Wolfram Lotz
Wolfram Lotz (* 1981 in Hamburg ) is a German playwright, poet and radio play author.
Life
The son of a pharmacist grew up in Bad Rippoldsau in the Black Forest . He studied literature, art and media studies at the University of Konstanz and then literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .
Lotz became known in 2011 with his first two plays: He was awarded the Kleist Prize for The Great March , and for Some Messages to the Space , which was also performed at many theaters in German-speaking and European countries, he was recognized in Theater's critics' survey Voted “Young Author of the Year” today . In 2015, he was voted “Playwright of the Year” for his play The Ridiculous Darkness .
Since 2017 he has lived with his wife and their two children near Colmar in Alsace . There he began to write a "total diary" in 2018, which became the basis for his play Die Politiker . Lotz describes the diary as his main work, but deleted the file in 2019.
Works
- The great march. Play. Premiere: Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2011.
- Some messages to space. Play. Premiere: German National Theater Weimar 2011.
- Lint. List. Parasite press Cologne 2011.
- with Martin Laberenz : Shattered Dreams. Premiere: Centraltheater Leipzig 2012.
- Monologues. Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-944669-10-6 .
- The ridiculous darkness . Audio piece. WP: Akademietheater Wien 2014.
- Three pieces. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016. ISBN 978-3-596-29631-6 .
- Ants forever. , joint performance of the two radio plays In Ewigkeit Ameisen and Das Ende von Iflingen from 2009, world premiere: Akademietheater Wien 2019.
- The politicians. Speech text. Spector Books, Leipzig 2019. ISBN 978-3-959-05331-0
Radio plays
- In Eternity Ants Director: Tobias Krebs . SWR, 2009.
- Thilo Sarrazin monologue , composition: Friederike Bernhardt , 2014.
- The ridiculous darkness , director: Leonhard Koppelmann , composition: zeitblom , SWR 2015.
- “The end of Iflingen | Archangel at the Last Judgment ”, director: Leonhard Koppelmann , music: Peter Kaizar, SWR 2019
Awards
- 2005: Literature Prize of the City of Steyr
- 2010: Commissioned work and audience award from the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen
- 2011: Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for The Great March
- 2011: Schöppingen Artist Village Scholarship
- 2011: “Young author of the year” for Some Messages to Space , chosen by an independent jury of German-speaking critics in the magazine Theater heute
- 2011: Literature Prize of the City of Konstanz
- 2012: Dramatist Prize of the German Business Culture Group in the BDI eV
- 2013: Award for comic literature
- 2015: Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen with the world premiere of Die laughable Darkness
- 2015: Nomination for the Mülheim Dramatist Prize
- 2015: “Dramatist of the Year” in the critics' survey of Theater heute magazine
- 2015: Nestroy Theater Prize - Author's Prize for The Ridiculous Darkness
- 2020: Nomination for the radio play award of the war blind with The End of Iflingen
Web links
- Wolfram Lotz at S. Fischer Theater & Medien
- The impossible theater
- "Thilo Sarrazin Monolog" in the Edit Blog
- "27 demands on the theater" in the Edit Blog
- "Hamburger Poetikvorlesung" at Nachtkritik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ freitag.de
- ↑ swr.de
- ↑ schwarzwaelder-bote.de
- ↑ "I am not totally crazy about it". Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ^ Nestroy Prize 2015: The nominations . Press release of September 30, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lotz, Wolfram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, playwright, narrator and radio play author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |