Lars Helmer

Lars Helmer (* 1969 in Flensburg ) is a German theater director and dramaturge .

Life

After training to be an actor in Hamburg , he quickly achieved success as a director at theaters in Detmold, Coburg, Dinkelsbühl, Pforzheim, Regensburg, Munich, Weilheim, Coesfeld and Billerbeck. At the Landestheater Coburg he was also the founder and director of the children and youth theater CAKTuS (Coburg Action Circle Theater and School) from 1995 to 1997. For his production Der Junge im Bus by Suzanne van Lohuizen he received the children's and youth theater prize of the Bavarian Theater Days in 1997, endowed with 5000 DM .

Since 2004, Helmer has been the head dramaturge and deputy of the artistic director Thorsten Weckherlin at the Landestheater Burghofbühne in Dinslaken .

He wrote stage versions of the novels Homo Faber by Max Frisch , The Promise and The Judge and His Executioner by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull by Thomas Mann and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas .

His productions included Harry's Christmas by Steve Berkoff , Hotel zu den zwei Welten by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Die Muschelsucher after Rosamunde Pilcher or Die Klatschmohnfrau by Noëlle Châtelet with Ingrid van Bergen in the leading role. He has already worked as a director with Diana Körner three times : in 1998 in Dinkelsbühl for Goethe's Stella (together with daughter Lara-Joy Körner), in 2001 for 40 carats by Barillet / Gredy in Munich and in 2004 for the two-person version of Maria Stuart von Dacia Maraini first at the Weilheimer Theatersommer, then at the Landestheater Burghofbühne Dinslaken. In 2000/2001 he directed the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof for Pooh the Bear by AA Milne .

The reading series Kneipenlyrik in Dinslaken, which he initiated, has been running regularly since 2006 with great success . For RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture, he wrote and staged Die Rein-Raus-Revue , a local farce that takes place in a tram.

In 2008 Helmer reactivated the Kathrin-Türks-Prize of the Sparkasse Dinslaken-Voerde-Hünxe and the city of Dinslaken. This youth theater prize, which is advertised every two years, is awarded exclusively to women authors in memory of the patroness Kathrin Türks . The 2008 award winner was Eva Rottmann for her piece of lizards and salamanders , in 2010 Magdalena Grazewicz won for We Grow Up at Night and Anja Tuckermann in 2012 for Waiting for Life to Begin ...

Prizes and awards

• 2007: Paul Maar scholarship from the Children's and Youth Theater Center in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burghofbühne Dinslaken: Lars Helmer , www.burghofbuehne-dinslaken.de (January 22, 2007) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. ↑ The state theaters in North Rhine-Westphalia: Homo Faber , www.landestheater-nrw.de (February 22, 2007)
3. ↑ http://www.frankriede.de/aktuell.htm
4. ↑ Ralf Schreiner: Death in the wing chair , Rheinische Post, October 23, 2006 (January 22, 2007)
5. ↑ Stadthalle Gifhorn: Die Klatschmohnfrau , www.stadthalle-gifhorn.de (January 22, 2007)
6. ^ City of Weilheim: Event on November 29, 2003 , www.weilheim.de (January 29, 2007)
7. ↑ Franziska Ball: Theaterengagements , www.franziskaball.de (January 22, 2007) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 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.