Torsten Buchsteiner

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Torsten Buchsteiner (born April 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German actor and playwright .

Life

After training to be an actor, Buchsteiner had engagements at stages such as the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Schiller Theater and the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin and also worked in film and television productions. In 1999 he received a prize at the Rostock authors' competition for his first play, Spieler , which premiered in Rostock in 2001. His second play Tango Sólo premiered in Prague in the summer of 2005. His third play, Northeast , was awarded the jury prize of the 1st Sankt Galler Autorentage and the Else Lasker Student Play Prize 2005, translated into ten languages ​​and performed in more than ten European countries. Buchsteiner writes dramas, screenplays and prose and lives in Berlin.

Works

Plays

  • Players (1999), world premiere: March 3, 2001, Volkstheater Rostock, director: Corinna Bethge
  • Gefallen für Deutschland (2002), world premiere: October 3, 2002, Landestheater Tübingen, director: Torsten Buchsteiner
  • Tango Sólo (2002), world premiere: June 9, 2005, Divadlo na Vinohradech Prague, director: Petr Svojtka
  • Nordost (2005), world premiere: April 22, 2006, Royal Dramatic Theater ( Dramaten ) Stockholm, director: Ellen Lamm
  • The three plays Nordost , Tango Sólo and Spieler were published in 2009 as a book by Henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin , ISBN 978-3-940100-04-7

Radio plays

  • Nordost , WDR / NDR 2006, director: Thomas Werner, composition: Ralf Haarmann , first broadcast: March 29, 2006
  • Player , WDR 2007, director: Thomas Werner
  • Krieger , WDR 2008, director: Annette Kurth
  • Cap Ferret or The Other Side of the Basin , WDR 2009, directed by Annette Kurth

Honourings and prices

  • Scholarship in the "Danish Writer and Translator Center Haldhovedgaard" 2009
  • Scholarship from the State of Schleswig-Holstein in the "Künstlerhaus Kloster Cismar" 2009
  • Scholarship from the "Sylt-Quelle" 2008
  • Scholarship from the "ZEIT Foundation" and the "German-Russian House" Kaliningrad 2007
  • "Grenzgänger" scholarship from the "Robert Bosch Foundation" and the "LCB Berlin" 2007
  • Scholarship for the radio play workshop of the NDR and the "German Literature Fund" 2006
  • Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize of the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern for Northeast 2005
  • Jury award of the 1st St. Gallen Author Days for Northeast 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Buchsteiner, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg