Karin Henkel

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Karin Henkel (born August 15, 1970 in Cologne ) is a German theater director .

Life

Having grown up in Cologne and Lübeck , Henkel studied history and German in Hamburg after graduating from school in 1989. After dropping out of her studies, she took a position as assistant director at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , and in 1993 she made her directorial debut there with Collin Serreaus Hase Hase . In the same year she was assistant director at the Burgtheater in Vienna , where she initially acted as assistant to George Tabori under the directorate of Claus Peymann , but in 1994 she started her own work with her production of Elfriede Jelinek's Die Ausgesperrten (own stage version) in the vestibule recommended larger stages. Finally, in 1995, at the age of 25, she was the youngest director ever to present a directorial work at the Akademietheater.

Leander Haußmann brought Karin Henkel into his directorship at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where she also directed under his successor Matthias Hartmann . Further stations were the Thalia Theater , the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg as well as the Berliner Ensemble , the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Theater Bremen .

In 2016 it was announced that Henkel would be staging for the first time at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 . She directed the play Rose Bernd von Gerhart Hauptmann . At the start of the Berlin Theatertreffen 2018, the director received the Berlin Theater Prize endowed with 20,000 euros in a ceremony.

Productions (selection)

Awards

  • 2005: Invitation of her production of Platonow (Staatstheater Stuttgart) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2006: Caroline Neuber Prize of the City of Leipzig
  • 2011: Invitation of her production of Der Kirschgarten ( Schauspiel Köln ) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2012: Invitation of her production of Macbeth (Münchner Kammerspiele) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2013: Invitation of her production of Die Ratten to the Berlin Theatertreffen (Schauspiel Köln)
  • 2014: Invitation of your production of Amphitryon and his doppelganger (Schauspielhaus Zürich) to the Swiss Theatertreffen
  • 2014: Invitation of your production of Amphitryon and his doppelganger (Schauspielhaus Zurich) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2015: Invitation of her production by John Gabriel Borkmann (Schauspielhaus Hamburg) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2018: Invitation of your production of Beute Frauen Krieg (Schauspielhaus Zurich) to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2018: Theater Prize Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Karin Henkel in the Munzinger archive , accessed on December 19, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely accessible).
  2. ↑ a b Till Briegleb: Karin Henkel. Goethe-Institut, accessed on December 19, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann's Rose Bernd new production , Salzburg Festival, accessed May 7, 2018
  4. ↑ Berlin Theater Prize to Karin Henkel , Deutschlandfunk Kultur Conclusion from May 5, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018
  5. ↑ Valeria Heintges: The great irritability - Schauspielhaus Zürich - Karin Henkel's Magic Mountain production conjures up the general excitement of the present. Retrieved on October 3, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Martin Krumbholz: Stories from the Vienna Woods - Schauspielhaus Bochum - Karin Henkel shows Horváth's dark folk play as a dance of death on the eve of fascism. Accessed October 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne