Mareike Mikat

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Mareike Mikat (* 1978 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German theater director.

Life

Mareike Mikat originally wanted to become an actress. In 2001 she founded the youth theater club Zehn ° Minus in her hometown , which she directed until 2003. Eventually she began studying theater studies at Berlin's Humboldt University , after which she studied directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Since 1998 she has staged at a large number of theaters, including the State Theaters in Stuttgart , Karlsruhe , Braunschweig and Schwerin , the Munich Volkstheater , the theaters in Bielefeld and Freiburg and the Theater Junge Generation in Dresden. Stages in Berlin were the Ballhaus Ost , the Theater unterm Dach , the Berliner Volksbühne , the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and the Hebbel am Ufer . Mikat worked as in-house director in the 2007/08 season at the Thalia Theater Halle and then until 2010 at the Leipzig Theater .

Mikat edited Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand for the stage, as well as the novel Homo faber by Max Frisch . She has received numerous invitations and nominations for her productions in the past. She was represented at the Radikal Jung festival in 2009 with the German-language premiere of the play Juli by Iwan Wyrypajew , and in 2011 she showed The Fifth Empire based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Viktor Pelewin . Between 2008 and 2011 she received three nominations for “Young Director of the Year” in the critics' polls of the magazine “ Theater heute ”, in 2008 for Antigone , in 2009 for July and 2011 for Homo faber .

Mareike Mikat lives in Berlin and is married to the actor Andrej Kaminsky . In April 2015, the couple had children together for the first time.

From the 2019/20 season, Mareike Mikat will be senior director at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt .

Productions

Invitations and Awards

  • Invitation to Baden-Württemberg Theater Days 2007: Ulzana's Rache , Theater Heidelberg
  • 16th Workshop Days Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig 2008: A shot for everyone , Thalia Theater Halle
  • Nomination for “Young Director of the Year” in “Theater heute”, 2008: Antigone , Theater Heidelberg
  • Invitation to the 5th Braunschweig Classics Week at the Braunschweig State Theater, 2008: Antigone , Theater Heidelberg
  • Invitation to the “Radikal jung” festival at the Volkstheater in Munich, 2009: July , Schauspiel Leipzig
  • Nomination for "Young Director of the Year" in "Theater heute", 2009: July , Schauspiel Leipzig
  • Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2010: New Texts PeterLicht , Schauspiel Leipzig
  • Jury member DOK Youngsters at the DOK Festival Leipzig 2010
  • Women directing - a man's job in a woman's hands , exhibition Christina Haberlik, Munich Theater Museum 2011
  • Invitation to the “Radikal jung” festival at the Volkstheater in Munich, 2011: The fifth empire , Schauspiel Leipzig
  • Nomination for “Young Director of the Year” in “Theater heute”, 2011: Homo Faber , Staatstheater Stuttgart
  • Invitation NRW Theatertage 2014: Minna von Barnhelm , Theater Bielefeld
  • "Best Production" Festival "Hart am Wind" Hamburg 2016: Leonce and Lena , State Theater Braunschweig

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater director from Frankfurt (Oder) celebrated in Heidelberg , Der Oderlandspiegel from February 11, 2011 , accessed on August 1
  2. ↑ a b biography at schaefersphilippen.de , accessed on August 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mikat, Mareike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)