Karin Beier

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Karin Beier (born December 14, 1965 in Cologne ) is a German theater director, former director of the Schauspiel Köln and director of the Hamburg Deutsches Schauspielhaus since the 2013/14 season .

Life

Karin Beier graduated from the University of Cologne , the subjects English studies and theater , film and television studies. She came to the theater through her studies. In 1986, Beier and Elmar Goerden founded the international theater group Countercheck Quarrelsome , with which they staged a total of nine plays by William Shakespeare, mostly at non-theater venues (such as factory and exhibition halls) in the original language.

In 1991 Karin Beier went to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as an assistant director . Here she was soon able to bring out her first independent productions at a city theater. In Düsseldorf, the Iraqi director David Mouchtar-Samorai was particularly influential in her development.

From the 2007/2008 season, Beier was director of the Cologne Theater. Her contract was extended in July 2010 to the 2013/14 season and terminated on November 7, 2011 on August 31, 2013, as she took over the management of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for the 2013/14 season. Beier then intended to take on guest productions at the Cologne Schauspielhaus, as had been agreed in advance with the director Stefan Bachmann , who was then acting there ; However, this did not happen (as of the end of the 2018/19 season).

play

As early as 1994 she was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen with her production of Romeo and Juliet and was chosen by Theater heute as the next generation director of the year. Her multilingual production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Düsseldorf with 14 actors from nine countries was also invited to the Theatertreffen. In the following years she also directed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Vienna Burgtheater as well as at the Schauspiel Köln.

In 2004 and 2005 she directed the Nibelungen Festival in Worms based on a version by Friedrich Hebbel .

For 2010, the (provisional) Cologne city treasurer, Norbert Walter-Borjans, provided for a reduction in the budget for the city of Cologne's theaters of € 6.3 million (12.5%). For Beier, this meant that there was now less play (maybe only on Saturdays and Sundays) and she also suggested not building a new building for the theater and rather renovating the old one. Savings can only be made in production costs.

Beier was nominated for three productions by the Kölner Schauspielhaus for the Berlin Theatertreffen der Berliner Festspiele 2010, which presented the ten best productions in German-speaking countries: The Dirty, the Ugly and the Nasty by Ettore Scola and Ruggero Maccari , directed by Karin Beier; Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth , co-production NT Gent and De Veenfabriek, directed by Johan Simons and Paul Koek ; The merchant's contracts. An economic comedy by Elfriede Jelinek , Thalia Theater , Hamburg in coproduction with Schauspiel Köln, directed by Nicolas Stemann . The Berlin Theatertreffen 2010 opened with the production of Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth, staged by Johan Simons and Paul Koek.

On October 29, 2010 Beier wrote the piece Das Werk / Im Bus / Ein Sturz. premiered by Elfriede Jelinek . A fall represents a very angry account of the responsibility for the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne on March 3, 2009.

In 2010 and 2011, the Schauspiel Köln under Karin Beier was named “ Theater of the Year ” by the magazine Theater heute . At the end of the 2010/11 theater season, critics voted in a survey by the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne as the best theater in the category “ convincing overall performance ".

On January 11, 2013 Karin Beier said goodbye as artistic director with her first own production of an ancient material, the Trojans by Euripides . It was based on the editing by Jean-Paul Sartre .

Karin Beier has been director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus since the 2013/14 season. In the 2013/14 season she opened the big house with the antique marathon Die Rasenden . In the season 2014/15 she directed Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov and Alan Ayckbourns comedy "From now" on the big stage and in Malersaal & moneybags in Sugar Land Radiant pursuers . In the 2015/16 season she brought Ship of Dreams to Fellini's stage, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2016. She also staged the world premiere of Michel Houellebecq's novel Unterwerführung as a monologue with the actor Edgar Selge .

Musical theater

Karin Beier has also worked as a music theater director since 1997 ( Carmen in Bremen ) . Further opera productions were u. a. Rigoletto at the Cologne Opera, Così fan tutte and Handel's oratorio Semele at the Basel Theater . In May 2006 her staging of Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail was premiered in a co-production by the Vienna State Opera and Burgtheater Vienna at the Burgtheater (where the Singspiel was first performed in 1782).

Awards

Productions (selection)

Works

literature

  • Schauspiel Köln (Hrsg.): Schauspiel Köln 2007-2013. Artistic director Karin Beier. Bookstore Walther König, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86335-361-2 .
  • Karin Beier, Wolfgang Höbel : Rehearse the uprising. A theater book. , Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04469-0 .
  • Interview with Karin Beier in: Vivien Gröning, Kirsten Sass: WOMAN @ WORK Paths after the Abitur - How WOMEN makes a career today. 22 interviews with successful women. Renningen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8169-3237-6 .

Web links

Commons : Karin Beier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of July 28, 2010, p. B5.
  2. ↑ Stefan Palm: Main committee makes important personnel decisions. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, November 8, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ wdr.de: The curtain falls for Karin Beier in Cologne. ( Memento from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ berlinerfestspiele.de
  5. ↑ Andreas Wilink: Das Werk / In the Bus / Ein Sturz - Karin Beier stages Jelinek's trilogy of building disasters. Accessed February 11, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : Kölner Schauspiel Theater des Jahres , accessed on August 25, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b Seasonal balance sheet ( memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The German stage, accessed on February 1, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-deutsche-buehne.de
  8. ↑ Kölner Theater: Artistic Director Beier says goodbye to Cologne (dpa) In: Kölnische Rundschau. January 13, 2013, accessed January 13, 2013.
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Selection of the Berlin Theatertreffen 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  10. ↑ Karin Beier. In: Cultural Office State Capital Düsseldorf
  11. ↑ Theater Prize “Faust”: ?? Don't use funds incorrectly now. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. November 29, 2009.
  12. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ The dirty, the ugly and the mean at the Schauspiel Köln ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Deutsches Schauspielhaus : Die Rasenden
personal data
SURNAME Beier, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne