Nicolas Stemann

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Nicolas Stemann (born November 30, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German director .

Life

Nicolas Stemann studied German language and literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna with Achim Benning  and at the Theater Academy in Hamburg with Jürgen Flimm and Christof Nel . During this time he took on odd jobs, for example as a hotel pianist and ship photographer, and played in various bands.

Since 1995 he has directed for the theater. In 1997 he founded the "Gruppe Stemann", with the main members of which he has largely worked to this day (such as the dramaturge Bernd Stegemann , the stage designer Katrin Nottrodt , the costume designer Esther Bialas, the musicians Thomas Kürstner and Sebastian Vogel, and the actors Philipp Hochmair and Sebastian Rudolph ).

In the works since 2005, the dramaturge Benjamin von Blomberg , the costume designer Marysol del Castillo and the video artist Claudia Lehmann are among his close collaborators. Since 2002, Stemann has been working with the Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek , whose plays he has often premiered and premiered.

Work

Stemann first became known nationwide through the staging of his terror trilogy in 1997 at Kampnagel Hamburg, in collaboration with the Hamburger Kammerspiele and the Gostner Hoftheater in Nuremberg ( Antigone by Sophokles , Die Möwe von Chekhov , Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner ). The production Werther ! after Goethe with Philipp Hochmair plays in numerous national and international theaters up to the present day. In the following years he staged at various German-speaking state theaters, including Theater Basel , Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Theater am Turm Frankfurt, schauspielhannover ( Lower Saxony State Theater ). From 2004 to 2007 Stemann was in-house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Between 2003 and 2006 he worked in Bogotà and Cartagena (Colombia) with the dance company El colegio del cuerpo of the Colombian dancer Alvaro Restrepo .

At the moment he is mainly working at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg) , the DT ( Deutsches Theater Berlin ) and the Schauspielhaus Cologne ( Nathan the Wise ). Since 2010 he has also worked as an opera director ( La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach , Komische Oper Berlin ). In 2011 he directed the Salzburg Festival Faust I and Faust II (in coproduction with the Thalia Theater (Hamburg)) and in spring 2012 at the Schauspielhaus Köln the musical project Der demographische Faktor . In July 2012 he staged the theater text Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek for the first time in a performance-like music theater reading ( Bavarian State Opera at the Prinzregententheater ) with his “Fast Theatrical Reaction Troop” . This unique performance was followed by an opera project of the same name using the text by Elfriede Jelinek and the music from Richard Wagner's Ring at the Berlin State Opera in March 2014. As part of the 2013 Wiener Festwochen , Stemann conceived and staged the drama performance Commune of Truth. Reality machine . In May / June / September 2014 he staged the world premiere of the play Die Schutzbefohlenen by Elfriede Jelinek as a co-production of the “Theater der Welt” festival, the Holland Festival Amsterdam and the Thalia Theater Hamburg. Like many of Stemann's works, this was also designed as a work-in-progress that was further developed at the various venues and in some cases greatly changed and adapted to the current circumstances.

From the 2015/2016 season, Stemann will be in-house director at the Münchner Kammerspiele under the management of Matthias Lilienthal . From the 2019/2020 season he will be co-director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich together with the dramaturge Benjamin von Blomberg .

Stemann is considered "one of the most famous directors in German-speaking theater" ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ).

Invitations and Awards

Stemann's work has been invited six times to the Berlin Theatertreffen and four times to the Mülheimer Theatertage festival, as well as to various international festivals in Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, Bogota, Toronto, Belgrade, Manchester, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Warsaw and others. In July 2012, he made his first guest appearance at the Avignon Theater Festival with his production of The Contracts of the Merchant . He was nominated three times for the Austrian theater award “ Nestroy ” and for the German theater award “ Faust ”. The magazine Theater heute voted him “Young Director of the Year” in 2000, and his Hamlet won prizes in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb. His production of Ulrike Maria Stuart by Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the “Kulturnews Award” in the category “Best Play” in 2007 and voted “Play of the Year” in the critics' survey conducted by Theater heute magazine .

In 2009 he received the Hamburg Rolf Mares Prize for his staging of Die Räuber , and his staging of Jelinek's business comedy The Contracts of the Merchant was awarded the Cologne Kurt Hackenberg Prize in 2009. For his staging of Faust I and Faust II he was awarded the “3sat Prize” for “particularly pioneering performances in the theater” and the “Kulturnews Award” in the “Best Theater Play” category. In addition, he was voted “Director of the Year 2012” for Faust I + II by the magazine Theater heute , further winners were Sebastian Rudolph for his acting performance and Benjamin von Bomberg for his dramaturgy in the same production. This was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen; Stemann received the 3sat award here .

Stemann was elected as a new member of the Performing Arts section at the spring general meeting of the Berlin Academy of the Arts on May 25, 2013.

Others

Nicolas Stemann has also been a guest lecturer at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . In addition to his work as a director, he can also be seen increasingly as a musician and performer, for example in the "Hazard Bar" format he developed together with Thomas Kürstner and Sebastian Vogel or in some of his productions (e.g. in "Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns "," 12 last songs "at the DT and" The demographic factor "at the Schauspielhaus Cologne).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Nottrodt ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at Komische Oper Berlin
  2. ^ Egbert Tholl: Cake for everyone. Matthias Lilienthal loves the chamber plays. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 105, May 8, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , page R18.
  3. ↑ Thomas Ribi: Two directors take over the helm. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Stemann, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg