Drama School Siegburg

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Acting student at the Siegburg Acting School at a public theater performance at the Siegburg Studio Stage (scene from Agamemnon after Aeschylus , 2008)

The drama school Siegburg is a state-recognized, private vocational school for the training of actors , which was founded in 1987 and has been based in Siegburg in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1998 . As a recognized supplementary school, the drama school is also eligible for BAföG . The school has been supported by the registered association Theaterschatz e. V. , which is also based in Siegburg. Since then, the school has been run by René Böttcher and Maike Mielewski.

In the district town of Siegburg, which is part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region , the drama school has its own theater , the Siegburg studio stage , in which the school's own drama productions are regularly performed in public. The plays are mainly staged by invited directors and some are shown elsewhere in guest performances and theater projects such as in the Rhine metropolises of Cologne and Bonn, as well as at theater festivals. In addition, the theater pedagogues of the drama school and the drama students supervise the children's and youth theater Theater Tollhaus , which also belongs to the school and offers children and young people weekly theater courses.

location

The drama school Siegburg is located together with the studio stage Siegburg and the theater Tollhaus in downtown Siegburg on Humperdinckstraße . The three institutions are located in the building complex of the Community College of purpose association Rhein-Sieg (house no. 27) in which, among other things, the music school of the Engelbert Humperdinck- -Gesellschaft and the night school Rhein-Sieg are located.

History and carrier

The drama school was founded in 1987 by Wolf Bongôrt von Roy (actually Wolf Bongort-von Roy ; 1942-2006) under the name of Theaterfachschule Bongôrt von Roy in Bergisch Gladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia , and according to § 118 School Act NRW - SchulG as a supplementary school with the authorities indicated and recognized by the state. In 1998, Bongôrt von Roy moved his theater school to Siegburg. There he founded a small theater at the same time , which was run in the form of a private theater . This studio stage also served as a training stage (teaching stage) for the drama students at the private drama school now run by him in Siegburg.

In 2004, Bongôrt von Roy moved to Leipzig together with some of the teachers at his theater school to set up  a new drama school at the Theater-Fabrik-Sachsen , which he founded in 2001/2003 and an off-theater in Leipzig- Leutzsch that still exists today Theater school Bongôrt-v. Roy , to bring into being. As a result, his former student, the actor and director René Böttcher , took over both the drama school and the studio stage in November 2004, which he continued as the newly founded drama school in Siegburg and the studio stage in Siegburg . At the same time he founded a theater for children and young people at the studio stage , which was later given the name Theater Tollhaus . As artistic director, Böttcher took over the artistic direction of the studio stage.

The drama school in Siegburg also received state recognition as a vocational school for performing stage arts and regularly trains actors. The drama school was also recognized as eligible for federal training funding. Since 2004, the drama school in Siegburg and the studio stage in Siegburg with the children's and youth theater have been run by René Böttcher together with the actress and director Maike Mielewski.

The three institutions - the Siegburg Drama School, the Siegburg Studiobühne and the Tollhaus Theater - are supported by the registered association Theaterschatz e. V. , of which René Böttcher is also a board member. The sponsoring association is recognized as a non-profit organization and is based in Siegburg.

education

Training concept

Studiobühne Siegburg , teaching stage of the drama school (entrance area, 2007)

The state-recognized vocational training extends over four years and is divided into an orientation semester, three years of training and a final graduate semester. The apprenticeship qualification of the drama school entitles the holder to access the central foreign and specialist placement (ZAV) of the Federal Employment Agency .

The training concept puts the early confrontation of the drama students with professional practice at the center of the training. The drama school in Siegburg invites directors to stage complete drama productions. The drama school Siegburg has its own teaching stage, the Siegburg studio stage . The principle of the training is to embed the trainees in productions at an early stage and to present these drama productions on the fixed program of the Siegburg studio stage. Every year up to five new productions are developed, which are shown up to 85 times per theater season. In addition to the actual acting training of the students, they are also taught the basics of stage design , stage technology and costume design .

Selected stage productions are also regularly performed in guest performances and as part of theater projects such as the Cologne theater scene or at theater festivals.

Faculty

The teachers of the drama school Siegburg include the two directors of the school, the actor and director René Böttcher (acting, scene work) and the actress and director Maike Mielewski (movement, drama), among others the singer Ulrike Joannou Mittag (singing, speaking technique) , the pianist Martin Eng (music, choir), the actress Birte Schrein (drama), the actor Tobias M. Walter (drama), the actor and director Bardia Rousta (drama), the dancer Marguerite Apostolidis (movement), the dancer Charisse Münz (movement) and the director Volker Maria Engel .

subjects

Directors of in-house productions

The direction of the drama school Siegburg's own drama productions was and is in part taken over by the school's teachers, in particular René Böttcher and Volker Maria Engel. Directors are also regularly invited to stage complete productions. The following guest directors have worked at the studio stage in recent years:

Own theater productions, guest performances

The drama school Siegburg's own drama productions, which have been staged in recent years and often shown in guest performances at other theaters and performance venues in addition to regularly on the school's own studio stage, include the following plays:

Scene from a guest performance of the drama norway.today directed by René Böttcher at the stage of cultures in Cologne (2013)
Scene from a performance of Horváth's drama Faith, Love, and Hope directed by Sarah Kortmann at the Siegburg studio stage (2013)

In 2007/2008, Volker Maria Engel took over the staging of the play Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth , which the drama students performed regularly on the school's own studio stage and was given as a guest performance several times at the Bonn cultural center Brotfabrik Bonn .

In 2009 director Engel studied the children's tragedy Spring Awakening with the students of the Frank Wedekind drama school . The play was also performed regularly on the studio stage and again in several guest performances in the cultural center Brotfabrik Bonn. The theater critic Elisabeth Einecke-Klövekorn praised the production in the Bonner General-Anzeiger and rated the young actors as "linguistically and physically precise, psychologically sensitive and playfully convincing".

Also in 2009 the drama Onkel Vanja by Anton Chekhov was included in the studio stage's program; Guest director Ulrike Schwab took on the staging. The criticism was impressed and saw a "very respectable and remarkable performance by all those involved". With the play, the drama students were also invited to guest performances at German-Russian cultural events in North Rhine-Westphalia at the stage of cultures in Cologne.

In 2010 guest director Stefan Krause rehearsed Nigel Williams ' play Der Klassenfeind on the studio stage and performed it there several times. It was also shown at various schools in Siegburg and the region such as Lohmar , as well as in Bonn, Neuss and at the Theater im Bauturm in Cologne.

From the beginning of 2011, the play Dear Wendy, based on a script by Lars von Trier, was on the program of the studio stage; Directed by Volker Maria Engel. The "successful [...] final production of the drama school Siegburg" ( Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ) also made a guest appearance in the Bonn cultural center Brotfabrik Bonn .

In spring 2011 the studio stage brought out Anja Hilling's play Sinn ; Guest director Sarah Kortmann directed. The contemporary play, which addresses the communication problems of the younger generation, was “impressively staged”, said the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger in its premiere review and saw “consistently excellent [...] actors” who went “to the limit of the bearable”. In addition to numerous performances during the 2011/2012 season on the school’s own stage, the drama school made a guest appearance with the successful play at the independent theater Landungsbrücken Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main.

In the 2012/2013 season, the Siegburg Drama School staged the two-person drama norway.today by Igor Bauersima , directed by René Böttcher. The "implementation of the cumbersome subject" was "well done - and amusing", found the Rhein-Sieg Rundschau , and the Bonner General-Anzeiger acknowledged the acting performance of the "amazingly authentic and realistic" effect of the under Use of modern media performed play. The in-house production was shown as a guest performance at the Arkadaş Theater - Stage of Cultures in Cologne, among others .

In the spring of 2013, the school's own production of Ödön von Horváth's drama Faith, Love and Hope , directed by Sarah Kortmann, premiered. The “dance of death”, as the piece reads in the subtitle, met with approval from both critics and the public. For example, the Bonner General-Anzeiger u. a. "A successful stage set" and saw "an impressive performance by the director and all actors without exception". In addition to numerous performances on the studio stage, the ensemble of the drama school has meanwhile also given several performances of the play at the Frankfurt Theater Landungsbrücken Frankfurt.

Graduates (selection)

The graduates are engaged in various theater ensembles . The following actors, among others, emerged from the Siegburg drama school:

Web links

Commons : Schauspielschule Siegburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the person: Wolf Bongort-von Roy. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA), June 19, 2003; accessed on January 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d See information and imprint on the Siegburg Acting School website (www.schauspielschule-siegburg.de); accessed on February 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d See information and imprint on the website of the Studiobühne Siegburg (www.theaterseite.de); accessed on February 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Healing theater play . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA), June 19, 2003; accessed on February 4, 2014.
  5. ^ From the Malteser Faust Theater to the drama school. Westfälischer Anzeiger, accessed on January 29, 2014
  6. ^ Fight against the gray gentlemen Momo on the Siegburg studio stage. Website of the city of Siegburg, accessed on January 29, 2014
  7. ^ Sense - A piece by the graduates of the drama school Siegburg. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 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. Cologne theater scene, accessed on January 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterszene-koeln.de
  8. ^ Hohenlimburg Castle Games - A Midsummer Night's Dream in a fascinating setting. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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. Westfalenpost, accessed on January 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schlossspiele.de
  9. ↑ Theater of the studio stage in Siegburg. Kasimir and Karoline ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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. . On: Website of the stage of the Bonn bread factory on March 11, 2008; accessed on January 30, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater.brotfabrik-bonn.de
  10. ↑ Elisabeth Einecke-Klövekorn: Wilma and Wendla on cloud nine in the bread factory . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn, from April 1, 2009; accessed on January 30, 2014.
  11. ↑ Patrick Lülsdorf: In vain search for happiness. Studiobühne impressed with Chekhov's drama "Onkel Vanja" ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Rhein-Sieg Rundschau from March 10, 2010; PDF, accessed January 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterseite.de
  12. ^ German-Russian events culture North Rhine-Westphalia: Uncle Wanja . On: Kulturportal-Russland.de, event date: February 25, 2010; accessed on January 30, 2014.
  13. ↑ Axel Vogel: Youngsters without illusions ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: General-Anzeiger, Bonn, from 3./4. April 2010; PDF, accessed January 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / theaterseite.de
  14. ↑ Drama School. Gun love ends tragically . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from February 3, 2011; accessed on January 30, 2014.
  15. ↑ Nadine Quadt: Sensual search for great love ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: General-Anzeiger, Bonn, from May 20, 2011; accessed on January 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterseite.de
  16. ↑ Christian Leinweber: Up to the limit of the bearable ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 23, 2011; accessed on January 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterseite.de
  17. ↑ Marie Eckert: Make bread rolls before suicide . In: Rhein-Sieg Rundschau from September 21, 2012; accessed on January 30, 2014.
  18. ↑ Isabel Günther: Who takes care of the fish when I'm no longer there? ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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. In: General-Anzeiger, Bonn, from December 11, 2012; PDF, accessed January 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterseite.de
  19. ↑ Faith Love Hope 2013 . On: Website of the independent theater Landungsbrücken Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main, program from November 2013; accessed on January 30, 2014.
  20. ^ Vita Serkan Durmus. Aalto Ballet Theater
  21. ↑ Theater Willy Praml: Vita Tim Stegemann ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-willypraml.de
  22. ^ West German Tourneetheater Remscheid
  23. ^ Westphalian State Theater: Patrick Bartsch
  24. ^ Comedia Theater: Nadja Duesterberg

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