Tobias Ginsburg

Tobias Ginsburg (* 1986 in Hamburg ) is a German theater director and author .

Life

Ginsburg studied dramaturgy, literary studies and philosophy at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

During his studies, Ginsburg worked as a dramaturge , directed and moderated the theater event Café Lachs on the university studio stage and assisted at various theaters. He made his debut as a writer and director in 2007 with Raped. A romantic comedy . In 2011, he wrote and staged the documentary theater play Nestbeschichtung , for which he and his dramaturges spent a year and a half researching the life, work and family of the Nazi writer Edwin Erich Dwinger . In 2012 the performance Tabu was created. A German parlor game at the Pathos Theater and the play Endlich über die Tod. A world fire followed . Poison gas, the First World War and then at the Schauburg and Radikal. Decay monument in the I-camp Munich . For Weltenbrand , Ginsburg and his co-author Daphne Ebner were awarded the 2015 Jugendstückpreis at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt . The play was also nominated for the German Youth Theater Award 2014 and was invited to the Mühlheimer Theatertagen 2016. On February 14, 2015, the play Goldland premiered on the brechtbühne at the Augsburg Theater . In 2016 he was a Fellow of the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg .

Ginsburg's book Die Reise ins Reich was published in March 2018 . Among imperial citizens . The book reached number 5 on the non-fiction best-list in June of the same year .

Ginsburg is a founding member of the theater group Fake to Pretend .

Productions (selection)

• 2007: raped. A romantic comedy
• 2008: Ubu
• 2011: nest pollution
• 2012: Finally
• 2014: world fire. A piece about poison gas, the First World War and after
• 2014: Radical. Monument of Decay
• 2015: Goldland
• 2016: You and me and the sea in between
• 2018: a war game

Books

• The journey to the empire. Among imperial citizens. Das Neue Berlin , Berlin, 2018, 272. S. ISBN 978-3-360-01331-6 .

Web links

• Tobias Ginsburg at Fake to Pretend
• Munich Feuilleton: In search of the truth
• NDR That! with director Tobias Ginsburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Café Salmon. LMU, Studiobühne der Theaterwissenschaft, accessed on March 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Soiling of the nest
3. ^ Winner of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2015
4. ↑ Weltenbrand on Nachtkritik.de ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Longlist German Youth Theater Award 2014
6. ↑ Theater Augsburg: Goldland ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg: Tobias Ginsburg
8. ↑ Spiegel Online: Some dream of East Prussia, others of space
9. ↑ SWR1 people : Tobias Ginsburg in an interview
10. ^ Zeit Online: The best non-fiction book for June