Theresa Sperling

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Theresa Sperling (* 1971 in Berlin as Theresa Florentine Mintzel ) is a German writer, playwright and stage poet.

Life and professional history

Theresa Sperling is the daughter of Alf Mintzel . After graduating from high school, she completed her dance training at the Etage in Berlin, the Arnhem University of the Arts and as a scholarship holder at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. She returned to Berlin to work as a freelance dancer and to study German and North American studies at the Free University . She has lived in Nordhorn with her husband and two sons since 2004 and teaches German, English and performing arts as a senior teacher at the Gymnasium an der Vechte, Emlichheim .

Her work as a playwright is particularly characterized by the strong choreographic structure of her productions and the rhythm of the language. In 2016 she made her debut as a novelist with her youth novel “Mittelmeersplitter” at Lektora Verlag, followed in 2017 by her dystopia “Tiefenwelt”, then her two-part youth thriller “Penelope Wolfsköder” and “Penelope Puppy Death” by Drachenmond Verlag . Since she returned to the stage as a poetry slammer in 2015 , Sperling has appeared across Germany and is considered the most successful slammer in Lower Saxony. The booklets for her slam texts are designed by the painter Julia Siegmund. Since 2015 she has reached the finals of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Poetry Slam Championships every year, and the semifinals of the German-language championships in 2017. In 2018, Sperling was vice-national champion, in the same year her children's novel “The twelfth fairy did not even appear” was published as an e-book. Her anthology "Slam Poetry. 39 Monologues & Dialogues" ( Deutscher Theaterverlag , 2019) is a collection of slam texts that function as performable mini-dramas for young people. This is the first time that Sperling has merged theater play and slam text into a genre that she calls "poetry drama" in the foreword. With "About us the stars and below us fear" (Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2020), she publishes four youth theater pieces for self-writing and further writing.

Works

Youth novels

Youth plays

  • Elektra , Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2015
  • Ophelia only , Karl Mahnke Verlag, 2015
  • Stumm , Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2016
  • Antigones Traum , Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2017
  • The stars above us and fear below us (pieces to continue writing) : darkness, embodiment, everything somehow love, German, theater publisher, 2020

Children's plays

  • The Canterville Ghost , Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2016

more publishments

  • When something (formerly) new solidifies into dogma. On the criticism of post-dramatic theater. Theresa Sperling and Klaus Thiele in "Spiel & Theater", April 2015
  • Classic Reloaded: From the line version to the performance. Theresa Sperling in "Spiel & Theater", October 2017
  • Holy Fuckin 'Stage: A plea for more professionalism in school theater. Theresa Sperling in "Spiel & Theater", April 2018
  • Holy Fuckin 'Stage II . Theresa Sperling in Spiel & Theater , October 2018
  • Slam Poetry 39 monologues & dialogues . Theresa Sperling (ed.), Deutscher Theaterverlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7695-0340-1 .
  • Dissection in JWD. Best of Poetry Slam Lower Saxony. Sebastian Hahn (Ed.) Blaulichtverlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-941552-45-6 .
  • Poetry drama - a new theater genre for school . Theresa Sperling in Spiel & Theater , April 2020

Awards

  • Elektra , selected for the Lower Saxony School Theater Meeting, Wolfsburg, 2014
  • Embodiment , selected for the Lower Saxony School Theater Meeting, Göttingen, 2016
  • Finalist of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Poetry Slam Championships 2015
  • Finalist of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Poetry Slam Championships 2016
  • Trizin of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Poetry Slam Championships 2017
  • Semi-finalist of the German-speaking Poetry Slam Championships 2017
  • Vice-champion of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Poetry Slam Championships 2018
  • Bloody Cover Award, 2019 for "Penelope Puppy Dying"
  • Papageno Award, 2019, best staging of the Biondek stage by "Stumm"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tiefenwelt - Drachenmond Verlag . In: Drachenmond Verlag . ( drachenmond.de [accessed on May 24, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Magdalena Hinterbrandner Dachau: Narcissus and Vollmund . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 21, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 23, 2017]).
  3. ^ Antonia Jost: "Dead or Alive" Poetry Slam in the Siegener Apollo Theater. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ BIRGIT NOLTE: Teacher beats Wuschelkopf | Steinhagen . In: Steinhagen . ( haller-kreisblatt.de [accessed on May 24, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Julia Siegmund. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Theresa Sperling: The twelfth fairy did not even appear . ( amazon.de [accessed December 14, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Theater: Theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  8. ^ Sperling, Theresa - Authors - Karl Mahnke Theaterverlag. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Theater: Theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Theater: Theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Emlichheim high school students inspire with scene collages. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Pupils on the stage: game about hopelessness . In: GN-Online . ( gn-online.de [accessed on May 23, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Deeply impressive body play in high school . In: GN-Online . ( gn-online.de [accessed on May 24, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Specialist literature: theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Theater: Theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Theater: Theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Specialist literature: theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  18. ↑ The trade journal Spiel & Theater portrays applied theater research - applied theater research . In: Applied theater research . April 26, 2018 ( angewandte-theaterforschung.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Specialist literature: theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved October 29, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Specialist literature: theater, amateur theater, school theater, professional stage. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  21. ^ Sarah Engel: Student theater meeting at GBE: Elektra convinces with vocal power in Bad Essen . ( noz.de [accessed on May 24, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Dieter Wunderlich: NiST 2016. Retrieved on May 24, 2017 .
  23. ^ Bremen Vier: Theresa Sperling (Poetry Slam State Championships 2015). October 19, 2015, accessed May 24, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Poetry slam: Florian Wintels is national champion . In: GN-Online . ( gn-online.de [accessed on May 23, 2017]).
  25. ↑ Elizabeth Tondera: Poetry Slam in Lingen: William Laing is the new national champion . ( noz.de [accessed October 29, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Bloody Cover 2019 - winner Max Bentow. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Mute - Mediterranean in buckets. In: Papageno Award®. Retrieved on May 23, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Sperling, Theresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mintzel, Theresa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and stage poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin