Tobias Wellemeyer

Tobias Wellemeyer (born September 2, 1961 in Dresden ) is a German director and artistic director .

Live and act

Wellemeyer grew up in Dresden . He studied theater studies in Leipzig and made his directorial debut in Dresden in 1989. From 1989 to 2001 he worked as a director at the Dresden State Theater. His production Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen opened the renovated and reconstructed building of the Dresden State Theater in 1995. Guest productions took him to Bonn and Mainz .

From 2001 he was director of the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, until in 2004 he was appointed general director with overall responsibility for a newly created theater in Magdeburg , which emerged from the merger of the Freie Kammerspiele and the then theater of the state capital. Until 2009 he was in charge of the Magdeburg Dreispartenhaus with the opera Magdeburg and Schauspiel Magdeburg venues and realized numerous productions in drama and music theater. In 2009 he was awarded the German Critics' Prize in the theater category.

Tobias Wellemeyer has been a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts Bensheim since 2009 and a member of the board of directors at the German Stage Association . From 2009 to 2018 he was director of the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam .

He is married to the actress and singer Andrea Thelemann .

Productions (selection)

• Fight of the Negro and the Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltès , Dresden 1991
• The Woman from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, Dresden 1993
• Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (reopening production of the Staatsschauspiel), Dresden 1995
• La Musica Zwei by Marguerite Duras , Dresden 1995
• Art by Yasmina Reza , Dresden 1996
• What shall we do by Tankred Dorst (world premiere), Dresden 1997
• Ithaka by Botho Strauss , Dresden 1998
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare , Dresden 1999
• A comical talent by Alan Ayckbourn (German-language premiere), Dresden 2000
• Die Nacht sings her songs by Jon Fosse (German-language premiere), Magdeburg 2001
• The Jewess of Toledo by Franz Grillparzer , Magdeburg 2003
• Wassa Shelesnowa by Maxim Gorki , Magdeburg 2004
• Sweet Bird Youth from Tennessee Williams , Magdeburg 2005
• San Diego by David Greig (German-language premiere), Magdeburg 2006
• La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini , Magdeburg 2006
• Half a Life by John Mighton (German-language premiere), Magdeburg 2007
• The last fire by Dea Loher , Magdeburg 2008
• Don Juan von Molière , Magdeburg 2009
• The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, Potsdam 2009
• The wide country by Arthur Schnitzler , Potsdam 2010
• The tower by Uwe Tellkamp , Potsdam 2010
• Volpone by Ben Jonson , Potsdam 2011
• Chess by Wuthenow based on Theodor Fontane (world premiere), Potsdam 2011
• Cancer ward after Alexander Issajewitsch Solschenizyn (world premiere), Potsdam 2012

Web links

• Sarah Lena Grahn, May 22, 2009: After eight years, theater maker Tobias Wellemeyer is moving from Magdeburg to Potsdam to nmz.de
• Homepage of the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam at hansottotheater.de
• Potsdam Schiffbauergasse: City for one night on rbb-online.de from July 6, 2012.

• Dirk Becker, October 5th, 2012: Our concept is a strong ensemble on pnn.de.
• Dirk Becker, September 8, 2012: Art is not decorative on pnn.de.
• Frederik Hanssen, September 11, 2011: marriage and honor on tagesspiegel.de
• Failure must be allowed on nachtkritik.de