Sebastian Orlac

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Sebastian Orlac (* 1970 in Bochum ) is a German director , screenwriter and writer . He is the son of the actors Stephan Orlac and Elke Arendt .

Life

Orlac grew up in Munich. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1987. After graduating from high school, he first worked as an assistant director, then as a theater director, at the Volkstheater Rostock , the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Schauspielhaus Chemnitz and the Nationaltheater Weimar . He also shot music videos .

He designed new narrative formats for the Internet and a. for Pro7 and BBC , developed television series and series and wrote screenplays for television films.

From 2001 his main focus was on literary writing. In 2002 he took part in the authors' workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB); In 2004 he received a scholarship from the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus Eckernförde . In 2005 he received the Alfred Döblin grant from the Academy of Arts in Wewelsfleth.

Together with the cultural measures group , he initiated events such as the tragicomic show of failure from 2002 or the Anton Reiser Werkstipendium 2004, which satirized the German literary industry and its funding system. In autumn 2005, the experimental play , written by him and Thomas Oberender , was premiered simultaneously - the meeting - the other side in Magdeburg and Nashville. In 2006 Sebastian Orlac's debut novel Defense of the Himmelsburg was published by Klett-Cotta.

Works

  • The defense of the Himmelsburg , Roman, (2006, Klett-Cotta) ISBN 3-608-93739-0 . (A kind of family novel, the structures of which are transferred to a contemporary world. The focus is not on an extended family, but on four friends in a big city.)
  • Das Treffen / The other Side , together with Thomas Oberender, Schauspiel, (2005, Verlag der Automobiles)

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Orlac, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum