Yuri Sternburg

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Juri Sternburg (born November 23, 1983 in Berlin , real name: Juri Langhoff ) is a German author, journalist and playwright.

biography

Sternburg attended elementary school in Berlin-Kreuzberg and later the Jewish grammar school . In 1995 he played his first stage role in the production Im Schlagschatten des Mondes: Hansel and Gretel by Thomas Heise at the Berliner Ensemble , a production with children in which Tom Schilling also appeared. From 1996 Sternburg played several times at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, a. a. in Henry IV . From 1998 he was engaged in graffiti and street art. He also completed internships and internships in stage design. a. at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and at the Deutsches Theater in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he worked as a set designer.

Since 2007 Juri Sternburg has been writing regularly for magazines and newspapers like Taz , Die Zeit , Juice , Vice , Das Wetter, Hate and Päng. His first radio play Feierabend (co-author Frauke Schmidt) was first broadcast on SWR in 2010 . In 2011 Sternburg was involved in the distribution of stickers with the inscription “Welcome to Schwabylon” in the center of Berlin. The action alluded to gentrification and the associated cliché of Swabian hatred . In 2013 the word was used by the group "Free Schwabylon", which proclaimed an autonomous Swabian district in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . Sternburg criticized the action in the Taz . Sternburg lives in Berlin.

In 2007 he created his first piece 6 square meter chrome , a work commissioned by the Berlin Trockenschwimmer Festival (director: Christian Vilmar), which premiered in Stadtbad Oderberger Straße. His play der penner is already elsewhere was invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2010 and to the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2011 , where it was awarded the prize for new drama. In January 2012 the play premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. It was also performed in March 2012 at the Freiburg Theater and presented as a stage reading by the Goethe-Institut Boston, directed by Guy Ben-Aharon. In June 2013 the piece was performed at the Festival of european contemporary playwrights 2013 in Copenhagen. His piece against nature! or The disintegration machine, which was created as part of the literature workshop of the Ballhaus Naunynstraße / Maxim-Gorki-Theater, was presented in December 2013 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and in January 2014 at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße . In 2015 his novella Das Nirvana Baby was published by Korbinian Verlag .

In January 2017 the play 10 Commandments premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Sternburg contributed together with the KIZ rapper Maxim Drüner to the command “You shouldn't steal”. Other authors included a. Clemens Meyer and Rocko Schamoni . The production was invited to the Thalia Theater Hamburg and performed there. In February 2019, the play version of his novella Das Nirvana Baby premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theater. In the same year Sternburg's brother Léon S. Langhoff staged his play Utopia 3: Open your heart I want to chill the champagne at the Rostock Volkstheater . His new translation and version of Shakespeare's Richard III also premiered in Rostock in September 2019 .

In July 2020, the film In Berlin no orange tree grows (director: Kida Khodr Ramadan ), for which Sternburg wrote the script, premiered at the Munich Film Festival . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it took place in the drive-in theater .

Awards

Works

  • 6 square meters chrome , play, premier 2007, Trockenenschwimmer-Festival, Stadtbad Oderberger Straße
  • After work , radio play, SWR 2010
  • the penner is already somewhere else again , play, premier 2012, Maxim Gorki Theater
  • Against nature! or Die Desintegrationsmaschine , 2013 at the Maxim Gorki Theater, 2014 at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
  • Das Nirvana Baby , Novelle, 2015, Korbinian Verlag
  • 10 Commandments, Deutsches Theater Berlin 2017
  • The Nirvana Baby (piece version), Thalia Theater Hamburg 2019
  • Utopia 3: Open your heart I want to chill the champagne , play, UA Volkstheater Rostock 2019
  • Shakespeare's Richard III, new translation and version, UA Volkstheater Rostock 2019
  • No orange tree grows in Berlin , screenplay / film, ARD Degeto

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IN THE SLOPE SHADOW OF THE MOON: HÄNSEL AND GRETEL (1995) «Thomas Heise. Accessed November 5, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ The weather magazine for text and music | Yuri Sternburg. Accessed March 8, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ after work. June 12, 2015, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Juri Sternburg: Swabian debate: No more than thick noodles . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 22, 2013, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ The Nirvana Baby. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Volkstheater Rostock: Utopia 3: Open your heart I want to chill the champagne, first performance by Juri Sternburg | Volkstheater Rostock. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
  7. ^ Volkstheater Rostock: Interview with Juri Sternburg and León S. Langhoff | Volkstheater Rostock. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
  8. ^ Volkstheater Rostock: Richard III., Play by William Shakespeare | Volkstheater Rostock. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The first: "No orange tree grows in Berlin" (AT): Kida Ramadan makes directorial debut with ARD Degeto. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ No orange tree grows in Berlin. In: Munich Film Festival. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Shortlist - Reeperbahn Festival. Retrieved on September 23, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Sternburg, Juri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin