Mirko Bott

Mirko Bott (born June 26, 1972 in Essen ) is a German playwright and theater director . Until 2016 he was program director and theater director of Schmidt Theater , Schmidts Tivoli and Schmidtchen in Hamburg , where he has also lived since 1997.

Life

education

Mirko Bott graduated from the Don-Bosco-Gymnasium in Essen in 1991 and gained first theater experience at the Aalto-Theater , the opera house in his hometown. In addition to working in the dramaturgy, he assisted director Klaus Dieter Kirst between 1993 and 1996 in his productions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1993) and all four parts of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (1994–96), as did Nicholas Broadhurst in Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (1994). He also worked as an assistant director and evening director at various summer festivals, including a. 1995–96 at “Oper im Zelt” on the banks of the Saar in Merzig (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro , as well as Ralph Benatzky's Im Weißen Rössl ) and 1997 at the Clingenburg Festival in Klingenberg am Main ( William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ). At the same time, Bott studied theater studies, musicology and German at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1991 .

Activity as a playwright and director

In 1997 Bott began his freelance work as a director staging Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow with soloists from the Hamburg State Opera at Schmidts Tivoli in Hamburg.

Since then he has written or directed numerous solo programs for singers and comedians such as Kay Ray and Emmi & Herr Willnowsky ; in addition, plays and shows for the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg, the Volkstheater Rostock (including Franz Lehárs The Merry Widow and Gaetano Donizetti's The Regiment's Daughter), the Hamburg Angel Hall (including Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus and Franz von Suppé's Die Schöne Galathée ) and since 2006 regular show programs for the AIDA Cruises fleet . By the end of 2014 there were around 35 shows.

Together with Christian Berg , he wrote the children's musicals Alice in Wonderland and Drei Hazelnuts for Cinderella, which went on tour nationwide, and in 2009 together with Heiko Wohlgemuth, the four-part TV comedy Pension Schmidt for NDR television .

The show Karamba - Die 70er-Schlager-Revue , which was premiered in 2008, was played almost 700 times for the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg, co-authored with Martin Lingnau and directed by Corny Littmann .

Since 2011 the musical two-person comedy Oh Alpenglühn! on the program that Bott wrote for Carolin Fortenbacher and Nik Breidenbach and which was also staged by Corny Littmann.

In October 2012 the solo piece CAVEQUEEN , which Bott wrote together with Heiko Wohlgemuth and Mark Needham, had its world premiere at the Schmidt Theater . Nik Breidenbach played the title role in the direction of Corny Littmann. The three authors were commissioned by Theater Mogul, Berlin, which also owns the rights to the globally successful solo piece CAVEMAN . Since then, CAVEQUEEN has not only been shown at the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg, but is also performed in Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Fürth, Kiel, Erfurt and other cities.

In September 2013, the musical comedy Die Königs vom Kiez , which Bott wrote together with Martin Lingnau and Heiko Wohlgemuth, premiered in the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg , directed by Corny Littmann and has been on the program ever since.

Theater management

In 2004 Bott took over the position of program director of Schmidt Theater & Schmidts Tivoli on the Hamburg Reeperbahn, which he was artistic director together with Corny Littmann until 2016 . With 420,000 spectators, "Schmidt" is - according to its own statements for 2014 - the most successful private theater in Germany. Bott not only wrote pieces for the house, but also designed the program with over 1000 performances in 2015, booked the guest artists and put together the annual six-week Schmidt winter gala.

further activities

From 2004 to 2013 Bott was a lecturer in theater history at the Hamburg School of Entertainment . Since 2004 he has been presenting young opera singers at the Hamburg Opera Salon and is also a permanent juror at the Hamburg Comedy Cup . Between 2001 and 2004 he also worked as a cultural journalist and wrote for the Hamburger Morgenpost and Szene Hamburg , among others . In 2007 he was the artistic and organizational director of Schmidt.com , a six-week comedy festival in Hamburg. From 2012 to 2014 he wrote the column Herr Ansorge & Herr Bott for the magazine hinnerk (magazine) together with NDR moderator Ulf Ansorge .

Productions & written pieces (selection)

• Die Königs vom Kiez , Schmidt Theater (book, together with Heiko Wohlgemuth and Martin Lingnau )
• SIEGFRIED - The only true story , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• SISSI - Die wilde Kaiserin , AIDA Cruises ( script & direction)
• Good behavior made easy , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Romeo & Juliet - The reunion , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• You can take poison on that, AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• No beer in Hawaii , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• CAVEQUEEN , Schmidt Theater & Tournee (book, together with Heiko Wohlgemuth and Mark Needham)
• Oh alpine glow! , Schmidt Theater (book)
• Karamba - The 70s hit revue , Schmidt Theater (book, together with Martin Lingnau )
• The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár , Volkstheater Rostock (Director)
• The daughter of Gaetano Donizetti's regiment , Volkstheater Rostock (director)
• Ahoy! A maritime revue , Volkstheater Rostock (script & direction)
• Three hazelnuts for Cinderella , premiere in the Schillertheater Berlin & tour (book, together with Christian Berg)
• Alice in Wonderland , Schmidt Theater & Tournee (book, together with Christian Berg)
• The beautiful Galathée by Franz von Suppé , Engelsaal Hamburg (adaptation & direction)
• Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss , Engelsaal Hamburg (adaptation & direction)
• The night is not just for sleeping , Engelsaal Hamburg (script & direction)
• The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár , Schmidts Tivoli (director)
• Homo Sapiens , solo program for Kay Ray (writer & director)
• At Emmy Göring's tea , Polittbüro Hamburg (book)
• Pension Schmidt , TV series for NDR television (book, together with Heiko Wohlgemuth)
• One more time to Bombay , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• In the bar to the golden anchor , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Married and still happy , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Brazilian dreams , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Dangerous inheritances , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Zickenkrieg , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Backstage , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Blue Night at the Harbor , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Movie Gala , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)
• Wind of Change or The Menopause of Men , AIDA Cruises (Script & Direction)
• Have a beautiful holiday! , AIDA Cruises (script & direction)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Welt about "The beautiful Galathée" at the Engelsaal Hamburg
2. ↑ Die Welt about "Die Fledermaus" at the Engelsaal Hamburg
3. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost on "The night is not just for sleeping", Hamburger Engelsaal
4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on "Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella".
5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt about "Oh Alpenglühn" at the Schmidt Theater
6. ^ Hamburger Morgenpost about "Oh Alpenglühn" at the Schmidt Theater
7. ↑ Die Welt about "Oh Alpenglühn" at the Schmidt Theater
8. ↑ thatsMusical.de ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 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. about "Oh Alpenglühn" at the Schmidt Theater 
9. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article110306877/Cavequeen-ist-ein-Fundus-aus-Klischees.html
10. ↑ Caveman is ten years old