Roger Vontobel

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Roger Vontobel (* 1977 in Zurich ) is a Swiss theater director.

Life

youth

Vontobel was born in Zurich in 1977 and lived in Johannesburg in South Africa from the age of fourteen , where his father set up a hotel management school and he attended the German International School Johannesburg. In addition to school, he played theater.

Education

Vontobel began to study physics and mathematics in Zurich, but soon realized that this was not what he wanted. During a trip through Europe in a VW bus , numerous visits to the theater made him want to touch audiences at the theater. He then completed an acting degree at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and Pasadena from 1998 to 2001 . Here he played in the ARK Theater Company of Los Angeles and staged the play Summerfolk , an adaptation of Gorky's Summer Guests, as a replacement for a director who had dropped out . Through this experience he found the director's calling.

From 2001 to 2005 Vontobel studied drama directing at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Vontobel's first production, with which he was also invited to festivals, was the play Fi'lo: tas , which was created in Hamburg in 2002. Here he deals with parallels between Lessing's Philotas and the fall of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh . As in numerous other plays by Vontobel, actress Jana Schulz played the solo role . While still a student, he also directed at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Theaterhaus Jena . In addition, he founded the independent drama group "VONTOBELhamburg". This group was invited to several independent theater festivals such as Impulsen in Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival .

Vontobel as a director

The first productions after his studies were awarded various prizes. For example, Vontobel was voted Young Director of the Year 2006 for its productions in Essen and Munich in 2006 in the critics' survey by “ Theater heute ”. In the same year he also received the Kurt-Huebner-Förderpreis for young directors for his production Das goldene Vlies by Franz Grillparzer at the Grillo-Theater Essen. In addition, Ibsen's Peer Gynt was honored as the best production at the NRW Theatertreffen 2010.

For his Dresden production of Schiller's Don Carlos , Vontobel won the 2010 Faust Theater Prize in the Drama Direction category. In addition, the following year the play was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen as one of the ten most notable German-language productions of the year .

Vontobel was in-house director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum from 2011 to 2016 . Since the 2005/2006 season he has also directed at the Schauspiel Essen and since the 2006/2007 season at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He has also worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Deutsche Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Köln and in Paris at the Theater National de la Colline. Vontobel has been in-house director under Wilfried Schulz at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf since 2016 . With the beginning of Anselm Weber's term of office as head of the Frankfurter Schauspiel 2017/2018, Vontobel regularly staged in Frankfurt. He kicked off with Woyzeck in September 2017 . A total of three Vontobel productions can be seen at Schauspiel Frankfurt in the 2019/2020 season - including two revivals from Bochum and two new productions.

He made his operatic debut in 2016 at the State Opera in Hamburg with Rossini's Guillaume Tell. From the 2016/17 season he will be directing Albrecht Puhlmann's directors at the opera at the Mannheim National Theater.

In 2018, Vontobel was the director of the Nibelungen Festival in Worms .

In June 2019, the Stadttheater Bern announced that Vontobel would become director of the theater's drama division from the 2021/22 season. At the time of the announcement, Cihan Inan was serving in this position.

Private

Vontobel is a Swiss citizen, married and has three children. He lives in Bochum.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Vontobel: Inwardly of Man. tagesspiegel.de, accessed on December 18, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Shame and Grief ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2013 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. , Stefan Keim on Vontobel's production of Hamlet at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, accessed on December 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
  3. ↑ Roger Vontobel on the website of the Dresden State Theater ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 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 December 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
  4. ↑ Roger Vontobel on the Münchner Volkstheater website ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2010 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. , accessed December 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenchner-volkstheater.de
  5. ↑ 50 directors in German-speaking theater: Roger Vontobel website of the Goethe-Institut , accessed on December 18, 2012
  6. ↑ Roger Vontobel on the website of the Schauspielhaus Bochum ( memento of the original from February 9, 2016 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 January 8, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielhausbochum.de
  7. ↑ Roger Vontobel. House director. www.dhaus.de, accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  8. ^ Review of the Frankfurter Rundschau on October 2nd, 2017, accessed on October 2nd, 2017
  9. ^ Website of the Schauspiel Frankfurt , accessed on December 29, 2017
  10. ↑ Roger Vontobel becomes head of acting. www.persoenlich.com, June 20, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "We'll do that again!" Spiegel.de, accessed on December 18, 2012 .
  12. ↑ “OH, NOW I FORGET MAX FRESH! THEN THE BROWN COAL HAS TO BE OUT ". theatertreffen-blog.de, accessed on December 18, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Don't be afraid of William Shakespeare. www.ksta.de, accessed on May 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Vontobel, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss director
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich