Kai Grehn

Kai Grehn (* 1969 in Grevesmühlen ) is a German director and author . His productions The Words of Monelle based on Marcel Schwob and Hoffmanniana radio play based on a scenario for an unrealized film by Andrej Tarkowski were awarded the Prix ​​Marulić Special Prize in 2001 and 2005 . In 2012 he received the German Audiobook Prize for his production The Artificial Paradises . In 2016 he was awarded the first ever Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Literature Prize.

Radio plays

(A) author. (Ü) translation. (BEA) processing. (R) director. (CD) on CD in stores.

• 1993: Antonin Artaud : The end of the judgment of God (BEA, R) (CD, Fluxus plates, ISBN 6-030700-72-5 ) SFB
• 1996: Thor's hammer. An EddaKlang fragment. (A, R) DLR
• 1997: Franz Kafka : Research of a Dog (BEA, R) Author's production
• 1998: William Blake : The Wedding of Heaven & Hell (Ü, BEA, R) (CD, Edition Minotaurus, ISBN 3-936165-29-7 ) DLR
• 1998: Die Töter (A) WDR
• 2000: Marcel Schwob : The words of the Monelle (Ü, BEA, R) SFB / ORB
• 2001: Artaud (A, R) files author production
• 2001: The Talaat Pascha trial (A) SWR / DLR
• 2002: Jefim Sosulja: The story of Ak and humanity (BEA, R) SFB / ORB
• 2003: William S. Burroughs : The Retreat Diaries. Diary of a retreat. (Ü, BEA, R) (CD, Edition Galerie Vevais, ISBN 3-936165-86-6 ) SWR
• 2004: Johannes Jansen : Thicket. Adaptation. (BEA, R) NDR
• 2004: Andrej Tarkowski : Hoffmanniana. Scenario for an unrealized film. (BEA, R) RBB / SWR
• 2004: Friedrich Hölderlin : Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece (BEA, R) (CD, SWR Edition) SWR
• 2005: Edmond Jabès : The Book of Questions (BEA, R) NDR
• 2006: GAIA 125 (A, R) (double LP, major label, ISBN 978-3-945715-05-5 ) author's production
• 2006: Jens Rehn : Nothing in Sight (BEA, R) RBB
• 2006: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke : The life of a fool (BEA, R) NDR / NHK
• 2007: Messages for 2099 (Co-Author: Carsten Nicolai ) (A, R) HR / DLF
• 2007: Alfred Döblin : The story of Franz Biberkopf (R) (CD, Patmos Verlag / Arthaus , ISBN 3-936165-86-6 ) SWR / RBB / BR
• 2007: The Indian or Small Break (A) RBB
• 2008: Robert Walser : Jakob von Gunten (BEA, R) NDR
• 2008: Tadeusz Borowski : With us in Auschwitz (BEA, R) RBB / RB
• 2008: Ingmar Bergman : Fish. Farce for the film. (BEA, R) (CD, Arthaus Edition ) SWR / DLR
• 2009: The mountain no bird flies over (A, R) SWR / Theater Basel
• 2009: Hans Henny Jahnn : Das Holzschiff (BEA, R) NDR
• 2010: Herta Müller : Atemschaukel (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-697-8 ) NDR
• 2010: Kilian Leypold: Black Dog, White Grass (R) BR
• 2011: Charles Baudelaire The Artificial Paradises (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-033-4 ) RB / HR / RBB / SR
• 2011: Kōbō Abe : The woman in the dunes (BEA, R) NDR
• 2011: Heinrich von Kleist : The holy Cecilia or the violence of music (BEA, R) (CD, Goldbek Rekords) RBB
• 2012: Ernst Jünger : The Adventurous Heart or Figures & Capriccios by Day & Night (BEA, R) SWR
• 2012: Patrick Findeis : No beautiful country (R) SWR
• 2012: Marguerite Duras : That's all. C'est tout. (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-892-7 ) RBB
• 2012: HD Thoreau : On the duty to disobey the state (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-390-8 ) RB
• 2012: Emily Brontë : Sturmhöhe (BEA, R) (CD, Der Hörverlag , ISBN 978-3-86717-931-7 ) NDR / SWR
• 2013: Patrick Findeis : Schneewalzer (R) SWR
• 2013: EM Cioran : The disadvantage of being born (BEA, R) SWR
• 2013: Mark Twain : The Mysterious Stranger (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-883-5 ) DLR
• 2013: Marguerite Duras : La Musica (R) SR / RBB
• 2014: Patrick Findeis : Hannelore or Such a photographed life wants to be coped with (R) SWR
• 2014: Walt Whitman : Children of Adam. Children of Adam . (Ü, BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-89903-914-6 ) RB / DLR / SWR
• 2014: Side notes (A, R) DLR
• 2015: Franz Werfel : The forty days of Musa Dagh (BEA, R) (CD, Der Hörverlag , ISBN 978-3-8445-1829-0 ) SWR / HR / NDR
• 2015: Patrick Findeis : Wolves, Wolves! (R) SWR
• 2015: Michael Ende : The Great Michael Ende Audiobook (R) (CD, Audiobook Hamburg / Silberfisch, ISBN 978-3-86742-305-2 )
• 2016: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : The Little Prince (Ü, BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg / Silberfisch, ISBN 978-3-86742-309-0 ) WDR
• 2016: Sei Shōnagon : Pillow Book (BEA, R) DLR
• 2016: Mu! or People must be punished (A, R) (CD, Major Label, ISBN 978-3-945715-11-6 ) RB
• 2016: Marguerite Duras : The Lover (BEA, R) (CD, audio book Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-95713-064-8 ) SWR
• 2016: Patrick Findeis : Metamorphoses (R) SWR
• 2016: Jack London : The Straitjacket (BEA, R) (CD, Major Label, ISBN 978-3-945715-09-3 ) DLR
• 2017: Michael Fehr : Simeliberg (BEA, R) BR / RB
• 2018: Camillo Boito : Sehnsucht (BEA, R) SWR
• 2018: Patrick Findeis : Zaïre 74 (Come quickly, but approach carefully) (R) SWR
• 2019: Tom Peukert : Psychotrop (R) RBB
• 2019: Karen Köhler : Wild is shy (R) SWR
• 2019: Fernando Pessoa : tape recordings of a metaphysical engineer (BEA, R) BR
• 2019: Max Frisch : Max Frisch's Mailbox (BEA, R) DLF
• 2020: Tom Peukert : Love Island (R) RBB

prose

• BLACK. Travel sketches (prose poems); Edition Minotaurus, 2002, ISBN 978-3936165-21-0 .
• SPARKS or: No one is as happy under the sun as we are (prose); freiraum-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-943672-44-2 .

Translations

• Salomé by Nick Cave ; burgart-presse, Rudolfstadt, 1995, ISBN 3-910206-16-6 .
• The Wedding of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ; Edition Minotaurus, 2003, ISBN 3-936165-26-2 .
• Diary of a retreat. The Retreat Diaries by William S. Burroughs ; Edition Galerie Vevais, 2003, ISBN 3-936165-86-6 .
• Children of Adam. Children of Adam by Walt Whitman ; Edition Galerie Vevais, 2005, ISBN 3-936165-44-0 .
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; Audiobook Hamburg / Silberfisch, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86742-309-0 .
• ORSON WELLES rehearsing MOBY DICK by Orson Welles ; henschel SCHAUSPIEL , 2019

Plays

• INVISIBLE LAND. Opera in 7 days by Helmut Oehring (co-author of the libretto); Premiere: May 7, 2006, Theater Basel
• THE MOUNTAIN over which no bird flies ; henschel SCHAUSPIEL , double premier: February 21, 2009, Badisches Staatstheater and February 25, 2009, Theater Basel
• PAX DE DEUX (mini drama ); Premiere: January 21, 2012, Theater Görlitz
• MU! or PEOPLE MUST BE PUNISHED ; henschel SCHAUSPIEL 2016
• THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES (after Kōbō Abe ); henschel SCHAUSPIEL , WP: October 5, 2018, Theater Vorpommern
• ZOMBIELAND. A ghost dance ; henschel SCHAUSPIEL 2020

Theater productions (selection)

• 1993: Salomé by Nick Cave ; Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin
• 1994: Thor's Hammer. An EddaTanz fragment by Kai Grehn; Wash house Potsdam
• 1995: Research by a dog . A report by Franz Kafka ; VOXXX Theater Chemnitz
• 1997: Hans in luck. A (German) piece by Kai Grehn; Theater under the roof Berlin
• 1999: Stalker Superstar by Sandow, Grehn & Kohlschmidt; Volksbühne Berlin
• 2001: The Ocean Flight by Bertolt Brecht ; theater 89 Berlin
• 2003: The quake opera by Avet Terterjan (co-director); State Theater at Gärtnerplatz Munich
• 2006: Invisible Land. Opera in 7 days by Helmut Oehring (assistant director); Theater Basel
• 2011: The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès ; Jewish Museum Berlin
• 2018: The woman in the dunes according to Kōbō Abe ; Theater Vorpommern Greifswald & Stralsund

Honourings and prices

• 1994 residency at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 1998 scholarship from the Brandenburg State Literature Prize
• 2001 Prix ​​Marulić Special Prize
• 2005 Prix ​​Marulić Special Prize
• 2005 Senate scholarship from the city of Berlin
• 2006 nomination for the German Audiobook Prize (The Special Audiobook)
• 2007 residency at Villa Decius, Krakow
• 2009 residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas , Ahrenshoop
• 2010 nomination for Prix ​​Europa
• 2011 nomination for the German Audio Book Award (Best Fiction)
• 2012 German Audiobook Prize (The Special Audiobook / Special Daring)
• 2015 Finalist Award New York Festivals (Best Audio Book)
• 2016 nomination for the German audio book award (best radio play)
• 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Literature Prize
• 2018 nomination for the German audio book award (best radio play)
• 2018 Silver Radio Award New York Festivals (Best Audio Book / Fiction)
• 2018 literature scholarship from the city of Rostock
• 2019 Gold Radio Award New York Festivals (Best Audio Book / Fiction)
• 2020 residency at the German Study Center Venice

Web links

• Official website
• Kai Grehn in the ARD radio play database