Simon Meusburger

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Simon Meusburger (* 1974 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian director and since 2007 director and in-house director of the Schubert Theater in Vienna .

Life

Simon Meusburger works as a director and theater director. As part of the Bregenz Festival , he took part as an assistant director in productions such as West Side Story , The Troubadour and Tosca and most recently Aida and Andrea Chénier .

He made his debut as a spoken theater director with Krach im Haus Gott (September 2006) at the Schubert Theater Vienna. Other productions followed in the same building, such as The Glass Menagerie , My Way , Closed Society or the Puppet Theater for Adults Beat Them Dead . As a writer and director, he created Becoming Peter Pan - An Epilogue to Michael Jackson and the film adaptation Freaks .

In 2012, together with the puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan , he staged the life of the Spiegelgrund victim Friedrich Zawrel in a sensational production : F. Zawrel - hereditary biological and socially inferior . On November 5, 2012, the production was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize / Best Off-Production .

His production of F. Zawrel - Hereditary Biological and Socially Inferior has been performed at the Vienna Academy Theater and the Graz Schauspielhaus since 2014 . She is also a guest at numerous international festivals.

In 2014 he staged the adaptation of Dirk Stermann's bestseller 6 Austrians among the top 5 at the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

His staging of the premiere of the State Operetta - Die Austrotragödie (based on the work by Otto M. Zykan, which was originally premiered as a film) premiered in 2016 as a co-production with the Neue Oper Wien at the Bregenz Festival .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Klenk : The lament of the snap-mouth dolls. Falter (weekly newspaper) 15/12, 11 April 2012
  2. ^ Nestroy to Lyssewski and Meyerhoff. In: wien.orf.at. November 5, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.nestroypreis.at/show_content2.php?s2id=65
personal data
SURNAME Meusburger, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, director and director of the Wiener Schubert Theater
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz