Oliver Bukowski

Oliver Bukowski (born October 6, 1961 in Cottbus ) is a German playwright and radio play author .

Life

Oliver Bukowski first completed a degree in philosophy , specializing in social psychology (motivational research) and worked on a doctoral scholarship on the topic of media impact research . From 1990 onwards, encouraged and mediated by the dramaturge Jörg Mihan, he made his first attempts at writing. Since then he has mainly written plays, radio plays and scripts.

In addition, he worked as a lecturer , among other things as a permanent lecturer / guest professor from 1999 to 2010 at the University of the Arts Berlin , study program scenic writing and since 2004 at Forum Text , the course for scenic writing at uniT Graz. Since 2012 he has been a permanent guest lecturer at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg , Ludwigsburg.

Awards

• 1992: Works grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation
• 1992/1995: Literature work grant for Berlin writers from the Senate Department for Cultural Affairs
• 1994: Gerhart Hauptmann Prize (for his Lausitzer dialect Schwank Londn-L.Ä.-Lübbenau )
• 1994: Residence grant at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 1996: Residence scholarships in Worpswede
• 1996: German Youth Theater Prize for Whether one way or another
• 1998: Prize from the Goethe Institute at the Mülheim Theater Days for nothing more beautiful
• 1999 scholarship from the German Study Center in Venice
• 1999: Mülheim Dramatist Prize for guests
• 1999: Prize of the 12th Potsdam Workshop Days (Best Play / Best Staging) for guests
• 2001: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
• 2004: Author's grant from the Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation
• 2011: State Prize for Popular Theater Pieces (second prize) for critical mass
• 2013/2014: Annual grant as a factory grant from the German Literature Fund , Darmstadt, for last people (play)
• Theater Prize Lausitzen 2019
• Also: Nominated for the Mülheim Dramatist Prize : 1994: Londn-L.Ä.-Lübbenau , 1998: Nothing more beautiful , 2009: Critical mass , and for the Grimme Prize 2001: Up to the horizon and further (film)

Works

Publications

• The healer and other monologues. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-496-3 .
• Friday night . eBook, textbuehne.eu, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-6449-4 .
• Nature & Friends . eBook, textbuehne.eu, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-6450-0 .
• I shredded Bryan Adams . eBook, textbuehne.eu, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-7821-7 .
• Last people . eBook, textbuehne.eu, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-5596-8 .
• The concept of romantic love . epubli, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-5600-2 .

Plays

• The half-life of canaries , world premiere: June 30, 1991 at the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt, director: Christian Bleyhoeffer ; Reprinted in "The Healer and Other Monologues", Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011
• Staging of a kiss , premier: September 25, 1992 at the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam , director: Holger Schultze; Reprinted in "Spectaculum 62", Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996
• Laughing and caressing the head , premiere: October 13, 1992 at the Berlin "Theater 89", director: Hans-Joachim Frank
• Burnout , UA: May 21, 1992 at the Berlin "Theater zum Westlichen Stadthirschen", director: Werner Gerber
• Londn-L.Ä.-Lübbenau , premiere: May 15, 1993 at the Brandenburgisches Staatstheater Cottbus , director: Frank Lienert; Reprinted in Deutsche Bühne issue 1/1993
• Die Elche, die Antilopen , Premiere: September 15, 1995, Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hannover , Director: Daniel Schelleter
• Intercity , premiere: January 28, 1993, Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg , director: Klaus Noack
• Either way , premiere: March 3rd, 1994 at the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, director: Holger Schultze; Reprinted in “Playground 12” Verlag der Autor , Frankfurt am Main 1999, publisher. Marion Victor
• To Denver , premiere: March 29, 1996 Theater Gera / Altenburg, director: Christine Harbort ; Reprinted in THEATER HEUTE , issue 9/1996
• Nothing more beautiful , premiere: January 23, 1998, Theater Schwerin, director: Ernst M. Binder ; Reprinted in THEATER HEUTE, issue 10/1997 and in "The Healer and Other Monologues", Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011
• Lakoma (short drama), premiere: November 23, 1996, Staatstheater Cottbus, director: Wolf-Dieter Lingk; Reprinted in the yearbook THEATER TODAY 1996
• Goodbye Lucy Hello Lucy (a Christmas fairy tale for Pit and everyone over 7), Premiere: November 28, 1996, Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, director: Klaus Noack
• Nature & Friends , premiere: April 3, 2001, Theater Hamburg-Altona, director: Axel Richter (in the Vienna re-production: PEGASUS-PRIZE 2001)
• Guests , premiere: February 18, 1999, Staatstheater Braunschweig , director: Wolfgang Gropper ; Reprinted in THEATER HEUTE issue 4/1999 (in the re-production by Hans-Joachim Frank: FRIEDRICH LUFT PRICE 1999)
• Behind the Lines (short drama), premiere: September 5, 1998, Kleist-Theater Frankfurt / Oder , director: Birte Restemeyer
• It works! (Does not work does not work) , screenplay, premiere as a theater on June 15, 2001 as an open-air large-scale production by the Berlin theater 89 with 160 actors, director: Hans-Joachim Frank
• Allerseelen rot , Premiere: September 23, 2001 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , director: Christoph Roos
• Stand by , premiere: April 28, 2004, Deutsches Theater Berlin , director: Michael Schweighöfer
• After the kiss (extras) , premiere: May 31, 2006 in cooperation with Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen / theater 89, Berlin / Kiepenheuer-Bühnenverlag, director: Hans-Joachim Frank
• Steinke's Rescue , premiere: October 27, 2005, Neues Theater Halle / Saale , director: Ulf Frötschner
• Bowling Alone , WP: in co-op. Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen / Hamburger Schauspielhaus on May 16, 2007, directed by Markus Heinzelmann
• Critical Mass , premier: February 19, 2009, premier at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, large stage, director: Sebastian Nübling; Reprinted in THEATER HEUTE issue 2/2009
• Friday Night , World Premiere: September 5, 2010, Theater Osnabrück , director: Jens Poth
• If you kill yourselves, it's an accident (based on motifs by H. v. Kleist), Premiere: May 24, 2010, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen / Hamburger Schauspielhaus, director: Markus Heinzelmann
• Der Heiler , (monologue), premier: January 9th 2011, Deutsches Theater Berlin, with Jörg Gudzuhn, director: Piet Drescher
• Who is the weapon, where is the enemy , piece commission (on the subject of "1913") from the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, premier 23 May 2013, cooperation Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen / Wolfgang-Borchert-Theater Münster (from 11/2014 program Münster), director: Artistic director Meinhard Zanger
• I shredded Bryan Adams , Premiere: February 22nd, 2014 Deutsches Theater Göttingen , Large Stage, Director: Michael Kessler
• Indianer , (tragic comedy), Premiere: November 7th, 2014, Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau in Zittau, director: Christian Papke
• Taliban (short piece for a children's theater evening “At the end of childhood”), Cooperation Parkaue Berlin / Theater Chemnitz, premiere June 17, 2015, Theater Chemnitz , director: Kathrin Brune
• Birkenbiegen , (commissioned by Neue Bühne Senftenberg), world premiere September 24, 2016, Neue Bühne Senftenberg , director: Samia Chancrin , reprint THEATER DER ZEIT 09/2016
• Last People , World premiere May 26, 2017, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, cooperation Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Kiepenheuer Medien and Zimmertheater Tübingen , director: Artistic director: Axel Krauße
• No additional lighting , world premiere May 9, 2018, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, co-production Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar , Kiepenheuer Medien, director: Stephan Rottkamp
• The concept of romantic love , premiere November 3, 2018, Kleine Komödie Warnemünde, director: Kai Festersen
• Who are you , premiere April 26, 2019, Landesbühne Sachsen , Radebeul, director: Tom Quaas

Film and television (screenplay)

• Chiquita for Ever , short cinema film, hendel-bukowski film production, 1999, director: Annekatrin Hendel ; FSK rating "valuable"
• To the horizon and further , movie, 1999, directed by Peter Kahane
• AlleAlle , feature film, It works! Film production, script together with Pepe Planitzer, director: Pepe Planitzer; Berlinale , Perspective New German Film, 2007
• Waiting for a bus , 8-part television series by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , 2020, director: Dirk Kummer

Radio plays

• The half-life of canaries , (monologue), original broadcast: September 6, 1991, DS-Kultur, director: Barbara Plensat ; Speaker: Gudrun Ritter
• Intersection or the yawning, shivering, silence , original broadcast: April 22, 1993 on WDR, director: Walter Adler
• Londn-L.Ä.-Lübbenau , original broadcast: April 30, 1995, Deutschlandradio Berlin; Director: Peter Groeger
• Moni's men , first broadcast: June 19, 1995 Deutschlandradio Berlin, with Jürgen Holz and Rolf Ludwig; Director: Joachim Staritz
• Bahlke's last love , first broadcast: April 23, 1997 DeutschlandRadio Berlin / NDR; Director: Joachim Staritz, radio play of the month April 1997
• Goodbye Lucy Hello Lucy , first broadcast: December 22, 1997, DeutschlandRadio Berlin
• Nothing nicer , (monologue), first broadcast: November 18, 1998, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, speaker: Franziska Troegner
• Where much light , first broadcast October 13, 2008, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
• Serjosha & SchulTZ , detective radio play series, DeutschlandRadio Berlin
  • Serjosha & Schultz , original broadcast: December 27, 2004, pilot, DeutschlandRadio, director: Karlheinz Liefers
  • Own flesh and blood , original broadcast: October 15, 2005, 2nd episode, DeutschlandRadio, director: Karlheinz Liefers
  • One for all , original broadcast: June 13, 2006, 3rd episode, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
  • Hot Winter , first broadcast: February 18, 2008, 4th episode, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
  • In Grund und Boden , original broadcast: November 9, 2009, 5th episode, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
  • Women's affair , original broadcast: March 28, 2011, 6th episode, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
• Off the route , original broadcast on September 17th, 2012, directed by Alexander Schuhmacher
• Primetime , first broadcast May 27, 2013 Deutschlandradio Kultur, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
• Snaps , first broadcast October 6, 2014, Deutschlandradio Kultur, director: Alexander Schuhmacher
• Snaps II: Schwenkfutter , original broadcast October 10, 2016, Deutschlandradio Kultur, director: Alexander Schuhmacher

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Bukowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entries on Oliver Bukowski in the HörDat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www1.muelheim-ruhr.de/kunst-kultur/theater/stuecke/nichts_schoeneres/1320
2. ↑ 12th state award for Baden-Württemberg folk theater pieces for Gabriele Kögl, Oliver Bukowski and Adelheid Bräu. (No longer available online.) Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 24, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ LAUSITZEN plays competition - Oliver Bukowski wins LAUSITZEN 2019. In: theaterkompass.de. Retrieved December 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ kiepenheuer-medien.de accessed on October 16, 2012
5. ↑ https://www.ruhrfestspiele.de/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung_detail.php?ver_id=904&ter_id=2773
6. ↑ Oliver Bukowski ( Memento from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Waiting for a bus. Occupation & staff. In: press release rbb. February 26, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Oliver Bukowski ( Memento from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )