Verena Koch

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Verena Koch (2016)

Verena Koch (* 1961 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German theater actress and director .

Life

After graduating from high school and various stays abroad, she graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt / Main, where she also began her first engagement at the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters. Several years of engagements followed in Göttingen, Esslingen, Münster and at the National Theater Mannheim, as well as various guest performances in Poland, Italy and France. Her formative stage experiences include working with directors such as Einar Schleef, Clemens Bechtel, Ulrich Becker, Amélie Niermeyer, Beat Fäh, Götz Spielmann, Bernarda Horres, Gerhard Willert, Peter Wittenberg and others. v. a.

Her roles range from Piperkarcka in “ Die Ratten ” by Gerhart Hauptmann to Sally Bowles (“ Cabaret ”), Lady Milford (“ Cabal and Love ”), Franziska (“ Minna von Barnhelm ”), Mrs.Lovett (“ Sweeny Todd ”), Queen Gertrud (“ Hamlet ”), Traffikantin Valerie in“ Tales from the Vienna Woods ”to Emmi in“ Fear eats the soul ”. "There are no favorite roles, as every role claims the respective favorite role." (VK)

In cooperation with the Städtische Bühnen Münster, the Goetheinstitut and the NDR, she developed a work on the Peace of Westphalia with the composer Edward Rushton in 1997/98 with the title "How does the earth tear up her throat", which invited to festivals in The Hague and Amsterdam has been.

From 1998 to 2011 she was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Landestheater in Linz, where she was also able to continue her work as a director and author. The following projects were among the most successful of the Landestheater: “A Murderous Homeland Evening” (together with Franz Huber), “Snow White will grow up”, “3x Cevapcici”, “Change of scenery” and “Beautiful blue Danube”. There was also work for the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Festival of the Regions and the Festival Weeks in Gmunden, which performed at various venues in Austria. Since 1999 she has been a lecturer in acting at the Anton Bruckner Private University. Verena Koch is currently working as a freelance actress and director at the German Stage Hungary / Szekszárd, Theater an der Rott - Eggenfelden and the Landestheater Linz .

Since 2012 she has also worked as a freelancer for the Malaria theater group, Diakonie Gallneukirchen workshop .

literature

  • Peter Kraft : Home is also a contradiction. Verena Koch and Franz Huber's “Murderous Homeland Evening” in the Eisenhand venue . In: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich. Year 55, Linz 2001, volume 5, p. 11

Web links

Commons : Verena Koch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Verena Koch homepage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landestheater Linz
  2. ^ German stage in Hungary
  3. ↑ Theater an der Rott
  4. ↑ Peter Kraft. In: web presence of regiowiki.at
personal data
SURNAME Chef, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld