Lothar Kittstein

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Lothar Kittstein at his desk in Bonn (2014)

Lothar Kittstein (born October 22, 1970 in Trier ) is a German historian, author and dramaturge .

Life

Lothar Kittstein grew up as the son of a teacher couple in Trier and graduated from the Max Planck High School there in 1989 . He then studied German, philosophy and history in Hanover and Bonn . In 2001 he did his doctorate in modern history and then worked for two years as a headhunter at a small management consultancy in Bonn.

In 2003, Kittstein began writing for the stage; two years later he received his first literary sponsorship award for the children's theater play Visiting . His first big theatrical success was On a moonlit winter night . The drama was premiered in 2006 as part of the “Autorentheatertage” under the direction of David Bösch at the Thalia Theater Hamburg . At that time, Kittstein was still working as an assistant for the Cologne Theater ; for the 2006/2007 season he was finally hired as a dramaturge. Since then he has mainly worked as a freelance writer and since the 2013/2014 season has also been working as a dramaturge with commissioned work for the Bonn Theater. He also wrote stage texts for the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich and the Residenztheater (Munich) .

The playwright Kittstein is very interested in co-productions. After several contributions as a copywriter for the Bonn fringe ensemble , one focus of his work since 2009 has been the interaction with the director Bernhard Mikeska , with whom he explores the limits of acting. In 2013, Kittstein developed the project Too Late! Too Late! Too Late! Together with the director Michael Lippold . , which is about the "pressure of having to do everything and being able to achieve everything". The 13-person team included Freya Hattenberger , Sonja Baum and Tobias van Dieken . In 2017, The Third Skin :: The Simon Case - a multi-part scenic installation, with the participation of one viewer each. This experimental theater project dealt with the mysterious disappearance of the multimillionaire Otto-Erich Simon and was staged by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in the neighboring Dreischeibenhaus by the trio Lothar Kittstein, Bernhard Mikeska and Alexandra Althoff (RAUM + ZEIT). In the autumn of the same year, the radio play Die Bestie dies dies on WDR 3 . In this joint work with Hüseyin Michael Cirpici, the contradicting life's work of the Russian revolutionary Alexander Parvus is critically examined.

Kittstein has also made a name for himself as a committed member of the Bonn cultural scene: In the local press he took for example. B. 2011 critical position on the plans of the city of Bonn to want to legitimize the savings in the theater sector through citizen surveys.

Lothar Kittstein is married to the actress Birte Schrein , with whom he has three children. The family lives in the southern part of Bonn .

Plays / stage versions (selection)

In order of the date of the first performance:

  • June 2005: Asparagus season
  • September 18, 2006: On a moonlit winter night
  • 02/25/2007: The carefree
  • 03/21/2007: Last days
  • January 20, 2008: Tokyo
  • 05.03.2008: Hotel Cairo
  • 02/10/2010: House of Peace
  • 01/26/2011: Bad girl
  • April 8th, 2011: The ghosts of Amnas
  • 05/23/2011: The guarantee (based on the ballad of the same name by Friedrich Schiller )
  • May 28, 2011: A visit
  • 08/25/2011: Je t'aime :: Je t'aime
  • 02.12.2011: The great Gatsby (based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald )
  • 06/01/2013: Making of :: Marilyn
  • 02/07/2014: The white wolf

Further productions for the Theater Bonn:

  • October 12, 2013: 1913 (based on the novel of the same name by Florian Illies )
  • 03/30/2014: Welt am Draht (based on the television film of the same name by Rainer Werner Fassbinder )
  • 04/30/2014: Schatten :: Frau
  • 06/27/2014 : KÖNIGSDRAMEN I + II [dreams and rubble]
  • May 30th, 2018: Sleeping dogs

Awards

literature

  • Lothar Kittstein: Politics in the Age of Revolution: Investigations into Prussian Statehood 1792-1807 , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-515-08275-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ idw-online.de: Premiere: HAW Hamburg welcomes freshmen in the Thalia Theater (accessed on July 25, 2014)
  2. ↑ theaterszene-koeln.de: Kittstein's Wor (l) ds - fringe ensemble ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (accessed on July 29, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterszene-koeln.de
  3. ↑ youtube.com: JE T'AIME :: JE T'AIME A project by Bernhard Mikeska and Lothar Kittstein (short trailer) (accessed on July 29, 2014)
  4. ↑ alleszuspaet.de: Too late, too late, too late! A project by Lothar Kittstein and Michael Lippold (accessed July 30, 2014)
  5. ↑ dhaus.de: The Third Skin :: The Simon Case (accessed June 4, 2018)
  6. ↑ wdr.de: The beast dies. WDR 3 radio play | 10/25/2017 | 54:00 min. (Accessed June 4, 2018)
  7. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de: Lothar Kittstein: "Citizens' survey is a farce" (accessed on July 25, 2014)
  8. ↑ Lothar Kittstein on fischertheater.de (accessed on July 25, 2014)
  9. ↑ DIE WELT of May 6, 2013: "One is chained together for life" (accessed on January 21, 2015)
  10. ↑ theater-bonn.de: Lothar Kittstein as a member of the ensemble (accessed on July 25, 2014)
  11. ↑ Kulturpur.de: Lothar Kittstein: Visiting (accessed on July 26, 2014)
  12. ↑ burgtheater.at: Young authors at the Burgtheater (Werkstatttage'06) p. 17 ( Memento of the original from 23 September 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. (accessed on July 25, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgtheater.at

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personal data
SURNAME Kittstein, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH trier