Simon Solberg

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Simon Solberg (2008)

Simon Solberg (* 1979 in Bonn ) is a German director and actor .

Life

education

After graduating from high school in Heidelberg and doing his community service in 2000, Simon Solberg began studying acting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and graduated in 2004 with a diploma.

job

During his studies, Solberg played the role Ringo in the film Engel and Joe by Vanessa Jopp in 2000 .

In 2001 and 2002 he played the choir leader in Bakchen , a production by Theodoros Terzopoulus, and in King Oedipus , directed by Tadashi Suzuki at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

He appeared in 2003 in the Ruhr Triennale in the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , directed by La Fura dels Baus with and starred in the movie Guys and by Sherry Hormann .

In 2004, Solberg played alongside Tom Gerhardt in the movie Siegfried and after completing his studies began his work as an assistant director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . There he was in charge of productions by Armin Petras , in which he partly played himself - as in Lucretia Borgia by Victor Hugo - or created the videos for Die Frau vom Meer by Henrik Ibsen and Unter dem Vulkan by Malcolm Lowry .

In 2005, his directorial debut came on Schauspielfrankfurt Odyssey reloaded its own version of the Odyssey of Homer . He also played a garden in the adaptation of the novel In his Early Childhood, directed by Armin Petras at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.

Solberg began his work as in-house director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 2006 and staged Stranger Fights , a novel adaptation based on Wilhelm Genazino , and the docu-soap-Tele-Favela Making of THE BAND . In the same year he worked as a lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the theater studies department and developed the play Heine on the run with the students .

In addition to his work at the theater, he has made several short films since his studies and in 2006 shot the docu-soap-tele-favela Arche06 eV about Noah's three sons and their attempt to build an ark in Frankfurt am Main these days .

In 2007, as part of the Schillertage festival, the Pimp the City project followed at the Mannheim National Theater , which, financed by the Heimspiel Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation, dealt with the situation of unemployed people in Mannheim, as well as the productions of Spring Awakening in its own version Frank Wedekind and pictures of men and women by Marcus Braun . At the Schauspiel Frankfurt Solberg staged Die Schroffenstein von Kleist with artists from Frankfurt, also with the support of the federal home game fund. Another Frankfurt production of his, Don Quijote based on the novel by Cervantes , was invited to Radikal jung - The Festival of Young Directors in Munich.

In 2008, Solberg adapted Lilja-4-ever for the stage at the Nationaltheater Mannheim based on a film by Lukas Moodysson . He directed Faust at the Munich Volkstheater and began developing the Visionauten series at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin with Ludwig Haugk and Maja Thiesen .

In January 2009, the play Leaving Marzahn , which he developed with Anika Baumann and Andreas Leupold , premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Two weeks later, the lecture performance of Philipp Löhle's piece Die Unsicherheit der Sachlage followed, also as part of the Visionauten . At the Schauspiel Frankfurt he shot the Grimm-Code , a 110-minute urban fairytale thriller about two jugglers on the trail of the Brothers Grimm and the world conspiracy. This feature film is currently in post-production. For the opening of the 2009/2010 season at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Solberg staged Romeo and Juliet , in October he developed the play ARGOcalypse now at the Schauspielhaus Wien .

On January 14, 2010 Schiller's Die Räuber premiered at the Theater Basel , in April Solberg made a workshop production of In Neon by Julia Kandzora as part of the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In May, Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich Schiller had its premiere at the Munich Volkstheater. The 2009/2010 season ended for Solberg with the production of Shakespeare's Hamlet for the opening of the Heidelberg Castle Festival at the end of June 2010. Max Frisch's Graf Öderland was staged by Simon Solberg for the 2010/2011 season opening of the Theater Basel on September 10, 2010. In 2011 he directed Henrik Ibsen's Ein Volksfeind there .

In the 2012/2013 season, Simon Solberg was part of the artistic management team of the theater at Basel Theater together with Martin Wigger and Tomas Schweigen .

In the 2015/16 season Solberg staged Woyzeck at the Theater Bonn , followed by BND - Big Data is Watching You in 2016/17 and Die Physiker in 2017/18 . From the 2018/19 season, Simon Solberg will be permanent in-house director at Theater Bonn.

Productions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Georg Kasch: Child's play. Simon Solberg makes classics a new experience. In: Kilian Engels & C. Bernd Sucher (eds.): Political and possible worlds. tomorrow's directors. Henschel, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89487-613-5 , pp. 72-81.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Solberg. Nachtkritik.de , accessed on May 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Simon Solberg at the Dresden State Theater ( memento from December 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Solberg in the acting trio at Theater Basel 2012/2013
  4. ^ Ensemble - Theater Bonn. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Solberg, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn