Kay Voges
Kay Voges (born May 14, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) is a German theater and opera director and director of the Schauspiel Dortmund since the 2010/2011 season . Under his leadership, the house also increasingly became the focus of supra-regional attention, so called u. a. Die Welt das Schauspiel Dortmund is the "leading German-speaking theater laboratory".
Under his aegis, the Schauspiel Dortmund received the second place as Theater of the Year in the entire German-speaking area three times in a row in the annual critics survey of the specialist magazine Theater heute from 2015. a. on a par with the Berlin Schaubühne , the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz or the Theater Basel . Furthermore, it was named the best theater in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the NRW critics' survey of Welt am Sonntag .
In 2017 Voges was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen with his production The Borderline Procession . His production Der Theatermacher after Thomas Bernhard was shortlisted for the Theatertreffen in 2019.
On June 7, 2019, he was introduced by Vienna's City Councilor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler as the successor to Anna Badora as director of the Volkstheater in Vienna from 2020/21.
Early theater work
After working as a projectionist and home educator, Voges began his theater career in 1996 as an assistant director at Theater Oberhausen and was part of the artistic direction there from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 he worked as a freelance director for drama and children's and youth theater at various theaters, including the State Theater in Darmstadt , the Theater Magdeburg at the City Theater of Munster , at the Theater Bonn , at the State Theater in Kassel , at the Palace Theater Moers and at the Dresden State Theater .
In 2005 he founded the independent theater neue bühne krefeld together with the dramaturge Klaus Schmidt .
Director of the Schauspiel Dortmund
Kay Voges has been Artistic Director at Schauspiel Dortmund since the 2010/2011 season .
Voges staged numerous plays and material adaptations in Dortmund such as Woyzeck , Der Theatermacher or Der Meister und Margarita , but also brought specially developed premieres and piece developments to the stage as a director. Voges is often the author or co-author of these piece developments, so u. a. In 2013 at the multimedia performance The Golden Age - 100 Ways to Steal the Show from Fate (together with Alexander Kerlin ). Further in-house productions were u. a. The Show (2015), a fictional television evening based on Das Millionenspiel , The Borderline Procession (2016), hell / a moment (2017) or The 1. Evangelium ( Schauspiel Stuttgart , 2018) or The Parallel World - a play development that runs parallel on Berliner Ensemble plays and links the ensembles in Dortmund and Berlin via fiber optics.
Voges' works in Dortmund have repeatedly received awards and invited to theater festivals such as the NRW-Theatertreffen or the Heidelberger Stückemarkt . For his staging of Das Fest , Voges was nominated for the German theater prize Der Faust 2013 in the category “Directed Drama”. This was also the first production that committed itself to the specially conceived rules of Dogma 20_13 - a manifesto conceived and published by Schauspiel Dortmund that advocated closer and more direct interlinking between the theater and film worlds.
Working on the opera
In 2013 Voges celebrated his debut as an opera director at the Dortmund Opera with the production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg . In 2015 his second opera direction, Der Freischütz , followed at the Hanover State Opera . This triggered a tangible theater scandal and forced the Hanoverian CDU to speak of “unspeakable loss of culture in favor of supposedly important deconstruction, allegedly contemporary contextualization and apparently sensation-driven one-off effects”.
In 2017, he staged the minimal opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson for the first time without the direct involvement of Glass or Wilson.
aesthetics
Much of Voges' works employ various multimedia tools to support the narrative aesthetic underlying the piece. Video and music play a special role in this context, with some works almost completely breaking the boundary between theater and visual arts. Kay Voges has been working with the video artist Mario Simon and the composer TD Finck von Finckenstein on the implementation of this boundary shift for several years . Works such as "4.48 Psychose" (2014), "The Borderline Procession - A Loop Around That Which Separates Us" (2016), "Hell / Einoment" (2017) or "The Parallel World" (2018) are the result of this collaboration and show a permanent questioning of visual and acoustic narrative techniques.
Awards & invitations
- 2019: Invitation to the NRW Theatertreffen with Der Theatermacher by Thomas Bernhard , Prize of the Youth Jury and Acting Prize to Andreas Beck as Bruscon
- 2017: "Iron Reinoldus" of the Ruhr Press Association for "nationwide artistic attention and recognition" as well as "unusual productions"
- 2017: Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen for the production The Borderline Procession
- 2017: Invitation to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt for the production Die Schwarze Flotte
- 2014: Invitation to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt for the production The Golden Age
- 2014: Award for “Best Director” at the Artodocs International Film Festival St. Petersburg for “Some Messages to Space” by Wolfram Lotz
- 2013: “Some Messages to Space” by Wolfram Lotz for the NRW Theatertreffen in Bielefeld
- 2013: Second prize at the Sunset International Film Festival Los Angeles for "Some Messages to Space" by Wolfram Lotz in the "Experimental Film" category
- 2013: Jury Prize for the “Best Staging” at the NRW Theatertreffen 2013 for “Some Messages to Space” by Wolfram Lotz
- 2012: Ibsens' Nora or A Puppet House and Ghosts for the NRW Theatertreffen
- 2007: Emilia Galotti to the Leverkusen Forum
- 2005: "Nico - Sphinx made of ice" on Theaterzwang, Festival of Independent Theater NRW
- 2003: norway today for the 7th German Youth Theater Meeting in Berlin
- 2003: Audience award for the production of Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind (NRW Theatertreffen for children's and youth theater)
- 2002: “Most important work of the year” (Theater Pur) for “Werther in New York” by Tim Staffel
- 2003: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the stage area
- 2002: "Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement" in "Fire Face" by Marius von Mayenburg (NRW Theatertreffen for children's and youth theater)
- 2001: "Prize for the outstanding artistic achievement" in Everything in One Night by Falk Richter (NRW Theatertreffen for children and youth theater)
- 2000: "Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement" in "Cyrano" by Jo Roets (NRW-Theatertreffen for children and youth theater)
Productions
Acting (selection)
- 2018: The parallel world of Kay Voges and Alexander Kerlin , Schauspiel Dortmund / Berliner Ensemble
- 2018: The theater maker by Thomas Bernhard , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2018: The 1st Gospel based on the Gospel of Matthew , Schauspiel Stuttgart
- 2017: bright / a moment by Kay Voges, Alexander Kerlin, Dirk Baumann, Anne-Kathrin Schulz, Matthias Seier & Ensemble; Drama Dortmund
- 2016: The Borderline Procession - A loop around what separates us from Kay Voges, Alexander Kerlin and Dirk Baumann; Drama Dortmund
- 2015: The Show - A millionaire game for life and death freely based on Das Millionenspiel , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2014: End of the line longing by Tennessee Williams , Schauspiel Frankfurt
- 2014: 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2014: Hamlet based on William Shakespeare , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2013: The Golden Age - 100 Ways to Steal the Show from Fate by Kay Voges and Alexander Kerlin, Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2013: The festival based on Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2012: The master and Margarita after Michail Bulgakow , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2012: Some messages to space by Wolfram Lotz , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2010: Woyzeck after Georg Büchner , Schauspiel Dortmund
- 2009: A Midsummer Night's Dream based on William Shakespeare , Staatsschauspiel Dresden
- 2008: ALICE //. .and digest yourself longing you! // An expedition based on Lewis Carroll , Schlosstheater Moers
- 2003: Männerhort of Kristof Magnusson (world premiere), Theater Bonn
Opera
- 2018: Aida by Giuseppe Verdi , State Opera Hanover
- 2017: Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson , Oper Dortmund
- 2015: The Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber , Hanover State Opera
- 2012: Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg by Richard Wagner , Dortmund Opera
Web links
- Head of Schauspiel Dortmund
- Schauspiel Dortmund's blog
- Kay Voges at schaefersphilippen.de
- Movie theater? Theatre? Kinater! , Portrait of Martin Eich in Der Freitag from February 12, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Welt, 2013, cf. Press review on the production The Golden Age
- ↑ orf.at: Kay Voges new director of the Volkstheater . Article dated June 7, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019.
- ↑ God be punk . Night review. September 12, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
- ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: "Freischütz" scandal production in Hanover: CDU is upset about "German Trash Theater". In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved April 28, 2016 .
- ↑ NRW Theatertreffen 2019 - Prize winners
- ↑ Kay Voges receives "Iron Reinoldus" , City of Dortmund, March 8, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Voges, Kay |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and opera director |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |