Nicolai Borger
Nicolai Borger (born October 15, 1974 in Bensheim ) is a German author , director and actor .
Models of his pieces are the grotesque , the popular theater , the série noire and conceptual art . The topics are migration , marginalization and violence , especially terrorism . Borger made them tangible for the stage long before they became mainstream in theater.
The influences of film work are the nouvelle vague and dogma films .
Life
In 1991 Nicolai Borger was an exchange student in the USA at William Horlick High School in Racine , Wisconsin . Shortly before graduating from high school, he had his first professional engagement in a production at the Jewish Theater in Germany . This was followed by his first play, Love , which he staged in 1994 with an ensemble of acting and art students. Borger first studied North American studies with a minor in Sinology at the renowned John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University in Berlin . He then trained as an actor at the European Theater Institute in Berlin .
Various engagements in Germany and French-speaking countries followed. Stations were the Maison des Arts du Grütli, Geneva, La Cartoucherie, Paris and the Thalia Theater Hamburg (TiK-Studiobühne). From 2001 he devoted himself to work as a playwright in Berlin. Several premieres and world premieres as well as festival productions followed annually until 2009. The war trilogy and the play cycle Global Ghetto were created. Likewise the Neukölln trilogy . Borger staged the short film trilogy Trilogy of Love and Poverty parallel to the theater work. 2010–2012 he directed the five-part short film cycle sérieBERLINnoire. In 2011 Nicolai Borger appeared on stage in a charity staging by the Berlin Children's Fund as Simba in Disney's Lion King . His feature film Drei Finns was made in 2013/14 . As part of his teaching position for the directing course at the Babelsberg Film University , he worked with Gabriele Gysi in 2018 . He is the chairman of the Green Film Award film festival. Borger also stands in front of the camera as a film actor. He stages international variety shows, a. a. for Macau and Dubai .
Nicolai Borger is an alumnus of the ZEIT Foundation , the center of his life is Berlin. Borger's children were born in Berlin. His daughter Nicolais played the lead role in his short film War Child and has been a film and television actress ever since.
Works
Dramatic work
Over 20 plays by Borgers were premiered or premiered by 2009. Festival productions a. a. at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, at the Berlin Theatertreffen and at the Münchner Kammerspiele . In an interview with the festival newspaper of the Berliner Theatertreffen, Borger described his work as a “glaring antidote” to social reality. Borger worked with Matthias Schweighöfer , Ulrich Khuon , Laura Tonke , John von Düffel , Hendrik Handloegten and Carl Hegemann .
Global ghetto
From 2001 to 2009, Borger's seven-part series Global Ghetto was created . The action takes place in the fictional city of Apokanata. The first part, vinyl , received a lot of media attention. “The piece works fantastic,” wrote the FAZ on the occasion of the premiere. The proximity to reality was emphasized. The piece kerosene , part 4 of the cycle, drafted a civil war scenario in Germany in 2004 that seemed unthinkable at the time. It premiered in the following year under the title Borscht Endspiel Neukölln . In part 5 of Global Ghetto , Liebe & Armut (2006), the illegal immigrant Douga declaims: "You shouldn't love, you shouldn't be poor." "Apokanata is everywhere", was the headline of the Berliner Zeitung on the occasion of the premiere, and further: “Author Nicolai Borger plays in the usual manner with a clichéd language ... socially critical, contemporary theater. Apokanata is a city somewhere in Germany. Apokanata is also in Neukölln. ”In 2013, in an interview with Ramon Schack , Borger described his approach to writing the parable Global Ghetto , which, in addition to the text in German, features Russian, Arabic, Serbian and Croatian dialogues:“ Apokanata is a fictional city in Germany that I have chosen as the place of action in order to create a distance from the political debate and to enable critical reflection. That is the basis on which the current problems can be solved. "
Neukölln trilogy
Three parts of Global Ghetto were performed under the title Neukölln Trilogy .
War trilogy
War machine , the first part of the war trilogy , premiered at the Autorentheatertage of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, deals with violence in close social areas as a mirror of world politics. In a master’s thesis at the University of Hamburg it was said about the war machine : “Nicolai Borger is bringing the war close to the rampage.” “The hit of the Autorentheatertage”, wrote the Hamburger Morgenpost . The Hamburger Abendblatt stated : “Borger continued to work with director Christine Eder and her team during the rehearsals with positive creative friction on the text.” Together with the plays Mlatko (premiered in the theater discounter Berlin, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds) and women in pieces , the text forms the war trilogy . The theater texts of the war trilogy are based on documentary material and are therefore close to documentary theater .
Club theater
Another focus of Borger's drama is the club theater , starting with his play Lieber Freund , which premiered in the Dunckerclub Berlin in 1999, to his role as conférencier in Tannhauser's Dance of Love im Klunkerkranich , Berlin 2013.
Film direction
Borger's cinematic works are in the tradition of auteur films . In 2004 Borger staged the short film trilogy Trilogy of Love and Poverty based on motifs from his play Liebe & Armut . With David Bredin and Eva Renzi in their last role. In 2010–2013, Borger's 5-part short film cycle sérieBERLINnoire was created . This is an aesthetic and substantive examination of the Nouvelle Vague . The films are shot in black and white. Urban Berlin is staged like another actor. Jörg Gfrörer , the director of Ganz unten , praised the imagery of the first part of fashion and cameraman Axel Schneppat . “A calm, touching and honest short film,” wrote the film critic Lasse Vogt. The feature film Drei Finns was written and directed by Nicolai Borger in 2013/2014.
play
Nicolai Borger played in over 40 theater productions. He embodied leading roles, for example, on the studio stage of the Hamburg Thalia Theater (1999; in Revolution mit Hund, The Second ), or in the title role of the Berlin stage version of the cult film Barton Fink (2001; Saalbau Neukölln). In the film he can be seen primarily in German independent films and international productions; like Anthropoid , alongside Jamie Dornan (2016, directed by Sean Ellis ). In German film and television he stands with stars such as Alexandra Maria Lara ( Sealed Lips (Und der Zukunft zugewandt) , Director: Bernd Böhlich , 2018), Jürgen Vogel , Thomas Heinze ( Blochin - The Last Chapter , Director: Matthias Glasner , 2017) and Anne Menden ( Good Times, Bad Times , 2018) in front of the camera.
Awards
- 2014: "Berlin Highlight" at the Achtung Berlin-new berlin film award for "Three Finns"
- 2019: "Best Feature Film / Max Ophüls Prize " at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize for " The Melancholy Girl "
- 2019: "Best Feature Film" at the Neisse Film Festival for "The Melancholy Girl"
Reviews
"A harrowing tragedy."
"A gripping study in the latent violence of our societies."
"A terrifyingly successful representation of our dia-bohl time."
“Something takes its course, says Beckett, and this is exactly how Borger's characters meet ... like on an island of the lost. While the apocalypse looms outside the door, they are fighting over fundamentals. About questions of meaning and orientation, about ultimate values in the midst of an order that is in disintegration. It is certainly no coincidence that Borger chose Neukölln as the location for the action. The district, which journalists like to boldly describe as the “Bronx of Berlin”, and to which the discussions about parallel societies and integration have recently been exemplified, is ideally suited as a background for Borger's dark visions. But the author does not remain in an existentialist pose, he plays with the subjects and stylistic devices. "
“Borgers text is a furious theater pamphlet against the 'American way of life'… Christine Eder's production refines the text to a dark, sparkling fireworks display - and thus supports Borgers astonishing imagination: which, according to the trained actor, wants to see itself in the tradition of theater , 'Will and can give answers.' Thunderstorm. So much cheeky courage hasn't been around for a long time ... Perhaps texts like this do not yet mark the turning point, but they are already shining in the weather - for theater forms that are beginning to become more aware of their own disturbing power again. "
"Powerful, rapid, with strong metaphors and haunting figure drawings, the piece tells of greed and abuse of power."
"The ex-Neukölln author Nicolai Borger skilfully mixes Neukölln milieu with comedy, crime and sex."
"In the ghetto of truth"
“In the case of violence. In Love & Poverty, Nicolai Borger shows human behavior on the edge of society. At times the violent, aggressive goings-on is reminiscent of one of the vicious cycles drawn by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy ... What Nicolai Borger shows comes very close to the reality of the street. "
"The play continues on the street."
"Nicolai Borger has been proving his multi-talent and versatility for years."
"The film finds deep authenticity."
“Three Finns” is an improvised film in dogma style, which finds a deep authenticity precisely through this stylistic device. It reveals the whole emotional dilemma of a man standing between two women. "
Filmography (script and direction)
2004: Trilogy of love and poverty
- Child loser
- Bear fairy tale
- Dog days
2010–2012: sérieBERLINnoire
- Fashion (2010)
- an Actor (2011)
- Asphalt (2011)
- Me (2012)
- War Child (2012)
2014: Three Finns
Plays (selection)
- Dear friend (1999)
Global ghetto
- Vinyl (2001)
- Bartlebeat (2002)
- Plastic (2003)
- Kerosene (2004)
- Love & Poverty (2006)
- Lonely People Alone (2007)
- Lonely people for two (2008)
War trilogy
- War machine (2001)
- Mlatko (2006)
- Women in Pieces (2006)
Web links
- Nicolai Borger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- TheNICODIN: Nicolai Borger on YouTube
- Nicolai Borger at filmmakers.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of the Drei Masken Verlag, 2008
- ↑ The fastest reviews of Berlin - BZ Berlin. BZ criticism 3 Nicolai Borger: "Borscht Endspiel Neukölln". In: bz-berlin.de. January 17, 2005, accessed July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Jörg Joachim: The figure is alive. June 15, 2016, accessed July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ https://filmfreeway.com/GREENFILMAWARD
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo, December 24, 2013
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo, December 24, 2013
- ↑ Xiomara Bender: Nicolai Borger - author, director, actor - question and answer. In: dre-blick.de. July 24, 2016, accessed July 18, 2018 .
- ^ Kriegskind, short film b / w, 2012
- ^ Theatertreffen, festival newspaper, page 5, issue of May 12, 2005 (PDF file)
- ^ Cora Knoblauch, Radioeins feature about the premiere of Liebe & Armut, 2007
- ^ "Nicolai Borgers Parallelgeschehen", premiere review, Berliner Zeitung, 2005
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung, March 30, 2007
- ^ "Theater needs existential expenditure". In: Abendblatt.de. June 15, 2004, accessed July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Nicolai Borger. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Three Finns. In: www.indiekino.de. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
- ^ Anouk Meyer: Conflicts that affect everyone in the end. In: neue-deutschland.de. September 29, 2001. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Nicolai Borger. Actor. In: crew-united.com. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
- ^ [1] Berliner Morgenpost
- ↑ [2] Deutschlandfunk, review of "War Machine", as part of the Thalia Theater Hamburg's authors' days
- ^ [3] Program of the Berlin Festival, archive
- ↑ [4] The quickest reviews of Berlin
- ↑ [5] Neues Deutschland, premiere review of "Liebe & Armut"
- ↑ [6] Indie Cinema Mag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borger, Nicolai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensheim |