Olaf Kröck

Olaf Kröck (* 1971 in Viersen ) is a German dramaturge , director and artistic director .

Life

Olaf Kröck grew up on the Lower Rhine . He began his studies at the University of Hildesheim in 1991 . He completed his diploma in 1998 and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Media and Theater Studies. During this time he directed the 3rd European theater festival "transeuropa 2000". He then founded the “night bar” at what was then Hildesheim City Theater (today: TfN - Theater for Lower Saxony ), where he linked the free theater scene in Hildesheim with the city theater and the university's cultural studies courses. In 2001 Olaf Kröck moved to the Lucerne Theater (artistic director: Barbara Mundel ) as head of the experimental stage “UG”. In Lucerne he works as a dramaturge a. a. with Barbra Weber, Monika Gintersdorfer , Rimini Protokoll , Matthias von Hartz , Schauplatz International.

In the 2005/2006 season he started working as a dramaturge with the artistic director Anselm Weber at the Essen Theater . Here he worked a. a. with Anselm Weber, David Bösch , Rafael Sanchez , Hofmann & Lindholm . He founded the “Heldenbar” at the Essen theater.

In the summer of 2010, the year of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture , he also accompanied the international theater festival “ Theater der Welt ” (artistic director: Frie Leysen ). For the 2010/2011 season he will move to the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Initially as a dramaturge. From 2013 to 2017 he was chief dramaturge in Bochum and in the 2017/2018 season he was director of the Schauspielhaus. In Bochum he worked as a dramaturge a. a. with Paul Koek, Jan Klata , Martina van Kasten , Christoph Frick , Monika Gintersdorfer , Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer , Eric de Vroedt . In 2013/2014 he played a key role in developing the international “Detroit Project” in Bochum as artistic co-director. The project dealt artistically with the causes and consequences of the “ Opel crisis” in Bochum.

Since August 2018 he has been the artistic director of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, which he has organized from the start in a tense relationship between “poetry and politics”. Olaf Kröck is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Productions (selection)

2008 “Deadline” radio play by Frank Böhle, Olaf Kröck, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel based on the play of the same name by Rimini Protokoll
2010 - 1live - “Refugees in Retirement” radio play by Mirjam Strunk
2016 - Schauspielhaus Bochum - "Lampedusa" by Anders Lustgarten (DSE)
2018 - Schauspielhaus Bochum - “Time to close your eyes” u. a. with slixs

Publications

Theater as a readymade. In: Albrecht Hirche, Kathrin Krumbein (ed.): The free fall. Positions of performers. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-590-1 .
Something completely different. Experiences in dealing with city theaters and the independent scene and the longing for a beautiful gray. In: Christian Esch, Tom Stromberg and Matthias von Hartz (eds.) There is another way. Theater Festival Impulse, Theater der Zeit Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-43-4 .
Schauspielhaus Bochum and Urbane Künste Ruhr (ed.) The Detroit Project - Shift change. A manual for cities in transition, Theater der Zeit Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-025-4 .
Do not leave one thing, but do the other anyway. Olaf Kröck in conversation with Julia Speckmann with the assistance of Micha Kranixfeld. In: Wolfgang Schneider and Julia Speckmann (eds.) Making theater as a profession - Hildesheimer Ways, Theater der Zeit Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-943881-85-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Olaf Kröck I Ruhr Festival.
↑ transeuropa 2000 , the European theater festival took place from 7.-17. June 2000 in Hildesheim. .
↑ Andrea Hausmann, Sabrina Helm: Customer Orientation in the Cultural Industry: Basics - Innovative Concepts - Practical Implementations, Springer-Verlag 2007 .
^ Rimini Protocol, on Deadline .

personal data
SURNAME	Kröck, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dramaturge, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Viersen

[1] Olaf Kröck I Ruhr Festival.

[2] transeuropa 2000 , the European theater festival took place from 7.-17. June 2000 in Hildesheim. .

[3] Andrea Hausmann, Sabrina Helm: Customer Orientation in the Cultural Industry: Basics - Innovative Concepts - Practical Implementations, Springer-Verlag 2007 .

[4] Rimini Protocol, on Deadline .