Martin Kuchejda

Martin Kuchejda (born September 30, 1957 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German author , director and lyricist .

life and work

After attending elementary school and graduating from high school in Gelsenkirchen, Martin Kuchejda studied theater, film and television sciences as well as modern and medium-old history at the University of Cologne . In 1986 he completed his studies with a Magister Artium. During his studies he worked as a prop master at Circus Roncalli (1980) and completed an internship at the WDR television play (1983).

In 1987 his professional career began as a public dramaturge at the Werkstattbühne in Düsseldorf . In 1988 Kuchejda moved to the Brotfabrik cultural center in Bonn and took over the artistic direction of the theater. From 1989 he headed the Bruno-Goller-Haus cultural center in Gummersbach. In 2011 he was appointed to the board of the Kulturbetrieb der Stadt Gummersbach AöR. Since 2013 he has headed the Gummersbach event center in Hall 32 . His work as an author includes numerous plays, detective novels, non-fiction books and song texts. Martin Kuchejda has also directed many theater and musical productions.

Work for the theater

• 1989 author and director of "Ich, Joseph Carey Merrick, the Elephant Man" with Max Osterritter , world premiere: Brotfabrik Bonn
• 1995 Author, director and lighting designer of “Die Innere Reichtümer” with Loni Schroer, Ulrich Bärenfänger and Jörg von Winterfeld, world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach
• 1995 Author, lighting designer and director of "Light by Light - The Shadow of a Man", world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach
• 1997 co-author (with Boris Dennulat) and director of "David Copperfield", world premiere: Theater der Stadt Gummersbach
• 1997 Author of “Titanic / Starry Night”, director: Dietmar Kobboldt, with ct201 frei theater köln eV, world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach, Cologne premiere: ART-Theater, nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize
• 1999 Author, director and contributor in “Strahlungen” 24-hour networked theater project on the subject of Che Guevara, Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach
• 2000 Author, lighting designer and director of LIGHT BY LIGHT / PART V “Chaplin”, world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach
• 2001 Author of “Mythos”, director: Dietmar Kobboldt, with ct201 frei theater köln eV, world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach, Cologne premiere: Studiobühne Köln
• 2005 Writer and director of “Finale / From surviving the nocturnal storm” for and with Christoph Latos, world premiere: Bruno-Goller-Haus, Gummersbach
• 2009 author, director and lighting designer of “The Witch and the Girl”, anniversary revue on the anniversary of the 900th first mention of Gummersbach, Theater der Stadt Gummersbach
• 2010 Author, director and lighting designer of "Hagen von Tronje" a Nibelungen musical, Theater der Stadt Gummersbach
• 2014 author and director of “Titanic / Starry Night” (musical), Hall 32 / Gummersbach
• 2015 Author of “Bleib dran” (drama), production: Gregor Leschig with Christoph Bautz, among others, contribution to the Bergisches Theaterfestival, Halle 32 / Gummersbach
• 2016 author of “Das Familienfest” (play), production: Gregor Leschig, studio stage in Hall 32, Gummersbach

Publications (selection)

• 1981 “… as if we were just having fun. An encounter with the Circus Roncalli. ”Farin & Zwingmann-Verlag, Gelsenkirchen
• 1990 "Lancer - the death of John F. Kennedy" (copy of the play), publisher: Stromkilometer 655 / Theaterproduktion Bonn
• 1992 “The Fire of the Golden Temple - Visions about Yukio Mishima”, (piece imprint), publisher: City of Gummersbach as part of the Japanese Weeks 1992.
• 1997 “Titanic / Starry Night” (piece imprint), publisher: ct201 frei theater köln eV
• 2000 catalog book "Bettina Ballendat" (editor), contributions by Rolf Jessewitsch and Bernd Kolberg, Wienand-Verlag, Cologne
• 2001 "It happened at 12 o'clock - minutes of a catastrophe", Gronenberg-Verlag, Wiehl
• 2005 "Herbstwind", Osberghaus publishing house, Gummersbach
• 2011 “Spring fragrance”, Juhrverlag / Gardez
• 2014 "Winterlicht", Juhrverlag / Gardez

2015 to 2017 articles on anhologies from Juhrverlag

CD productions

• 2002 “Out of Box - Live”, texts and production
• 2009 "Gummersbach rocks", texts and production
• 2013 “One-Day Flyer - Beyond the Day”, CD-EP

Honors

• 1999 honorary member of ct201 free theater köln eV
• 2010 Award of the golden jubilee medal of the city of Gummersbach for the services in the context of the city jubilee for the first mention 900 years ago

Others

1992 Project manager of "Konnichiwa Nippon / Guten Tag Japan", Japanese Weeks Gummersbach 1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kultura-extra.de
2. ↑ oberberg-aktuell.de
3. ↑ musicalzentrale.de
4. ↑ oberberg-aktuell.de
5. ↑ rundschau-online.de
6. ↑ rundschau-online.de