Tomas silence

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Tomas Schweigen (* 1977 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater director and artistic director .

Life

Schweigen studied theater studies , German literature , philosophy , later acting in Vienna and then directing at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since then he has worked in the independent scene as well as at the Schauspielhaus Wien , Schauspiel Frankfurt , Theaterhaus Jena , Theater Heidelberg , Schauspiel Hannover , Theater Bern and at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . He has been a guest lecturer at the ZHdK since 2007. His productions were for the festivals Zürcher Festspiele, Zürcher Theater Spektakel , Festival Impulse (Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bochum), Politics in Free Theater Cologne, Spielart Munich, Radikal Jung Munich, Theaterformen Hannover, Theater der Welt Halle, Festival transeuropa Hildesheim, Schiller- Weimar Festival, Auawirleben Bern, Belluard Bollwerk Friborg, Festival of Young Directors Strasbourg, Theater Festival Istanbul and invited to the Arab theater festival Fadjr in Tehran, where his Frankfurt production of Kafka's “Das Schloss” won the prizes for the best production and the best equipment.

In 2004 he founded the theater company Far A Day Cage with actress Vera von Gunten , with whom he realized 18 projects between 2004 and 2014. The ensemble was group in residence at Theater Basel from the 2012/13 season to 2015 .

In 2012, he and Martin Wigger took over acting management at the Basel Theater. On July 1, 2015, he took over the artistic direction of the Schauspielhaus Wien .

Awards

  • 2004: Ensemble and audience award at the SKS Theatertreffen with the diploma piece [Parzivality Show]
  • 2005: Premio - Swiss young talent award for theater and dance
  • 2007,2009,2011: nominated as “Young Director of the Year” in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater heute
  • 2009: For the direction of Kafka's Das Schloss am Schauspiel Frankfurt at the Fadjr Theater Festival 2009 in Tehran, the prize for “Best Director”.
  • 2010: a working scholarship from the city of Zurich (five months study visit to London)

Productions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time is on our necks , interview with Martin Wigger and Tomas Schweigen, weekday, May 16, 2013
  2. ↑ Schauspielhaus Wien: Tomas Schweigen becomes artistic director , Die Presse, July 2, 2014
  3. ↑ ENSEMBLE PRIZE endowed with € 5,500 for students at the University of Music and Theater Zurich for “Parzivality Show” , accessed on December 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Räuber und Theaterretter , NZZ report on Premio 2005
  5. ^ Silence at the Hanover Theater
  6. ↑ "Digitalis Trojana": Dystopia with a clone of the Chancellor in the theater . Article dated May 15, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ Schauspielhaus Wien: Digitalis Trojana - The lake, the city and the end . Retrieved May 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Silence, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna