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Thomas Blockhaus (* 1960 in Haan ) is a German theater and radio director and author.

Life

Thomas Blockhaus grew up in Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia), was a competitive swimmer and water polo player and finished his school days with the Abitur. After community service in the pathology department of a hospital, he studied theater studies , philosophy and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During his studies he worked on various stages in Munich and Salzburg, including as a stage technician , equipment assistant (" Waiting for Godot - for children" by Samuel Beckett at the Theater der Jugend, Munich) and production dramaturge ("Beppi in luck" after Stallerhof and Geisterbahn) by Franz Xaver Kroetz at the Münchner Volkstheater).

Between 1987 and 1992, as assistant director , he was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Bühnen der Stadt Lübeck (general manager: Hans Thoenies), the Munich Volkstheater (manager: Ruth Drexel ) and the Bremen theater (general manager: Tobias Richter). During this time, the collaboration with the directors András Fricsay , Peter Palitzsch , Christian Kohlmann, Ruth Drexel, Rolf Stahl and Katharina Thalbach was particularly influential .

In May 1992 he made his debut at the Bremen Theater as a director with the play Before the Retirement of Thomas Bernhard . Since then he has worked as a freelance theater director, a. a. in Bremen, Eisenach, Hanover and Cologne. At the end of 2010, Michael Cooney's “Comedy of the Old Town” opened in Freiburg with his staging of Cash on delivery - And Eternally Rushing Money .

Since 1994 he has also worked for radio in addition to the theater. Initially as assistant director for radio plays and radio features at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR), where he was a. a. the directors Norbert Schaeffer , Leonhard Koppelmann , Walter Adler , Jörg Schlüter and Petra Feldhoff introduced the art of radio play direction. He has directed the radio himself since 2000 and has since produced over 350 radio plays and features. In addition to his radio play adaptations by international novelists, special highlights were his literary features about Philip Roth , Don DeLillo , Ian McEwan , Oskar Roehler , Toni Morrison and Amy Sackville .

Since the late 1990s, he has been making trips into the event industry, where he designed and staged small and large events for well-known companies for various event agencies (e.g. in 2001 for Kogag Solingen in the German pavilion at the Hanover Expo, “The new 7 series BMW ").

Thomas Blockhaus has also been an author since 2005. After several radio play adaptations of novels (including Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo), he wrote his first radio feature in 2010 with an acoustic portrait of his hairdresser, which was followed by more. In 2011 he wrote Memo , his first self-written radio play . He staged all of his radio plays and features himself, all of which were produced and originally broadcast by WDR. Many were repeated in German-speaking countries by other broadcasters. All of his radio plays are published by Hartmann & Stauffacher Verlag in Cologne.

Thomas Blockhaus also works as a director and author of radio play adaptations for CD publications. In addition to audio books and a science feature series, there are also children's radio plays ( Princess Lillifee and the enchanted island , Till Wiesentroll ) in stores.

Thomas Blockhaus lives near Bonn.

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Theater direction (selection)

• "Before retirement" by Thomas Bernhard (Bremen)
• "'Night, Mother" by Marsha Norman (Eisenach)
• "Siberia" by Felix Mitterer (Hanover)
• "Triage" by Florian Felix Weyh (Hanover)
• "An ideal husband" by Oscar Wilde (Hanover)
• "Outside the door" by Wolfgang Borchert ( Landesbühne Hannover )
• “Full of Feeling” youth cabaret from ComicOn! (Cologne)
• "Männerjagd" TingelTangel-Revue based on texts by Cynthia Heimel u. a. (Cologne)
• "Cash on delivery - The money rushes forever" by Michael Cooney (Freiburg)

Radio play adaptation and direction

• "Cosmopolis" by Don DeLillo . Two-part radio play with Wanja Mues , Tanja Schleiff, Michael Habeck u. a. (WDR 2005)
• "Flugrausch" by Garry Disher . Radio play with Oliver Stokowski, Nina Petri a. a. (WDR 2006)
• "Snapshot" by Garry Disher. Radio play with Thomas Sarbacher, Markus Scheumann, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger a. a. (WDR 2007)
• "The Treasure" by Andreas Albes. Radio play with Matthias Koeberlin , Stéphane Bittoun a. a. (WDR 2007)
• "Winter in Maine" by Gerard Donovan . Radio play with Udo Wachtveitl , Bettina Engelhardt, Thomas Loibl a. a. (WDR 2012)

Feature direction (selection)

• "Auto-erotic. Only death comes faster "by Christopher Jansen (WDR 2001)
• “Talk to yourself in the eye of the hurricane. The American writer Philip Roth "by Thomas David (WDR 2002)
• “On the neon edges of time. The American writer Don DeLillo "by Thomas David (WDR 2003)
• "Gangland" by Peter Kessen (WDR 2004)
• "In Mode" six-part feature series by Martin Stümper, Wibke Stark, Susanne Burkhardt, Beate Berger, Annette Blaschke, Boris Heinrich (WDR 2004)
• "Back then in the GDR" ten-part feature series by Nicolaus Schröder (WDR 2005/2009)
• “Of cockroaches, god and a masked hero. The American comic author Will Eisner "by Christian Gasser (WDR 2005)
• "The Secret of the Sunzi" by Lou Brouwers (WDR 2006)
• "Magma heart and the rustle of wings. The writer Werner Fritsch "by Martin Becker (WDR 2006)
• "Homo climaticus. Or how people saw off the branch they are sitting on "by Dagmar Röhrlich (WDR 2008)
• “Baghdad Blues. An acoustic long-term study "by Björn Blaschke (WDR 2008)
• “White spots, thick folds. Suspected Down syndrome in the womb "by Christiane Schütze (WDR 2008)
• “Or do we have to die? A portrait of the English writer Ian McEwan ”by Thomas David (WDR 2008)
• "Eco-crimes. Crimes at the expense of nature "Three-part feature series by Thomas Weidenbach, Heinz Greuling, Rüdiger Heimlich (WDR 2008)
• “From old Antonio and from new life. 15 Years of Zapatism "by Anselm and Jakob Weidner (WDR 2008)
• “How does our youth tick?” Four-part feature series by Dieter Jandt (WDR 2010)
• "The History of Astronomy" 12-part feature series by Dirk Lorenzen (WDR 2010)
• “Last words on the cross. Discussion among the crucified "by Susanne Krahe (WDR 2010)
• “The tired eyes sleep. The filmmaker Oskar Roehler "by Thomas David (WDR 2010)
• “Toni Morrison. A Portrait of the American Writer "by Thomas David (WDR 2011)
• "The history of space travel" 12-part feature series by Dirk Lorenzen (WDR 2011)
• "Father, Son and Frozen Happiness" by Anna Kuhn-Osius (WDR 2011)
• “The discovery of waiting. Amy Sackville's debut novel "Ruhepol" by Sabine Barth (WDR 2012)
• "Love chaos. Partnership in the 21st Century "Four-part feature series by Inge Breuer and Barbara Weber (WDR 2012)

Author (radio play and radio feature)

• “Memo” radio play by Thomas Blockhaus. With Katharina Wackernagel u. a. (WDR 2011)
• "Chocolate and Cigarettes - First Encounters with the Winners in 1945" Feature by Thomas Blockhaus (WDR 2015)
• "Stage slaves - working conditions in theaters in need of improvement" Feature by Thomas Blockhaus (WDR 2015)
• "Brian Müschenborn and the thoughtless souls" Feature by Thomas Blockhaus (WDR 2012)
• "A Brief History of Klaus Meyer and the Freedom of the Hairdresser" Feature by Thomas Blockhaus (WDR 2010)

CD publications

• "Dead Girls Don't Lie" by Jay Asher, 4 CDs, audio book with Robert Stadlober and Shandra Schadt (2009, audio book version and direction)
• “Fascination with the universe. The History of Astronomy ”, 3 CDs, feature series by Dirk Lorenzen. Music: Henning Schmitz. With Markus Scheumann, Caroline Schreiber a. v. a. (2011, director)
• " Princess Lillifee and the enchanted island", 2 CDs, radio play of the children's pop musical by Mathias Schönsee and Markus Löhr based on the children's books by Monika Finsterbusch (2011, radio play version and direction)
• “Till Wiesentroll” radio play for children from 4 years by Ulrike Kuckero and Almud Kunert (2012, radio play version and direction)

Web links

• Thomas Blockhaus on the website of Hartmann & Stauffacher Verlag, Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.borchertgesellschaft.de/publikationen/bibliographie-und-auff%C3%BChrungsverzeichnis/verzeichnis-der-auff%C3%BChrungen-von-drau%C3%9Fen-vor-der-t%C3%BCr /
2. ↑ WDR radio play catalog, p. 51 ( Memento from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.sprecherforscher.de/13737/horspieleipp-winter-in-maine-von-gerard-donovan-2502-1505-uhr-wdr-3/
4. ↑ http://www.wdr3.de/schwerpunkte-und-reihen/making-of-winter-in-maine.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://www.phonostar.de/radiomagazin/radioprogramm/detail.php?id=1443&date=2011-03-08
6. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.hoerspiel3.de/haben/Thomas+Blockhaus/