Philipp Loehle

Philipp Löhle (born August 27, 1978 in Ravensburg ) is a German playwright and theater director .

Life

Löhle grew up in Haueneberstein - a district of Baden-Baden  . There he attended the Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium, where he passed his Abitur in 1998 in German and history. He studied in Erlangen at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , the subjects history , theater and media studies , as well as German . He wrote his first pieces while still a student and was represented with short films at the Erlangen StummFilmMusikTage . After completing his studies, Löhle moved to Berlin , where he completed several internships in the fields of advertising, journalism and program development for television, including as an editorial assistant at Universum Film (UFA) in Berlin. In 2006 he accepted a position as assistant director at the Theater Baden-Baden . There he was able to direct a play as a director himself for the first time with Henning Mankell's The Unscrupulous Murderer Hasse Karlsson reports the terrible truth of how the woman died on the railway bridge . After his engagement in Baden-Baden, Löhle went on a scholarship to the renowned London Royal Court Theater . In the 2008/09 season he became a resident author at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin .

Since the 2018/19 season, Philipp Löhle has been in-house author for the play at the State Theater in Nuremberg .

Works

→ List of works by Philipp Löhle

His first piece, KAUF-LAND , premiered in 2005 in the Erlangen Theater. Löhle's breakthrough came with Genannt Gospodin , which was first performed on October 28, 2007 under the direction of Kristo Šagors at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and received several awards. The play was also performed at the Bavarian State Theater around a month after the premiere in Bochum.

The result of a work commission awarded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education is the play Die Kaperer or Tear Down the House and Build a Ship , premiered in March 2008 at the Wiener Schauspielhaus . Big Mitmache , a play in which Löhle deals with the subject of the RAF in a more comedic way, was performed for the first time in 2008 in the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. Lilly Link or Hard Times for the Rev ... was invited to the workshop days at the Burgtheater Vienna. The version was checked and further developed by Löhle with the director Sebastian Hirn and the ensemble of the Burgtheater. Parts of Lilly Link were presented in a staged reading as part of the workshop (stage set: Sebastian Hirn). Lilly Link or Hard Times for the Rev ... won the jury award of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and was premiered at the Heidelberg Theater.

In 2010, his play The Superfluous was premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . His play Der Wind macht das Fähnchen was premiered on January 20, 2012 in the workshop at Theater Bonn . His play Fluchtfahrer was premiered in Stuttgart on December 18, 2013 , as a counterpart to Alfred Andersch 's hit- and-run.

Awards

In 2007, Löhle won the work contract at the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen with the play Genannt Gospodin , as well as the Dramatist Prize of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft . and was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage 2008. Löhle received the jury award of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2008 for Lilly Link or Schwere Zeiten for Rev… and in 2012 the audience award of the Mülheim “Stück” days for the globalization satire Das Ding .

literature

• Philipp Löhle: How do I become a playwright? In: Berliner Zeitung . June 16, 2011.
• Jürgen Berger: Philipp Löhle is serious. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. February 5, 2009 (Portrait of Philipp Löhle)
• Steffen Weihe (Ed.): Philipp Löhle. The superfluous. Five plays. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-05-2 .

Web links

• Tendency towards the grotesque . Deutschlandradio Kultur - via Named Gospodin
• Author biography at Rowohlt Theater Verlag
• Philipp Löhle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Philipp Löhle in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Löhle ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on lyrikwelt.de 
2. ↑ StummFilmMusikTage Erlangen ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ SWR2
4. ^ Andreas Jüttner: First we take Baden-Baden . Nachtkritik.de, portrait of Philipp Löhle
5. ↑ Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin
6. ↑ Called Gospodin at nachtkritik.de
7. ↑ Willibald Spatz: saublödes system .
8. ↑ Georg Petermichl: about The Kaperer
9. ^ Nikolaus Merck: Escape from Freiburg .
10. ↑ Lilly Link or Difficult Times for the Rev… . rowohlt theater publisher. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
11. ^ FAZ , June 2, 2010, p. 32
12. ↑ Ask the President . In: FAZ , January 25, 2012, p. 31
13. ↑ Steffen Becker: Driver escape / escape driver - In Stuttgart Dominic Friedel combines two texts by Alfred Andersch and Philipp Löhle . In: nachtkritik.de . December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
14. ↑ ^{a b} taz.de
15. ↑ Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.