Michael Simon (theater director)
Michael Simon (born January 25, 1958 in Neumünster ) is a German theater director , opera director and set designer .
Life
Michael Simon came to the theater through the fine arts. In 1978 he began studying stage design with Jürgen Rose in Stuttgart , during which time he worked with the performance group Famili (together with Achim Kubinski ). They performed in Stuttgart, Cologne , Washington and New York . In 1981 he finished his studies and went to New York. From 1982 to 1990 he worked as a set designer for the American choreographer William Forsythe at the Frankfurt Ballet and for acting at theaters in Düsseldorf , Freiburg , Darmstadt , Vienna , Hamburg and Berlin, among others .
For the opera, Simon created sets in Amsterdam from 1989 for directors Pierre Audi and Peter Greenaway . Since 1988 he has worked continuously with the choreographer Jiří Kylián , and since 2006 occasionally with Richard Wherlock at the Basel Ballet . He took his first steps as a director in joint projects with the composer Heiner Goebbels in the Frankfurt Theater am Turm . His first opera productions in Basel , Nuremberg and Darmstadt followed quickly . In 1995 he was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen with his drama production The Black Rider and was voted Young Director of the Year in Theater heute magazine .
Michael Simon was briefly engaged at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin in 1996/1997 and has been working as a freelance director and set designer ever since. From 1998 to 2004 he was professor for the scenography department at the University of Design in Karlsruhe and since 2008 has been in charge of the stage design specialization, Master of Arts in theater at the Zurich University of the Arts .
Important productions
- 1994 - The Black Rider by Robert Wilson , William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits at the Dortmund City Theater
- 1995 - Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde after Robert Louis Stevenson , Freie Volksbühne Berlin
- 1995 - The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner at the Darmstadt State Theater
- 1995 - Moses and Aron by Arnold Schönberg at the Bremen Theater
- 1996 - Tosca! after Sardou, text by Christoph Schuenke, music by Achim Kubinski at the Burgtheater Vienna
- 1997 - Woyzeck by Georg Büchner at the Schaubühne Berlin
- 2000 - Shockheaded Peter by P. McDermott, J. Crouch at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- 2002 - Doctor Faustus lights the lights by Gertrude Stein at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
- 2003 - City of Glass by Paul Auster at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- 2004 - Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- 2004 - L'espace dernier by Matthias Pintscher at the Opéra National de Paris
- 2005 - Princess dramas by Elfriede Jelinek, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
- 2006 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare at the Dresden State Theater
- 2006 - Heil, Hitler! by Rolf Hochhuth at the Nationaltheater Weimar (The author had this performance forbidden because the director wanted to make a change to his play that would falsify history
- 2006 - In the country of last things ballet by Michael Simon at the Bavarian State Ballet
- 2007 - Ulrike Maria Stuart by Elfriede Jelinek at the Stadttheater Freiburg
- 2008 - Lohengrin by Richard Wagner at the Nuremberg Opera House
- 2008 - The play of questions by Peter Handke, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
- 2009 - Cabaret by John Kander , Fred Ebb , Joe Masteroff at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
- 2010 - Richard III. by William Shakespeare at Theater Basel
- 2011 - Orphée by Jean Cocteau at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
- 2011 - Winterreise by Elfriede Jelinek , Karlsruhe Theater Karlsruhe
- 2012 - Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) by Elfriede Jelinek , Schauspielhaus Graz , Austrian premiere
- 2013 - Salome by Richard Strauss , Braunschweig State Theater
- 2013 - Freyschütz from CM Weber , Theater Bern
literature
- Hans-Thies Lehmann: Post-dramatic theater. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-88661-209-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Bavarian State Opera ( memento of the original from October 4, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 11, 2009)
- ^ Theater Basel: Ballett Basel, 2014/15 season , accessed on March 27, 2016
- ↑ Hochhuth forbids premiere )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director, opera director and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumunster |