Maryn Stucken

Maryn Stucken (* 1948 in Bremen ) is a German playwright and director , as well as the founder and first artistic director of the Lichthof Theater .

Life

Stucken was born in Bremen in 1948 as the daughter of German- born South Africans on home leave . She grew up in Port Elizabeth in South Africa and lives in Hamburg . She studied ethics and philosophy at the University of Cape Town .

In the 1980s she was a teacher at the comprehensive school Altona in Hamburg-Altona . There she wrote the school play Bruno Tesch on a Sunday in Altona , which ultimately led to the success of the school's call for the school to be renamed the Bruno Tesch Comprehensive School.

Her entry into the theater began in 1986 in Hamburg working with Eva-Maria Martin ( Kampnagel Hamburg ) and Walter Lott (Actors Studio, Vienna and Berlin), and she also assisted the legendary Barney Simon at the Market Theater (Johannesburg, 1990). In 1994 she founded the “theaterwerkstatt Lichthof” in Hamburg, today's LICHTHOF Theater . Here she worked both as artistic director (until 2008) and as a director and playwright. She is a board member of the Lichthof Foundation. She lives with the musician Abi Wallenstein .

Web links

• Maryn Stucken on the pages of the umbrella organization for the independent performing arts [1]
• History of the Lichhof Theater [2]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from September 2, 2010; accessed on June 10, 2020
2. ↑ Foundation website of the Lichthof-Theater; accessed on June 10, 2020
3. ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from December 4, 2015; accessed on June 10, 2020