Ulf Schmidt (playwright)

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Ulf Schmidt (* 1966 in Braunschweig ) is a German playwright , theater expert , blogger and playwright. The main topics of his paperwork are the social effects of digitization and the economization of society.

Life

Ulf Schmidt studied theater studies, German literature and philosophy in Munich , Paris and Frankfurt am Main . During his studies he worked part-time, then for several years full-time as a paramedic in Frankfurt, where he was also active on the works council .

From 1998 he worked on a dissertation entitled Plato's Drama of Ideas. The “spiritual eye” in the media dispute between writing and theater with Hans-Thies Lehmann , for which he received a scholarship from the Hans-Böckler Foundation . After receiving his doctorate in 2002, the employment office trained him to become an advertising copywriter. In 2003 Ulf Schmidt started as a copywriter in a digital agency, later as a creative director, and won numerous national and international creative prizes. He has been working as a freelance author and dramaturge in Berlin since 2012 .

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The taz wrote about Ulf Schmidt's debut play Heimspiel : “The piece is short, crisp and painful. It starts at zero, at the end of communication, where language has shriveled back into insults. "The text was written in 2002 for the workshop days at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, in 2003 for the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Mannheim Schiller Days, and in 2007 invited to the “Blickwechsel” at the State Theater Karlsruhe and was nominated for the 2003 Lenz Prize . The world premiere took place in 2008 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen . Another production took place in 2009 at the Frankfurt Autorentheater .

After a preview at the 9th Festival for New Drama in the Theater Halle7 in Munich, his next piece, affording yourself company , premiered in 2010 at the Trier Theater as part of the “Maximization Man” festival. The Trierische Volksfreund summarizes in the criticism: “Instead of partnerships, there are only customer relationships, friends and family become reciprocal service providers, sex and housework are to be billed according to point systems in the service specifications. Every person is a small I-AG, optimized by consultants and coaches, mercilessly selfish in the struggle for their own livelihood. ”The dramaturge Olivier Garofalo wrote his master's thesis on this with the title“ The regulated person in Ulf Schmidt's theatrical text Being company ”.

Ulf Schmidt received greater media attention in November 2012 when he wrote his text Schuld und Schein. A coin. on the auction platform ebay offered theaters to bid for the premiere rights. For this purpose, Schmidt built its own website for the piece, on which the text can be downloaded and discussed free of charge. The Munich Metropolitan Theater was awarded the contract , where Schuld und Schein premiered on July 4, 2013 and has been running successfully since then (over 35 performances, as of August 2014).

For the play Der Marienthaler Dachs , which is based on the sociological study “ The Unemployed of Marienthal ”, Schmidt chose an unusual scenic and textual form: the author provides for the audience to move freely between different, parallel scenes. The text is noted on a roll of paper over 20 meters long and 60 cm wide with parallel actions. For this work, Ulf Schmidt was awarded the Heidelberger Stückemarkt's authors' prize in 2014.

Ulf Schmidt published the text Media Divina , a one-person piece for an actor and a defective television, on the Internet for free download in 2014.

For the production "The Jago Principle" based on Othello by William Shakespeare , the model of the "Writers Room" was used for the first time in a public theater in German-speaking countries, as it is used in TV productions, particularly in the USA. Together with his co-authors, the director Volker Lösch , the dramaturge Vera Ring and the playwright Oliver Schmaering , Schmidt conceived the idea of ​​the play, as well as the plot and characters, before the actual text of the play - also in close cooperation with the actors from the premier play in Essen was written.

Since 2009 Ulf Schmidt blogs on postdramatiker.de about “work and media, social, political, post-dramatic”. Articles by him have appeared on the theater portal nachtkritik.de , for example on the blackfacing debate, the city theater of the future, and most recently the suggestions for "writers rooms" at city theaters and for an "agile theater" that he made during the annual conference of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft in Mannheim on January 25, 2014 to the assembled public of the city theater. In it, he argues for a theater that takes a critical look at the social changes brought about by networking and digitization. Theater is, according to the central sentence in Schmidt's lecture, "a place of society in society, where one can aesthetically reflect on society in society." In 2013 and 2014 he conceived, organized and moderated the conference Theater and Network in Berlin together with Nachtkritik and the Heinrich Böll Foundation . Ulf Schmidt is a lecturer at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig and the University of the Arts . Ulf Schmidt is represented by the publishing house of the authors in Frankfurt.

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Plays

Other publications (selection)

  • Ulf Schmidt: Metaphysical standstill. The writing, the idea and death in Plato. In: Andreas Gelhard, Tanja Schulz, Ulf Schmidt (eds.): Stillstellen. Media - recording - time. Schliengen 2003, ISBN 3-931264-72-6 .
  • Plato's play of ideas. The "spiritual eye" in the media dispute between writing and theater. Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-461-1 .
  • Tense and form of movement. A metaphysics of rhythmos in Plato. In: Patrick Primavesi, Simone Mahrenholz (Hrsg.): Divided time. On the Critique of Rhythm in the Arts. Schliengen, 2005, ISBN 3-931264-71-8 .
  • The political back into the theater . Lecture given in the Frankfurt Author Theater on May 3, 2009. PDF file; 150 kB.
  • It's not the economy, stupid. In: Burning without coal. Theater between decline and awakening. (= Education and Culture. Volume 12). 2014, ISBN 978-3-86928-125-4 , pp. 9-17. (PDF file; 1.9 MB)
  • Why So Brutal - Tom Fontana's TV series OZ and Dante's Divine Comedy. In: Polar # 16: Art of Drastic. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50108-6 , pp. 120–126. (PDF file; 250 KB)
  • Political and polytic theater . In: Theatrium 2/2017, published by the Thuringian Theater Association , pages 22–26. Download PDF; 7.6 MB

Prizes and awards

Web links

Commons : Ulf Schmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Vulnerability of Man. In: taz. May 13, 2003.
  2. ↑ Strange behavior during the mating season. In: Berliner Morgenpost. May 13, 2003.
  3. ↑ Tinkering with ways of tearing apart. In: Berliner Zeitung. May 10, 2003.
  4. ↑ Reviews of the home game productions in the overview on Ulf Schmidt's website.
  5. ↑ From fellow human to rented human. In: Trierischer Volksfreund. June 9, 2010.
  6. ↑ For more reviews of the affording yourself company, see the overview on Ulf Schmidt's website.
  7. ↑ Full text of Olivier Garofalo's master's thesis as download.
  8. ^ Announcement in the Börsenblatt about the auction of debt and bill .
  9. ↑ Announcement in the taz at the beginning of the auction.
  10. ^ Announcement on nachtkritik.de about the successful completion of the auction.
  11. ^ Website for the play "Schuld und Schein" with full-text download of the play, blog, background material and discussion forum.
  12. ↑ Reviews of the guilt and sham productions in the overview on Ulf Schmidt's website.
  13. ↑ full text download as PDF file; 1.5 MB on Ulf Schmidt's website.
  14. ↑ Series junkies - Team: Writers' Room | Lexicon of technical terms for series. In: www.serienjunkies.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
  15. ↑ »Writers Room Project at the Schauspiel Essen:“ The Jago Principle ”post-dramatist. In: postdramatiker.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Review on nachtkritik.de: The crocodile snaps: The Jago principle - Volker Lösch stages an Othello spin-off of the Writers' Room at the Essen theater. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
  17. ^ Post-dramatist blog by Ulf Schmidt.
  18. ↑ Nachtkritik from February 21, 2012: The art of differences. The Blackfacing Debate or: The Political in the Aesthetic .
  19. ^ Night review from July 28, 2011: The function of the city theater. Debate about the future of Stadttheater II - Stadttheater is not just an organization or institution, but a cultural form .
  20. ↑ night review of November 13, 2013: Out of the toddler room, into the theater.
  21. ↑ Nachtkritik from January 25, 2014: On the way to agile theater. Debate about the future of the city theater VIII - Ulf Schmidt's lecture on the "next theater .
  22. ^ Conference program of the annual conference of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft in Mannheim " Life, art and production. How do we want to work? " With an abstract of the lecture " On the way to agile theater ". Last accessed in August 2014.
  23. ↑ nachtkritik.de about the conference and the lecture.
  24. ^ Website of the 2013 conference .
  25. ^ Website of the 2014 conference .
  26. ↑ Drama Essen »Season» Plays »The Jago principle. In: www.schauspiel-essen.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
  27. ↑ http://www.theater-bonn.de/spielplan/haben/event/bonnopoly/vc/Veranstaltung/va/show/
  28. ^ Announcement on the website of the Frankfurter Autorentheater.
  29. ↑ Report in the OVB Online.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Post dramatist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, theater scholar, blogger, digital consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig