Tom Stromberg

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Tom Stromberg (born April 30, 1960 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German theater producer, director and artistic director .

Live and act

Stromberg is the son of the theater manager Rudolf Stromberg and the dancer Gisela Stromberg . He studied German and theater studies in Cologne and also worked as a freelancer at WDR in the radio play editorial team. He began in 1984 as assistant director and dramaturge at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and two years later moved to the Frankfurt Theater am Turm as a dramaturge , where he advanced to chief dramaturge, member of the artistic management and then director. In 1990, Stromberg and Rainer Mennicken took over the management of the Experimenta 6 festival on the subject of " Heiner Müller " in Frankfurt . From 1996 to 1998 he was artistic advisor to the choreographer William Forsythe .

From 1996 Stromberg worked as artistic director of the cultural and event program of the Expo 2000 Hannover GmbH and was also chairman of the advisory board of the theater festival Theaterformen and co-director of the festival Tanztheater International. In the Expo year 2000 he also acted as producer of the performance of the uncut Faust I and Faust II , directed by Peter Stein , which premiered at Expo 2000.

He drew in 1997 as curator in charge of the theater program theater sketches of Documenta X .

From 2000 to 2005 Stromberg was director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, which in 2005 was named "Theater of the Year". Under his directorship, directors like Jan Bosse , Laurent Chétouane, Jürgen Gosch and Stefan Pucher , actors like Fabian Hinrichs , Wolfram Koch , Bjarne Mädel , Joachim Meyerhoff , Caroline Peters , Christiane von Poelnitz , Wiebke Puls , Alexander Scheer , Edgar worked at the house Selge , authors like René Pollesch and Roland Schimmelpfennig .

After the end of this directorship, he acted as a partner - together with Peter Zadek and Antje Landshoff-Ellermann - and managing director of the theater production company wasihrwollt PRODUCTIONS GmbH , within the framework of which the wiw AKADEMIE Brandenburg was founded for talented young theater professionals .

Together with Matthias von Hartz , Stromberg directed Impulse , the festival of German-language off-theater from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Cologne, Bochum, Düsseldorf and Mülheim an der Ruhr (2007 to 2011).

Stromberg has represented various theater artists as an agent and consultant with his Berlin office since 2005. This includes directors such as Anna Bergmann , Leonie Böhm , Robert Borgmann , Jan Bosse , Elsa-Sophie Jach , Pinar Karabulut , Stefan Pucher , Antú Romero Nunes , Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jette Steckel , the set designer Stéphane Laimé and the costume designer Victoria Behr as well as Studio Brown : Jacques Palminger , Rocko Schamoni and Heinz Strunk .

Stromberg stages evenings with musicians and actors. As in-house director of the “International Summer Festival” at Kampnagel in Hamburg, he has been staging evenings with the musician Jan Plewka since 2013 .

  • Jan Plewka sings Rio Reiser, musician and actor Jan Plewka and the Black-Red Salvation Army, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2004
  • Man meets woman by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2004
  • Will it be a likeness? by and with John Berger, directed by Tom Stromberg and Juan Muñoz, Madrid 2005
  • Hair, Joint and Aquarius, musical with Alexander Scheer, Wolfram Koch, Rocko Schamoni, Wiebke Puls, Schorsch Cameroon, director and stage Tom Stromberg, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2005
  • Life and life slacken, staging with the students of the wiw AKADEMIE Brandenburg, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 2006
  • Self-timer, staging with the students of the wiw AKADEMIE Brandenburg, Ballhaus Ost Berlin 2006
  • Treibgut, production with the students of the wiw AKADEMIE Brandenburg, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 2007
  • Will it be a likeness? by John Berger, actor Alan Bangs, K 21 of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 2007
  • My darkest star - a trip along Depeche Mode, with Felix Knopp, Thalia Theater Hamburg 2007
  • Fettschweif, production with the students of the wiw AKADEMIE Brandenburg, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 2009
  • The white album. A concert with the music of the Beatles, directed by Wiebke Puls / Tom Stromberg, Theater Augsburg 2012
  • Car piece. Belgrade dog, by Anne Habermehl, directed by Stefan Pucher / Tom Stromberg, Schauspiel Stuttgart 2013
  • Sound of Silence - Jan Plewka sings Simon & Garfunkel, Jan Plewka and the Black-Red Salvation Army. International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg 2013.
  • Rausch - three concerts, Jan Plewka, Leo Schmidthals, Tom Stromberg. International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg 2014
  • Rausch - La Versione Italiana, with Jan Plewka and Leo Schmidthals, directed by Tom Stromberg, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg 2015
  • The Death is not the end - A (musical) evening about theater death, with Leo Schmidthals and students of the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, directed by Gabriella Bußacker / Tom Stromberg, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg 2015
  • The power of music, a musical evening with Jan Plewka and the Black-Red Salvation Army, idea and staging Tom Stromberg, Kampnagel International Summer Festival, Hamburg 2016
  • I see monsters. By and with Nikko Weidemann. Set up by Tom Stromberg, premiere Ruhrfestspiele 2019
  • Jan Plewka sings Ton Steine ​​Scherben & Rio Reiser (2): When, if not now. Facility and mechanism of action Tom Stromberg, Kampnagel Hamburg 2019

Teaching activities

In addition to his activities as artistic director, director and producer, Stromberg repeatedly took on teaching assignments. He taught, among others, in Gießen and Berlin, in Hamburg at the Institute for Culture and Media Management and in the advanced training course "Theater and Music Management" at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. For three years (2014–2016) at the Ludwigsburg Theater Academy, he directed a project with students of acting, dramaturgy and directing. In 2014 and 2015 Stromberg taught directing at the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum Salzburg. He taught at the Theater Academy Hamburg, directing department (2015), and has been a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin since 2017.

Awards

Stromberg received the Radio Play of the Year award in 1997 for directing the radio play Will it be a likeness by and with John Berger . The Deutsches Schauspielhaus was named Theater of the Year in the 2004/05 season under Stromberg's direction , and in 2005 he was voted “Hamburger of the Year”.

Memberships

Stromberg was from 1995 to 2004 member of the advisory board for theater and dance at the Goethe Institute . He was a member of the jury at the Friedrich Schütter Prize in Hamburg and at the Impulsen 2002 and 2003.

He was also a member of the art academy advisory board of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and was a member of the board of trustees of the Allianz Kulturstiftung .

Stromberg is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Web links

  • Homepage Tom Stromberg [1]

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Stromberg, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater producer, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven