Thomas Birkmeir

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Thomas Birkmeir (* 1964 in Munich ) is a German director , author , actor and general manager .

Artistic career

After graduating from high school in 1983, Birkmeir studied pedagogy , psychology and philosophy from 1983 to 1988 . In the meantime he passed the parity examination for drama in Munich . After completing his studies, he completed the directing course at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . At the same time he was assistant director at the Burgtheater while Claus Peymann was in charge .

From 1992 until 1994 he worked as in-house director and actor at the Schauspielhaus Wien under Hans Gratzer . In 1994 he worked as a director and author at the Theater der Jugend Wien. From 1998 to 2001 he was senior director at the Schlossparktheater Berlin (director Heribert Sasse ). This was followed by his appointment as artistic director at the Theater der Jugend Wien . Since the 2002/03 season he has worked there as artistic director and director.

Birkmeir has staged at theaters in Germany and Austria, including the Staatstheater Dresden and the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover , where he staged the world premiere of the stage version of Cornelia Funke's Ink Blood in 2006 . He also worked as a director at the Volkstheater Wien (directing with Harold and Maude , with Elfriede Irrall as Maude, awarded the Dorothea Neff Prize for the “best directorial performance in the 2010/2011 season”), at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna ( 2013; Direction at wedding in Italian - Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo ), also at the Residenztheater Munich (2012; directed by Pünktchen and Anton ), at the Thalia Theater Hamburg , at the Vienna State Opera and as artistic director at own houses.

Birkmeir is also known as an author; his plays and adaptations have so far been performed in over 70 German-speaking theaters. He taught drama at the Vienna Conservatory, at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies Vienna.

In November 2013 Thomas Birkmeir was awarded a special prize for "10 years of innovative, contemporary children's and youth theater" at the Nestroy Prize.

Birkmeir has been a member of the Presidium of the Wiener Bühnen Verein since 2012. Since 2014 he has been the University Council of MUK Vienna.

Productions

  • 1991: emigrants ; Slawomir Mrozek - production as part of the training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, Vienna
  • 1992: Katzelmacher ; RW Fassbinder, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir - diploma production at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, Vienna
  • 1993: penalty area ; Schraml (WP), Schauspielhaus (Vienna)
  • 1993: Nietzsche or German misery ; Widner (ÖEA), Schauspielhaus (Vienna)
  • 1994: Gilgamesh, king of Uruk ; Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 1994: of legal age ; Gert Heidenreich (ÖEA), Theater im Zentrum, Vienna
  • 1994: The Wizard of Oz ; based on Frank L. Baum, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 1994: Oedipus ; Opera, Wolfram Wagner (WP) - Vienna Trade Fair Palace
  • 1995: Leonce and Lena ; Büchner, Theater in the Center (Vienna)
  • 1995: Pinocchio ; based on Carlo Collodi, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 1996: Dear Jelena Sergejewna ; Rasumovskaja, Theater in the Center (Vienna)
  • 1996: Much Ado About Nothing ; based on William Shakespeare, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA) - visiting professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
  • 1996: Art , Yasmina Reza - Metropolis, Salzburg
  • 1997: The Canterville Ghost ; based on Oscar Wilde, adaptation: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 1997: Torquato Tasso ; JW von Goethe, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Stadttheater Augsburg
  • 1997: We are all dead on vacation , Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Conservatory of the City of Vienna
  • 1997: The Presidents ; Schwab - Metropolis, Salzburg
  • 1998: Killing for Company ; Neil Jordan, translation: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Studiobühne Villach
  • 1998: Leonce and Lena ; Georg Büchner, Schlossparktheater Berlin
  • 1999: Much Ado About Nothing ; based on William Shakespeare, adaptation: Thomas Birkmeir (DEA), Schlossparktheater Berlin
  • 1999: Mr. Karl ; Helmut Qualtinger, Schlossparktheater Berlin; Audience Award Berlin;
  • 1999: Nietzsche or Das deutsche Elend ; Alexander Widner (DEA), Schlossparktheater Berlin
  • 2000: Don Juan or the love of geometry ; Max Frisch - Theater in the Josefstadt Vienna; TV recording by ORF , SRG , ZDF and 3sat
  • 2000: Peer Gynt ; based on Henrik Ibsen, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2001: love affair ; Arthur Schnitzler - Fritz Rémond Theater
  • 2001: Anatol ; based on Arthur Schnitzler, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Reichenau Festival
  • 2002: The confusions of the pupil Törless ; based on Robert Musil, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2002: Heidi ; freely based on Johanna Spyri, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2003: Pinocchio ; Rudolf Herfurtner, Hiller, Collodi (ÖEA), Vienna State Opera
  • 2003: The red Zora and her gang ; based on Kurt Held, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2003: The Great Shakespeare Adventure ; Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2004: The Legend of King Arthur ; Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2004: A Boxer's Heart ; Lutz Hübner, Theater in the Center (Vienna)
  • 2005: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp ; Rota (ÖEA), Vienna State Opera
  • 2006: The Secret Garden ; based on FH Burnett, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna; Performance of the month;
  • 2006: ink blood ; Robert Koall , Funke (UA), State Theater Hanover
  • 2007: arsenic and lace cap ; based on Joseph Kesselring, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Staatstheater Hannover
  • 2008: The girl at the end of the street ; Laird Koenig (ÖEA), Renaissance Theater (Vienna)
  • 2009: Comedy of Errors ; based on William Shakespeare, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2010: to be or not to be ; freely based on Nick Whitby after Menyhért Lengyel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2011: Harold and Maude ; freely based on Collins (DEA) Arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Volkstheater Wien , Dorothea Neff Prize
  • 2011: Much Ado About Nothing ; based on Shakespeare (DEA) Adaptation: Thomas Birkmeir, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2011: The Snow Queen ; freely based on Andersen (WP) arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Renaissance Theater (Vienna)
  • 2012: Lost in Yonkers ; Neil Simon, Renaissance Theater (Vienna)
  • 2012: flowering dreams ; Lutz Huebner State Theater Dresden
  • 2012: a heavenly place ; Guus Kuijer, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Renaissance theater (Vienna)
  • 2012: Pünktchen and Anton ; based on Erich Kästner, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Residenztheater Munich
  • 2013: How to Become Immortal ; based on a novel by Sally Nicholls , adaptation: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2013: Wedding in Italian - Filumena Marturano; based on Eduardo De Filippo , arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna
  • 2014: The Hound of the Baskervilles ; based on Arthur Conan Doyle , arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2014: Don Gil from the green pants ; freely based on Tirso de Molina , new version: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Renaissance Theater (Vienna)
  • 2014: The Suicide ; freely based on Nikolai Erdman , arrangement for the FRG: Thomas Birkmeir (UA) Staatsschauspiel Dresden
  • 2015: Sherlock Holmes and the Vampire of London ; freely based on motifs by Arthur Conan Doyle (premiere), Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2015: Pinocchio after Carlo Collodi , new version: Thomas Birkmeir (WP), Residenztheater Munich
  • 2016: Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf, editing: Robert Koall, Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2016: The pirate in the wardrobe by Thomas Birkmeir (UA), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2017: The talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith , version: Thomas Birkmeir, Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2017: Wuthering Heights - Sturmhöhe by Thomas Birkmeir based on Emily Brontë (WP), Renaissance Theater Vienna
  • 2017: Die Rote Zora after Kurt Held, arrangement: Thomas Birkmeir, Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
  • 2018: Christmas Eve by Daniel Kehlmann , Residenztheater (Munich)
  • 2018: Hamlet by Thomas Birkmeir based on William Shakespeare , Renaissancetheater Vienna
  • 2019: Guilt and Atonement by Thomas Birkmeir based on Fjodor M. Dostojewskij , Theater im Zentrum (Vienna)
  • 2019: Robin Hood by Thomas Birkmeir, Renaissancetheater Vienna

Awards

  • 2011: Dorothea Neff Prize for the best director Harold and Maude at the Volkstheater Vienna
  • 2013: Nestroy Special Prize for 10 years of innovative children's and youth theater
  • 2013: Performance of the month by the trade magazine Die Bühne for How to become immortal
  • 2015: Performance of the month by the trade magazine The Stage for Sherlock Holmes or the Vampire of London
  • 2016: Great Art Prize from Bank Austria for the artistic performance of the Theater der Jugend
  • 2016: Performance of the month by the specialist magazine Die Bühne für Tschick
  • 2019: Performance of the month by the trade magazine The Stage for Guilt and Atonement

Pieces and piece processing

literature

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g : Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon . Supplementary volume, part 1. A – F. De Gruyter, Berlin [ua] 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028460-7 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  2. ^ A stage full of "ink blood": Magisches Hannover ntv.de from October 22, 2006. Accessed July 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Harold and Maude": Young man loves old woman, sweet! ; Performance review in: Die Presse, February 12, 2011. Accessed July 8, 2016
  4. ^ Residenztheater: Enchantingly fresh ; Performance review in: Abendzeitung München, November 25, 2012. Accessed July 8, 2016
  5. ↑ Wedding in Italian - Filumena Marturano Cast / Photos / Press Reviews. Official website of Theater in der Josefstadt . Retrieved July 8, 2016
  6. ↑ Special Prize Thomas Birkmeir Official website of the Nestroy Prize . Retrieved July 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Birkmeir, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author, actor and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich