Odette Bereska

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Odette Bereska (* 2. November 1960 ) is a German dramaturge , director and playwright .

Life and professional development

Her father was the translator of Polish literature and author Henryk Bereska , her mother is Gilda Bereska. In her youth, she worked, like her half-brother, the actor and director Jan Bereska , as an actress in film and television productions for DEFA and DFF . From 1974 to 1976 she played the leading female role in the production of Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Berliner Ensemble , directed by BK Tragelehn and Einar Schleef . After studying theater studies at the Humboldt UniversityFrom 1985 to 1991 she worked as a dramaturge in children's television and for the flicker lesson . From 1991 to 2005 she was chief dramaturge at the carrousel Theater an der Parkaue, today Theater an der Parkaue , one of the largest German children's and youth theaters. She also worked as a dramaturge. a. to the Junge Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Austria (Dramaturgiestelle Vienna 2009/10).

Together with Dirk Neldner and Sven Laude, she is co-initiator and dramaturge of multi-year EU-funded theater projects ( Magic Net 2001–2008, Platform11plus 2009–2013, BOOMERANG- Documents of poverty and hope and platform shift +).

She has been working as a freelance director, dramaturge and author since 2006. She mostly staged for a young audience and a. on Mittelsächsisches Theater , the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater , at the Saxony Theater , at Theater Regensburg and at the Baden-Baden Theater . She has worked several times in Norway, where Helen Verburg's production 'Winterschlaf' at Teatret Vårt was awarded the highest Norwegian theater prize (Hedda Prize) as the best Norwegian children's and youth production. At the Baden-Baden Theater she staged TERROR by Ferdinand von Schirach in 2015 and DSE SWITZERLAND by Joanna Murray-Smith in 2016 .

Plays

  • Blinkers - border river Oder (collaboration with Eberhard Köhler); Polish-German text template
  • Birthday with Rüpel, together with Susanne Olbrich (first performance 2004)
  • Sleeping Beauty (first performance 2007)
  • Allow me: Gottfried Silbermann (2010)

Edits

  • The divided sky according to Christa Wolf (2000)
  • The curse of the ring - music theater based on Richard Wagner and the Nordic myths of the Edda (with Matthias Faltz) (2005)
  • The Alchemist after Paulo Coelho (with Theo Fransz) (2006)
  • New Lives by Ingo Schulze (with Kay Voges) (2006)
  • Baghdad Burning (2007)
  • The adventurous Simplicius Simplicissimus after Grimmelshausen (2006)
  • Tell me about Cuba by Jesus Diaz (2008)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... someone will come and say yes to me (PDF; 110 kB), Berlinale 2006
personal data
SURNAME Bereska, Odette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1960