Thomas Jonigk

Thomas Jonigk (born March 4, 1966 in Eckernförde ) is a German writer and dramaturge .

Life

Thomas Jonigk studied Medieval Studies , Modern German Literature and Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 Jonigk was one of the co-founders of the Theater Affekt production group .

Jonigk works as a director at the Volksbühne Berlin , the Wiener Schauspielhaus , the Lucerne Theater and the Schauspielhaus Zurich . 2006–2011 he was engaged as a resident author, dramaturge and head of the authors' laboratory at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . From April 2009 to June 2013 he was in-house author and dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Jonigk currently lives and works in Munich.

Jonigk's plays have been translated many times and have been performed in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, England, Russia, Poland, Spain, Scandinavia, Turkey, the Philippines, India and the USA.

Works (selection)

Pieces

• About blood-red suns that sink in the sky - premiere. Schauspiel Köln , September 11, 1994, directed by Thirza Bruncken
• You should give me grandchildren - world premiere. Schauspiel Bonn , October 9, 1994, director: Stefan Bachmann
• Rottweiler - world premiere. Schauspielhaus Wien, November 12, 1994, director: Gerhard Willert German premiere. Bavarian State Theater Munich 1995, directed by Amélie Niermeyer
• Perpetrator - premiere. Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , December 1999, director: Christina Paulhofer Swiss premiere: Theater Basel , February 2000, director: Stefan Bachmann
• Triumph of the art of acting - world premiere. Maxim Gorki Theater im Schiller Theater, January 21, 2000, directed by Erich Sidler
• Jupiter - world premiere. Theater Freiburg , June 6, 2003, directed by Kranz / Nordalm
• The elixirs of the devil - world premiere. Stadttheater Giessen , September 27, 2003, director: Axel Richter
• Oh! - World premiere. Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , FIND Festival, January 2004, director: Michel Didym
• Dear cannibals Godard - world premiere. Lucerne Theater, March 31, 2006, director: Thomas Jonigk German premiere: Thalia Theater Hamburg , November 2006, director: Stefan Bachmann
• Do you hear my secret calls - first performance. Schauspiel Frankfurt , September 16, 2006, director: Tina Lanik
• What really happened back then - first performance. Schauspielhaus Bochum , May 16, 2007, director: Thomas Jonigk
• This side - world premiere. Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, October 6, 2007, director: Stephan Rottkamp
• Donna Davison - world premiere. Deutsches Theater Berlin , January 30th, 2009, director: Hanna Rudolph
• Martin Salander - World premiere based on the novel by Gottfried Keller. Schauspielhaus Zurich, September 18, 2009, director: Stefan Bachmann
• Oh, there you are! - World premiere. Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, January 10, 2010, director: Stefan Bachmann
• Dream on - world premiere. Schauspielhaus Zurich, October 22, 2011, director: Christof Loy
• We'll never see each other again - World premiere as part of the 35th Stückemarkt Berlin, Pan Am Lounge, May 9, 2013, director / set up: Stephan Kimmig
• Mephisto , play by Thomas Jonigk based on Klaus Mann - world premiere at the Staatstheater Kassel , January 24, 2020

Novels

• Jupiter - Residenz-Verlag Salzburg / Vienna 1999 - Invitation with “Jupiter” to the Ingeborg Bachmann Literature Competition 1999 in Klagenfurt (June 23-27, 1999). Inviting juror: Silvia Bovenschen .
• Forty days - literary publisher Droschl Graz / Vienna 2006.
• Melodrama - Literaturverlag Droschl Graz / Vienna 2013.
• Love story - Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-85420-975-1 .

Libretti

• Heliogabal - world premiere. Ruhr Triennale, May 8, 2003, Gebläsehalle Duisburg, composition: Peter Vermeersch , director: Roy Faudree
• Hommage à Klaus Nomi - world premiere. March Music, March 7, 2008, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, composition: Olga Neuwirth a . Klaus Nomi , director: Ulrike Ottinger
• Les vêpres siciliennes - Seasons - (ballet libretto) World premiere ( Seasons ). De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam - coproduction with the Grand Théâtre de Genève , September 10, 2010, composition: Giuseppe Verdi , choreography: Thomas Wilhelm, director: Christof Loy
• The Sandman - world premiere. Theater Basel, October 20, 2012, composition: Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini , direction Christof Loy
• Edward II - world premiere. Deutsche Oper Berlin, February 2017, composition: Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini , director Christof Loy

Scripts

• What I know about her - feature film, 2005, director: Maren-Kea Freese . Production CAMEO, Cologne, ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel. DVD: Renaissance Media 2006
• Düsseldorf, mon amour - ten-part, semi-documentary television series, 2008/09, director: Luk Perceval , production Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, ZDF Theaterkanal, broadcast on ZDF Theaterkanal 2009/10

radio play

• Takeover - first broadcast: WDR 1995
• Father Spring - First broadcast: WDR 1996

Prizes and awards

• Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation (1993)
• Young Dramatist of the Year "Theater Today" (1995)
• "Pieces" award from the Goethe-Institut for "You should give me grandchildren" (1995)
• Drama-Logue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theater for the Same Play (1997)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mephisto (WP) by Thomas Jonigk based on Klaus Mann , Staatstheater-kassel.de

Web links

• Personal homepage of Thomas Jonigk
• Literature by and about Thomas Jonigk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Jonigk in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Short biography
• Bachmann Prize Winner ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Jonigk published by Hartmann & Stauffacher
• Thomas Jonigk on Carolin Emckes How we desire in Liberation
• Willibald Spatz on This Side 2009
• Andreas Kläui on Next dreams 2011