Robert Schuster (director)

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Robert Schuster (born February 3, 1970 in Meißen ) is a German director and university lecturer .

Life

Robert Schuster completed a basic course in theater and cultural studies from 1991 to 1992 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1992 he switched to studying drama directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , where he met his fellow student Tom Kühnel , with whom he formed a directing team in the following years. With their early productions, Schuster and Kühnel drew national attention and were quickly counted among the newcomers to German theater. Bernd Wilms , former director of the Maxim Gorki Theater , became aware of the directing duo and after for their production , the measure of Bertolt Brecht at bat Theater Berlin 1994 Max Reinhardt Prize of the Republic of Austria were given, Schuster and Kühnel, shortly afterwards with her Production of Christmas at Iwanows by Alexander Iwanowitsch Wwedenski at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin was awarded the Friedrich Luft Prize in Berlin . In 1997, Schuster and Christian Tschirner founded the Soeren Voima author collective . This was followed by joint productions by Schuster / Kühnel at the Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater , the Bremen Theater and then a permanent engagement at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . Their Peer Gynt production by Henrik Ibsen brought the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus a supraregional success, and in 1997 they received the Otto Kasten Prize , a “sponsorship award for German artistic directors”.

From 1999 to 2002, Schuster and Tom Kühnel managed the TAT at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 they revived the tradition of experimenta at TAT. Schuster and Kühnel accepted an invitation from the UN in 2000 to New York, where they presented their Berlin Schaubühnen production contingent to diplomats and statesmen as a collective of authors Soeren Voima. Since 2000 Schuster has been directing for opera and drama alone. Among others at the Theater Basel , the Theater Bremen , the Leipziger Schauspielhaus , the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , the Theater Freiburg , Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 2001 he was appointed a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts . In 2004 he was appointed professor of directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. His first feature film, Draussen ist Drüben , followed in 2012 , an examination of his childhood and youth in the GDR. His production Die Ratten by Gerhart Hauptmann in Freiburg 2011 was received very euphorically by the features section.

He is the younger brother of the biophysicist Stefan Schuster .

Awards

Productions

1994-2013

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personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen