Ron Zimmering

Ron Zimmering (* 1984 in Dresden ) is a German actor, director and initiator of event formats.

life and work

Zimmering studied from 2004 to 2008 at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . During his studies he already gained acting experience in the studio at the Chemnitz City Theater . This was followed by four years of permanent engagement as an actor at the Saarbrücken State Theater , where the first directorial work was already being done, such as Die Unfreiwillige Weltreise , Sonnenallee and Egotrips . From 2012 to 2016 he studied directing at the Theaterakademie Hamburg (HfMT), where he staged Kasimir & Karoline - Ein Klassentreffen ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg ) and his graduation Gilgamesch ( Kampnagel Hamburg).

His work is characterized by the combination of classic material with documentary and biographical elements. For his projects he mobilized everyday experts such as senior citizens, schoolchildren, people with disabilities, pregnant women, development workers and his former acting class 10 years after the start of his studies. So he developed z. B. based on Shakespeare's King Lear and the diary entries of his demented grandmother with seniors, a piece about dementia ( King Lear - The Lost Self / Kampnagel Hamburg). He is the initiator of the Brutkasten event series ( Theaterakademie Hamburg ) and the Kleiner Michel salon (Michaeliskirche Hamburg). Since completing his studies, he has staged the theater in Osnabrück ( Der Finstere Plan der Vintila Radulezcu , Terror , slipped disc ), at the Landestheater Detmold ( One long day's journey into the night , chaos ) and at the Lichthoftheater Hamburg, the citizens' stage project Staging Democracy . At the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg he directed the monthly series of events heimaten 1-10 in the season 16/17 , to which he invited experts and artists from the fields of music, theater, dance and visual arts.

Ron Zimmering teaches as a lecturer at the Theater Academy Hamburg and is a scholarship holder of the Claussen Simon Foundation . He lives in Hamburg .

He is a grandson of the writer Max Zimmering .

theatre

• 2018 Messertal by Friedrich Dürrenmatt / Landestheater Detmold
• 2017 Slipped disc by Ingrid Lausund / Theater Osnabrück
• 2017 Are you still working or are you already living / Körberforum Hamburg
• 2017 Terror by Ferdinand von Schirach / Theater Osnabrück
• 2016 One long day's journey into the night by Eugene O'Neill / Landestheater Detmold
• 2016 heimaten 1-10 (monthly series of events) / Junge Schauspielhaus Hamburg
• 2016 Gilgamesh / Kampnagel
• 2015 Faust - or laughing is better than crying according to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / St. Pauli Theater Hamburg
• 2015 Der sinstere Plan (WP) by Martín Zapata / Theater Osnabrück
• 2015 Kasimir & Karoline - A class reunion after Ödön von Horváth / Spokeswerk Hamburg
• 2014 room no. 101 (WP) by Adrian Jager / Theater Drachengasse Vienna
• 2014 King Lear - The Lost Self / Kampnagel
• 2012 ego trips / Stadttheater Saarbrücken
• 2011 Sonnenallee based on Thomas Brussig / Saarbrücken State Theater
• 2010 Ron Zimmering's involuntary trip around the world / Saarbrücken State Theater

Awards and grants

• 2017/2018 scholarship from the Claussen Simon Foundation
• 2014 finalist in the young talent theater competition Romeo and Juliet are dead Theater Drachengasse
• 2012 scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service
• 2011 nomination for the Citizens' Prize for German Unity with Sonnenallee State Theater Saarbrücken
• 2008 German Student Prize from the Körber Foundation with luck instead of growth

Web links

• Ron Zimmering's website
• Ron Zimmering in the Osnabrück Theater