Markus Heinzelmann (director)

Markus Heinzelmann (* 1968 in Karlsruhe ) is a German theater director .

Life

Markus Heinzelmann worked as a freelance director in Mainz, Bielefeld, Kassel, Lübeck, Berlin, Linz and Konstanz from 1999 to 2004. In 2003/04 he was a lecturer at the Leipzig Drama School, Studio Weimar.

From 2004 to 2011 Heinzelmann was artistic director and artistic director at the Theaterhaus Jena . Since March 1st, 2013 he has taken over the commercial management of the house.

In 2006 Heinzelmann staged "Look at me and speak" by Savyon Liebrecht ( DSE ) as a guest in Bern . He also staged staged readings for the play markets of the Berlin Theatertreffen 2005 and 2006. For the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 2007 he staged "Bowling Alone" by Oliver Bukowski in coproduction with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (invited to the STAGE theater festival in Helsinki). On October 5th, 2008, his production "Die Kümmerer" premiered at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. In 2009 he staged the world premiere of David Gieselmann's "Blooming Landscapes" at the Bremen Theater . In 2010, Markus Heinzelmann staged another world premiere of Oliver Bukowski at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, "If you kill yourself, it's a mistake" (coproduction with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, invited to the 2010 Kleist Festival in Frankfurt / Oder). Markus Heinzelmann is married and has two children.

Productions at the Theaterhaus Jena (selection)

• "Gotham City I - the play. A city is looking for its hero" by Rebekka Kricheldorf (WP)
• "The Nibelungs. Call of the gold" after Friedrich Hebbel, theater spectacle for the opening of the Kulturarena Jena 2010
• "VILLA DOLOROSA" Three failed birthdays freely based on Chekhov's »Three Sisters« by Rebekka Kricheldorf (WP)
• "Der Sturm" after William Shakespeare, theater spectacle for the opening of the Kulturarena Jena in 2008
• " Children of the Sun " by Maxim Gorki, newly translated by Werner Buhss (WP of the new translation)
• "New luck with a dead model" by Rebekka Kricheldorf (UA), coproduction with neubau / Staatsschauspiel Dresden
• "The Oresty" after Aeschylus, theater spectacle for the opening of the Kulturarena Jena 2007
• "Wild at Heart" based on motifs by David Lynch
• "The Threepenny Opera" by Brecht / Weill, theater spectacle for the opening of the Kulturarena Jena 2006
• "Richard III" by Tim Staffel (WP)
• "My young idiotic heart" by Anja Hilling (WP)
• "Cold-blooded" after Truman Capote

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Groß: Markus Heinzelmann is back at the Theaterhaus Jena. Ostthüringer Zeitung March 1, 2013.
2. ↑ Grandiose theater spectacle opens KulturArena 2008
3. ↑ KulturArena started in 2007 with a theater spectacle