Klaus Fehling

Forensic biologist Mark Benecke , painter Michael Hutter and Klaus Fehling (from left to right) at a "Parallel Worlds" event in 2007 in Cologne

Klaus Fehling (* 1969 in Cologne ) is a German writer , dramaturge , director and musician .

biography

After training as a bookseller, he worked as a journalist , PR manager (including for the Linux Association ), assistant director and dramaturge ( Schauspielhaus Bochum ) and theater critic. In 2002 he received a residency grant for performing arts at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart . In 2003/2004 he received a scholarship from the Stuttgart Business Club in the Literaturhaus.

In 1989 he founded the pop-punk band Die Blonde Burschen together with Mark Benecke . Since 2007 he has been guitarist and singer in the band Die Doctorate Interns under the name "Wolfgang 'James' DIN" . Together with Uli Winters he composes and writes mood songs, a. a. for the actor / singer Waldemar Kobus .

Since 2002 he has been working as a dramaturge for theater and opera productions throughout Germany. He regularly writes texts for the Cologne theater collective Futur3 and, as an author and dramaturge, belongs to "the hard core of the ensemble".

His plays have been performed by various ensembles so far. a. listed in Germany, Serbia, Thailand, Singapore, USA, Italy, Japan and Norway.

From 2013 to 2016 he was a lecturer for dramaturgy and creative / scenic writing at the Theater Academy Cologne .

In 2011 he founded the Luftschiff-Verlag in Bodenheim am Rhein , which had been based in Cologne since 2013 and ceased operations at the end of 2014.

Publications

• Park Chan-Kyong / Klaus Fehling: Koreans who went to Germany , Germany / Korea 2003
• All doors open (entrepreneur portraits), 2004
• Great moments for successors. Entrepreneur stories. (Luftschiff-Verlag, Bodenheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942792-02-8 )
• Risks & side effects - play (Luftschiff-Verlag, Bodenheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942792-03-5 )
• Kong monologue for a strange hero (Luftschiff-Verlag, Bodenheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942792-00-4 )
• Not my leg / ingame - two audio pieces (Luftschiff-Verlag, Bodenheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942792-04-2 )
• Lampyriden - play (Luftschiff-Verlag, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-942792-09-7 )

Plays

• The Infinite Library (collage based on Jorge Luis Borges ), Premiere: Stuttgart 1996. Director: Michael Staab
• The Real Forensic , Premiere: Cologne 2000. Director: Max Schumacher
• Light / Lampyriden , WP: Berlin 2003
• Knock sign. Beacon. Smoke signals. , Premiere: Stuttgart 2003. Director: Marcel Keller
• Directed in the city , premiere: Cologne 2005. Director: Marcel Keller
• Sigrids Risks , WP : Cologne 2006. Director: Stefan H. Kraft
• Klaus Fehling and the Ensemble Futur3 : The Scent, Money and the City , WP: Cologne 2006
• Risks and Side Effects , Premiere: Theater Osnabrück 2008. Director: Marcel Keller
• Mole , Premiere: Cologne 2008. Director: Christina Vayhinger
• Kong - Monologue for a strange hero , WP: Cologne 2009. Director: Christina Vayhinger
• Klaus Fehling and the Ensemble Futur3 : One Night in Afghanistan , premiere: Cologne 2010, director: André Erlen
• Talking dogs , premier: Cologne 2014 as a final project of the Cologne Theater Academy.
• Inge Olson is coming , premiere: Cologne 2014, director: Klaus Fehling
• The City of Tortoises , WP: Cologne 2015 (Sommerblut Festival), director: André Erlen
• Kalte Ente , world premiere: Cologne 2015, director: Klaus Fehling
• Valuable - You are best as yourself . WP: KJT Dortmund 2018, director: Johanna Weissert
• No-Go-Area Premiere: Cologne 2018 (Sommerblut Festival), director: André Erlen

Radio plays

• Knock sign. Beacon smoke signals. , Audio piece with music, (CD) 2006
• Not my leg , radio play, Prod: WDR 2007
• Ingame , radio play, prod: WDR 2009
• Kong , radio play, 2012
• End of the season , radio play, Prod: WDR 2019

music

• The Blond Boys - Your Biggest Failures (CD) 2013
• Wolfgang DIN - Finally stop (CD) 2013
• Klaus Fehling - Unmoved (Download) 2017
• Klaus Fehling - Center of the World (CD and Download) 2020

Awards

• Scholarship for performing arts at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, from January 2002 to February 2004.
• Cologne Dance and Theater Prize 2010 with Petersberg 1 , a production by Futur3 , Dramaturgy: Klaus Fehling and Sandra Nuy
• Kurt Hackenberg Prize for Political Theater 2010 with Petersberg 1 , a production by Futur3, dramaturgy: Klaus Fehling and Sandra Nuy

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Fehling in the catalog of the German National Library
• luftschiff.org - Klaus Fehling's website
• Biography on akademie-solitude.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the theater collective Futur3 ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2010 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. 
2. ↑ Overview of Klaus Fehling's theater work on the website of his label Luftschiff.org
3. ↑ Mention as a teacher at the Theater Academy Cologne ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Website of the Luftschiff-Verlag ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 24, 2016 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.