Moritz Riesewieck

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Moritz Riesewieck at the Grimme Prize 2019

Moritz Riesewieck (* 1985 in Herdecke ) is a German theater and film director , as well as a screenplay and non-fiction writer , and a founding member of the artist group Compagnie Laokoon.

Live and act

Riesewieck gained his first theater experience as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin , at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, he began to study economics and then directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. The projects he realized during his studies, e. B. SiebenSchläfer - EinSchlafTerrorCamp and ParK were shown at festivals at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Theater Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and at Kaltstart Hamburg. In 2012, together with Tina Ebert, he founded the Compagnie Laokoon group, an association of artists and natural scientists who create cross-media narrative formats. In 2014 Riesewieck received an invitation to Mexico City from the Goethe Institute to direct Georg Büchner's Woyzeck . In 2015 he was invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt competition for his diploma production Voiceck , and he finished his studies in the same year.

Together with the Laocoon member Hans Block , Riesewieck realized the full-length documentary The Cleaners - Im Schatten der Netzwelt . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2018 and was released in German cinemas in May 2018, while Riesewieck also published the book Digitale Drecksarbeit .

Publications (selection)

As a theater director

As a film director and screenwriter

  • 2018: The Cleaners - in the shadow of the net world (documentation)

As a radio play author

  • 2014: Moritz Riesewieck: A strong movement. The heroes are bodybuilders. Gyms - Secret Revolutionary Cells. an original audio play. ( Original radio play , short radio play - Deutschlandradio / Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art (commissioned production))

As a book author

  • 2017: Digital dirty work - How Facebook & Co. deliver us from evil , published by dtv Verlag
  • 2020: The digital soul - becoming immortal in the age of artificial intelligence , together with Hans Block, published by Goldmann Verlag

Awards (selection)

Elsa Neumann Scholarship from the State of Berlin 2015

Catholic Media Prize 2019

  • Winner in the Electronic Media category for The Cleaners - Im Schatten der Netzwelt

Grimme Prize 2019

  • Winner of the Audience Award of the Marler Group for The Cleaners - In the Shadow of the Net World

Web links

Commons : Moritz Riesewieck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernardo Arias Porras. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  2. ^ Obras Internacionales en the XXI Festival Nacional e Internacional de Teatro Universitario. January 27, 2016, accessed July 31, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Voiceck. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The Void of Heaven. Ballhaus Ost, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Vita. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Veronika Wulf, Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck receive the Catholic Media Prize 2019. German Bishops' Conference, July 30, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ In the shadow of the net world - The Cleaners. Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Riesewieck, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film director, screenwriter and non-fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke