Thomas Aye

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Thomas Aye (born July 11, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German theater director , drama teacher and writer .

Life

In 1981, Aye and Frank Schikore founded the Mobile Underground Theater (MUT), a spontaneous chaos belly theater, with which he performed for six years. a. at the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin in 1983 and at the International Theatertreffen der Jugend in Vienna in 1985. He then began training as an actor at the Rheinische Tanz- und Theaterschule (lessons with Stephan Müller and Howard Sonnenklar ), which he broke off after a year and a half. After a detour into the fine arts (Henrik-Höfengens-Loch on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in Düsseldorf), he finished his studies at the University of Hildesheim with a focus on theater directing, literature and fine arts. Later he was assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Hannover (artistic director: Ulrich Khuon ) and at the Landesbühne Hannover .

From 1992 to 1994 he was in charge of the theater katarrh (Hanover), a model experiment for drama and pedagogy funded by the “Fonds Darstellende Künste” . Afterwards he was responsible for the program design as well as the organizational and financial matters of the small theater at the Görlitz Theater .

In the 2000s he worked at the University of the Arts - Institute for Theater Education in the team of the Theater Education Service in Berlin and as a theater pedagogue in Brandenburg as part of the “Hallo Nazi” project at the Grips Theater .

In addition to his book Praxis Schauspiel , in which he processed his experiences from the Rheinische Tanz- und Theatererschule, Aye developed a modular system with the workshop series “Stanislawski and Friends” in which theory (the workbook Praxis Schauspiel ) and practice (the range of courses "Stanislawski and Friends") are interwoven. What is specific about it is the system that Thomas Aye uses to introduce classical drama pedagogy. Instead of presenting one or two of these “classic drama schools” ( Stanislawski , Meyerhold , Michael Chekhov , Brecht , Strasberg and Grotowski ) in all their complexity, he picks out some characteristic exercises, for example from the Stanislawski system, and presents them with comparable approaches of the other acting educators in a context. The new classification criteria in classical drama education are no longer the schools, but the principles, "body", "atmosphere", "sensory memory", "rhythm" and "mind" with which one works. In staging practice, the dialogue between actors and directors is considerably relieved and the respective aesthetic approaches are taken into account.

He taught this concept nationwide in the training of actors, directors and theater educators, among others. a. at the Remscheid Academy , the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (here in a mixed group of film directors and actors), the University of Hildesheim, the Theater Akademie Stuttgart and in the “Drama Directing” course at the University of Hamburg.

Since the 2010s he has been working increasingly in the field of performance and as a writer.

Publications

  • Boza Boza. A scenic story about asylum and deportation. Readings and a. at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017. dahlemer verlagsanstalt, Berlin, 2016.
  • »Artists and educators - a personal assessment of the chances of theater education«. In: The German Stage 3/2013
  • Attention! Street football. A book project by Martina Kröpelin and Thomas Aye with a foreword by Klaus Allofs, Germany, and Gert Potgieter, South Africa. Schibri-Verlag, Milow, 2010. Funded by the DFB Kulturstiftung.
  • Theater workshop. Special issue for the Duden upper level book "German". Duden Schulbuchverlag, Berlin, 2009.
  • Practice acting. An introduction to classical drama education. Schibri-Verlag, Milow 2007 (3rd edition).
  • Meyerhold, a workshop with Andrej Droznin (Moscow), commented by Thomas Aye. In: Brecht & Stanislawski and the consequences. Editors: Ingrid Henschel, Klaus Hoffmann and Florian Vaßen. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1997.

Productions (selection)

  • 1992: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner . Dome hall of the new city hall Hanover
  • 1993: Marat / de Sade by Peter Weiss. Incoming goods department, Faust Cultural Center, Hanover
  • 1993: Sladek von Ödön von Horvath . JVA Hameln
  • 1993: like a bloody iron. A collage of women's monologues from antiquity to the present. City Theater Peine
  • 1994: Series Theater. Nine months with weekly appearances in the Lindener Ratskeller (Gig) Hannover
  • 1994: What You Want from William Shakespeare. Incoming goods department, Faust Cultural Center, Hanover
  • 1995: Frank Wedekind's spring awakening. A hike between two schools. Hanover
  • 1998: When the world was young, according to the book of the same name by Jürg Schubiger. UA Theater Görlitz. TaK Görlitz
  • 1998: I also lived in Arcadia. A poetic performance based on a story by Ingeborg Bachmann. A hike through the Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
  • 1998: King Ubu by Alfred Jarry. Görlitz Theater. TaK Görlitz
  • 1999: sweat of fear or ... how monologues become a piece. Basic project acting. The Berlin floor
  • 1999: And where is Claire Waldoff? by Dorothee Wendt. A chanson theater. WP Saalbau Neukölln (Berlin)
  • 2002: Clara Schumann or the art of picking a rose by Dorothee Wendt. WP Saalbau Neukölln (Berlin)
  • 2006: My first kiss from Thomas Aye. WP Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008: Leonce and Lena from Georg Büchner. Theater Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2009: Woyzeck meets Leonce & Lena based on Georg Büchner. Department of Art and Music at Bielefeld University
  • 2013: Let my eyes say goodbye. German School Moscow. Moscow

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Practice drama: workbook for the introduction to the "classical" drama pedagogy. Help for rehearsals, piece recommendations and improvisation techniques . Schibri-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-933978-53-0 .
  2. ↑ Michael Fischer dahlemer publishing house: Boza Boza . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-928832-67-0 .
  3. ^ Kröpelin, Martina, Aye, Thomas: Attention street football South Africa, Brazil, Germany . Schibri-Verl, Uckerland, OT Milow 2010, ISBN 978-3-86863-048-0 .
  4. ^ Aye, Thomas .: Theater workshop . 1st ed., 1st Dr. Duden-Schulbuchverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8355-6523-4 .
  5. ↑ Hentschel, Ingrid, 1954-, Hoffmann, Klaus, 1939-, Vassen, Florian .: Brecht & Stanislawski and the consequences: suggestions for theater work . Henschel, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89487-273-X .
personal data
SURNAME Aye, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drama teacher and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg