Thomas Koeck
Thomas Köck (* 1986 in Wolfern , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian author and playwright .
Life
Thomas Köck grew up as the son of a bank employee and a carpenter in Upper Austria . He worked as a musician, studied philosophy and literary theory at the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin , as well as scenic writing at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Among other things, he worked as an assistant director and performer at theatercombinat wien / Claudia Bosse , at diaphanes Verlag , published in literary magazines and showed first works in closed cinemas, at Schikaneder or at the 100 ° Festival .
Since then, a number of theater pieces have been created that have received awards, frequently re-enacted and translated into several languages.
Köck also organizes literary events, teaches drama writing and worked on a documentary film about the failed reconstruction of Beirut after the civil war, with which he was invited to Berlinale Talents and was nominated for the Robert Bosch Film Prize.
Under the ghostdance label , he and Andreas Spechtl develop concert readymades that were shown at ImPulsTanz and Theater Basel , among others .
Together with Jörg Albrecht , Thomas Arzt , Sandra Gugić and Gerhild Steinbuch , the blog nazisundgoldmund.net was created at the end of 2016 , "a multi-headed poetological monster that critically observes the developments and actions of the European right and its international alliances."
Works
Plays
Climate trilogy
- paradise floods (lost symphony). part one of the climate trilogy. World premiere: Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen , director: Sara Ostertag , 2016
- starving paradise. part two of the climate trilogy. WP: Theater Marburg , director: Fanny Brunner, 2015
- play paradise (occident. a sang). part three of the climate trilogy. WP: Nationaltheater Mannheim , director: Marie Bues, 2017
Crown land saga
- third republic - a survey, third part of the crown saga. WP: Thalia Theater , directed by Elsa-Sophie Jach & Thomas Köck, 2018
- kudlich in amerika or who owns history, second part of the kronland saga. WP: Schauspielhaus Wien, director: Elsa-Sophie Jach & Thomas Köck, 2020
- kudlich - an anachronistic puppet fight , first part of the kronland saga. Premiere: Schauspielhaus Wien , director: Marco Storman, 2016
More pieces
- antigone. a requiem. WP: Schauspiel Hannover , director: Marie Bues, 2019
- Atlas. World premiere: Schauspiel Leipzig , director: Philipp Preuss, 2019
- waste of the world. WP: Staatstheater Karlsruhe & Rampe Stuttgart, director: Marie Bues, 2018
- the future is not enough for us (complain, children, complain!). Premiere: Schauspielhaus Wien, director: Elsa-Sophie Jach & Thomas Köck, 2017
- strotter - a post-apocalyptic walk. Premiere: Schauspielhaus Wien, director: Tomas Schweigen, 2016
- Isabelle Huppert (there is always sacrifice). WP: Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern , director: Ingo Putz, 2015
- splinter. Premiere: Stadttheater Bremerhaven , directed by Moritz Beichl & Greg Liakopoulos, 2015
- Beyond Fukuyama. World premiere: Theater Osnabrück , director: Gustav Rueb, 2014
Radio plays
- Beyond Fukuyama, WDR, 2019, director: Martin Heindel
- So poetry against the law or what? Nachtstudio, Bayerischer Rundfunk , 2017, collective text by Nazis & Goldmund
- Oskar's complaint to the Berlin Senate. rbb, 2015
Publications
- flooding paradise / starving paradise / playing paradise. Suhrkamp , 2017.
Movie
- GSPNSTR, short film, arte, 2019
Awards
- 2019: Mülheim Dramatist Award for atlas (also audience award)
- 2018: nominated for the Nestroy Prize in the category "Best Director" with " The future is not enough for us (complains, children, complains!) "
- 2018: "Young author of the year" in the critics' survey by Theater Heute (together with Enis Maci )
- 2018: Mülheim Dramatist Prize for Paradiespiele (occidental. Ein sang)
- 2018: "Text & Language" literary prize from the German Business Culture Group
- 2016: Dramatic Prize of the Austrian Theater Alliance
- 2016: Kleist sponsorship award for flooding paradise
- 2015: In-house author at the National Theater Mannheim
- 2015: Invitation to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt
- 2015: Residence grant in the artist village Schöppingen
- 2015: Thomas Bernhard Scholarship
- 2015: Vienna Drama Scholarship
- 2015: Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize
- 2014: Scholarship holder at the 18th Klagenfurt literature course
- 2014: nominated for the Robert Bosch Foundation's film award for international cooperation
- 2014: Osnabrück Dramatist Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Köck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Köck at Suhrkamp Verlag
- Hydra Manifesto by Nazis & Goldmund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmfoerderpreis - Nominees 2014. Accessed July 13, 2017 .
- ↑ About us - Nazis & Goldmund. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Katrin Ullmann: Thomas Köck's new piece by himself and Elsa-Sophie Jach premiered at the Hamburg Thalia Theater. Review on nachtkritik.de of November 8, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018.
- ^ Square for artists - Carte Blanche for Thomas Köck, author. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Dramatist Prize: Austrian author Thomas Köck honored
- ↑ 44th Mülheimer Theatertage , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, June 1, 2019, accessed on June 2, 2019
- ^ Association of the Vienna Theater Prize | [email protected] | www.nestroypreis.at: NESTROYPREIS The Vienna Theater Prize - Best Director - Thomas Köck & Elsa-Sophie Jach. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
- ↑ orf.at: Thomas Köck receives Mülheim Dramatist Prize . Article dated June 3, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koeck, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfern , Upper Austria |