Tom Kühnel

Tom Kühnel (born April 4, 1971 in Cottbus ) is a German theater director and director .

Life

From 1992 Kühnel completed a four-year degree in directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Initially, Kühnel and his fellow student Robert Schuster formed a directing team that had been in place for many years. In Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater , both in 1994 "Christmas at the Ivanovs" of brought Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky on stage and have been for the air-Price Friedrich excellent and a year later both received for their production of Bertolt Brecht The measure the Max Reinhardt Price .

After completing their studies in Berlin and at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus, the team staged . Together with the author Christian Tschirner , they began in 1998 with adaptations of the classics and writing their own pieces. Kühnel and Schuster also jointly took over the artistic direction of the Frankfurt Theater am Turm (TAT) from 1999 onwards, but since 2000 they have both directed independently of one another.

Since the solution from TAT, he has been working on productions at the Berlin Schaubühne , the Theater Basel and the Deutsches Theater Berlin . At the Theater Aachen he directed Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen for the first time , which he combined with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream .

At the theaters of Hanover, Cologne, Freiburg and Graz, he worked with the puppeteer Suse Wächter and the entertainer Jürgen Kuttner to develop so-called "communal explorations" into the history of each city in these places.

Between 2009 and 2019 Kühnel was in-house director at the Hanover Theater . There he staged the world premiere of Gods, Cookies, Philosophers.

Web links

• Tom Kühnel at the Deutsches Theater