Sascha Bunge

Sascha Bunge (* 1969 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German theater director .

Life

His mother is a doctor, his father Wolf Bunge is a director and former director of the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg. Bunge grew up in East Berlin. He began his theater career as an assistant director at the Volkstheater Rostock before studying theater studies and cultural communication and German at the Humboldt University of Berlin and showing his first directorial work with the Hoftheater Prenzlauer Berg ( Lovely Rita by Thomas Brasch , Spectacle Cressida by Stefan Schütz). In 1993, together with Titus Faschina Kleist's drama fragment Robert Guiskard and Heiner Müller , he staged The Battle at the German State Theater in Timisoara, Romania . From 1994 to 1996 he headed the project theater in Dresden and worked for the Tanzbühne and the Festspielhaus Hellerau as a producer, dramaturge and production manager.

Since 1998 he has worked as a director and author at the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg , the Schauspiel Leipzig , in Halle an der Saale, Senftenberg, Pforzheim, Aachen, at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin, at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, at the LTT Tübingen, at the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg and at the Konstanz Theater. In addition, in collaboration with the set designer and video artist Constanze Fischbeck , he realized various scenic sketches and video installations for independent production houses, festivals ( rich and famous 2001 in Podewil Berlin, Poker im Osten 2005 in Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 1) and galleries (Goethe-Institut Sarajevo , Art Office Berlin-Tiergarten, Kommunale Galerie Berlin-Lichtenberg, Schlesische27, House of World Cultures).

In 2005, Bunge took over the artistic direction of the Theater an der Parkaue - Junge Staatstheater Berlin, together with artistic director Kay Wuschek and chief dramaturge Karola Marsch . Until 2014, he was senior director and deputy director, and was jointly responsible for the artistic profile of the house in addition to directing. In addition to staging classic fabrics, he devotes himself to the texts of contemporary authors, for example those of the Russian conceptualist Vladimir Sorokin . He has a particularly close collaboration with the authors Annett Gröschner and Lothar Trolle . Bunge is increasingly working on fairy tale and prose texts for the stage. His directorial work is characterized by strictness of form as well as a high level of linguistic concentration and relies heavily on ensemble work.

Since 2017, Bunge has been working as senior director at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen-Nord Wilhelmshaven.

Selected productions

• Lovely Rita (Thomas Brasch, Hoftheater Prenzlauer Berg Berlin, 1991)
• Endgame (Samuel Beckett, projekttheater dresden, 1994)
• Request concert (Franz Xaver Kroetz, Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, 1998)
• Honeymoon (Vladimir Sorokin, Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, 1999)
• The big booklet (Agota Kristof, Thalia Theater Halle / S., 2000)
• The Russian grandmother (Vladimir Sorokin, Schauspiel Leipzig, 2001)
• Maria Stuart ( Friedrich Schiller , Theater Pforzheim, 2003)
• Winter evening ( Hugo Claus , Theater Aachen, 2003)
• Iphigenia on Tauris ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Theater Aachen, 2004)
• The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, Theater an der Parkaue, 2005)
• Schwanenweiß ( August Strindberg , Theater an der Parkaue, 2005)
• The Hildebrandslied (Lothar Trolle, Theater an der Parkaue, 2006)
• Leonce and Lena ( Georg Büchner , Theater an der Parkaue, 2007)
• Romeo and Juliet (Peter Verhelst, Theater an der Parkaue, 2007)
• Wilhelm Tell (Friedrich Schiller, Theater an der Parkaue, 2008)
• The good person of Sezuan ( Bertolt Brecht , Theater an der Parkaue, 2008)
• Faith, Love, Hope (Ödön von Horváth, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 2009)
• Light Berlin, light! (Lothar Trolle, Theater an der Parkaue, 2009)
• War etc. (GE Lessing / Dea Loher, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 2011)
• The Golden Pot (based on ETA Hoffmann , Theater an der Parkaue, 2011)
• Emilia Galotti / Minna von Barnhelm (GE Lessing, Theater an der Parkaue, 2012)
• Das Fräulein von Scuderi (based on ETA Hoffmann, Theater an der Parkaue, 2012)
• Biedermann and the arsonists (Max Frisch, Theater Konstanz, 2013)
• You live! You live! You are still alive! (Lothar Trolle, Theater an der Parkaue, 2013)
• The law of the jungle (Bernd Heiber, Theater an der Parkaue, 2014)
• KO after twelve rounds (Lothar Trolle, Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, 2014)
• The rats (Gerhart Hauptmann, Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, 2014)
• One long day, rice in the night (Eugene O'Neill, Theater Konstanz, 2015)
• Berlin Lichterfelde-Ost (Lothar Trolle, Theater an der Parkaue, 2016)
• Outlawed (Ayad Akhtar, LTT Tübingen, 2016)
• The world of the net (Jennifer Haley, LTT Tübingen, 2017)
• In a dense birch forest, fog (Henriette Dushe, LB Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven, 2018)
• Citizen Schippel (Carl Sternheim, LT Schleswig-Holstein, 2018)
• The North Sea (Sascha Bunge / Stefan Faupel after Heine, LB Lower Saxony North Wilhelmshaven, 2018)
• Richard III - I waded through swamps, human or not (Peter Verhelst, LB Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven, 2019)
• The cherry orchard (Anton Chekhov, LB Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven, 2019)

Web links

Sascha Bunge homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Rat Theater in Würzburg