Janusz Kica

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Janusz Kica (* 1957 in Wroclaw ) is a Polish theater director .

Life

Kica studied theater studies at the University of Krakow . At the beginning of the eighties he moved to Germany, took courses in theater studies and art history at the University of Cologne and began his career at the theater as an assistant director at the Wuppertal theaters . Since then he has mainly worked in Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia .

In addition to his own directorial work, he was also involved as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda and as production manager for Peter Stein at the Salzburg Festival . At the State Theater in Mainz he led a. a. 2002 Director of the German-language premiere of Janusz Głowacki's play “The Fourth Sister”. In 2012 he directed a stage version of Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg at the Hersfeld Festival . In 2013 he staged the play "Europa" at the ZKM Zagreb Youth Theater ( Zagrebačko kazalište mladih ) in cooperation with the Birmingham Repertory Theater, the Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden .

Kica has been a regular guest director at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna since 1999 . His first of eighteen productions in 1999 was Calderon's Life a Dream . It was followed by A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001), Sappho (2002), Liliom (2003), Amphitryon (2005) The great day, (2006), "Dangerous Liaisons" (2007), "The landlady" (2009), "Wonderful World" in the Kammerspiele der Josefstadt, Gespenster (2009/10), "Amadeus" (2010/11), Lady Windermeres Fächer (2012/13), "Wie im Himmel" (2013/14), Before Sunset (2015/16), The Difficult One (2016/17), the world premiere of “The Angel with the Trumpet” (2017/18) and Professor Bernhardi (2017/18). Janusz Kica also directed the world premiere of Daniel Kehlmann's “The Journey of the Lost”, which opened the 2018/19 season. He then worked on the play Jacobowsky and the Colonel , which premiered in March 2019. In 2019/20 there was a stage adaptation of the novel Die Strudlhofstiege by Nicolaus Hagg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Theater Mainz
  2. ↑ The Magic Mountain »shown as the third premiere at the Festival , accessed on April 20, 2019
  3. ^ Europa ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theater 2013, accessed on April 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kica, Janusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw