Kay Link

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Kay Link (born July 17, 1969 in Pforzheim ) is a German opera and theater director , author and literary scholar .

Life

After studying literary studies, art history, history and sign language in Frankfurt am Main and London, Link worked as a game director and assistant director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Dresden State Opera . He was assistant to the directors Claus Guth and Werner Schroeter . First own productions took place in 1998, since 2000 Kay Link has primarily worked as a freelance opera and drama director , he teaches at the Folkwang University in Essen. He also writes plays. He has also published publications on Thomas Bernhard and Heinrich von Kleist .

Stage works

  • For me it's supposed to rain red roses - an OPERettical . World premiere in April 2000 at the Darmstadt State Theater , Großes Haus
  • Tonio Kröger from Thomas Mann. Version together with Matthias Buck . World premiere November 2000, Thalia Theater Halle
  • The stupid Augustine - a circus story based on a picture book by Otfried Preußler . First performed in May 2004 at the Feuchtwangen Cloister Play
  • Woyzeck³ . Three fragments of the drama by Georg Büchner . Version together with Gerhard Seidel. Music by Jens Wehn. First performance in March 2007 at the FWT Cologne . Nomination for the Cologne Theater Prize 2007
  • Showbiz . Musical by Kay Link. First performance June 2007 at the Leipzig Opera / Musical Comedy .
  • Love in the times of the Ruhr - 40 love stories from the pot. A theatrical decameron on the Ruhrschnellweg . First performance on July 18, 2010 on the A40 on the occasion of “ Still-Leben ” / European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010
  • A long, sweet suicide. The Oscar Wilde case . Drama (together with Inken Kautter). World premiere in April 2011 at the FWT Cologne
  • The dancing shoes . Fairy tales with a lot of music by Ueli Blum. Music by Erich A. Radke. New version by Kay Link. Verlag Felix Bloch Erben , Berlin 2013. World premiere at the Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig, November 2011
  • The poison in the elevator - why Orpheus drove all the way down. Children's operetta based on Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld . Boosey and Hawkes Verlag , Berlin 2013. Commissioned by Bayer.Kultur . World premiere: March 18, 2012
  • King & King . Play for children by Kay Link based on the picture book by Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland. Hartmann and Stauffacher publishing house, Cologne 2015.

Prizes and awards

For his directorial work, Kay Link received several nominations for directing awards and competitions, including a. for his conception of Carmen at the Peter Konwitschny Young Talent Prize 2005. His interpretation of Lehár's The Land of Smiles was described as the “most interesting production” in the annual critics' survey of the Saxon newspaper. On Deutschlandradio Kultur , Kay Link and his staging of The Marriage of Figaro alongside David Marton ( Capriccio , Lyon Opera) and Patrick Kinmonth ( Die Gezeichen , Cologne Opera) was honored for an "outstanding production of the year" (annual review of the opera critics 2013). His production of X-Freunde in Cologne was awarded "Production of the Month" by the theater newspaper aKT in January 2014 . Kay Link's works have been nominated three times for the Cologne Theater Prize: The story of the maid Zerlina - will be wiped up later (2004, direction), Woyzeck³ (2007, play and direction), mother tongue Mameloschn (2015, direction and set).

Publications

  • Text rooms at Kleist. About black holes, language failure, cross-border commuters and music . In: Klaus Jeziorkowski [ed.]: Kleist in jumps. Munich 1999. ISBN 978-3-89129-626-4
  • The world as theater - artificiality and artistry with Thomas Bernhard . Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-88099-387-4 .

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Conclusion broadcast on December 31, 2013
  2. ↑ akT issue 1/2014 ( http://www.theaterzeitung-koeln.de/kritisiert/praemiert/x-freunde/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the Link according to instructions and then remove this note. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.theaterzeitung-koeln.de  
  3. ↑ Chronology of the productions of the FWT Cologne ( http://www.fwt-koeln.de/index.php/haus.html )
personal data
SURNAME Link, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and theater director, author and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim