Sebastian Seidel

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Sebastian Seidel

Sebastian Ernst Seidel (born May 27, 1971 in Ulm ) is a German playwright , director and director .

Life

Sebastian Seidel attended the Waldorf School in Ulm and studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Augsburg and at the University at Albany . His uncle is the famous vibraphonist and composer Karl Berger . Until 1999 he headed the Germanist Theater at the University of Augsburg. After graduating, he founded the S'ensemble Theater (today Sensemble Theater ) in 1996 , of which he is still director today. In 2000 , Seidel received his doctorate in Modern German Literature on "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil.

He wrote numerous plays, especially for the Sensemble Theater, where most of his plays were premiered . His pieces are not only played across Germany, for example at the Landestheater Detmold ( Hamlet for you ) or at the Staatstheater Darmstadt ( Hamlet for you ), but above all his Hamlet play is also performed worldwide as "The Accidental Hamlet" at the Fringe Festival NYC or in the Switzerland.

Seidel has received various grants and sponsorship awards, including the City of Augsburg Art Prize in 2002, the Paul Maar Grant in 2004 and the “For Augsburg” Medal of Honor in 2007. He lives and works in Augsburg.

Together with the writer and translator Andreas Nohl , he visited Chinese writers in Jinan, Shandong Province, in 2012 and edited the German-Chinese anthology “Tales of Two Cities” (2014), which was published in Germany and China at the same time. It is the first international literary collaboration of its kind anywhere in the world.

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The comedy is typical of Seidel's plays , for example in his most successful play Hamlet for you , in which two actors try for 90 minutes to bring Shakespeare's drama Hamlet onto the stage. There are also surreal moments like in the piece Quiz-Show , in which a man is suddenly confronted with a stranger who sits in his apartment every day. But tragic conflicts are also addressed, for example in the play Love Movie Theater , which is about unsatisfied longings and the speechlessness of a once happy couple. In October 2012 the book Theater-Marathon was published with ten plays, with a foreword by the publisher Ulrike Hofmann-Paul and an afterword by the literary scholar Friedmann Harzer from the University of Augsburg. In December 2015, the theater monologue Jakob Fugger Consulting was published by Maro-Verlag .

Plays

• One Night (Premiere: Sensemble Theater, February 11, 2017)
• Singing Fever (WP: Sensemble Theater, May 2, 2015)
• Love Peace and Happiness (WP: Sensemble Theater, September 27, 2014)
• Bad Brother (WP: Sensemble Theater, February 7, 2014)
• Enemy Alien Brecht (WP: Sensemble Theater, February 4, 2013)
• Piano Child ( WP : S'ensemble Theater, October 11, 2012)
• Plan B (WP: Augsburg Town Hall, February 9, 2012)
• Barbie, shoot !! (WP: S'ensemble Theater, July 16, 2011)
• Heldenspektakel (WP: S'ensemble Theater, July 17, 2010)
• Election battle (WP: S'ensemble Theater, July 25, 2009)
• Marathon (WP: S'ensemble Theater, January 19, 2002, premiere of a revised version: May 20, 2009, S'ensemble Theater)
• How do you win an election? (WP: Maximilianmuseum Augsburg, March 1st, 2008)
• Love Movie Theater (WP: S'ensemble Theater, October 6, 2007)
• Jakob Fugger Consulting (WP: S'ensemble Theater, March 10, 2007)
• Hamlet for You (WP: S'ensemble Theater, October 7, 2006)
• Werewolf (youth play, no premiere)
• Brotherly love (youth play, no premiere)
• MarathonManagement (WP: S'ensemble Theater, January 29, 2005)
• Self-management 1-3 (WP: S'ensemble Theater, May 1st, 2004)
• In Search (WP: S'ensemble Theater, June 28, 2003, former title: In Search of the Jakoberwall Tower )
• Dreams , with Tina Bühner (WP: S'ensemble Theater, July 20, 2002)
• How or Who is the Knight , with Christian Krug (premiere: S'ensemble Theater, June 29, 2002)
• Defense to Life and Death (WP: S'ensemble Theater October 27, 2001)
• Quiz Show (WP: S'ensemble Theater, March 31, 2001)
• Struggle for Life (under the pseudonym Samuel Schweitzer, WP: S'ensemble Theater, February 10, 2001)

Scholarships and Awards

• Scholarship Intern. Forum for young people on stage at the Berlin Theatertreffen
• Art award of the city of Augsburg in the field of literature (2002)
• Literature award from the Wißner Verlag Augsburg
• Paul Maar scholarship: Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel (2004)
• Promotion of the Bavarian Culture Fund for "In Search of the Jakoberwall Tower" (2005)
• Scholarship for Dramatists Exchange: Luaga & Losna, Nenzing, Austria
• Promotion of the Bavarian Culture Fund for the “Quickies Augsburg” theater night
• Funding the performing arts fund for the “Quickies Augsburg” theater night
• Awarded the Medal of Honor "For Augsburg" by the City of Augsburg (2007)
• Future Prize of the City of Augsburg in the "Sustainable Development" category (2013)

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Seidel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sebastian Seidel website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Real life in a foreign land
2. ↑ Description of the piece by Hamlet for you at the Verband Deutscher Bühnen- und Medienverlage e. V. (VDB).
3. ↑ Description of the quiz show at the Verband Deutscher Bühnen- und Medienverlage e. V. (VDB).
4. ↑ Description of the play by Love Movie Theater at the Verband Deutscher Bühnen- und Medienverlage e. V. (VDB).
5. ^ Sebastian Seidel, Friedmann Harzer: Jakob Fugger Consulting: Theater monologue . 1st edition. Maro, ISBN 978-3-87512-804-8 ( amazon.de [accessed November 7, 2016]).
6. ↑ All pieces . In: Sebastian Seidel - The pieces / theater in Augsburg . ( cmswp.de [accessed November 7, 2016]).
7. ↑ piece description of the revised version of Marathon the Association of German Stage and Media Publishers e. V. (VDB).
8. ↑ Review of the premiere  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Augsburger Allgemeine on May 23, 2009.