Katrin Hentschel

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Katrin Hentschel (* 1967 in Berlin ) is a German theater director, author, dramaturge and film director. From 2014 to 2017 she was chief stage director and deputy director of the Theater an der Parkaue / Junge Staatstheater Berlin.

Life

Katrin Hentschel graduated from high school in 1986 at the extended secondary school "Carl von Ossietzky" and initially studied teaching at the PH in Zwickau. In 1989 she went to the Greifswald Theater as assistant dramaturge with director Thomas Roth , then for a year as assistant director at the Schillertheater Berlin (key directors: Elke Lang , Alexander Lang and Benno Besson ) .;

From 1991 to 1995 Hentschel studied acting directing at the HfSK “Ernst Busch” and subsequently founded the theater group Hamletbüro in Berlin. She assisted Leander Haussmann for the last time at the Volksbühne Berlin in 1996 and worked for Matthias Lilienthal as a dramaturgy assistant.

In 1999 she staged the senior year of the HFF Konrad Wolf / media-specific drama “Platonow”. From 1997 to 2001 she worked at the Berlin film production company zero film as an assistant director for Didi Danquart and in 2000 became the author and director of the 5-part documentary soap Der Tanzpalast about the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin (Arte and RBB, production: Zero film Berlin).

In 2007 Hentschel moved to Freiburg and worked as a guest dramaturge and director at the Freiburg Theater under the artistic director Barbara Mundel . There she staged for the first time with puppeteers. In Freiburg she studied art history for four semesters in parallel.

In 2014, Hentschel became senior director of the Theater an der Parkaue / Junge Staatstheater Berlin.

Prices

1999: Ensemble award for “ Platonow ” - German-speaking drama school meeting in Rostock

Theater work (selection)

  • 1996–2004: Founding of the independent theater group Hamletbüro Zwei eV: productions: Hamlet in the small water reservoir, director, 1996; Scotland Road by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed in 1997; Gypsy boy, where are you , director, 2000; Michi , director, 2000; Alive & Lenin , director, writer 2001;
  • 1999: Platonow by Anton Chekhov with students from the HFF Potsdam , direction (this production won the ensemble award at the German-speaking drama school meeting in Rostock)
  • 2003/04: The investigation, by Peter Weiss, director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden ; Pünktchen & Anton , assistant director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2004: Palace of the Republic: staging of Maria Stuart in the ruins of the Palace of the Republic;
  • 2005: The emperor's new clothes , director, stage at the Stadttheater Berlin-Cöpenick
  • 2007: Fasten Seat Bells, comedy at the Junge Theater Göttingen , director;
  • 2006–2011: Theater Freiburg :
    • Project work / dramaturgy: Rebellen series, dramaturgy and moderation, 2006; Mr. Rossi , dramaturgy; Excursion to the human park , dramaturgy; Fear blue , dramaturgy; Sexmission , with the puppet performance group Das Helmi, dramaturgy, costumes 2010
    • Productions: Terrorists - Bagdad '77 , author and director, 2007; Rabenmütter , director, 2007; Karadzicz.Guru , writer and director, 2009; You don't have a chance but take it - a football revue from South Africa , director and author; Käthchen, my girl after Heinrich v. Kleist with actors and puppets, direction and puppet making, 2010; Wanted children - theatrical performance Baby at 50 , director, 2011
  • 2011: Penthesilea at home, in the Neues Museum Berlin , production and direction
  • 2012: Honigherz by Cristina Gottfridsson, production at the Konstanz Theater ; Käferchens Reise , staging, premiere July 27, 2013 Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 2013: Artist in Residence in the Finkenschlag, venue of the Freiburg Theater
  • 2014–2017: Productions at the Theater an der Parkaue (senior director, deputy artistic director): Der Kleine Ritter Trenk , stage 1; Friedrichstrasse 20:53 , directed by Marcus Lobbes, dramaturgy: Katrin Hentschel; Mr. Fritz from the UA Secret Service , by David Lindemann; When I met my new friend to my parents ... including texts by Bonn Park, coproduction with Theater Chemnitz ; The Christmas goose Auguste , (venue, Prater); Bad Children , UA Mihaela Michailov, stage 3; The rats , (venue, Prater); The amazing adventures of Maulina Schmitt , UA (venue, Prater). In September 2017 she staged the Swiss premiere of the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich.
  • 2018: In April 2018 she staged RUT by Christoph Nix at Theater Konstanz .

Radio feature

  • 2006: We are the 12th man! - Germany, a summer night fairy tale , Deutschlandradio; Author, director

Publications

  • “It was the women!” In: Katrin Hentschel, Traute Hentsch (ed.): Terroristinnen - Bagdad '77. The women in the RAF . Edition Der Freitag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936252-18-7 , pp. 61 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zero film Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Hentschel, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, author, dramaturge and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin