Johannes Maria Schmit

Johannes Maria Schmit (* 1981 in Trier ) is a German theater maker and Max Ophüls Prize winner in 2020.

education

Born in Trier and raised in Wittlich , Schmit first studied comparative literature in Saarbrücken and cultural studies in Hildesheim . In 2004, he took in Berlin at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Ernst Busch a degree in directing at which he and one of René Pollesch graduated mentored work in 2009. For Schmit, his work as assistant and co-director for Laurent Chétouane , for example for dance piece # 2, was also formative .

Professional activities

After an engagement as in-house director at the Centraltheater Leipzig (2008-2010), where he staged the world premiere of Im Pelz by the playwright Katharina Schmitt , Schmit worked as a freelance director and performer in German-speaking countries from 2011 (including at the Mainz State Theater and the Graz Schauspielhaus ) and in Sweden, especially in connection with the experimental theater group Institutet formed in Malmö in 2008 . In 2011 he founded the duo White on White with the performance artist Iggy Lond Malmborg in Malmö , which also attracted international attention with a series of performances of the same name. Schmit is also regularly represented at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin under the new directorship under Shermin Langhoff and Jens Hillje (since 2013) . The collaboration with director and author Tucké Royale , which has been intensified in recent years, resulted in Schmit's first and award-winning feature film Neubau in 2020 .

In addition, Schmit, who lives in Sweden and Denmark, is currently (2020) working as a doctoral student at Stockholm University of the Arts on a dissertation on the subject of "Situating the director in a theater of the future".

Awards

• 2016: (together with the Danish performance artist Inga Gerner Nielsen ) Leipzig Movement Art Prize , a theater prize awarded since 2005 , for the performance The Queeng of Ama * r .
• 2020: Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize for the feature film Neubau .

Web links

• Johannes Maria Schmit at the cooperative for text and direction .
• Johannes Schmit at the Berlin Festival .
• Schmit, Johannes at nachtkritik.de .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This Wolfgang Behrens: It is made art . at nachtkritik.de .
2. ↑ See Johannes Kup: What I say is who I am? Notes on # 6 - Queer Sells by White on White. In: Spielwiesen des Globals (= itw: im dialog - research on contemporary theater. Vol. 2). Edited by Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer and Géraldine Boesch. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2016, pp. 87–93 ( online as PDF at Bern Open Publishing ), and Hanna Voss: A way out of ›white complicity‹? To performance # 6 - Queer Sells by White on White. In: ibid., Pp. 94-100 ( online as PDF ibid.).
3. ^ Project description on the website of the Stockholm University of the Arts / Stockholms konstnärliga högskola .
4. ↑ THE QUEENG OF AMA * R at bewegungskunstpreis.de
5. ↑ Press release on the website of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival .