Shermin Langhoff

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Shermin Langhoff (* 1969 as Şermin Özel in Bursa , Turkey ) is a German theater maker and director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin since 2013 .

Life

Langhoff's grandmother is of Greek origin, her grandfather is descended from Circassian aristocrats. Shortly after she was born, she was taken to her grandparents in Edremit . In 1978, at the age of nine, she came to Germany to live with her mother , who was a guest worker at AEG in Nuremberg . After completing school at the Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium , she first completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk and volunteered as an editor at the Education and Knowledge publishing company. After a few years in the publishing house, she turned to the film industry and completed a traineeship in film and television production at NDR . She then worked as a recording and production manager, then as a producer and assistant director.

She was married to theater director Lukas Langhoff from 1996 to 2017 , their daughter Rosa was born in 1998.

Langhoff was the director of Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 2012 she was appointed director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin as the successor to Armin Petras , who moved to the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart in the summer of 2013 .

job

She initiated the film festival Turkey / Germany in Nuremberg and brought together artists of Turkish origin from all over Germany. In 2003 Langhoff founded the German-Turkish cultural office “KulturSprünge” in Berlin, which in 2004 organized the Europe in Motion film festival. In the same year she worked at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) for the theater project “X-Apartments - Migration”. She worked with Fatih Akın on Gegen die Wand and Crossing The Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul .

She became a curator at HAU and discovered and promoted many talents of the second generation of Turkish immigrants for film and theater in an “Academy of Autodidacts”. In 2006, Langhoff's Beyond Belonging project came into being . Migration to which u. a. Ayşe Polat and Feridun Zaimoğlu contributed theater productions. In 2007 she curated the second edition of the Beyond Belonging project . Autoput Avrupa with plays and productions a. a. by Nurkan Erpulat and Rimini Protokoll . In 2008 she curated the format Ceza & Friends , an open mike session with rapper Ceza .

From 2008 to 2013 she was artistic director at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, which reopened after its renovation with Dogland - young post-migrant theater festival . For this festival, Shermin Langhoff coined the term post-migrant theater, which has since become a constant in the social debates about Germany as a country of immigration and has been widely examined as a concept in the academic field. Several Ballhaus productions, especially Verrücktes Blut by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje, attracted international attention. Erpulat's production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen and numerous international festivals.

In 2013 she moved to Berlin's Maxim-Gorki-Theater as artistic director . In 2014 and 2016, the Maxim Gorki Theater was voted Theater of the Year . The Maxim-Gorki-Theater under Shermin Langhoff was perceived internationally as a stage for a contemporary, heterogeneous urban society with a pronounced political profile. In 2016, Shermin Langhoff received the Berlin Theater Prize together with Jens Hillje . The jury's reasoning stated that since the 2013/2014 season, the duo had "consistently and radically made the Maxim Gorki Theater a venue that reflects the diversity of the city's population." Langhoff's contract lasted in 2019 until the end of the 2022 season / 23 extended.

Social Commitment

  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation
  • Member of the Council for Cultural Education in Germany 2014–2017
  • Advisory participation in the founding advisory board of the Tarabya Culture Academy 2010/2011 and member of the jury of the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul since 2012
  • Member of the Board of Culture Jumps e. V .: Founding member and board member 2003–2013
  • Member of the Kairos Prize Jury in Hamburg since 2017
  • Member of the Brecht Prize Jury in Augsburg since 2018

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Şermin Langhoff  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shermin Langhoff - “Beyond all prejudices and ethnic clichés”. In: goliving.de. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Mely Kiyak : Shermin Langhoff: Revolüsyon! ( Memento of July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Shermin Langhoff - KAIROS Prize Winner 2011 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ The post-migrant society. Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on November 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Reason . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2010 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Shermin Langhoff honored ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  7. ↑ Berlin Tolerance Prize for theater maker Shermin Langhoff
  8. ↑ Theater of the Year: The director of the “Gorki”, Shermin Langhoff ( Memento from November 28, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ).
  9. ↑ Christopher D. Shea: Maxim Gorki Theater Leads to Immigrant Vanguard in Berlin . In: The New York Times . April 22, 2015 ( nytimes.com [accessed November 11, 2016]).
  10. ↑ dpa: Price for the Gorki. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2016, p. 10.
  11. ↑ Shermin Langhoff extended. In: SZ.de. December 17, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ About us
  13. ↑ Board of Directors
  14. ^ Members of the Council. In: rat-kulturelle-bildung.de. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
  15. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): The Tarabya Culture Academy | Culture | DW.COM | 09/12/2012. In: DW.COM. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
  16. ↑ About KulturSPRÜNGE. In: Kulturspruenge.net. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Moses Mendelssohn Prize for Shermin Langhoff. In: berlin.de. August 1, 2012, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Drama: Berlin Gorki Theater voted Theater of the Year . In: The time . August 28, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 11, 2016]).
  19. ↑ Stefan Kirschner: The “Theater of the Year” 2016 are in Berlin. In: morgenpost.de. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Langhoff, Shermin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langhoff, Şermin; Özel, Şermin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bursa , Turkey