Ulrich Hub

Ulrich Hub (born November 2, 1963 in Tübingen ) is a German writer and director.

Life

Ulrich Hub completed his acting training at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . He then worked as an actor at the theaters in Gießen and Darmstadt. He became known with his bestseller “An der Arche um Acht” (2007), which is still one of the best-selling children's books today. The play of the same name has been translated into over thirty languages. The multiple award-winning author lives in Berlin .

Plays

• Miss Braun , UA Thalia Theater Hamburg 1995
• The thickest penguin from the Pole , UA Theater Dortmund 1996
• The Offended , UA Theater der Stadt Heidelberg 1998
• The milk girl's bill , UA Schauspiel Bonn 2000
• Penguins can't bake a cheesecake , UA Komma Theater , Duisburg 2001
• Der Froschkönig , UA Stadttheater Gießen 2001
• Blueprint , premiere at Städtische Bühnen Cologne 2002
• Imago , WP stages of the city of Cologne 2004
• Alice's Bedroom , UA Staatstheater Darmstadt 2005
• Remind me to forget , UA Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden 2005
• At the Arche at eight , premiere Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe 2006
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (stage adaptation based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), UA Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2006
• Me, Moby Dick , UA Städtische Bühnen Cologne 2007
• Nathan's children , UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2009
• Foxes don't lie , UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2012
• A kangaroo like you , UA Stadttheater Ingolstadt 2014
• Die Rübe, UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2016
• Rumpelstilz , UA City Theater Klagenfurt 2017
• The Last Sheep , UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2018

Radio plays

• 2006: An der Arche um Acht , director: Andrea Getto , composition: Sabine Worthmann (HR / NDR)
• 2008: Nathan's children , director: Andrea Getto, composition: Sabine Worthmann (HR / WDR)
• 2015: A kangaroo like you , director: Steffen Moratz , composition: Gundolf Nandico (MDR / WDR)

Audio books

• 2014: Foxes don't lie , author reading, silver fish
• 2017: An der Arche um Acht , author reading, director: Dirk Kauffels , composition: Jürgen Treyz , Sauerländer audio
• 2018: The Last Sheep , author reading, silver fish

prose

• An der Arche um Acht , (book version of the piece), Düsseldorf (Sauerländer) 2007, ISBN 978-3-794161096
• Foxes don't lie , Hamburg (Carlsen) 2014, ISBN 978-3-551-55649-3
• A kangaroo like you , Hamburg (Carlsen) 2016, ISBN 978-3-551-55664-6

• The last sheep , Hamburg (Carlsen) 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-55384-3

Productions (selection)

• Medea by Euripides ( Darmstadt State Theater ) 1994
• Miss Braun ( Thalia Theater Hamburg 1995)
• The Offended ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin 1999)
• Eugene Onegin - Opera by Tchaikovsky ( Wuppertaler Bühnen 2002)
• Alice's bedroom (Staatstheater Darmstadt 2005)
• Nathan's children ( Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2009)
• Right of freedom of freedom according to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film ( Free Workshop Theater Cologne 2015)
• The King's Dearest Child , premiere ( Theater der Jugend Wien ) 2012
• Foxes don't lie , UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2012
• The investigation by Peter Weiss ( Free Workshop Theater Cologne ) 2015
• Die Rübe, UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2016
• Rumpelstilz UA City Theater Klagenfurt 2017
• The Last Sheep , UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden 2018

Prizes and awards

Ulrich Hub received a scholarship from the German Literature Fund eV Further awards were:

• 1997: Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation
• 1997: Prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt
• 2000: Kaas and Kappes ( penguins cannot bake cheesecake )
• 2006: Kaas and Kappes (for An der Arche at eight )
• 2006: German Children's Theater Prize (for An der Arche um Acht )
• 2006: German Children's Radio Play Prize (for An der Arche um Acht )
• 2006: Children's radio play award of the city of Karlsruhe (for An der Arche um Acht )
• 2008: Children's LITERAturpreis (for An der Arche um Acht )
• 2008: Toad of the month January (for An der Arche at eight )
• 2010: Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize for Nathan's children
• 2012: Jan Dorman Prize of the Polish Center ASSITEJ
• 2013: National Jewish Book Award in the Children's and Young Adults category for An der Arche um Acht
• 2014: White Ravens for Foxes don't lie
• 2015: Award of the youth jury of the Mülheimer KinderStückePreis for a kangaroo like you
• 2018: Lynx of the month December, together with the illustrator Jörg Mühle, for The Last Sheep

Web links

• [1] Homepage of the author
• Ulrich Hub at the publishing house of the authors
• Literature by and about Ulrich Hub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulrich Hub in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with the Blue Side from July 16, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schultheatertexte.de: At the Ark at eight ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 26, 2014) 
2. ↑ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: The LUCHS goes to Ulrich Hub in December for "The Last Sheep". In: BuchMarkt. December 5, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 (German).