Sascha Hawemann

Sascha Hawemann (* 1967 in Berlin ) is a German Yugoslav theater director .

Life

Sascha Hawemann was born as the child of Horst Hawemann and Mirjana Erceg in 1967 and grew up in East Berlin and Belgrade . He left the GDR illegally in 1986 and went via Hungary to Belgrade in Yugoslavia. There he studied German from 1987 to 1988 and from 1988 to 1991 directing at the University of Dramatic Art (FDU) . When the war in Yugoslavia began , he returned to Berlin in 1991.

After completing his studies in directing from 1991 to 1994 at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , he began his theater work in 1995 as in-house director and from 1997 as director at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam .

Hawemann has been a freelance director since the 2000/2001 season, including at the Nationaltheater Weimar , Schauspielhaus Chemnitz , Theater Magdeburg , Theater Bielefeld , Maxim Gorki Theater , Deutsche Theater Berlin , Staatstheater Hannover and Staatstheater Nürnberg . From 2008 to 2013 he worked at the Centraltheater Leipzig , including two years as in-house director and since 2015 at the Theater Bonn and Theater Dortmund .

In addition to his work as a director, he worked as an acting lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , the Berlin University of the Arts , the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig and the Zurich Academy of Drama.

Sascha Hawemann is married and has one child.

Editing of novels and plays

In addition to directing and teaching, he is interested in adapting novels and plays, including adapting the play “Right to Youth” ( Arnolt Bronnen ), dramatizing the stories “The Coat” ( Nikolaj Gogol ), “The Night, the Lights” ( Clemens Meyer ), “Gewalten” ( Clemens Meyer ) play developments such as “Traum von Hollywood” (Clemens Meyers) and novel dramatizations “Spur der Steine” ( Erik Neutsch ) and “My sister is a monk seal” ( Christian Frascella ). In 2018 his first independent play "Iggy Lust for Life" premiered at the State Theater in Hanover. In 2019 his adaptation of Fjodor Dostoyevsky's novel "The Demons" was premiered at the Dortmund Theater.

In addition, he translated and edited the German scripts for the Serbian films “Beli, beli svet” and “Sutra ujutro” by director Oleg Novković.

Theater and music

Hawemann's interest in the interaction of drama and music led to collaborations with bands and musicians such as Subway to Sally , ear, Bodenski , Robert Beckman ( Inchtabokatables ) and Xell .

Theater festivals

• 1995: “Shocking Heads” (based on motifs by Struwwelpeter, Gerd Knappe) at the theater meeting of children's and youth theaters in Berlin
• 2004: “3 out of 5 million” (Fritz Kater) for the NRW-Theatertreffen
• 2005: “It's a shame that she was a whore” (John Ford) at the International Drama School Meeting in Bratislava
• 2009: "Bagdad is on fire" (John von Düffel) at the Autorentheatertage in Hamburg
• 2011: "We are blood" (Fritz Kater) at the Mühlheimer Theatertage
• 2014: "Death of a Salesman" (Arthur Miller) at the Bayerische Theatertage
• 2015: "Death of a Salesman" (Arthur Miller), Beijing International Theater Festival
• 2018: “The Cherry Orchard” (Anton Chekhov), Production of the Year 2018 / Audience Award Theater Dortmund

Staging selection

• Anton Chekhov: The Seagull (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters (State Theater Hannover)
• William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Centraltheater Leipzig)
• William Shakespeare: Othello (Theater Chemnitz)
• William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus (Theater Magdeburg)
• Heinrich von Kleist: Prince of Homburg (Theater Chemnitz, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
• Fritz Kater: We are blood (Centraltheater Leipzig)
• Fritz Kater: Heaven (to Tristan ) (State Theater Hannover)
• Anthony Burghess: Clockwork Orange (Theater Magdeburg, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
• Clemens Meyer: The night, the lights (staging and editing, Centraltheater Leipzig)
• Clemens Meyer: Sirk the East - a dream of Hollywood (production and adaptation, Centraltheater Leipzig)
• Tennessee Williams: End of the line longing (Theater Magdeburg)
• Gerhart Hauptmann: Before sunrise (Theater Bielefeld)
• Georg Büchner: Danton's death (National Theater Weimar, Theater Bielefeld)
• Georg Büchner: Leonce and Lena (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
• Dejan Dukovski: Powder Keg (Centraltheater Leipzig)
• Erik Neutsch: Trace of Stones (Theater Chemnitz, staging and processing)
• Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (State Theater Hannover)
• Friedrich Schiller: Cabal and Love (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, Theater Magdeburg)
• Arthur Miller: Death of a traveling salesman (Staatstheater Nürnberg)
• Ullrich Plenzdorf: Paul and Paula (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
• Heiner Müller: Hamlet machine (Maxim Gorki Theater)
• Jacoby / Lauffs: Pension Schöller (Theater Bielefeld)
• Tracey Letts: A Family (Theater Dortmund)
• Maxim Gorki: Children of the Sun (State Theater Nuremberg)
• Joseph Roth: Hotel Savoy (State Theater Hanover)
• Bertolt Brecht: Fear and Hope of the Third Reich (Theater Dortmund)
• Wolfgang Borchert: Outside the door (State Theater Nuremberg)
• A.Hawemann / J.Kirsten: Iggy Lust for Life (State Theater Hannover)
• Elfriede Jelinek: Anger (Theater Bonn)
• Anton Chekhov: Cherry Orchard (Theater Dortmund)
• Palmetshofer / Hauptmann: Before sunrise (Theater Bonn)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Demons (Theater Dortmund)

Web links

• Sascha Hawemann's YouTube page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans Otto Theater : Sascha Hawemann
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Theater Magdeburg : Sascha Hawemann
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Staatstheater Hannover : Sascha Hawemann ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 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. 
4. ^ State Theater Nuremberg : Sascha Hawemann