Kay Wuschek

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Kay Wuschek (* 1963 in Aschersleben ) is a German theater director , dramaturge and artistic director.

Life

From 1986 to 1991 Wuschek studied theater studies and cultural communication at the Humboldt University in Berlin . During his studies he directed the court theater in Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin and worked as a dramaturge and assistant director at bat Berlin and at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin .

From 1990 to 1999 Wuschek worked as a dramaturge, author, translator and director at the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg . During this time he staged a school with clowns by Friedrich Karl Waechter and an excursion with clowns . He also directed The Love for the Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi and MEDEAmomente after Euripides , Grillparzer , Corneille and others.

From 1991 to 2000 Wuschek headed the “theater 2. fall” project in Magdeburg, within the framework of which he staged We Africans - scenes from the German hinterland , Bluebeard by Georg Trakl and Kleistfragment by Stefan Schütz . Other productions were The Guests by Stanislaw Przybyszewski , Miss Sara Sampson from GE Lessing as well as Puppet Play by Franz Jung and The Story of Ak and Mankind by Jefin D. Sosulja. In 1994 he staged Heiner Müller's The Order as a Russian premiere at the Knam Theater in Komsomolsk am Amur . In 1997 he worked as a director for Group O in Paris and staged Georg Trakl's Barbe bleu .

From 1999 to 2000 he was dramaturge for the “Faust Project” under the direction of Peter Stein on the occasion of the Expo 2000 in Hanover. He then worked as head dramaturge for two seasons at the Thalia Theater Halle and at the same time as an acting lecturer in Studio Leipzig at the Schauspiel Leipzig . In 2003 Wuschek staged beginning and end at the Tübingen State Theater based on stories from the sanatorium by Bruno Schulz and premiered Fichte by Katharina Gericke . From 2003 to 2005 Wuschek worked as a dramaturge and director at the Stadttheater Aachen , where he staged Peer Wittenbol's German premiere Kolostrum and Kai Hensel's Which drug suits me?

From 2005 until his resignation for health reasons in 2019, Kay Wuschek was director of the Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin .

Productions (selection)

In co-production with the Festival Bad Hersfeld staging was The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren . In coproduction with the Rostock Volkstheater he staged Der Schimmelreiter based on Theodor Storm , Brecht's Life of Galilei and Hamlet by Shakespeare . In 2013 he staged a fox tearing rabbits by Juliane Kann in Surgut . His staging of Schrödinger, Dr. Linda and a corpse in the cold store based on the novel of the same name by Jan De Leeuw premiered in 2014. He also directed Schiller's Die Räuber and Kurpin's Der Elefant .

Wuschek has been invited to various festivals with his productions, such as the North German Theatertreffen and international festivals in Glasgow, the Udmurt Autonomous Republic and St. Louis . He was also appointed to national and international juries and worked for various festivals, for example in Linz for the Schäxpir Theater Festival or the Momix Festival in Kingersheim .

controversy

In July 2019 it became public that in 2018 the Afro-German actress Maya Alban-Zapata had left a production at the Theater an der Parkaue because she could no longer endure racial discrimination against her person. The artistic director Kay Wuschek, who was not involved in the production, was later accused of drawing too little and too late consequences from the incident. Wuschek said that at no time was there any doubt that the guest actress was injured. The director was given a five-page warning in July 2018, in which the nature of everyday racism was broken down.

Other engagement

In 2002 Wuschek was a member of the jury for the German Children's and Youth Theater Prize . In 2004 and 2005 he was co-organizer and member of the artistic management of the Flemish-Dutch-German “TheaterAutorenTage” in Aachen. Since 2005 he has been a member of the directors' group of the German Stage Association and a member of the International Theater Institute . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Berlin Council for the Arts. From 2010 to 2014 he was spokesman for the Council for the Arts. In 2007 he was a member of the jury of the national competition “Die Idea” - for the protection of intellectual property and a member of the jury at the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin. In 2009 he was a jury member at the 21st International Festival for Experimental Theater in Cairo. Wuschek has been Vice President of the International Theater Institute and a member of the Artistic Committee of the German Stage Association since 2009. From 2010 to 2011 he was a member of the jury in the children's and youth theater category and awarded the Faust theater prize. In 2012 Wuschek taught at the Rostock University of Music and Theater as a guest lecturer for drama. In 2013 he was a member of the international delegation to the Israeli Festival of Children and Youth Theater in Tel Aviv.

Translations

Wuschek translated from Bulgarian among others with Stella Petkow Persifedron by Konstantin Pawlow , published 1997. He also translated Pavlov's Rebellion on Sunday and Birds , as well as Only Barbarians Remain . Wuschek also translated Petkow from the Polish Kleine Pastorale - Pastoralki by Titus Czyszewski; the first performance took place in 1998 at the Magdeburg Municipal Puppet Theater , as well as from the Croatian The Secret of George Washington by Miro Gavran .

Publications

Wuschek published, among others, in the Theater der Zeit , Die Deutsche Bühne , Ixypsilonzett , “Off & Spiel”, in the anthology Kindertheater, Jugendtheater - Perspektiven one division , as well as for “Offensive Kulturelle Bildung Berlin” and “Ort der Augen”. Leaves for Literature ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 5, 2019, p. 23
  2. ↑ a b c d e http://www.parkaue.de/ensemble/detail/?detail=17&rubrik=leitung
  3. ↑ a b No stage for racism . The daily newspaper, June 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Theater an der Parkaue reacts to accusations of racism with a statement . Berlin Week, July 13, 2019
  5. ↑ http://www.rat-fuer-die-kuenste.de/r/lösungen/page/3/
  6. ↑ http://www.rat-fuer-die-kuenste.de/r/lösungen/page/3/
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iti-germany.de
personal data
SURNAME Wuschek, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, dramaturge and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben