Jens Raschke

Jens Raschke (born 1970 in Darmstadt ) is a German children's theater maker ( playwright , dramaturge , theater director , festival curator) and author.

Life

Raschke grew up in and near Heidelberg . He studied Scandinavian Studies and History in Frankfurt am Main and Kiel . He then worked for several years as a dramaturge, including at the Theater Kiel , the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich and the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Since 1999 he has been the organizer and DJ of the Kiel seat disco. The sound researcher Raschke published the most interesting facts from his record collection of bizarre sound carriers from worldwide music history in the non-fiction book Disco Extravaganza. A journey into the wonderland of strange sounds , published in 2007 by Ventil Verlag . Together with Gil Mehmert he wrote a stage version of Woody Allen's film " Broadway Danny Rose ", which came out in 2000.

From 2003 he took on management positions at the international monodrama festival Thespis in Kiel and worked a. a. as a freelance cultural critic for the Kieler Nachrichten . Between 2007 and 2013 Raschke worked regularly as a play author, public relations worker and in-house director of the Theater im Werftpark, the children's and youth theater at the Kiel Theater . From the 2007/2008 season he brought out numerous of his own pieces and productions of other pieces.

With Einstein set sail , he created a dialogue piece about an unusual friendship between men, based on a true biographical story that connected Albert Einstein with Kiel. The youth play ran very successfully for several years in the Werftpark theater, then in 2017 it was reissued by the independent theater “DeichArt”, also in Kiel.

His greatest success as a playwright to date - Do fish sleep? - was translated into several languages, won the Mülheimer KinderStückePreis 2012 and was also implemented as a radio play and was awarded the 2014 MDR Children's Radio Play Prize .

His piece Was das Rhino saw when it looked at the other side of the fence , which won the German Children's Theater Prize and the Dutch-German Children's and Youth Dramatist Prize in 2014 , dares to examine the tyranny of the Nazi era in a form accessible to children. There was a zoo in Buchenwald , right in front of the concentration camp fence . Together with the animals, the child spectators look over the fence.

For the Theater Kiel he wrote the piece Hamsterblut , which traces the phenomena of empathy and was premiered in 2017.

Jens Raschke lives and works in Kiel .

Works

Plays (world premieres)

• I'm a bit wrong in life , premiere 2008, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• WoyzEck_VoiceOver (based on Georg Büchner's Woyzeck ), premiere May 5, 2009, Kulturzentrum Hansa48 , Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• Einstein sets sail , premiere on July 18, 2009, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• Uns Siegfried , premiere October 31, 2010, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• Jules Verne and the Secrets of Kiel , Premiere May 28, 2011, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel. Director: Jens Raschke
• Kiel like lubricated , world premiere July 3, 2011, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• Räuber Zwo (based on the fragment The Bride in Mourning by Friedrich Schiller ), Premiere October 2, 2011, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• Do fish sleep? , WP January 29, 2012, Theater im Werftpark Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• The fairy tales of the Grimm sisters , premiere November 25, 2012, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• What the rhinoceros saw when it looked at the other side of the fence , Premiere April 30, 2015, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, director: Swaantje Lena Kleff
• Ich bin Kain , Premiere January 14, 2016, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, director: Jakob Fedler
• Schwarze Schocker , Premiere February 23, 2017, Theater im Werftpark, Kiel, Director: Jens Raschke
• Hamsterblut , Premiere March 5, 2017, Theater Kiel, director: Kristin Trosits
• Come a cloud , premiere September 15, 2018, Emma-Theater / Theater Osnabrück , Osnabrück, director: Ramin Anaraki
• Stingeln im Sturm , premiere December 31, 2018, KulturForum der Landeshauptstadt Kiel , Kiel, director: Jens Raschke
• If you don't dream, you are yourself a dream , premiere: March 14, 2019, Theater an der Rott , Eggenfelden , director: Markus Steinwender
• Petty Einweg , World Premiere: November 26, 2019, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Director: Jens Kerbel
• Alfred Hitchcock chases the Kiel Psycho , WP: February 22, 2020, Maritim Hotel Kiel, director: Jens Raschke

Radio plays

• Do fish sleep? , Production Deutschlandradio Kultur 2013, length: 50'17, director: Judith Lorentz , composition: Lutz Glandien , speaker: Fea Faika.
• What the rhino saw when it looked at the other side of the fence , production Hessischer Rundfunk 2015, length: 50'18, director: Götz Fritsch , composition: Martin Zrost , speaker: Michael Altmann , Jörg Schüttauf u. a. [1]
• Mammut in der Grube , production: Deutschlandradio Kultur 2018, length: 50, director: Beatrix Ackers , composition: Peter Kaizar , speaker: Bernhard Schütz , Arnd Klawitter , Winnie Böwe u. a.

Book publications

• Disco extravaganza. A journey into the wonderland of strange tones , Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-931555-7-95 .
• Do fish sleep? Children's book, with illustrations by Jens Rassmus , Mixtvision Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-95854-070-5 .

Awards

• 2012:
  • Mülheimer KinderStückePrice for sleeping fish?
  • Nomination for the German Children's Theater Prize
  • Kaas and Kappe's piece pool (do fish sleep? )
• 2013: Working grant from the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation
• 2014:
  • German Children's Theater Prize for What the rhino saw when it looked at the other side of the fence
  • Dutch-German children's and youth dramatists' award Kaas and Kappes for What the rhino saw ...
  • Children's radio play award of the MDR , 2nd place for the radio play Sleeping Fish?

• 2016:
  • Kaas and Kappe's pool of pieces ( I am Cain )
  • Nomination of the Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize for What the rhino saw when it looked at the other side of the fence

• 2017:
  • Lynx of the month May for the children's book Sleeping Fish?
  • Admission to the White Ravens International Youth Library ( Do fish sleep? )
  • Close! Scholarship from the German Children's and Youth Theater Center for those who don't dream are themselves a dream
• 2018: Korbinian - Paul Maar Prize for the children's book Sleeping Fish?
• 2020:
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book for Sleeping Fish? ( Do Fish Sleep? )
  • Nomination of the Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize for Those who don't dream are themselves a dream (competition canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic )

Web links

• Jens Raschke on empathy, theater and hamster gaps and laboratory animals , Kieler Nachrichten, March 3, 2017
• Author portrait Jens Raschke (PDF) , theaterstueckverlag.de, accessed July 4, 2018

supporting documents

1. ^ Author profile at Ventil Verlag , accessed on July 4, 2018.
2. ↑ Einstein sets sail - A relatively historical tragic comedy by Jens Raschke , DeichArt Kiel, accessed July 4, 2018
3. ↑ Deichart with “Einstein sets sails” , Kieler Nachrichten of August 17, 2017, accessed July 4, 2018
4. ↑ See report of the Kieler Nachrichten of March 3, 2017 under web links
5. ↑ DeichArt: The sore Wolf Woyzeck. Retrieved February 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ If you don't dream, you are yourself a dream. Retrieved on February 17, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Petty one way / Raschke, Jens. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
8. ↑ DeichArt: Alfred Hitchcock chases the Kiel Psycho - Theater Kiel. Retrieved January 11, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Radio Play Day : Do Fish Sleep? by Jens Raschke , Deutschlandradio Kultur April 14, 2017, accessed July 4, 2018
10. ↑ ARD audio game database. Retrieved February 17, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Kakadu - Children's radio play - The mammoth in the pit. Retrieved on February 17, 2019 (German). 
12. ↑ "Sleeping fish?" By Jens Raschke , Goethe-Institut , accessed July 4, 2018
13. ^ Winners of the authors' competition , Duisburger Kaas & Kappes Festival, accessed July 4, 2018
14. ↑ Plays 2020 - Mülheim Theater Days. Retrieved April 6, 2020 . 
15. ^ Paul Maar Prize for young talents: Jens Raschke honored , Börsenblatt from June 28, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018
16. ↑ Do Fish Sleep? Retrieved April 6, 2020 (American English). 
17. ↑ Plays 2020 - Mülheim Theater Days. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .