Kai Ohrem

Kai Ohrem (born September 20, 1978 in Düren ) is a German theater director .

School and study

1998 Ohrem passed the Baccalaureate at the school citadel of the city of Jülich . In 2000 he started studying comparative literature and musicology at the Free University and the Humboldt University in Berlin as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , which he finished in 2003 in favor of theater work.

Professional background

• 2001 collaboration with the Polish director Krystian Lupa in his production of Robert Musil's Die Schwärmer at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. There was another collaboration with Krystian Lupa in 2003 when he staged Dea Lohers Klara's relationships at TR Warszawa.
• 2003 to 2005 assistant director at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg: regular collaboration with directors Michael Thalheimer, Andreas Kriegenburg and Stephan Kimmig.
• Since 2005 freelance director and guest lecturer for drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and the 007 drama department of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
• Since 2011 university professor for acting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Working at the theater

Assistant director

• 2003–2005 assistant director at the TR Warszawa and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, a. a. with Krystian Lupa, Andreas Kriegenburg , Stephan Kimmig , Michael Thalheimer

Own work

• 2002: Maisch Bayeux by Daniel Mursa, staged reading with Maren Eggert , Clemens Dönicke, Sylvia Schwarz and Jana Westermann (Thalia Theater, Hamburg)
• 2004: At home abroad , scenic reading with Victoria Trautmansdorff, Hartmut Schories and Andreas Döhler (Thalia Theater, Hamburg)
• 2005: The last volume by Samuel Beckett , with Hartmut Schories (Thalia Theater, Hamburg)
• 2005: Greenland by Pauline Sales, with Susanne Wolff (Thalia Theater, Hamburg)
• 2006: Malina, Ivan and I after Ingeborg Bachmann , with Sandy Schwermer and Bettina Kerl (Theater Eigenreich, Berlin)
• 2006: The sandbox by Michael Walczak, with Friedrich Mücke and Bettina guy , (Thalia Theater, Hamburg / Theater own Empire, Berlin)
• 2007: The gap of Dea Loher , with Julischka Eichel (Theater own Empire, Berlin)
• 2008: RUMM RUMM project based on Dea Loher (Free Theater Belarus, Minsk )
• 2008: Land without Words by Dea Loher (Meetfactory, Prague)
• 2009: The day of the oprichnik according to Vladimir Sorokin (Schauspielhaus, Vienna)
• 2009: Bellywood. Poetic News from Belarus (Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin)

Web links

• Homepage of the Eigenreich theater
• Website of the Eigenreich theater with information about the play Malina, Ivan and me
• Website of the Eigenreich theater with information on the play The Sandpit
• Homepage of the Free Theater Belarus, Minsk
• TV report about RUMM RUMM on Russian television (www.ntv.ru)
• Article on night review
• Day of the oprichnik in the press
• Day of the oprichnik in the Wiener Zeitung