Michael Letmathe

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Michael Letmathe (* 1984 in Essen ) is a German theater director and dramaturge .

Life

Parallel to studying German , Romance languages and history at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , Michael Letmathe began his theater work at the Schauspiel Essen , where he did his first internships and assistants in various areas. The step towards professionalism took place in 2008 when he worked at the theater of the city of Aalen as a dramaturge, advisor for press and public relations and as a theater pedagogue. In 2010 he moved to the State Theater in Nuremberg before working as an assistant director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe for four years . It was here that I created my own directorial work, For example, the musical revue Dinner for One with songs , which has been regularly included in the program since 2012 at the turn of the year. In the series Das Neue Stück , Michael Letmathe judges drama texts by aspiring authors such as B. Wolfram Lotz , Aiat Fayez and Konstantin Küspert . He also gained further directorial experience at the Kammertheater Karlsruhe, where he staged Franz Wittenbrink's musical comedy Men and wrote and premiered his own sequel under the title Men 2 .

In the 2015/16 season, Michael Letmathe moved to the Münster Theater as a dramaturg , where he has also directed his own work since then. In addition to Party Time by Harold Pinter and Small Town Boy by Falk Richter , he staged the German-language premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard's Tom in the Country . In 2017 he worked as a guest dramaturge at the Osnabrück Theater together with Tuğsal Moğul and Anis Hamdoun on the world premiere of The Unknown City . In 2018, he staged The Invisible Hand by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar at Theater Paderborn . In Munster he brought in the same year The White Album of Beatles on stage and developed for the anniversary 100 years Bauhaus , in cooperation with the LWL Museum Munster , the interdisciplinary dance theater project Unknown Territories , for which he and Hans Henning Paar worked. His production Who killed my father , based on the novel by Édouard Louis , was invited to the virtual theater meeting by nachtkritik.de and was voted one of the ten best productions of 2020. He is part of the board of trustees for the 25th edition of the Festival of Young Actors Week . Singer and composer Fabian Kuss is responsible for the incidental music of Michael Letmathe's productions.

Productions (selection)

  • since 2012: Letmathe: Dinner for One with songs (premiere, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe)
  • 2016: Falk Richter: Small Town Boy (LWL-Museum Münster)
  • 2016: Harold Pinter: Party Time (Theater Münster)
  • 2016: Michel Marc Bouchard : Tom in the Country (DSE, Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Roland Schimmelpfennig : The White Album (Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Ayad Akhtar : The Invisible Hand (Theater Paderborn)
  • 2018: Letmathe and Paar : Unknown Territories (WP, Theater Münster)
  • 2019: Patrick Marber : Don Juan (DSE, Theater Münster)
  • 2019: Édouard Louis : Who killed my father (Theater Münster)

Dramaturgy (selection)

  • 2016: Tuğsal Moğul: German Converts, Director: Tuğsal Moğul ( Pump House Münster and Theater Münster)
  • 2017: Falk Richter : Je suis Fassbinder, Director: Max Claessen (Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Friedrich Schiller : Wilhelm Tell, director: Frank Behnke (Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Gabriel Chevallier : Heldenangst, Director: Frank Behnke (Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Joël Pommerat : The reunification of the two Koreas, director: Anne Bader (Theater Münster)
  • 2018: Nick Whitby : To be or not to be, director: Christian von Treskow (Theater Münster)
  • 2019: Franzobel : The raft of Medusa , director: Stefan Otteni (Theater Münster)
  • 2019: Ruth Messing: Münster 69th Revolution in the Province, Director: Ruth Messing (Theater Münster)
  • 2019: Svenja Viola Bungarten: Bonn is a city in the sea, director: Simone Blattner (Theater Münster)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schedule of the Baadisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe [1]
  2. ↑ Vita on the official website of the Münster Theater [2]
  3. ↑ Lena Völkening: You have to live for the theater , in: Westfälische Nachrichten [3]
  4. ↑ Helmut Jasny: Threatening complacency , in: Westfälische Nachrichten [4]
  5. ↑ LWL event calendar [5]
  6. ↑ Kai Bremer: Despite Rumba , in: Nachtkritik [6]
  7. ↑ Schedule Theater Osnabrück [7]
  8. ^ Andreas Pistorius: Dirty Money , in: Westfalen-Blatt [8]
  9. ↑ Harald Suerland: Fabulously scratched: Blackbird meets the white swan , in: Westfalen-Blatt [9]
  10. ↑ Link to the anniversary website "100 years of Bauhaus" [10]
  11. ↑ Susanna Schürmanns: Bauhaus and America , in: WDR West Art [11]
  12. ↑ Nikolaus Merck: Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2020: the nominees. Retrieved on February 14, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Nikolaus Merck: Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2020: the result. Retrieved on February 14, 2020 (German).
  14. ^ Announcement for the 25th Festival “Week of Young Actors” in March 2020 - Theater-News - Verlag Theater der Zeit. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Vita on the official website of the Münster Theater [12]
personal data
SURNAME Letmathe, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH eat