Tim Staffel
Tim Staffel (born October 2, 1965 in Kassel ) is a German writer , theater director and director of radio plays .
Life
Tim Staffel studied applied theater studies with Andrzej Wirth in Giessen until 1991 and has lived in Berlin since 1993. He received a scholarship from the Alfred Döblin Foundation in Berlin.
Since completing his studies, he has worked as a freelance writer, director, columnist and dramaturge. He writes novels, short stories, radio plays and plays.
His novel Terrordrom was dramatized by Frank Castorf for the Volksbühne Berlin in the year of publication . In 2005 Staffel edited the play Solaris on behalf of the Nuremberg State Theater based on the novel by Stanisław Lem . The radio play Added Value, produced in 2006 for WDR , which describes the situation of a Hartz 4 recipient, was nominated in 2007 for the Radio Play Prize of the Academy of Arts .
Awards
- Alfred Döblin Scholarship (1996)
- Literature grant from the German Literature Fund, Darmstadt (1993–1994 and 2001)
Works
- Troops, play, Theater am Turm, Frankfurt am Main, 1993
- City of Warriors, play, Theater Oberhausen , 1994
- Terrordrom, Roman, 1998
- Werther in New York, play, USA 2000
- Heimweh, Roman, 2000
- Rauhfaser, Roman, 2002
- House arrest, Roman, 2002
- Solaris based on Stanisław Lem, dramaturgy, 2005
- Dreamers, Music Theater, State Theater Stuttgart - Young Opera, 2007
- True Angels, Berliner Zeitung, 2007
- Next Level Parzival, play, Theater Basel - RuhrTriennale - Young Theater Basel, 2007
- Jesús and Muhammed, Roman, 2008
Radio plays
- Cottage cheese, WDR 1999
- Stopper, WDR 2000
- I see what you don't see, WDR 2003
- Under the day, WDR 2004
- Added value, WDR 2006
- Viva Kaszanka! (The added value increases), WDR 2008
- The hunter is the prey, WDR 2010
- Memory clinic by Tom Peuckert , direction, WDR 2013
Filmography
- 2012: Westerland (director, screenplay)
Web links
- Literature by and about Tim Staffel in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://timstaffel.blogspot.com/ Blog of the author
- Short biography
- Tim Staffel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/hoerspiel/658660/
- ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/aktuell/pressemitteilungen/index.htm?we_objectID=23227 - press release from March 15, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Season, Tim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, playwright and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |