Michael Pietsch (actor)

Michael Pietsch (born May 11, 1984 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German actor , puppet builder and player .

Life

Pietsch completed his acting studies in 2008 at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. During his studies he was on stage at the Schauspiel Leipzig , his first permanent engagement took him to the Staatstheater Oldenburg . Michael Pietsch has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Mainz State Theater since the 2014/2015 season . He has made guest appearances at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Mannheim Opera , the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Graz Schauspielhaus , the Zurich Opera , the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . The international production Coltan-Fieber led the director Jan-Christoph Gockel and him at festivals in Kinshasa, among others; The seventh continent - a project about plastic - on a research trip to Hawaii. For production The revolution is eating its children! Pietsch traveled with Jan-Christoph Gockel and his team to Burkina Faso in autumn 2018 , where they followed the traces of the Burkinabe revolution of 2014. Both a play and a film were made. The revolution is eating its children! was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize for Best State Performance (2019) , Gockel, Pietsch and their team had previously received the 2017 award for the theater evening The Order: Dantons Death . On behalf of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, Pietsch designed and built a character for the state ceremony for the Day of German Unity 2017 - the father Rhine - and played him, under the direction of Jan-Christoph Gockel, in a live broadcast on ZDF .

Doll making

Pietsch has been building dolls since he was 5 years old. He treads innovative paths - redefines the boundaries of traditional puppet theater. A long-term working relationship connects him with the director Jan-Christoph Gockel. Together they have found their own theater language - at the interface between drama and puppet theater - with their company peaches & rooster . By working on theatrical stages, Pietsch is not tied to small puppet stages with the construction of his figures. This allows him to think in other dimensions - to provide his figures with 6 m long threads and to steer them from the air, set them on fire or let them swim in a pool of water. His "core competence" is the marionette carved from wood, but he also likes to experiment with a variety of other materials, be it foams, silicones, synthetic resins, dead animals or bones - as for the Moby Dick production at the Stuttgart State Theater . For Frankenstein , a work at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, he and Julia Kurzweg built a 7 m puppet from objects from deceased people - the monster won the Prix de la Critique, the Belgian theater award, in the category "Meilleur création artistique et technique ". His figures have already been seen in exhibitions at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Augsburger Puppenkiste and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

Theater (selection)

2020: Oresty by Aeschylus, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspiel Frankfurt
2019: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, with texts by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Heiner Müller, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
2018: The revolution is eating its children! by Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble, directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspielhaus Graz
2018: The Subject after Heinrich Mann, Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
2018: The Nibelungs after Friedrich Hebbel, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Mainz
2018: Frankenstein based on the novel by Mary Shelley, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
2018: Moby Dick based on the novel by Herman Melville, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspiel Stuttgart
2017: Father Rhine , State Act for the Day of German Unity, Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, ZDF, State Theater Mainz
2017: the seventh continent. Journey to the largest garbage dump on earth by Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Theater im Bauturm Cologne, State Theater Mainz
2017: The Order: Danton's Death , with texts from Heiner Müller's The Order and Georg Büchner's Dantons Death , director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspielhaus Graz
2016: The transformation after Franz Kafka, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspiel Frankfurt
2016: Me, Pinocchio. A journey into the heart of the machine , a project by Jan-Christoph Gockel based on Carlo Collodi, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Mainz
2016: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Mainz
2015: Merlin or Das wüsten Land by Tankred Dorst, collaboration Ursula Eder, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Schauspielhaus Graz
2015: Rote Laterne by Christian Jost, directed by Nadja Loschky, Zurich Opera
2015: The rats by Gerhart Hauptmann, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Mainz
2014: Coltan fever , a theater project by Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Kinshasa (DR Congo), Cologne
2014: The love of three oranges by Sergei Prokofjew, director: Cordula Däuper, Nationaltheater Mannheim
2013: Metropolis based on the film by Fritz Lang and the novel by Thea von Harbou, arranged for the stage by Jan-Christoph Gockel and David Schliesing, Theater Bonn
2013: Grimm. A German fairy tale , a theater project by Jan-Christoph Gockel and David Schliesing, directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Mainz
2012: Trilogy of Dreamers by Philipp Löhle, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Konzert Theater Bern
2012: The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, director: Nadja Loschky, Theater and Orchestra Heidelberg
2011: Shockheaded Peter (Struwwelpeter) by Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch and Martyn Jacques, with music by The Tiger Lillies, Theater and Orchestra Heidelberg
2010: Baal by Bertolt Brecht, director: Jan-Christoph Gockel, Staatstheater Oldenburg
2010: The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Volker Lösch, Theater Bremen

Awards (selection)

2019: Nestroy Theater Prize (Best State Performance) for The Revolution Eats Its Children! by Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble, directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel , Schauspielhaus Graz
2018: Prix de la Critique in the category Création artistique et technique for the monster puppet in Frankenstein , director: Jan-Christoph Gockel , Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
2017: Nestroy Theater Prize (Best State Performance) for The Order: Danton's Death with texts from Heiner Müller's The Order and Georg Büchner's Dantons Death , directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel , Schauspielhaus Graz
2015: Mention in the category “Stage, Room, Costume” (German Stage) for making puppets and marionettes for Die Ratten , director: Jan-Christoph Gockel , Staatstheater Mainz
2010: Nomination as Young Actor of the Year ( Theater Heute )

Individual evidence

↑ Graduates. Acting institute "Hans-Otto", accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Michael Pietsch. State Theater Mainz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Dorothea Marcus: The Metamorphosis - Jan-Christoph Gockel chops up Kafka's novella at the Schauspielhaus Bochum into four parts of different sizes. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
↑ Matthias Roth: "The love of the three oranges": Dralles theater with a high fun factor. In: rnz.de. Rhein Neckar Zeitung, February 17, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Michael Pietsch. Schauspiel Frankfurt, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Michael Pietsch. Schauspielhaus Graz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Red lantern. In: opernhaus.ch. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
↑ Frankenstein. Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Thomas Rothschild: Moby Dick in Stuttgart: What I wanted, I will accomplish. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, January 21, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Michael Pietsch. Staatsschauspiel Dresden, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Coltan fever - La Fièvre du Coltan. Schauspielhaus Graz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Martin Krumbholz: Mr. Plastik is very narrow-minded. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 23, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ Dorothea Marcus: Failure as an opportunity . In: Der Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin (Ed.): Theater Today . No. 1/2019 . The Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin GmbH, Berlin January 2019, p. 36-42 .
↑ Best federal state performance - “The revolution eats its children!” In: nestroypreis.at. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
↑ Best federal state performance - “The order: Danton's death”. In: nestroypreis.at. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
↑ Merkel: “A day of joy”. The Federal Government, October 3, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ David Kost: When Dolls Die. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 8, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
↑ peaches & rooster. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
↑ Verena Großkreutz: Moby Dick - Jan-Christoph Gockel brings Herman Melville's over-novel to the stage of the Stuttgart State Theater. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
^ Christian Jade: Les Prix de la Critique 2017/2018: Résultats complets. "L'Herbe de l'Oubli", meilleur spectacle. October 1, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French).
↑ Panopticon. Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pietsch, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, puppet maker and puppeteer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaiserslautern

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[2] Michael Pietsch. State Theater Mainz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[3] Dorothea Marcus: The Metamorphosis - Jan-Christoph Gockel chops up Kafka's novella at the Schauspielhaus Bochum into four parts of different sizes. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

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[5] Michael Pietsch. Schauspiel Frankfurt, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[6] Michael Pietsch. Schauspielhaus Graz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[7] Red lantern. In: opernhaus.ch. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[8] Frankenstein. Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[9] Thomas Rothschild: Moby Dick in Stuttgart: What I wanted, I will accomplish. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, January 21, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[10] Michael Pietsch. Staatsschauspiel Dresden, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[11] Coltan fever - La Fièvre du Coltan. Schauspielhaus Graz, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[12] Martin Krumbholz: Mr. Plastik is very narrow-minded. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 23, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[13] Dorothea Marcus: Failure as an opportunity . In: Der Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin (Ed.): Theater Today . No. 1/2019 . The Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin GmbH, Berlin January 2019, p. 36-42 .

[14] Best federal state performance - “The revolution eats its children!” In: nestroypreis.at. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[15] Best federal state performance - “The order: Danton's death”. In: nestroypreis.at. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[16] Merkel: “A day of joy”. The Federal Government, October 3, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[17] David Kost: When Dolls Die. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 8, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .

[18] peaches & rooster. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[19] Verena Großkreutz: Moby Dick - Jan-Christoph Gockel brings Herman Melville's over-novel to the stage of the Stuttgart State Theater. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[20] Christian Jade: Les Prix de la Critique 2017/2018: Résultats complets. "L'Herbe de l'Oubli", meilleur spectacle. October 1, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French).

[21] Panopticon. Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, accessed on May 24, 2020 .