Thomas Oberender

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Thomas Oberender (born May 11, 1966 in Jena ) is a German author and dramaturge and director of the Berliner Festspiele since January 2012 .

He has published pieces, reviews and essays about artists as well as political and aesthetic transformation processes. Oberender founded multi-year formats for theater, art and literature and designed time-based exhibitions. Since 2018 he has been advising institutions and executives on questions of cultural structural change and development in East Germany.

Career

Thomas Oberender studied theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1988 to 1993 after completing his vocational training and A levels in Weimar, and parallel to this until 1995 at the UdK Berlin in the course of "scenic writing". He received his doctorate from Humboldt University in 1999 with a thesis on Botho Strauss , which was followed by two book publications on this author. After completing his studies, he worked as a freelance playwright, critic, essayist and publicist. a. for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NZZ, the Berliner Tagesspiegel and various radio stations. As co-founder and namesake of the Author Theater Association Theater New Type (TNT), he presented new theater texts by German-speaking authors in Berlin from 1997.

Since 1998, Oberender has been teaching drama theory and theater history, including at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Zurich. In 1999 he became head dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . For the Ruhrtriennale he developed the literary festival "Wiedererrichtung des Himmels", followed by the literary festival "Schule der Romantik" in 2005. He took over the co-direction at the Schauspielhaus Zürich for the 2005/06 season and from 2007 to 2011 headed the Salzburg drama program Festival . Here he reopened Leopoldskron Castle, which was once inhabited by Max Reinhardts , for festival productions, was responsible a. a. for the program series “Dichter zu Gast”, “Blick ins Inner Österreich” and “Young Directors Project”, which was curated by Martine Dennewald. In 2011 he received the “City Seal of the State Capital Salzburg in Gold” and “Gold Medal of Honor” from the State of Salzburg.

For the cultural capital RUHR 2010 he developed the odyssey project series “The Invention of Freedom”. He has been artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele since 2012 and artistic director of the Immersion program series he founded since 2016. She creates spaces of experience in the transition area between exhibition and performance and critically reflects on the term immersion with regard to a changing subject-object relationship and the resulting developments in artistic production. At his suggestion, the interdisciplinary formats “School of Distance” were created in 2016, “Limits of Knowing” in 2017 and “INTO WORLDS. The craft of delimitation ”. The series “The New Infinity”, which he designed in cooperation with the Hamburg Planetarium, has been opening planetariums to artists of the digital age since 2018. He has also worked with artists such as Ed Atkins, Vegard Vinge / Ida Müller, Jonathan Meese , Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Philippe Parreno .

As a curator, Oberender and Tino Seghal designed the time-based exhibition “World without Outside. Immersive Spaces since the 1960s ”and in 2019 the“ Palace of the Republic ”with an expanded curatorial team as a“ Palace of Counter-narratives ”on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Wall. The exhibition he initiated by Philippe Parreno in the Gropius Bau was voted “Exhibition of the Year 2018” in 2019. Reconsidering the history of transformation in East Germany after 1989 has been an important subject of his work and texts since 2017.

In 2018 he appointed Stephanie Rosenthal as the new director of Martin Gropius Baus in Berlin. In 2019, in tandem with the Minister of Culture Isabel Pfeifer Poensgen, he was  responsible for the design of the structural development initiative “Ruhrkonferenz 2019” in the area of ​​“Artists-Metropolis Ruhr”. In 2013 he was appointed to the jury of the International Ibsen Award in Oslo and was involved in honoring artists such as Peter Handke , Forced Entertainment and Christoph Marthaler  .

Thomas Oberender has been married to Bettina Oberender since 1997. You have a son. Thomas Oberender lives in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Steinwald’s (play, published by the authors 1995)
  • Translation: Tim Etchell's Quizoola! (Rowohlt Verlag, 1998)
  • The sign collector (texts about the theater by Botho Strauss, 1999)
  • Nachtschwärmer (theater play, publishing house of the authors 2000)
  • God against Money (Ed., Alexander Verlag, 2002)
  • War of the Prophets (Ed., Alexander Verlag, 2004)
  • 100 questions for Heiner Müller. A séance (with Moritz von Uslar, Verlag der Automobiles, 2005)
  • The meeting / the other side (with Sebastian Orlac, Verlag der Autor 2005)
  • Insurmountable closeness. Texts about Botho Strauss (Ed., Theater der Zeit, 2005)
  • War theater. On the Future of Political III (Ed., Alexander Verlag, 2005)
  • Translation: David Greig Timeless (Rowohlt Theaterverlag, 2006)
  • Life on trial. How the stage becomes the world (Hanser Verlag, 2009)
  • Miss Unknown. Conversations about theater, art and life. Müry Salzmann, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-99014-036-9 .
  • Side entrance or main entrance? - Conversations with Peter Handke about 50 years of writing for the theater (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014)
  • Limits of Knowing , catalog (Ed. With Joanna Petkiewicz, Kerber Verlag, 2017)
  • Gropiusbau 2018, Catalog Philippe Parreno (Ed. With Angela Rosenberg, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018)
  • Occupy History. Decolonization of Memory. The East German Revolution and the West German Takeover. (Krytyka Polityczna Athens, 2019)
  • Occupy History. Conversations at the Palace of the Republic thirteen years after his disappearance. Four conversations and an essay. (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2019)

Awards

  • 1993: Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation for Steinwald’s
  • 2000: German youth theater award for night owls
  • 2011: City seal of the state capital Salzburg in gold
  • 2011: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RuhrTriennale 2005-2007 - School of Romanticism. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Flimm pissed off his acting boss
  3. ↑ Jürgen Flimm is leaving the Salzburg Festival, his acting director Thomas Oberender is also leaving
  4. ↑ Thomas Oberender becomes the new director
  5. ^ Salzburg Festival / Archive. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  6. ^ Salzburg Festival / Archive. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ Salzburg Festival / Archive. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  8. ^ Salzburg Festival / Archive. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  9. ^ Salzburg Festival / Archive. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Sabine Möseneder: City seal in gold for the outgoing acting director of the Festival - City of Salzburg. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Salzburg Festival / SALZBURG FESTSPIELE BLOG. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ulrich Deuter: Theater marathon Odyssey Europe across the Ruhr area. February 20, 2010, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Gropius Bau - World Without Outside. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  14. ^ Berliner Festspiele: Immersion - Palace of the Republic. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  15. ^ Gropius Bau exhibition by artist Philippe Parreno was awarded "Best Exhibition 2018" in London. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Stephanie Rosenthal Named CEO and Director of Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Retrieved February 11, 2020 (American English).
  17. ^ Ruhr Conference. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  18. ^ Committee. Retrieved February 11, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Oberender, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena