Torsten Fischer (theater director)

Torsten Fischer (born April 26, 1958 in Berlin ) is a German theater director and theater manager .

Live and act

Fischer originally wanted to be a painter, but then studied biology and chemistry for a higher teaching position at the Free University of Berlin . From 1978 to 1981 he was a teacher and supervisor of drug addicts and foreign prisoners in the juvenile prison of the Plötzensee correctional facility .

He often attended theater rehearsals and in 1981 was hired as assistant director and dramaturge to Günter Krämer and Hansgünter Heyme at the Stuttgart State Theater under director Hans Peter Doll. As a guest director he was assistant director and dramaturge at the Schillertheater Berlin in 1984, but when Krämer moved to the Bremen Theater in 1984 , he followed him there. In 1986, because of him, there were differences between General Director Tobias Richter and Krämer, who ensured that Fischer could stay at the house as a permanent guest director.

When Krämer became the artistic director of the Kölner Schauspiel in 1990, he was appointed senior theater director of the city of Cologne's theaters . As a debut, he staged a Tabori project with the farce Mein Kampf . Other productions in Cologne were Die Räuber (1991), Kroetz ' Bauerntheater (1991), Hebbel's Maria Magdalena (1992), Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (1993) and Racine's Phaedra (1993). He sponsored the playwright Marlene Streeruwitz and staged the world premieres of several of her plays. As a guest director, Fischer was particularly active in Vienna at several theaters there.

From 1995 to 2003 he held the position of drama director in Cologne. Other productions there included Liliom (1996), the world premiere of Wilfried Happels Mordslust (1996), the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's Die Geschichte der Areile (1996) and Eugene O'Neill's One Long Day Journey into the Night (1998).

Awards

In 1988 and 2005, Fischer received the Karl Skraup Prize from the City of Vienna. At the NRW-Theatertreffen he received the staging award for best director ( Mein Kampf / Kannibalen ) in 1991 and the recording award for Streeruwitz ' Waikiki-Beach in 1992 . In 2013 Torsten Fischer received the Austrian music theater award Goldener Schikaneder as best director of 2012 for the opera Telemaco ( Gluck ) at the Theater an der Wien .

literature

• C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999 ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .