Michael Kloss

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Michael Kloss (born October 30, 1959 in Korbach ) is a German author and director .

Life

After studying German in Frankfurt am Main , he initially took to the stage in small roles and worked as an assistant director for various productions.

From 1985 to 2005 he was a partner in the legendary Klappmaul Theater , for which he wrote and staged a number of plays. He has also directed numerous children's and youth theater productions (including Unterhaus Mainz , Theaterhaus Frankfurt, Hessisches Landestheater Marburg ) and staged works for drama, music theater and opera on various stages (including Frankfurt Opera , Lucerne Theater , Carinthian Summer ); Cooperation and a. with Manfred Roth , Harald Weiss , Sylvain Cambreling , Peter Mussbach , Gerhard Schedl , Veit Volkert.

As an author, he wrote the plays “Sofa Trilogy”, “Ice Age” and “Damn Positive” as well as scripts for two magazine programs .

From 1995 to 1998 he moderated the magazine "News - the user course" with Christian Spanik for 3sat .

In collaboration with the film and television director Peter Schönhofer , the television series "Computer für Kids" (1995–1996), the film adaptation of the Sofa Trilogy (2005), the road movie " Rolando Villazón : My Mexico" (2010) and theater and opera recordings were created for ZDFtheaterkanal , 3sat and ARTE .

Also together with Peter Schönhofer, in 2013 he developed a new type of control system (Live2Edit) for multi-camera productions, which makes it possible to create an immediately editable multicam sequence of the live cut for a non-linear editing system immediately after the recording of a live event.

Since 1991 permanent member of the advisory board of the Hannchen multi-purpose foundation .

Since 2014 one of the managing directors of Live2Line GmbH in Frankfurt.

Private life

In 2017 he married Harry Kallinen, with whom he had had a registered civil partnership since 2001.

Stage works

  • Dance of Viruses. Scenes on the subject of HIV and AIDS. 1985 (together with the theater group Die Maintöchter )
  • Sofa trilogy
    • Travel to the center of the sofa. 1990
    • The sofa strikes back. 2000
    • Sofa twilight. 2004
  • Ice age. 1993
  • Gold child. Stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Eva Demski . 1994 (together with Manfred Roth )
  • Carnival of the Animals. Text version to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns . 1996 (together with Manfred Roth and Hansgeorg Mahler)
  • Herbert Haseweis. 2002
  • Damn positive. Youth play on the subject of HIV and AIDS. 2005
  • Good strings, bad sides. 2014 together with Mahagonny Cello Quartet, Tobias Kästle, Thomas Korte

Scripts

  • News - the user course. 1995–1998 (together with Christian Spanik)
  • News - computers for kids. 1995–1996 (together with Christian Spanik and Hansgeorg Mahler)

Directorial work (selection)

Film editor (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kloss, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Korbach