Oliver Schmaering

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Oliver Schmaering (born 1968 in East Berlin ) is a German playwright and screenwriter.

Life

Schmaering completed a degree in film and television dramaturgy at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg with a diploma in 2001. Since 2001 he has been a freelance writer and dramaturge. He also works as a lecturer for dramaturgy, screenplay and film theory, among others for the Media Academy in Berlin. In addition to his script for the feature film Gegen Morgen , which ran in 2012 at the 62nd Berlinale in the series “Perspektive Deutsches Kino”, he also played a small supporting role in it.

In 2016 he received a “Nah dran” grant from the Children's and Youth Theater Center in Frankfurt am Main and the German Literature Fund to develop the libretto Ich, Ikarus for the Theater an der Parkaue Berlin. An Animal Sleeps Inside You was his first play for children. This examination of the microbiome , the fears of it and natural science, prepared in a child-friendly way, was unanimously awarded the Mülheim Children's Play Prize 2018. The Junge Staatstheater Berlin premiered it on November 10, 2017.

Oliver Schmaering lives and works in Berlin .

Works

radio play
  • 2011 You call it art, I call it too much time , produced and originally broadcast by the Swiss radio DRS
script
  • 2011: Towards morning , feature film, 1h 23min, director: Joachim Schoenfeld
Plays
  • 2005: Seefahrerstück, premiered September 17th, 2005, Neues Theater Halle , director: Claudia Bauer
  • 2007: Hermanns Schlacht after Heinrich von Kleist premiered October 13th 2007, new theater hall, director: Albrecht Hirche
  • 2007: Coriolan! Is tank of the year! Is victim of the week! based on William Shakespeare premiere 10/2007, theater discounter, director: Georg Scharegg
  • 2007: Nibelungen after Friedrich Hebbel UA 2007, Staatstheater Schwerin , director: Claudia Bauer
  • 2009/2011: The fall of the United States of America I - IV:
    • I - Trailer for the near future World premiere April 9, 2011, Theater Plauen-Zwickau , director: Marie Bues
    • II - King Kong Bonus Features, free for the UA
    • III - The Making of The Downfall of the United States of America Premiere December 3, 2009, Theaterhaus Jena , Director: Meret Matter
    • IV - Drei10 Outtakes Premiere December 1, 2011, Ballhaus Ost , Berlin, director: Eike Hannemann
  • 2015: Big Republic UA May 27, 2015 Theater Rampe, Stuttgart, Director: Christina Paulhofer
  • 2016: The Jago principle (together with Volker Lösch , Ulf Schmidt ), premiered at the Schauspiel Essen , October 1, 2016
  • 2017: An animal sleeps in you , premiered on November 10, 2017 in the Theater an der Parkaue , Berlin, directed by Hanna Müller

Awards

  • 2002: Sponsorship award from the Friends of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • 2005: Promotion prize for new drama of the tt Stückemarkt for Seafarers' Piece
  • 2016: “Nah dran” scholarship from the Children's and Youth Theater Center Frankfurt / Main and the German Literature Fund
  • 2018: Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize for his piece An animal sleeps in you

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Kallias database entry O. Schmaering , German Literature Archive, accessed June 4, 2018
  2. ↑ Repertoire info An animal sleeps in you , Parkaue-Theater, accessed June 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Sponsorship award for new drama 2005 , Berliner Festspiele, Theatertreffen, accessed June 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Oliver Schmaering awarded the Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize , Nachtkritik.de of May 18, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schmaering, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin