Michaela Caspar

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Michaela Caspar, 2008

Michaela Caspar (born April 6, 1960 in Weil am Rhein ) is a German actress , performer and director .

Life

From the age of seven, Michaela Caspar grew up with her mother Maria-Luise and her stepfather Joachim Werner Preuss in Berlin . She spent the first seven years of her life in her grandparents' house in Stetten in southern Baden, a few meters from the Swiss border. At the age of seventeen she passed her high school diploma at the Catholic girls' high school Sankt-Ursula-Schule and first studied photography at the Lette-Verein Berlin. Together with Ulrich Sauerwein and Trolly Trojahn, she founded the multi-media collective AvF Berlin. In the early 1980s, she conceived and realized multimedia shows and worked as a photo journalist .

In the mid-1980s she began a second training as a singer and actress, initially singing in jazz clubs, cabarets and learning method acting from the legendary Jack Garfein (LA), among others . After passing the stage entrance examination, she played at various city and state theaters: Stadttheater Regensburg (1989–92), State Theaters Salzburg (1990), Kleist Theater Frankfurt (Oder) (1992–94), State Theater Cottbus (1993), Berliner Kammerspiele, Hebbeltheater Berlin, Schlossparktheater Berlin (2000). She also sang contemporary operas (including the leading role in a world premiere with the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin ).

In the 1990s she began working with Till Nikolaus von Heiseler , as well as with Rosa von Praunheim , Helmut Oehring and Conrado del Rosario (composer). About a dozen works were created, some of which were also produced by her. In 1994 their twins Anton and Emilia were born. Since the late 90s she has worked as an actress in various films, radio plays and television productions. Michaela Caspar is co-founder of the NEW METHODIKER eV association (2002) and founder of the Possible World eV association (2008).

She suffered a sudden hearing loss while rehearsing a musical theater piece. In 2008 she founded a theater group with deaf and hearing people and developed the play “Spring Awake!” Based on Frank Wedekind (premiere: 2009 Ballhaus Ost). The Bavarian Television filmed a 30 minute documentation and Arte reported on the project in the series Yourope. The play was invited to the European and International Deaf Theater Festival by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater in Vienna (Austria) and nominated for the 2010 Theatertreffen der Jugend. In 2012 there was another play for the deaf “Medea! The truth! ”By Till Nikolaus von Heiseler (Ballhaus Ost). In 2013 she worked as an actress with Wes Anderson for his new film 'The Grand Budapest', 2014.

Productions

  • 1994: The poet maker - drama opera by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler. Premiere at Tacheles Berlin and Staatstheater Cottbus, further performances in: Brandenburg, Frankfurt / Oder, Potsdam, Schwedt, composition: Sibylle Pomorin , direction: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, production: Michaela Caspar, costumes: Gabriele Wischmann, financed by the Ministry of Science, Research and culture of the state of Brandenburg, the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs and the Fonds Darstellende Künste eV
  • 1995: The voice of a woman by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler. Premiere as a performance, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, further performances in: Berlin, Frankfurt / Oder, Potsdam, Schwedt, composition: Conrado del Rosario, direction: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, production: Michaela Caspar, financed by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture
  • 1997: A very short piece for bank directors by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler. WP, unannounced performance in banks during regular opening hours, Berlin, Potsdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main. Composition: Achim Kubinski / Michaela Caspar, direction: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, production: Michaela Caspar, financed by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Steglitz Cultural Office
  • 1997: Iris and Ida - A play in five acts by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler. WP, walk-in installation with two actresses and a bass player in the Potsdam pedestrian zone, with Sanja Spengler, Matthias Bauer, Michaela Caspar, direction: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, production: Michaela Caspar; financed by the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg
  • 2003–2004: Mary in a White Room by Michaela Caspar, Production: Thomas Donecker / Michaela Caspar.
  • 2004: The house of the avenging women by Rosa von Praunheim, script development through improvisation, film work, director: Rosa von Praunheim
  • 2005: Untitled [23] Performances by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler and Michaela Caspar, Séan DC Marquardt (noise guitar), Michaela. Caspar (voice improvisation) and tape. Tesla Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Kulturforum, u. a .: with the friendly support of Tesla Berlin and UDK Berlin
  • 2005: Yes (sound installation on the subject of aphasia), February to May, together with Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, Gemäldegalerie Berlin , Kulturforum Berlin
  • 2009: Spring Awake !, Theater by deaf, hard of hearing and hearing young people for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing, Ballhaus Ost, nominated for the 2010 Theatertreffen der Jugend, funded by Kulturprojekte Berlin and Aktion Mensch. Dramaturgy: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler , music: Achim Kubinski
  • 2011: Medea! The Truth !, Theater by deaf, hard of hearing and hearing young people for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing, Ballhaus Ost, financed by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. A play based on pre-Euripidean sources by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler. Costumes: Gabriele Wischmann.
  • 2013: We / Us. Short film with deaf and hearing people, for deaf and hearing people, Cannes International Film Festival, 2013.

Filmography

Movie

  • 1998: The Speech Writer, directed by Busso von Müller, Arte
  • 1998: Going for a swim, director: Aysin Eralp, Arte, 2nd prize at the international Babelsberg student festival
  • 2001: riot - something about daddy (English), director: Felix Knöpfle
  • 2002: Schatten, director: Markus Engel, short film, MEP Productions
  • 2003: Lilith, director: Andreas Fuentes Canobbio
  • 2006: Wedding, directed by Lawrence Tooley
  • 2008: Toy Land Endstation, director: Daniel Stieglitz
  • 2011: Abgebrannt , directed by Verena S. Freytag
  • 2013: The Grand Budapest, directed by Wes Anderson
  • 2015: Trash Detective , directed by Maximilian Buck

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Theater roles

Awards

Her projects were supported by the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, the Brandenburg Ministry for Science, Research and Culture, the Performing Arts Fund, the Steglitz Cultural Office, the Berlin Cultural Projects and Aktion Mensch u. a. promoted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arbos.at/deaf_festival_10/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://blog.theatertreffen-der-jugend.de/ttj-2010/die-nominierten-produktionen/
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, performer and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Because on the Rhine