Roland Schimmelpfennig

Roland Schimmelpfennig ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2009 )

Roland Schimmelpfennig (born September 19, 1967 in Göttingen ) is a German writer and dramaturge.

Schimmelpfennig is currently the most performed contemporary dramatist in Germany. His pieces are performed in over 40 countries. Schimmelpfennig, who also works as a director, is not a representative of post-dramatic theater, but stands in the tradition of literary drama: For him, the literary text remains the starting point and central point of reference for the staging of his plays. Schimmelpfennig's pieces are dramaturgically among the most advanced of the present, for example, they dispense with fixed assignments of roles and actors, are mostly structured in a collage-like manner, and regularly contain surreal or fantastic moments. Schimmelpfennig has developed his own form of narrative theater, in which characters constantly exceed their roles in order - addressed to the audience - to describe themselves or to report on themselves. The viewer is constantly distanced from the game, while at the same time Schimmelpfennig gives him the opportunity to participate emotionally in what is being portrayed.

Life

Roland Schimmelpfennig was born in Göttingen and worked as a journalist in Istanbul after graduating from high school. In 1990 he began training as a director at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. After graduating, he became an assistant director and later a member of the artistic management team at the Münchner Kammerspiele . He also worked at the Berlin Schaubühne , the Vienna Burgtheater and the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In the winter semester 2012/13 Schimmelpfennig took on the 2nd Saarbrücken poetry lectureship for drama at the Saarland University , during which he explained his concept of theater in three public lectures in January 2013.

In 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2009 his new piece was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

The animal kingdom
Akademietheater Vienna 2015

With Sabine Haupt , Philipp Hauß , Peter Knaack , Johann Adam Oest , Caroline Peters and Oliver Stokowski . Director: Roland Schimmelpfennig, stage: Wilfried Minks , costumes: Lane Schäfer , lighting: Felix Dreyer,
photos: Christian Michelides, Francisco Peralta Torrejón

Plays

• Die Ewige Maria , WP: January 27, 1996, Theater Oberhausen
• No work for the young woman in the spring dress , WP: April 4, 1996, Münchner Kammerspiele
• Die Zwiefachen , Premiere: June 6th, 1997, Münchner Kammerspiele
• From the cities to the woods, from the woods to the cities , Premiere: April 25, 1998, Staatstheater Mainz
• Fish for Fish , Premiere: May 8th, 1999, Staatstheater Mainz
• A long time ago in May , premiered on March 13, 2000, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
• CET , WP: May 5, 2000, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
• The Arabian Night , Premiere: February 3rd, 2001, Staatstheater Stuttgart
• Push Up 1-3 , WP 10 November 2001, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
• Before / after , premiere: November 22nd, 2002, Hamburg
• Alice in Wonderland , premiere: May 31, 2003, Schauspielhaus Hannover , 2006 “School of Theater” in Vienna, 2008 Deutsches Theater Berlin (director: Roland Schimmelpfennig)
• The woman from the past , commissioned work for the Burgtheater, World premiere: September 12, 2004, Vienna Academy Theater
• Supply and Demand , Premiere: November 4th, 2005, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• On Greifswalder Strasse , premiere: January 27, 2006, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Body time , based on the novel The Body Artist by Don DeLillo , Premiere: April 11, 2007, Theater am Neumarkt Zurich
• End and beginning , premier: October 6, 2006, Vienna Academy Theater
• Visit to the father , Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatstheater Nürnberg in the season 07/08. Austrian premiere on November 20, 2008 in the Theater in der Josefstadt .
• The Empire of the Animals , Premiere: September 1st, 2007, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Start Up , commissioned work for the German Theater Abroad (GTA), premiere October 12, 2007 New York City, October 14, 2007 Nationaltheater Mannheim
• Before / After , Thalia Theater (Halle)
• Calypso , premiere: February 28, 2008, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
• Here and Now , April 25, 2008, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• Idomeneus , premiere: June 15, 2008, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich (for the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theater )
• The Golden Dragon , WP: September 5, 2009, Vienna Academy Theater
• The Eleventh Song , premiere: February 27, 2010, Schauspielhaus Bochum
• The White Album based on The Beatles , premiere: February 6, 2010, Schauspiel Frankfurt
• Peggy Pickit sees the face of God , Premiere: November 19, 2010, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Four points of the compass , premiere: July 30th, 2011, Salzburger Landestheater , Salzburg as part of the Salzburg Festival
• The Flying Child , WP: February 4, 2012, Burgtheater Vienna, Akademietheater
• Spam , WP: May 24, 2014, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
• The Black Water , Premiere: January 10th, 2015, Nationaltheater Mannheim
• Winter Solstice , WP: January 17, 2015, Royal Dramatic Theater
• The big fire , premiere: January 22nd, 2017, Nationaltheater Mannheim
• The day when I wasn't me anymore , premiere: January 12, 2018, Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Odyssey , World Premiere: September 15, 2018, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
• The circle around the sun: first performance planned for November 14, 2020 in the Munich Residenztheater

Radio plays

• 1998 The recording , directed by Ulrich Lampen (SWF)
• 1999 The Taxi Terrorist - Three Films for the Price of One , Director: Walter Adler (SWR)
• 2000 War of the Waves , Director: Klaus Buhlert (HR)
• 2001 The Arabian Night , directed by Klaus Buhlert (HR / WDR)
• 2001 before / after , director: the author (HR / TAT)
• 2003 Supply and Demand , Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (HR / WDR)
• 2004 For a Better World , Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (HR) - Radio Play of the Year
• 2008 Crimean War in Wiesbaden ( Radio-Tatort series ), director: Niki Stein (HR)
• 2010 On Greifswalder Straße , directed by Felicitas Braun , Hannan Ishay ( Max Reinhardt Seminar )
• 2012 The golden dragon , director: Iris Drögekamp (SWR)
• 2014 The four cardinal points . Director: Stefan Kanis (MDR)
• 2016 This night everything will be different - discoteca paraiso , composition and direction: Klaus Buhlert (SWR)
• 2018 100 songs , directed by Leonhard Koppelmann (SWR)

Opera libretto

• The face in the mirror , music by Jörg Widmann , premiere: July 17, 2003, Bavarian State Opera
• The golden dragon , music by Péter Eötvös , premiere: June 29, 2014, Oper Frankfurt (Bockenheimer Depot)

essay

• How to Write About Plays (2009)
• Roland Schimmelpfennig: Yes and no. Lectures on drama. Berlin: Theater of the Time 2014

Lectures

• 2009: Roland Schimmelpfennig: A flock of birds. Roland Schimmelpfennig praises Jürgen Gosch and Johannes Schütz for the awarding of the Berlin Theater Prize by the Prussian Sea Handling Foundation on May 3, 2009. In: Theater heute, vol. 50 (2009) H. 6, pp. 36–39.

Director

• Fish for fish , Staatstheater Mainz, premiere: May 8, 1999
• The Rat by Justine del Corte , Schauspielhaus Zürich, P: January 19, 2008
• Alice in Wonderland , Deutsches Theater Berlin , P: November 29, 2008
• The Golden Dragon , Burgtheater Vienna (Akademietheater), Premiere: September 5, 2009
• Peggy Pickit sees the face of God , Burgtheater Vienna (Akademietheater), P: December 19, 2010
• The animal kingdom , Burgtheater Vienna (Akademietheater), OEA: February 28, 2014

novel

• On a clear, freezing January morning at the beginning of the 21st century . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002470-1 .
• The language of rain , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397321-1

honors and awards

• 1997: Else Lasker Schüler Prize for his piece of fish for fish
• 1998: Grant of the Schiller Memorial Prize of Baden-Württemberg
• 2002: Nestroy Theater Prize for the best play ( Push up 1 - 3 )
• 2004: Radio Play of the Year for For a Better World , Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (HR)
• 2009: Nestroy Theater Prize for "the best play" ( visit to the father )
• 2010: Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize
• 2010: Mülheim Dramatist Prize for his play The Golden Dragon , staged by the Vienna Burgtheater
• 2012/13: 2nd Saarbrücker Poetics Lecturer for Drama at the Saarland University

