Nikolaus Büchel

Nikolaus Büchel (born September 30, 1957 in Vienna ) is a Liechtenstein actor and director.

Life

Büchel grew up in Vienna, where he did his Matura at the Gymnasium Klostergasse in Vienna. The Liechtenstein citizen by birth began his studies in law, art history, theater studies and Romance studies in Vienna and Munich in 1975.

In 1977 he began his acting and directing training at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and was already working as a freelance actor in Vienna and Munich. He appeared in film and television roles on " Derrick " and " Der Schüler Gerber ". After graduating from the Mozarteum, Büchel was hired as an actor and assistant director at the Schauspiel Bonn in 1981, where he staged works with Hans Hollmann , Peter Palitzsch , Rudolf Noelte , Peter Eschberg , Horst Zankl , Kurt Hübner and Ellen Hammer. At the same time he completed private singing studies in Munich with Jean Stawsky and in Cologne with Waltraud Schulte-Greve.

Since 1985 Büchel has worked mostly as a freelance director and dramaturge on various stages in German-speaking countries. His productions premiered at the Schauspiel Bonn, Volkstheater Vienna, Schillertheater Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspiel Essen, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Kammeroper Wien, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Landestheater Innsbruck, Theater in der Josefstadt-Rabenhof Vienna. At the same time, Büchel dealt with structural advice and participated in symposia on theater structure in Frankfurt am Main. From 1987 to 1990 he was assistant to the artistic director and member of the dramaturgy at the Schauspiel Bonn.

In 1988 Büchel's first guest professorship for dramatic lessons at the Mozarteum followed, which was followed by another professorship in 1996. In 1992 Büchel took over the Melk Summer Games, which were then very boulevard- esque, in the baroque garden of the Benedictine monastery , and he remained the artistic director and artistic director of the Grillparzer cycle, Faust I + II, until 2001. From 1994 to 1997 Büchel was artistic director in equal team directorship and acting director of the stages of the state capital Kiel. In 1997, Büchel was awarded the Lower Austrian Culture Prize for performing arts for his productions.

In 1998 the guest professorships at the Mozarteum Salzburg were followed by a separate teaching position in the main subject of drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and a teaching position at the Institute for Cultural Management at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2001 Büchel resigned his directorship in Melk, founded the theater agency Ensemble A for projects and artists in Vienna and wrote a scientific paper on the city theater and its structures in German-speaking countries. From 2003 to 2006 Büchel became a member of the artistic direction in Klaus Weise's team at the Bonn Theater and deputy chairman of MusiKi, a support association for musical children's theater.

Büchel has worked as a freelance director and dramaturge on German-speaking theaters, mainly in Graz and Vienna, since 2006.

Productions (selection)

