Stephanie Shimmer

Stephanie Shimmer

Stephanie Schimmer (born October 17, 1982 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author , director and actress .

Career

Growing up in Baden near Vienna , Schimmer began her theater career at the Volkstheater Vienna . Parallel to her private studies in spoken theater dramaturgy with Peter Simhandl, she started directing in spoken theater, performance and short films (including directing the short film Hybris, UTV, Votivkino Wien; performance When the flower woman got out of her pot, the life of Françoise Gilot with Pablo Picasso, NL40 Vienna). At the same time, the formerly active competitive fencer (Fechtunion Mödling) completed numerous courses in scenic fencing and stage fighting, etc. a. at the Academy of Fencing Art in Germany.

Engagements as assistant director, stage manager and fight choreographer led Schimmer u. a. To the Baden stage , the Frankfurt Opera , the Volksoper Vienna , the Graz Opera , the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Opera House of the State Theater Nuremberg . Since September 2014 she has been the artistic director, dramaturge and in-house author of the Comödie Fürth . Her pieces as well as musical, operetta and comedy adaptations have been and will be recorded and broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk .

Pieces and piece processing

• Pension Schöller from Carl Lauffs and Wilhelm Jacoby; Machining; Comedy Fürth 2014; Recorded by the BR
• Broadwoaschdwalzer by Martin Rassau and Stephanie Schimmer; Schlossgarten Festival Wirsberg 2015, as well as Comödie Fürth 2016
• Flea in the ear after Georges Feydeau ; Recast; Comedy Fürth 2015; Recorded by the BR
• In the white Rößl by Ralph Benatzky ; Text version and co-direction with Wolfgang Gratschmaier; Operetta Summer Kufstein 2015
• The master boxer editing; Comedy Fürth 2015; Recorded by the BR
• A cage full of fools by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein ; Machining; Comedy Fürth 2016
• Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss , Libretto: Karl Haffner , Richard Genée ; Editing of the existing text version, State Theater Nuremberg 2016
• The Root of Evil by Stephanie Schimmer; Comedy Fürth 2016; Recording by the BR; published by Breuninger-Verlag Aarau (Switzerland)
• Boeing-Boeing by Marc Camoletti , translation and editing; Comedy Fürth 2016; Recorded by the BR
• The Spanish fly from Arnold and Bach ; Machining; Comödie Fürth 2017 recorded by BR
• Charley's Aunt, musical comedy by Stephanie Schimmer based on Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas ; Comedy Fürth 2017; Recorded by the BR
• Not now, favorite of Ray Cooney and John Chapman, editing; Comedy Fürth 2018
• The real Jakob von Arnold and Bach ; Machining; Comedy Fürth 2018; Recorded by the BR
• The perfect disaster dinner by Marc Camoletti in the version by Michael Niavarani ; Machining; Comedy Fürth 2019; Recorded by the BR
• The Merry Widow New version by Stephanie Schimmer as a jazz operetta based on the original by Franz Léhar , arranged by Lars J. Lange, Michael Flügel and Thilo Wolf ; Comedy Fürth 2019; Recorded by the BR
• Weeds don't go away by Stephanie Schimmer, based on an idea by Volker Heissmann and Martin Rassau ; The premiere at Comödie Fürth is expected in September 2020
• The Robbery of the Sabine Women New version by Stephanie Schimmer, based on the original Paul and Franz Schönthan; Premiere in the Comödie Fürth is expected in April 2021

Productions

• In the white Rößl by Ralph Benatzky ; Text version and co-direction with Wolfgang Gratschmaier; Operetta Summer Kufstein 2015
• Tosca by Giacomo Puccini ; Directed together with Wolfgang Gratschmaier; OperBurgGars, Gars am Kamp 2018
• Little Me by Cy Coleman and Neil Simon ; German premiere; Directed together with Wolfgang Gratschmaier, Stadttheater Fürth 2019
• The Merry Widow New version by Stephanie Schimmer based on the original by Franz Léhar , direction, Comödie Fürth 2019

Combat choreographer

• Don Giovanni , Dramma giocoso by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte ; State Theater Nuremberg 2013
• Otello , opera by Giuseppe Verdi , libretto: Arrigo Boito ; State Theater Nuremberg 2013
• Otello , opera by Giuseppe Verdi , libretto: Arrigo Boito ; Opéra National de Bordeaux 2013
• Casanova, play by Jutta Schubert; Theater Ansbach 2016
• The Three Musketeers, musical by Nora Khuon and Markus Bothe; Theater Ansbach 2016
• Workshop as a freelance lecturer at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding , branch: Musical 2019

roll

• Funny Money 2014 (as Commissioner Schmidt); Comedy Fürth ; Recorded by the BR
• Flea in the Ear 2015 (as Mizzi Katz); Comedy Fürth ; Recorded by the BR
• Boeing-Boeing 2016 (as Claudia Pospischil - Austrian Airlines); Comedy Fürth ; Recorded by the BR
• The Spanish Fly 2017 (as Adele); Comedy Fürth ; Recorded by the BR
• Not now, darling 2018 (as Cordula Cloud); Comedy Fürth ; Recorded by the BR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fechtkunst December 2005. Accessed July 7, 2020 .