Paul Steinmann

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Paul Steinmann (* 1956 in Villmergen ) is a Swiss playwright and director . He writes and directs for amateur theaters, children's and youth theaters, for city theaters, cabaret and independent theater companies. He also runs writing workshops, was co-scriptwriter for the film “ Cannabis - Trying Goes Over Regieren ” and wrote the book for the musical “ Die Schweizermacher (Musical) ”. Since 2008 he has been a regular guest on Swiss radio SRF 1 with his “Morning Stories” .

Life

He first came into contact with the theater during childhood and adolescence, as his parents were active in the Villmergen theater company. During his school days he got to know the stage of the Gymnasium Immensee high school . Even after graduating from high school (1977), Steinmann remained connected to this school stage, which wrote its own plays from 1975, as a co-writer and co-director.

He studied theology in Lucerne because he wanted to play with the Lucerne minstrels. From the circle of this amateur theater group grew the Bobibibifax-Compagnie, an ensemble that produced plays for a children's audience and showed them all over Switzerland. At least now Paul Steinmann realized that his career would be less in the Catholic Church and more in the theater. This question was decided with the first professional engagement with the newly founded independent theater group MARIA, which caused a sensation in Switzerland in 1983 with the play "Klassenfeind".

After completing his theology studies and after another season as a player at Theater MARIA, Steinmann switched to writing and directing.

He also began to get involved with the ASTEJ (Swiss Children's and Youth Theater Association) and was its president from 1990 to 1995. Together with various theater groups and individual artists (also in cabaret), he has developed a considerable number of theater pieces over the last 20 years, all of which have been (and are) performed abroad. One focus of his work is theater work with and for groups from the canton of Aargau (Theater MARIA, Jörg Bohn, TheaterSchönesWetter, ThiK, Werner Bodinek, Theatergesellschaft Villmergen ...)

In 1992 he received the “Rote Zora” children's and youth media award for “Without Shoe” and in 1995 for “Tortuga”. In 2002 the Board of Trustees of the Canton of Aargau enabled him to spend three months writing in Berlin . In addition to theater plays, Paul Steinmann also wrote over 40 children's television programs (“Wundergugge”) in the 1990s and was involved as a writer on the TV satirical programs “Incidentally ...” and “Punkt CH”.

By 2006 he had also written well over 100 contributions to the Saturday lunchtime program “Zweierleier” on Swiss Radio DRS 1 and can be heard regularly on this station as the narrator of his “Morning Stories”. Although his first screenplay, which he had written together with director Nick Hilber (“Cannabis - Trying Goes Over Regieren”), came out as a film in the fall of 2006, Steinmann continues to write plays, and he likes to do so again and again for amateur theater groups. For example, in 2007 the popular theater piece “D Gotthardbahn” in Göschenen or “Die Siebtelbauern” for the Ballenberg Landscape Theater.

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SURNAME Steinmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss playwright and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Villmergen