Philipp Preuss

Philipp Preuss (born December 3, 1974 in Bregenz , Austria) is an Austrian director and author. Preuss works between visual and performing arts.

Life

Preuss, born in Bregenz and raised in Vienna, studied directing and acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg as well as theater studies and philosophy in Vienna and has been a freelance director since 2001. He lives in Berlin.

Works and works originate from him. a. at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , Theater Dortmund, Schauspiel Frankfurt , Deutsches Theater Berlin , Schaubühne Berlin , Schauspiel Leipzig , Residenztheater Munich . Since 2001 Preuss has also been staging exhibitions with fictional, virtual artist figures portrayed by actors; he extends the concept of theater to include the visual arts. In 2010 he founded the Shanzhai Institute theater group.

Productions (selection)

• 1998 Leather face by Helmut Krausser , Mozarteum Salzburg
• 2000 Closed Society of Jean-Paul Sartre , Theater Dortmund
• 2002 The seagull simulator by Ronald Pohl / Anton Cechov, premier , Theater Dortmund
• 2002 nobody knows 2 or Martin Kippenberger is not dead by Fritz Kater, The Globes
• 2004 You don't play with the love of Alfred de Musset , Schauspielhaus Bochum
• 2004 Danton's death by Georg Büchner , Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2005 Death of a traveling salesman from Arthur Miller , Theater Dortmund
• 2005 Dogland by Nuran Calis, premier , Theater Bielefeld
• 2005 spring awakening or does happiness find us? by Wedekind / Fischli / Weiss , Theater Dortmund, developed with seniors, opening production of the "Heartbeat" Festival at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus 2007
• 2006 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen , Theater Dortmund
• 2006 Looking back in the anger of John Osborne, Theater Bielefeld
• 2006 The bitter tears of Petra von Kant by RW Fassbinder , in collaboration with Bernhard Willhelm, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2007 Part of the goose by Martin Heckmanns , premier, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2007 What you want from William Shakespeare , Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna
• 2008 Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2008 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , Schauspielhaus Theater Dortmund
• 2009 Persona by Ingmar Bergman , DEA, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 2009 Karl Stuart by Marieluise Fleißer , premiere, Schauspielhaus Theater Dortmund
• 2011 The contracts of the businessman by Elfriede Jelinek , Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2011 MCFAMILY by Philipp Preuss, UA, Theater KOSMOS Bregenz
• 2012 Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist , Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2013 Der Reigen or Vivre Sa based on Arthur Schnitzler and Jean-Luc Godard , Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2013 Prometheus: No Light by Aischylos and Elfriede Jelinek , Moers Castle Theater
• 2014 A dream play by August Strindberg , Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2014 Wolokolamsker Chaussee IV by Heiner Müller , Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2014 The lime works of Thomas Bernhard , Schaubühne Berlin
• 2015 Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Residenztheater Munich
• 2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2017 Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen , Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2019 Siegfried von Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel , premiere, Bayreuth Festival

Exhibitions

• 2002 The Globe-25 scenes , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
• 2003 Be personaggi in cerca d´autore , Galeria Galica, Milan
• 2008 Measure for Measure , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
• 2011 Penthesilea 45 , Hollenstein Gallery, Lustenau
• 2012 Warhola or group sex of the egoshooters , scenic installation, Museum Moderner Kunst Frankfurt
• 2016 The Fair Play , Schauspiel Leipzig , Spinnerei Leipzig
• 2016 The Feedback , Performance, Manifesta Zurich

Awards

• 2003 Prize for fine arts from the International Lake Constance Conference
• 2005 Invitation to Radikal jung with Georg Büchner's Dantons death
• 2007 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists for the direction of Hedda Gabler , ( Theater Dortmund 2006)
• 2012 Invitation to the NRW Theatertreffen with Der Geizige nach Molière with the Schlosstheater Moers and winning the audience award
• 2013 Invitation to the NRW Theatertreffen with Prometheus / No Light by Aischylos / Elfriede Jelinek
• 2019 Invitation to the NRW Theatertreffen with Am Königsweg # Ubu Roi by Elfriede Jelinek / Alfred Jarry with the Theater an der Ruhr
• 2019 Winning the jury award and audience award of the Mülheimer Theatertage plays for Atlas (Schauspiel Leipzig) by Thomas Köck
• 2020 Invitation to the Saxon Theatertreffen with Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist (Schauspiel Leipzig)

Publications

• Personae Works Verlag Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-134-9
• McFamily or you no longer believe in yourself as if you were God , Bucher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-99018-090-7
• The Fair Play Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95749-130-5

literature

• Anke Roeder, C. Bernd Sucher (eds.): Radically young: Directors: portraits, talks, interviews. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934344-48-8 .
• Short biography and sources In: Susanne Fink, Cornelia Rothmund: Fine arts in Vorarlberg. 1945-2005. Biographical lexicon. Vorarlberg State Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Bucher-Verlag, Hohenems 2006, ISBN 3-902525-36-3 , pp. 246-247.

Web links

• Philipp Preuss' website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shanzhai Institute