• 1986: Christa Wolf : Kassandra (in own arrangement), DE, Schauspiel Bonn
• 1987: Harald Müller : Totenfloß, OeE at the Volkstheater Vienna
• 1987: Oscar Wilde : Bunbury (in own new translation), Schauspiel Bonn
• 1988: Georges Feydeau : Flea in the ear, Schauspiel Bonn
• 1989: Horst Laube : The First Day of Peace, State Theater Stuttgart
• 1990: Ria Endres : eight world champions, premier, Staatstheater Darmstadt
• 1990: Elfriede Jelinek : What happened after Nora left her husband, DE, Schauspiel Bonn
• 1990: Thomas Bernhard : The German Lunch, Schillertheater Berlin
• 1991: René Kalisky : Jim, the Kühne, premiere, Schauspiel Bonn
• 1991: Jean Genet : Elle, Staatstheater Mainz
• 1991: Reinhard P. Gruber / Prestele: Heimatlos, Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 1992: George Tabori : Goldberg Variations, Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 1993: Marivaux : Seducibility on both sides (own new translation), Melk Summer Festival
• 1994: Johann Nestroy : The Talisman, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
• 1994: Molière : Amphitryon, Melk Summer Festival
• 1995: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust I and II, Melk Summer Festival
• 1995: Timberlakewertebaker : For the good of our country, DsE, (in own translation, own set design), stages of the state capital Kiel
• 1996: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Emilia Galotti, stages of the state capital Kiel
• 1996: Franz Grillparzer : King Ottokar's Luck and End, Melk Summer Festival
• 1997: Franz Grillparzer: Woe to him who lies! Melk Summer Festival
• 1998: Terrence McNally : Master Class, Drama Essen
• 1998: Werner Richard Heymann : The three from the gas station, Metropol Wien (ML: Roman Gottwald, own set)
• 1999: Véronique Olmi : The Embrace of the Scorpion, WP, Drama Essen
• 1999: Michael Wildenhain : The German Twin, premier, Saarland State Theater
• 2000: Ferdinand Raimund : The farmer as millionaire, Reichenau Festival
• 2000: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan the Wise, Melk Summer Festival (own stage design)
• 2000: Klaus Pohl : Die Nacht des Schicksals, WP, Städt.Bühnen Heidelberg
• 2000: Johann Nestroy : He wants to have a joke, Reichenau Festival
• 2000: K. Fallend: Who should I write to, to God ?, WP, Landestheater Linz, (ML: Peter Androsch, own set design)
• 2002: Alan Ayckbourn : Scherungen, Staatstheater Darmstadt
• 2003: Call my number, musical revue, Theater Bonn (ML: M. Barfuß)
• 2003: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Love and Capital (early one-act play), Lessing Festival Kamenz
• 2004: Henrik Ibsen : John Gabriel Borkman, own stage design, Landestheater Linz
• 2005: Bedřich Smetana : The Bartered Bride, Klosterneuburg Opera (ML: Thomas Rösner)
• 2005: Leonce and Lena - wishes and realities - after Georg Büchner , own stage design, Theater Bonn
• 2006: Mathias Ospelt : Cirque Souverain, premiere, Liechtenstein State Festival (200 years of sovereignty), (ML Marco Schädler)
• 2006: Xavier Durringer : Whole days - whole nights, ÖEA, University of Graz
• 2007: Susanne Wolf : Blickwechsel, premiere, Volkstheater Vienna
• 2007: Jon Fosse : Winter, ÖEA, own stage design, ensemble theater Vienna
• 2008: Susanne Wolf (based on Shakespeare): Much Ado About Nothing, WP, Kultursommer Laxenburg (ML: Peter Uwira)
• 2008: Mozart : The gardener out of love, Beethovenfest Bonn, (ML: S. Breuing, own stage design)
• 2009: Susanne Wolf: Frau Wegrostek strikes back, premiere, Volkstheater Vienna
• 2010: Lida Winiewicz : Ghost Train, premiere, own stage design, Stadttheater Wien
• 2010: Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, cooperation Beethovenfest Bonn, Theater Bonn, Netzwerk Ludwig van (ML: S. Breuing, own stage design)
• 2011: Gregor Seberg / Büchel: Oh, you my Austria, cabaret tour, play development and direction, premiere, own set design
• 2011: Susanne Wolf (based on Homer ): Der cunning Herr Odysserl, premiere, Kultursommer Laxenburg (ML: Peter Uwira, own set design)
• 2011: Lew Tolstoy : Die Kreutzersonata, dramatization and arrangement, WP, (ML: Gulda / Bauer / Lier)
• 2012: Franz Lehár : The Count of Luxembourg, operetta Balzers, (ML: W. Büchel / K.-H. Dold, own set design)
• 2012: Leo Tolstoi : Anna Karenina, Off-Theater Vienna / Drama School Krauss (version by Armin Kerber, own set design)
• 2013: Solveig Palm : Wagners Hirn, WP, Theater Bonn in cooperation Netzwerk Ludwig van (ML: Alexander Wagner, own set design)
• 2014: Carl Millöcker : Gasparone, Operetta Balzers, (ML: W. Büchel / K.-H. Dold, own set design)
• 2014: Felix Mitterer : Noise in the house of God, cooperation Theater am Kirchplatz / Theater Karussell
• 2014: Bertha von Suttner : Die Waffen Nieder !, version and direction, premiere, Festival Reichenau, Thalhof
• 2014: Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz, Festival Opera Viva (ML: Gion Tuor, own set design)
• 2018: Hugo von Hofmannsthal : The Difficult, Festival Schloss Tillysburg

Web links

• Nikolaus Büchel in the Internet Movie Database (English)