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Falk Richter | |
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 Falk Richter | |
| Born | 23 October 1969 Hamburg, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, playwright, theatre director |
| Years active | Since 1996 |
| Awards | Teddy Award – Special Teddy Award 2019 |
| Website | falkrichter |
Falk Richter (born 23 October 1969) is a German educator, playwright and theater director.
Falk Richter was born on 23 October 1969 in Hamburg. His father was a merchant.
He studied linguistics, philosophy and theatre directing at the University of Hamburg, graduating with a production of Silikon at the Kampnagel theatre in 1996.
Richter is the author of theater and audio plays, translator and theatre director who has worked for numerous theatres, including Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Hamburg State Opera, both in Hamburg; the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway; the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria; and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
He was resident director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Zurich, Switzerland, from 2000 to 2004; at the Schaubühne in Berlin from 2006 to 2010; and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf from 2011 to 2012.
Since 2015, he has been Artiste associé at the National Theatre of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France; and since 2017, he has been working as resident director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
Richter was elected "director of the year" by theater critics in a survey of the monthly Theater heute in August 2018. His production of Elfriede Jelinek's play Am Königsweg in Hamburg was voted "production of the year 2018". [1] In February 2019, he received a Special Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Richter was visiting professor for directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. In 2019, he started to serve a five-year term as professor of performing arts at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. [2] Starting with the 2020/2021 season, Richter was to be leading director at the Munich Kammerspiele in Munich. [3]
His plays have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and have been produced all over the world. [4]
Deiters, Franz-Josef: "'Ich habe also nach einer Form gesucht, Theater als Forum zu begreifen'. Falk Richters Theater des politischen Aktivismus'. In: Franz-Josef Deiters: Neues Welttheater? Zur Mediologie des Theaters der Neo-Avantgarden. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2022, pp. 55-84. ISBN 978-3-503-20998-9.