literature

• 2004: Peter Michalzik: Foreword. In: Roland Schimmelpfennig: The woman from the past. Pieces 1994-2004. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer 2004, pp. 7-16.
• 2006: Nikolaus Frei: The return of the hero. German drama at the turn of the century (1994–2001). Tübingen: Narr 2006. 249 p. Therein especially p. 163–176: chap. 3.6. Fear and misery of the third sector - Roland Schimmelpfennig .
• 2006: Henrike Thomsen: What connects Roland Schimmelpfennig with the myth and with Botho Strauss. In: Roland Koberg, Bernd Stegemann, Henrike Thomsen (ed.): Authors at the Deutsches Theater. Texts about and by Jon Fosse, Elfriede Jelinek, the Presnjakow brothers ( Oleg and Wladimir ), Oliver Reese, Yasmina Reza, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Ingo Schulze and Moritz von Uslar. Berlin: Deutsches Theater / Henschel Verlag 2006, pp. 33–43.
• 2008: Kerstin Hausbei: Roland Schimmelpfennigs before / after . Zapping as a revival of the revue form? In: Stefan Tigges (ed.): Dramatic Transformations. On current writing and performance strategies in German-speaking theater. Bielefeld: transcript 2008, pp. 43-52.
• 2008: Peter Michalzik: Dramas for a theater without drama. Traditional new drama at Rinke, von Mayenburg, Schimmelpfennig and Bärfuß. In: Stefan Tigges (ed.): Dramatic Transformations. On current writing and performance strategies in German-speaking theater. Bielefeld: transcript 2008, pp. 31–42.
• 2009: Birgit Haas: Editorial. Drama poetics 2007 - where is the German-language drama going? In this. (Ed.): Dramenpoetik 2007. Insights into the production of the theater text. Hildesheim u. a .: Georg Olms 2009, pp. 7–32, therein on Calypso p. 21.
• 2011: Danijela Kapusta: Person Transformation. On the construction and deconstruction of the person in the German theater at the turn of the millennium. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag 2011, therein esp. Pp. 80–96: 2.1.4.1. Roland Schimmelpfennig: On Greifswalder Straße (2006) .
• 2012: Christine Laudahn: Between post-drama and drama. Roland Schimmelpfennig's room designs. Tübingen: Narr 2012. 395 pp.
• Roland Schimmelpfennig. Yes and No / Sí y no . ed. by Johannes Birgfeld, Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943881-53-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Schimmelpfennig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roland Schimmelpfennig: New German-language drama. Website of the Goethe Institute
• Roland Schimmelpfennig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Roland Schimmelpfennig's website

Individual references, footnotes

1. ^ The four cardinal points by R. Schimmelpfennig at the Heidelberger Schauspiel; Darmstädter Echo, Johannes Breckner, February 29, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 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. 
2. ↑ Especially in Schimmelpfennig's most successful play The Golden Dragon .
3. ↑ Cf. for example Push Up 1-3 , Auf der Greifswalder Straße or Four Cardinal Points .
4. ↑ See Schimmelpfennig in an interview with Franz Wille in Theater heute's 2010 yearbook : “The“ Drache ”works with the simple means of announcement and pretense and“ foreplay ”, but the aim of the play is not distance, but the opposite: Proximity. ID. It's about making it possible for the audience to get as close to the characters as possible. " [1]
5. ↑ See 2. Poetics lectureship: Roland Schimmelpfennig
6. ↑ Sophie Diesselhorst: The day when I was no longer me - Anne Lenk stages the world premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig's play at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Accessed October 1, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Michael Bartsch: Odyssey - Tilmann Koehler staged Roland Schimmelpfennig's Odyssey interpretation at the Dresden State Theater. Accessed October 1, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ The circle around the sun | residenztheater.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .