Nuran David Calis

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Nuran David Calis (* 1976 in Bielefeld ) is a German theater and film author and director of Turkish - Armenian - Jewish descent.

Life

Calis is the son of an Armenian foundry worker and a Jewish cleaning lady who immigrated from Turkey. He grew up in the large housing estate Bielefeld-Baumheide , attended grammar school and worked as a doorman from 1992 onwards. After graduating from high school in 1996, he began studying directing at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , which he graduated in 2000. During this time he worked as an assistant at both the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

Calis wrote his first play Urbanstorys (2005) together with young people from Hanover. His second play Dogland (2006) was published by Fischer , was shown at the Kammerspiele in 2005 and was to have its international premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna . His third piece, Black , was discussed in Theater heute in 2007 . One of us will follow in 2008 at renowned German theaters.

In 2006/2007 Calis, who from 2000 to 2002 also worked in the field of music video and as an actor, worked on his first feature-length film script The Eyes of My Mother (2007), which was published in 2008 under the title Meine Mutter, mein Bruder und I! came into theaters.

In 2007 Calis wrote a new version of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening , which was a great success at the Hanover Theater . He staged the same play in 2008 at the Grillo Theater and then at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus; the Düsseldorf production received the 2009 Bensheim Theater Prize for the best ensemble performance. In 2009, a television version for the ZDF theater channel that he directed.

His play Schattenkinder , a free adaptation of the novel The Child Murderer by the Sturm und Drang poet Heinrich Leopold Wagner, premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2010 .

In 2010, film college graduate Geraldine Laprell, Nuran David Calis and Marie-Charlotte Grawe founded SterntalerFilm GmbH as an independent film production company based in Munich, which produces feature films and documentaries.

2016 became a religious fighter at the Schauspiel Köln . Religious search between monastery, mosque and synagogue premiered, a play about faith and believers, about Christians, Muslims and Jews, about converts , radical fanatics, dogmatists and occasional worshipers.

Calis has received several awards for his theater work. For example, he was considered “Best Offspring” for directing Schiller's Die Räuber at the Vienna Volkstheater at the Nestroy Awards 2006 and was also awarded the Karl Skraup Prize as a director . In 2005 he received the playwright's scholarship from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft.

Nuran David Calis lives in Munich.

Fonts

theatre

author

  • 2004 Dog eat Dog , Thalia Theater
  • 2005 Dogland , Bielefeld Theater
  • 2006 Homestroies , Drama Essen
  • 2006 Cafe Europa , Drama Essen

Director

  • 2003 Romeo and Juliet at the Volkstheater in Munich
  • 2005 Urbanstories (also as an author) Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2006 The robbers at the Volkstheater Vienna
  • 2007 Spring Awakening (overwrite) at Hanover Theater
  • 2007 Schwarz (also as an author) Thalia Theater
  • 2008 Kabale und Liebe at the Hanover Theater
  • 2008 Zero Hour (also as an author) at the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2008 One of us (also as an author) at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • 2009 Illness of the youth (also the version) in the Grillo-Theater Essen
  • 2009 Romeo and Juliet (also the version) at the Maxim Gorki Theater
  • 2009 Peer Gynt (also the version) at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2010 Schattenkinder (also as an author) at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2010 Next Generation (also as an author) at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2012 Zoff in Chioggia (also as an author) at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2012 The assignment / zone at the State Theater Stuttgart
  • 2014 tea in the harem of Archimedes at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2014 The Jewess of Toledo at the Dresden State Theater
  • 2014 The gap at the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2015 Baal at the Schauspiel Leipzig
  • 2015 Focus: X at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
  • 2016 Faith fighter at the Cologne theater
  • 2016 The forty days of Musa Dagh at the Residenztheater Munich
  • 2016 gold at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms
  • 2016 kuffar. The deniers of God at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2017 Istanbul at the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2017 Embers at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms
  • 2017 Hool at the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2018 The ten commandments at the Dresden State Theater
  • 2018 Fear eats the soul at the Schauspiel Leipzig
  • 2018 Othello X at the Theater Basel
  • 2019 Herero_Nama at the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2019 Last Park Standing Schauspiel Stuttgart
  • 2020 arrest in Granada Schauspiel Cologne

Filmography (excerpt)

actor

Director

script

  • 2008: my mother, my brother and me!
  • 2009: Spring Awakening
  • 2013: Woyzeck
  • 2015: Revolution Now!
  • 2018: The Gap - The NSU bomb attack in Cologne

producer

  • 2015: Revolution Now!
  • 2018: The Gap - The NSU bomb attack in Cologne - Documentary

honors and awards

  • 2003 Participation in the Autorentheatertage at the Thalia Theater Hamburg with Dog Eat Dog (Raus aus Baumheide)
  • 2004 Workshop days at the Burgtheater Vienna with the play Dogland
  • 2005 BDI ​​Dramatist Prize of the German Business Culture Group
  • 2005/2006: Karl Skraup Prize (Best Director / Set Designer)
  • 2006 Nestroy Theater Prize (Best Young Director) for Die Räuber
  • 2006 Bavarian Art Prize in the Literature category
  • 2009 Bensheim Theater Prize for the best ensemble performance of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus for spring awakening! (Live fast - die young)
  • 2010 participation in the television film festival Baden-Baden with spring awakening , nomination for 3sat audience award
  • 2013 Participation in the Max Ophüls Prize film festival with Woyzeck
  • 2013 WOYZECK invited to the World Film Festival Montreal 2013, Section Focus On World Cinema
  • 2014 nomination of the Grimme Prize for Woyzeck
  • 2014 Kurt Hackenberg Prize 2014 for political theater for Die Lücke - Ein Stück Keupstraße (Cologne Theater)
  • 2015 invitation to "Die Gücke" Autorentheater Tage Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2015 Invitation "Die Lücke" Lessing Days Thalia Theater Hamburg
  • 2015 Participation in the film festival Max Öphüls Preis with Revolution Now!
  • 2016 Award of the International Lake Constance Conference
  • 2016 Invitation "Faith Fighters" Author theater days Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2016 invitation "Faith Fighters" Lessing Days Thalia Theater Hamburg
  • 2017 Dramatist Prize from the BHF Bank Foundation for Kuffar: The God Deniers ( Premiere December 12, 2016 Deutsches Theater Berlin)
  • 2017 Ludwig Mülheims Theater Prize
  • 2019 Nomination of the Kurt Hackenberg Prize 2019 for political theater for Herero_Nama A History of Violence (Schauspiel Köln)
  • 2020 Jury President German-Turkish Film Festival Nuremberg (Short Films Section)
  • 2020 Invitation "Arrest in Granada" Author theater days Deutsches Theater Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us . Web presence of Sterntalerfilm GmbH. Retrieved June 28, 2018
  2. ↑ Schauspiel Köln - Herero_Nama, a project by Nuran David Calis. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Spring awakening. August 18, 2010, accessed on March 26, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ SterntalerFilm GmbH - Projects - Sterntalerfilm GmbH. Retrieved on March 26, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Nuran David Calis receives Mülheims Theater Prize 2017 . Deutschlandfunk, July 6, 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Calis, Nuran David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film author and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld