Sarah Nemitz

Sarah Nemitz (born July 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is a German theater and screenwriter and actress . She lives in Berlin .

Life

Sarah Nemitz grew up in Cologne as the daughter of the painter Otto Nemitz and his wife Josefine (née Terbuyken). There she studied dance at the Institute for Stage Dance , then German studies , philosophy and art history , before devoting herself to her acting career.

She worked as an actress from 1989 to 1993 at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss ; During this time she received the award for best young actress from the Theatertreffen NRW. There she met Lutz Huebner , her future husband, who was also part of the acting ensemble. This was followed by engagements at the theater of the state capital Magdeburg and the Bielefeld theater as well as engagements with film and film companies. TV productions, such as Rose Street and anniversaries of Margarethe von Trotta .

Nemitz has been married to Lutz Hübner since 1994. They have a daughter who was born in 1997.

Dramatic work

Since 2001 there has been a continuous artistic collaboration with her husband Lutz Hübner. The two appear as a writer duo for dramas and screenplays. Two of the dramas they wrote together were also converted into scripts by Nemitz and Hübner, so Ms. Müller has to go! , premiered as a drama in 2010 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . In the film adaptation by Sönke Wortmann , they received the Bavarian Film Prize in the Best Screenplay category for this makeover in 2015 .

The world premiere of Die Firma thanks also took place in January 2011 in the Small House of the Dresden State Theater. The play, which illustrates the loss of values ​​in modern corporate culture , was filmed by Paul Harather and broadcast on ARD in 2018, also with the help of Nemitz and Hübner on the script.

With reference to the Furor , which premiered in 2018 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , a play about the “growing right-wing extremism” of our time, Andreas Falentin writes in the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne : “It is a great strength of the playwright couple Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz, our time, so to speak to look closely at your mouth. They always design this special look confidently and, above all, with a clear demeanor and thus get us to think about ourselves. ” In 2019, the duo of authors turned Furor into a radio play version that was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur in November 2019 .

Hübner and Nemitz are among the most productive and most played contemporary playwrights in Germany. They develop many of the pieces in close collaboration with the houses performing the premiere with Some have been working together for many years, for example the theaters in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

Prizes and awards

• 2015 Bavarian Film Award in the Best Screenplay category for Ms. Müller must go! , together with Lutz Hübner and Oliver Ziegenbalg

drama

(In the order of the premiere ) , in collaboration with Lutz Hübner

• Hotel Paraiso (October 8, 2004)
• The Last Show (January 12, 2006)
• The best for everyone (September 29, 2006)
• Blossom Dreams (September 16, 2007, Austrian premiere 2011 at the Wiener Kammerspiele )
• The Wizard of Camelot (children's revue based on motifs by Mark Twain , October 28, 2007)
• Dropouts (November 9, 2007, commissioned by the State Theater Hanover )
• Wrong Driver (September 21, 2008)
• Dream Team (January 9, 2009, Schauspiel Essen )
• Night Story (September 26, 2009)
• Ms. Müller has to go (January 22, 2010)
• The company thanks (January 27, 2011)
• Hero Baltus (September 15, 2011)
• What to do (October 6, 2012)
• Topping-out ceremony (December 8, 2012)
• Bochum. A Singspiel (October 6, 2013, commissioned by the Schauspielhaus Bochum)
• An example (June 14, 2014, Staatsschauspiel Dresden )
• Phantom (One Game) (September 17, 2015, Nationaltheater Mannheim )
• Don Quixote (Small Version) (October 3, 2015, Gripstheater Berlin)
• Ghetto Deluxe - Project City X (March 13, 2016, commissioned by the Hagen Theater )
• Desired children (May 29, 2016, Schauspielhaus Bochum )
• Wahnfried (January 28, 2017, opera libretto commissioned by the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe )
• Welcome أهلا وسهلا (February 4, 2017)
• Evening over Potsdam (April 7, 2017, commissioned for the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam)
• Paradise (September 23, 2017)
• Furor (November 2, 2018, Schauspiel Frankfurt)
• Abiball (November 19, 2018, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf )
• Frauensache (November 30, 2019, commissioned by the Karlsruhe State Theater )

script

• 2015 Ms. Müller has to go! , together with m. Lutz Hübner and Oliver Ziegenbalg ( Constantin Film )
• 2018 The company thanks , together m. Lutz Huebner ( SWR )

radio play

• 2019 furor . Detective radio play, 53 min., First broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur on November 18, 2019

book

• Lutz Hübner: Ms. Müller has to go and other items . Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-23-6 .
• Lutz Huebner and Sarah Nemitz: plays. Welcome / Desired children / Evening about Potsdam / Phantom (A game) . Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95749100-8 .

Web links

• Sarah Nemitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author portrait at stage publisher Hartmann & Stauffacher
• Interview in Theater der Zeit with Sarah Nemitz and Lutz Hübner about their work on Abend über Potsdam , No. 4/2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Nemitz - Life and Work. In: otto-nemitz.de. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Dagmar Sticht: Sarah Nemitz. Personal premiere today in the Lutz. In: DerWesten. November 6, 2009, accessed October 11, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Henrike Thomsen: Dramas are art in time. In: theaterpolitik.de. May 27, 2008, accessed October 11, 2011 . 
4. ↑ The power of how it fires and laughs . Caren Pfeil on nachtkritik.de , January 27, 2011 (accessed March 5, 2018)
5. ↑ The company thanks . Film Wednesday in the First, February 28, 2018 (accessed March 5, 2018)
6. ↑ Time of the cannibals . Review by Tilmann P. Gangloff for the Frankfurter Rundschau on February 28, 2018 (accessed on March 5, 2018)
7. ↑ ovz: " That shook us": an interview with actors and actresses. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung - lvz.de. November 24, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Andreas Falentin: Impressive paper tiger . In: die-deutsche-buehne.de. November 2, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz: Crime radio play: Wutbürger blackmailed political professional. Furor. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. November 18, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Dorothee Krings: Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz: "We didn't want a theater of dismay". In: rp-online.de. February 2, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Max Kirschner: Interview. Lutz Hübner: "Often the evening ends in a binge." In: Westdeutsche Zeitung - wz.de. October 19, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
12. ↑ The film wins the "Best Screenplay" category. Bavarian Film Award 2015. In: sat1.de. Retrieved November 28, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Hartmut Krug: Lechts und rinks. In: nachtkritik.de. June 14, 2014, accessed November 28, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Harald Raab: Reality check welcome culture. In: nachtkritik.de. September 17, 2015, accessed November 28, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Martin Roeber: Shadow over Wagner's legacy. In: Mannheimer Morgen - morgenweb.de. January 21, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Volker Oelschläger: "Evening over Potsdam". In: maz-online.de. April 5, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .