Volker Schmidt (Author)

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Volker Schmidt (* 1976 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian author , director and actor .

Life

Volker Schmidt studied acting at the Vienna Conservatory . Engagements as an actor lead him to Vienna, Berlin and Graz, among others. In addition, he took part in several films (including Small Fish , Der Bockerer III ).

As a director he works u. a. at the Wiener Festwochen , at the Staatstheater Hannover , at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin, at the Schauspielhaus Wien , at the Theater Phönix Linz, at the Stadttheater St. Gallen , at the Theater Magdeburg as well as in Copenhagen, Moscow, Timisoara, Skopje and Bhutan. He is the winner of the Nestroy Prize for komA (Best Off-Production 2008).

Schmidt has been writing plays, essays and stories since 2002. World premieres as a playwright, a. a. at Heidelberg Theater , the spectacle of Leipzig , at the State Theater in Hanover , at the Schauspielhaus Vienna , the Vienna Volkstheater , at the Neukölln Opera , at the Phoenix Theater , the Theater Drachengasse and at the Youth Theater . In 2007 he won the jury and audience award of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt for the play Die Mountainbiker and was thus invited to the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen . For his piece "schwarzweißlila" he received the Berlin Children's Theater Prize 2007. Schmidt u. a. to the Festival for Dramaturgy Santiago de Chile and NET Festival Moscow. His plays have been translated into 10 languages ​​so far.

With the independent theater group new space company he founded , he regularly realizes plays on stages and off-spaces in Vienna and Berlin.

Plays (selection)

  • Himalaya , premiere: dietheater Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2003), director: Volker Schmidt, DE: Theater Heidelberg (2008), director: Anna Bergmann
  • Unter Fischen, premiere: Theater Phönix , Linz (2003), director: Zeno Stanek, winning piece of the competition "Young Radical People's Piece"
  • Ritchy 3, youth play, premiere: Theater der Jugend , Vienna (2003), director: Tina Lanik, DE: Junge Schauspiel Hannover (2009), director: Volker Schmidt
  • Stormy Love inna Beatbox , UA: Schauspielhaus Wien , (2004) Director: Volker Schmidt, DE: Junge Schauspiel Hannover (2008) Director: Volker Schmidt
  • View through the window, premiere: Stadttheater Gießen (2006), director: Ragna Kirck
  • You have to be grateful , premiere: Theater Drachengasse , Vienna (2007), director: Volker Schmidt, Russian EA: Theatr Praktika, Moscow (2015)
  • Das Ballhaus - drama without words based on the play Le Bal by Jean-Claude Penchenat, (premier) Volkstheater Wien (2007), director: Gil Mehmert
  • komA , multimedia station theater premiere: new space company & Dschungel Wien; Directors: Georg Staudacher, Volker Schmidt, Nestroy Award 2008 (Best Off-Production) and STELLA Award 2008.
  • black and white lilac , world premiere: GRIPS-Theater , Berlin (2007), director: Yüksel Yolcu, ÖEA: Dschungel Wien, (2016), director: Volker Schmidt
  • Die Mountainbiker , Premiere : Theater Heidelberg (2007), Director: O. Zambeletti, ÖEA: Schauspielhaus Wien (2008) Director: A. Charim
  • Pflugversuch, premiere: Theater Brauhaus, Litschau (2008), director: Zeno Stanek, DE: Monsun Theater Hamburg (2011), director: Marianne Hauttmann
  • Dörfer, premiere: Zimmertheater Tübingen (2009), director: Robert Arnold ÖEA: Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, director: Günther Treptow
  • Rumor , UA: Linz 09 & Schäxpirfestival, Linz, Het Lab (NL), Utrecht, (2009) Director: Giselle Vegter
  • Peer lies , opera, premiere: Neuköllner Oper , Berlin (2010), director: Volker Schmidt
  • You can be happy , premiere: Theater Kosmos , Bregenz (2014), director: Hubert Dragaschnig Russian EA: Theatr Praktika, Moscow, director: Volker Schmidt
  • Actually beautiful, premiere: Schauspiel Leipzig (2014), director: Bruno Cathomas Romanian EA: Deutsches Staatstheater Timisoara (2016), director: V. Schmidt
  • Zero People after Tiqqun, WP: Garage X , Vienna (2014)
  • neustiftgasse 1 , one-act play, WP : Volkstheater Wien (2015)
  • Der Fuchs, WP: Ballhaus Ost , Berlin / Galerie IM ERSTEN, Vienna (2015), director: Volker Schmidt
  • Neurotics , one-act performance , premiere: Schauspielhaus Graz (2016), director: András Dömötör
  • djihad by Volker Schmidt, UA: Stadttheater Ingolstadt (2016) Director: Volker Schmidt
  • kolhaaz (we are everywhere) , WP : Schauspielhaus Wien (2017)
  • Freiheit , WP: new space company, Vienna (2017)

Directorial work (selection)

  • 2003 Himalaya (WP) by Volker Schmidt; dietheater Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2004 Stormy Love inna Beatbox (UA) by Volker Schmidt; Schauspielhaus Wien as part of the series “Shake out Shakespeare”
  • 2007 Vinter under Bordet (Danish EA) by Roland Topor, Krudttønden, Copenhagen
  • 2007 One must be grateful (premiere) by Volker Schmidt, Theater Drachengasse , Vienna
  • 2007 komA (UA); Multimedia station theater; new space company & Dschungel Wien; Direction: Georg Staudacher, Volker Schmidt. Awarded the Nestroy Prize 2008 (Best Off-Production) and the STELLA Prize.
  • 2007 Major Dux (Jazz-Oper, UA) by Martin Baltscheit and Sandra Weckert, Neuköllner Oper , Berlin
  • 2008 Stormy Love inna Beatbox (DE) by Volker Schmidt, Junge Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2009 The Nibelungs by Friedrich Hebbel, Theater Phönix , Linz
  • 2009 Silence , dance theater, choreography: Valerie Klein, Linz 09 as part of “I like to move it, move it”, Hafenhalle 09, Linz
  • 2009 Ritchy 3 by Volker Schmidt, Young Drama Hanover
  • 2010 Peer lies , opera by Hans Platzgumer and Volker Schmidt, Neuköllner Oper , Berlin
  • 2010 hatred based on the film “La Haine” by Mathieu Kassovitz, new space company / Wiener Festwochen
  • 2011 Hotel Braunschweig (WP) by Juliane Kann, Young State Theater Braunschweig
  • 2011 Nigthasylum ff. After Maxim Gorki, Nyaveny, Copenhagen
  • 2011 Hedda Gabler from H. Ibsen, Theater St. Gallen
  • 2012 Verrücktes Blut (ÖEA) by Nurkan Erpulat / Jens Hillje, new space company / Garage X , Vienna
  • 2012 Sampled Identity , dance and music theater, co-production Ensemble Resonanz / Hiphop Academy Hamburg and Kampnagel , Hamburg
  • 2012 Fear eats the soul after W. Fassbinder, Betty Nansen Teater, Copenhagen
  • 2012 Wars of the Roses based on W. Shakespeare, Theater Phönix , Linz
  • 2013 Spring Awakening (LIVE FAST-DIE YOUNG!) By N. Calis after F. Wedekind, Young State Theater Braunschweig
  • 2014 Zero People with texts from the basic building blocks of a theory of the young girl by Tiqqun in a version by Volker Schmidt, cooperation new space company / Garage X , Vienna
  • 2015 About boys by David Gieselmann, Theater Magdeburg
  • 2015 Нужно быть благодарным / You have to be grateful from Volker Schmidt, Theatr Praktika, Moscow
  • 2015 Der Fuchs by Volker Schmidt, Ballhaus Ost , Berlin / Galerie IM ERSTEN Wien / new space company
  • 2015 Actually beautiful by Volker Schmidt, German State Theater Timisoara , Romania
  • 2016 black and white purple by Volker Schmidt, Dschungel Vienna
  • 2016 Klavigo / Clavigo by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Latvian National Theater Riga
  • 2016 jihad by Volker Schmidt, Stadttheater Ingolstadt
  • 2017 kolhaaz (we are everywhere) by Volker Schmidt, Schauspielhaus Wien , cooperation with the MUK Uni Wien
  • 2018 Different from Andreas Steinhöfel, arranged for the stage by Anne Bader, Landestheater St. Pölten
  • 2018 Iphigenie in Aulis by Euripides, Saarbrücken State Theater
  • 2019 Kranichstein represent (Germany needs it) by Volker Schmidt and Ensemble, Staatstheater Darmstadt

Awards, invitations, grants

Awards

  • 2002 winner of the authors' competition "Young radical folk piece" of the Phönix Theater (Linz) with Unter Fischen
  • 2007 Grand Prize and Audience Award at the Heidelberg Play Mark m it it The mountain bikers
  • 2007 winner of the Berlin Children's Theater Prize of the GRIPS Theater with black and white purple
  • 2008 Nestroy Prize 2008 (Best Off-Production) for komA
  • 2008 STELLA 2008-Darstellende.Kunst.Prize for young audience for komA

Invitations

  • 2003 Author workshop at the Burgtheater
  • 2006 Schäxpir theater festival for young audiences with Stormy Love Inna Beatbox
  • 2006 Mühlviertler Festspiele Schwertberg with Stormy Love Inna Beatbox
  • 2007 Invitation to the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen with Die Mountainbiker
  • 2010 Invitation to Sibfest - Sibiu Int. Theater Festival (RO) with Die Mountainbiker
  • 2008 Invitation to the NET Festival Moscow with Die Mountainbiker
  • 2008 Invitation to the Festival for European Drama, Santiago de Chile with Die Mountainbiker
  • 2012 Invitation to "Hart am Wind" - 3rd North German Children's and Youth Theater Festival with Hotel Braunschweig (director)
  • 2013 Golden Mask Festival Moscow with komA (production by the Goethe-Institut Kiev)
  • 2016 Theater Festival Piatra Neamț (RO) with Actually beautiful
  • 2016 Int. Oradea Theater Festival (RO) with Actually nice
  • 2017 Tbilisi Literature Festival, Georgia with Jihad

Scholarships

  • 2003 & 2006 drama scholarship from the BKA, Art Section
  • 2004 Scholarship from the Literar Mechana
  • 2005 drama scholarship from the city of Vienna
  • 2010 & 2013 drama scholarship from the BMUKK

literature

  • Otto Paul Burkhardt : Volker Schmidt. "Absolutely today": A look into the social microcosm, in: Stückwerk 5, Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008
  • Peter Spuhler : Something is missing, Volker Schmidt's "Die Mountainbiker" in Theater heute, Jahrbuch 2007, p. 173

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards: Orhan Pamuk now also an honorary doctorate in Istanbul ++ Schmidt wins the Heidelberg Stückemarkt prize ++ Theater: Cologne's new director wants "no Abitur plays" ++ Opera: Dispute over "Nabucco" staging at Marine Memorial . In: Welt Online . May 15, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed April 4, 2016]).
  2. ^ Berliner Festspiele: Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen, Stückemarkt IV. In: archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ LIFE - Volker Schmidt. In: volkerschmidt.at. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  4. ^ NewSpaceCompany. In: newspacecompany.at. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  5. ^ NewSpaceCompany. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg