Katharina Gericke
Katharina Gericke (born April 4, 1966 in Kyritz ) is a German author and playwright .
Life
After graduating from high school, in 1984 she took up a traineeship at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam and from 1990 studied German and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1995 she completed the dramatic writing course at the Berlin University of the Arts and has since worked as a freelance dramatist at numerous theaters, for example at the Schaubühne Berlin , the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Staatstheater Stuttgart , Theater Heidelberg , Tübingen and others. In addition to her continuous work in Berlin's independent scene, she worked for several years as a resident author for the Lower Saxony North State Theater in Wilhelmshaven .
Katharina Gericke has received numerous prizes and grants for her dramas and prose works. She was u. a. Participant in the Days of German Language Literature in Klagenfurt 2014 and in the Weeks of German Language Drama at the Goethe Institutes in London and Moscow. She also worked as a lecturer for scenic writing at the University of the Arts and the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Katharina Gericke has a daughter and lives in Berlin.
Katharina Gericke received scholarships from the Kulturfonds Foundation (1995/1996), the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation (1999) and the German Literature Fund .
At the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2014, her text DOWN DOWN DOWN To The Queen Of Chinatown won the Mr. Heyn's Ernst Willner Prize .
Stage works
- Against Guggenheim , world premiere: bat-Studiotheater, Berlin, January 14, 1993
- Thälmann in Berlin , world premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, 05.1997
- Maienschlager , world premiere on May 31, 1997 at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
- Red Hell , world premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, 02.1998 Jonah's dogs, world premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, 03.1999
- Typhusmond (2000), world premiere: Schauspiel Bonn, 01.2000 * Winterkönig, world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, May 19, 2000
- Geister Bahn , world premiere on November 25, 2000 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord ( Wilhelmshaven )
- The fairy tale of Baron von Hüpfenstich , freely based on Giambattista Basile and Clemens Brentano , world premiere on January 25, 2003 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- The Count of Monte Christo , world premiere on November 13, 2004 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- Vom Fluß , world premiere on September 16, 2005 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden (created in 2000 as a commission from the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin)
- Che or Der Stern an der Boina , world premiere on September 24, 2005 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- Mont Klamott , musical, world premiere on February 18, 2006 at the Landesbühnen Sachsen ( Radebeul )
- Hunchback girl , world premiere on March 17, 2007 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- Die Nibelungen , world premiere on September 26, 2009 at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- Bromberg / Bydgoszcz [together with Artur Palyga], world premiere on October 13, 2012 at the Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz in cooperation with the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven)
- Lenz / Fragments , radio play, directed by Jörg Jannings, produced by rbb / Deutschlandradio, 2011
- Theater version Lenz / Fragments , world premiere: Stadttheater Gießen, 2013
- Engelbrot , world premiere in Berlin, 2014
- Barberina , Berlin 2015
- Cabaret , Berlin 2016
Prose / Publications
- Paths to Bulawayo , Roman, 1995
- rewoluschn , short story, in "moosbrand, neue texte 6", Janus press, 1998
- Der Rabe / Die Sardinen , short stories, in Ahrenshooper Seiten, Edition Hohes Ufer, 2001
- King Karl, Dramatic poem, in Kleist or the order of the world, Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2008
- Two German Plays , together with Moritz Rinke, Oberon Books London, 2001
- Klagenfurt Texts The Best 2014, Piper, 2014
- A corpse named Ala Basta , Roman, 2018
Awards
- 1996: First prize from the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation for Maienschlager
- 1998: Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for Winter King
- 1999: Award for authors of the state stage group in the German stage association
- 2000: Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg
- 2001: Stiftung Kulturfonds Künstlerhaus Lukas
- 2000/2001: Participation in the Weeks of German Drama, Goethe Institute London and Moscow
- 2003: Foundation Kulturfond Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
- 2004: Scholarship from the German Literature Fund
- 2014: Ernst Willner Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt
- 2017: Scholarship from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
Web links
- Homepage of Katharina Gericke
- Henschel Schauspiel , short biography and works, Henschel Schauspiel Theaterverlag, Berlin
- Discussion on Hunchback Girl : Benno Schirrmacher: Playing at the End of the World , taz , March 20, 2007
- "In the spider web of utopia" by Elisabeth Maier zu Maienschlager on nachtkritik.de
- A playwright dares to step into prose Katharina Tummes on literaturkritik.de to participate in the 2014 Bachmann Prize
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gericke, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyritz |