhein and Lorelei (played by Caroline Peters ) take a humorous but also critical look at the well-known German river that not only connects Germany but also Europe, they negotiate German ones Achievements, abysses, local peculiarities and myths.

The film Beethoven - Ein Geisterspiel (co-production by the Staatstheater Mainz and ZDF / 3sat under Gockel's direction) will be broadcast on 3sat in June 2020.

Awards

Gockel's theater works have been nominated several times for the Nestroy Theater Prize ( Psychiatrie! 2010, Imperium 2016), which he won in 2017 for The Order: Danton's Death and in 2019 for The Revolution Eats Your Children! won. The international work Frankenstein (Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles) won the Prix ​​de la Critique in 2018 in the category “Meilleure Creation artistique et technique”. Invitations led his productions to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt , the Mülheim Theater Days, the Dramatists Festival Graz and the Author's Theater Days of the German Theater Berlin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agency schaeffersphilippen: Jan-Christoph Gockel. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jan-Christoph Gockel. In: Website peaches & rooster. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f State Theater Mainz: Jan-Christoph Gockel. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Eva-Maria Magel: “Beethoven” becomes a film: Theater means feeling, not just understanding . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 18, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Director. In: Theater Oberhausen. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Grimm. A German fairy tale. In: State Theater Mainz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ramstein Airbase: Game of Drones (UA). In: State Theater Mainz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ I have no regrets. In: Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Cornelia Fiedler: Lost in Polyethylene. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  10. ^ Congo Müller. In: Theater Rampe in Stuttgart. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Sascha Westphal: The ridiculous light. In: nachtkritik.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ The order: Danton's death. In: Schauspielhaus Graz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ "Coltan Fever": There is a piece of Congo in every cell phone. In: Deutsche Welle, dw.com. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Playhouse feature film “The Revolution eats its children!” In the Diagonale'20 competition. In: Schaupielhaus Graz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Empire. In: Schauspielhaus Wien. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  16. ↑ With the post bus into the heart of darkness . In: Berner Zeitung . ISSN  1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed on May 18, 2020]).
  17. ↑ Harald Raab: The suffering of the capitalist. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  18. ↑ LJOD - The Ice - The Trilogy. In: State Theater Mainz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  19. ↑ The Subject, based on the novel by Heinrich Mann. In: Schauspielhaus Dresden. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  20. ↑ peaches & rooster - theater company. Retrieved on May 18, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ Feature film: “The revolution eats its children!” In: Schauspielhaus Graz. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  22. ↑ "Beethoven - A Ghost Game": 3sat shows premiere from the Mainz State Theater. In: pressetreff.3sat.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Nestroy | Nominations. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Best director - Jan-Christoph Gockel. In: Nestroypreis The Vienna Theater Prize. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Best performance of the federal states: “The order: Danton's death”. In: Nestroy Prize The Vienna Theater Prize. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  26. ^ The winners 2019. In: Nestroypreis Der Wiener Theaterpreis. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Les Prix de la Critique 2017/2018: Résultats complets. "L'Herbe de l'Oubli", meilleur spectacle. October 1, 2018, accessed on May 18, 2020 (French).
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DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1982
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