Lydia Bunk

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Lydia Bunk (* 1970 in Berlin ) is a German theater director .

Live and act

She studied theater studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . She began her theater career as an assistant at the Deutsches Theater (among others with Thomas Langhoff , Friedo Solter ) and with Peter Zadek . Frank Castorf later hired her as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin, where she worked with directors such as Christoph Marthaler, Stefan Bachmann and above all with Frank Castorf for several years. There she also took on her first independent directorial work.

Michael Helle brought her to the Theater Aachen for continuous collaboration as a director. Further stations of her career are the South Thuringian State Theater Meiningen , the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin , the State Theaters of Saxony and the Theater Kiel .

Lydia Bunk also works as a guest lecturer for direction and acting, among others at the drama school “Die Etage”. Among other things, she led a seminar on Frank Castorf at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , directing department.

Lydia Bunk was the first European guest at the Sharjah Theater Festival ( United Arab Emirates ) in 2006 and 2007 . In 2009 Lydia Bunk staged “Noras Baby” by Matias Faldbakken at the Odense Theater in Denmark for the first time abroad .

For the 2012/2013 season, Lydia Bunk took over the artistic direction of the Momentum Theater in Odense (Denmark). Under the season's motto "Outsiders", she directed three theater productions ("BEAT", "The Affair in the Rue de Lourcine" and "IB3EN").

From April to July 2019 Lydia Bunk was "artist in residence" at the "Swatch Art Peace Hotel" in Shanghai, where she worked on a German-Chinese "Faust" project.

Productions (selection)

  • 2000: Angel of Edward Thomas' petrol station / Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
  • 2001: Clavigo by Johann Wolfgang Goethe / Theater Aachen
  • 2002: Marleni von Thea Dorn / Südthüringisches Staatstheater Meiningen
  • 2003: Miss Sara Sampson from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / Theater Aachen
  • 2003: German cuisine (premiere) by Werner Buhss / Theater Magdeburg
  • 2003: Maria Magdalena by Friedrich Hebbel / Theater Aachen
  • 2004: Othello by William Shakespeare / Landesbühnen Sachsen
  • 2005: That'll be fine. Never love again! by Sibylle Berg / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  • 2008: Burns by Wajdi Mouawad / Theater Kiel
  • 2009: After the rain by Sergi Belbel / Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia - Theater Gera
  • 2009: Noras Baby by Matias Faldbakken / Odense Theater / Denmark
  • 2009: The man with the golden teeth by Nelson Rodrigues / Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
  • 2009: Burns by Wajdi Mouawad / Euro-Studio Landgraf
  • 2011: Antigone von Sophokles / Odense Theater / Denmark
  • 2012: Poe / Theater evening about Edgar Allan Poe / Royal Theater Copenhagen
  • 2012: The Maiden of Orléans by Friedrich Schiller / Staatstheater Darmstadt
  • 2012: Beat theater concert about the Beat Generation / Teater Momentum Denmark
  • 2012: Affaeren / The Affair in Rue de Lourcine by Eugene Labiche / Teater Momentum Denmark
  • 2013: Ib3en / 6 Ibsen pieces in one evening / Teater Momentum Denmark
  • 2013: Kafka / Theater evening about Franz Kafka / Royal Theater Copenhagen
  • 2013: Clavigo / Aalborg Teater Denmark
  • 2014: Men lever man based on Shakespeare's Sturm / Teater V Denmark
  • 2015: Vi elsker og ved ingenting by Moritz Rinke / Aalborg Teater Denmark
  • 2016: Moscow ice cream based on the novel by Annett Gröschner / Theater Magdeburg
  • 2016: Pension Schöller at the Trier Theater
  • 2016: Höstsonaten by Ingmar Bergman / Stadsteater Göteborg Sweden
  • 2018: Cabaret at the Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2018: To the beautiful view of Ödön von Horvath / Schlosstheater Celle
  • 2019: Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht / Theater for Lower Saxony

Awards

  • 2011: Inthega Prize Neuberin 2011 for burns (by Wajdi Mouawad)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lydia Bunk - Swatch Art Peace Hotel. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Interest group of the cities with theater guest plays eV: Winner INTHEGA-Preis "Neuberin"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from October 17, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / inthega.de  

https://www.swatch-art-peace-hotel.com/virtual-museum/Lydia-Bunk-368

personal data
SURNAME Bunk, Lydia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin