Rafael Sanchez (director)

Rafael Sanchez (* 1975 in Basel ) is a Swiss director and artistic director with Spanish roots. Since the beginning of Stefan Bachmann's directorship (2013/14 season), Sanchez has been one of three in-house directors at Schauspiel Köln .

From 1994 to 1997 he worked as an actor and director at the Junge Theater Basel until he became in-house director at the Theater Basel in 2003 . Sanchez has staged at various German-speaking theaters, including the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Schaubühne Berlin , the Berlin Gorki Theater , the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Thalia Theater Hamburg , Schauspiel Essen and the Schauspielhaus Hanover .

From the 2008/2009 season he was artistic director together with Barbara Weber at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich .

Productions (selection)

1996

• Frank & Stein by Ken Campell - Young Theater Basel (with Sandra Stadler, Tiziana Sarro)

1997

• König Ubu by Alfred Jarry - Junge Theater Basel (with Rafael Sanchez , Sandra Stadler, Fabiola Blocher, Cynthia Coray)

1998

• Rafael Sanchez tells Spiel mir das Lied von Tod - Theater Basel (with Rafael Sanchez , director: Eberhard Petschinka )

2001

• Bungee Jumping by Jaanätte - Theater Basel (with Katharina Schmalenberg , Roberto Guerra , Vincent Leittersdorf , Cynthia Coray)

2002

• Homebody / Kabul by Tony Kushner - Theater Basel (with Sandra Hüller , Thomas Reisinger , Andrea Bettini, Katja Reinke, Victor Calero and others)

2003

• Money and Spirit by Jeremias Gotthelf - Theater Basel (with Margot Gödrös , Martin Hug, Jürg Kienberger, Rahel Hubacher , Johanna Bantzer , Markus März, Andrea Bettini, Urs Bihler , Daniel Wahl )

2004

• Behind the seven tracks by Kurt Früh - Schauspielhaus Zürich (with Jürg Kienberger, Jean-Pierre Cornu , Margot Gödrös, Meike Droste , Marco Morelli)

2005

• Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist - Theater Basel (with Sandra Hüller , Daniel Nerlich, Wolfgang Brumm, Silvia Fenz , Aljoscha Stadelmann , Cornelius Borgolte)

• Im Weißen Rössl by Ralph Benatzky - Oper Basel (with Désirée Meiser, Martin Hug, Ito Satoshi and many others)

2006

• Augusta by Richard Dresser - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (with Bruno Cathomas , Steffi Kühnert , Daniela Holtz )

• Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth - Theater Basel (with Rahel Hubacher , Martin Hug, Thomas Reisinger , Chantal Le Moign, Jürg Kienberger, Andrea Bettini, Sandro Tajouri and others)

2007

• A man is born by Martin Heckmanns - Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (with Markus Scheumann, Kathleen Morgeneyer , Winfried Küppers and others)

2008

• Nostalgie 2175 by Anja Hilling - Thalia-Theater Hamburg (with Susanne Wolff , Daniel Hoevels , Peter Jordan )

2009

• Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth - Theater Neumarkt (with Yvon Jansen, Siegfried Terpoorten , Thomas Müller , Rahel Hubacher , Jens Rachut , Alicia Aumüller, Jörg Koslowski)

2010

• The Jewess of Toledo by Lion Feuchtwanger , arranged by Eberhard Petschinka - Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (with Guntram Brattia , Yvon Jansen, Thomas Müller, Pierre Siegenthaler , Winfried Küppers , Jakob Leo Stark, Nikolaus Benda , Viola Pobitschka , Anke Hartwig, Gunther Eckes)

• Only Night by Sibylle Berg - Deutsches Theater Berlin (with Judith Hoffmann, Natali Seelig , Christoph Franken , Peter Moltzen )

2011

• Palomares by Eberhard Petschinka - Theater Neumarkt (with Yvon Jansen, Thomas Müller, Jakob Leo Stark, Gilbert Trefzger, Katarina Schröter)

2012

• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare , arrangement by Andreas Marber - Deutsches Theater Berlin (with Jutta Wachowiak , Susanne Wolf , Judith Hoffmann, Barbara Heynen, Natalia Belitski )

2013

• Der nackte Wahnsinn , comedy in three acts by Michael Frayn (German by Ursula Lyn) at the Schauspiel Köln

• Troop visit by Tobi Müller and Mike Müller - Theater Neumarkt (with Mike Müller)

2014

• Much good food from Mrs. Berg , UA Halle Kalk of the Cologne Theater , October 18, 2014 (with Thomas Müller, Mohamed Achour, Simon Kirsch, Jacob Leo Stark, Yuri Englert, Jens Rachut )

2015

• Job by Joseph Roth - Schauspiel Köln (with Bruno Cathomas , Sabine Orléans , Julia Riedler , Thomas Müller, Jakob Leo Stark, Axel Pape , Niklas Kohrt )

2016

• Everyone dies for himself by Hans Fallada , adaptation by Eberhard Petschinka - Staatstheater Dresden (with Thomas Eisen, Christine Hoppe , Antje Trautmann, Hannelore Koch , Holger Hübner , Matthias Lukey, Philipp Lux , Torsten Ranft )

2017

• Death of a traveling salesman by Arthur Miller - Schauspiel Köln (with Martin Reinke , Birgit Walter, Thomas Müller, Sean McDonagh, Ines Marie Westernströer , Benjamin Höppner, Winfried Küppers , Pablo Giw )

2018

• Endgame by Samuel Beckett - Schauspiel Köln (with Martin Reinke , Bruno Cathomas , Margot Gödrös, Pierre Siegenthaler , Ella Rohwer, Sophie Moser , Zuzana Leharová , Pauline Moser)

• Tiempo de silencio by Martin Santos - Teatro de la Abadia Madrid (with Fernando Soto , Carmen Valverde, Lídia Otón, Julio Cortázar , Sergio Adillo, Roberto Mori)

Web links

• Short portrait at the Theater am Neumarkt
• Short portrait at the Deutsches Theater
• [1] at the Cologne theater
• [2] at the Goethe Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rafael Sanchez on schauspiel.koeln, accessed on March 1, 2017
2. ↑ Cologne schedule , accessed on October 19, 2013
3. ↑ Schauspiel Köln program: Ms. Berg eats a lot ( Memento of the original from October 28, 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. , accessed October 20, 2014