Robert Lehniger (born in 1974) is a German theatre director and video artist.
Robert Lehniger (born in 1974) is a German theatre director and video artist.
Robert Lehniger was born in Weimar in 1974. He studied Mediengestaltung at the Bauhaus University and was an assistant director at the theatre in Basel in 2000–2002. Since then he has worked as an independent director throughout the German, Austrian and Swiss theatre landscape. [1]
He is known for his uses of video in combination with stage performance, bridging the gap between theatre and cinema. His productions include a 2008 "remake" of Friedrich Hebbel's Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge for the Schauspiel Frankfurt, [2] a 2010 adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend for the Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich [3] and a 2012 adaptation of Christian Kracht's novel Faserland for the Schauspiel Hannover. [4] Since 2016, he has made a series of productions for the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in a format he calls "to go", where he has staged German classics such as Faust , Nathan the Wise and The Maid of Orleans at various locations around Düsseldorf. [5] [6]
From 2019 to 2022, he was professor of acting and head of study program at the Cours Florent in Berlin [7] and has been Principal of the MetFilm School in Berlin since September 2022. [8]
In 2021, his production Corpus Delicti based on the novel by Juli Zeh at the Deutsches Theater Berlin was invited to the Ruhrfestspiele [9] and to the Schäxpir theatre festival for young audiences in Linz. [10]
He was stage director for the award show for the European Film Awards 2023 in Berlin. [11] [12]
Christian Kracht is a Swiss author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Ben Becker is a German film, theatre and voice actor.
Andrea Breth is a stage director. From 1999 to 2019 she was in-house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna and also directed for the Salzburg Festival.
The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is a theatre building and company in Düsseldorf. The present building with two major auditoria was designed by the architect Bernhard Pfau and built between 1965 and 1969. It opened in 1970.
Schauspiel Köln is a theatre and company in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It forms together with the Cologne Opera and other houses the Bühnen der Stadt Köln. The listed building has 830 seats in the Grand House, 120 in the locksmith and 60 in the refreshment room. In addition, the listed 'Halle Kalk' has 200 seats, it was used until closing in the summer of 2015 because of the danger of collapse. Since the 2013/14 season Depot 1 and Depot 2 have been used as interim venues during the extensive renovation of the Schauspielhaus on the site of the former Carlswerk in Schanzenstraße in Cologne-Mülheim.
Radikal jung – Das Festival junger Regisseure is an annual weeklong German theatre festival at the Münchner Volkstheater, Munich. It began in 2005, as a forum and stage for the next generation of directors.
Nis-Momme Stockmann is a German writer and theater director. His work includes plays, radio plays, prose, essays and poetry. He also teaches dramaturgy and scenic writing at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the Academy of Arts in Ludwigsburg.
Karl Heinz Stroux was a German actor, film and theatre director, and theatre manager. As the director of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1955 to 1972 he opened the new building in 1970.
Robert Schuster is a German stage director and drama school teacher.
Ernest Martin is an American theatre director, theatre manager and actor, who lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he wanted to develop new forms of theatre. In Düsseldorf, apart from traditional theatre, he built, led and directed amateur theatre - groups, which were keen on experimenting.
Christian Friedel is a German actor and singer. Having acted in a number of German language productions, he is best known internationally as part of the main cast of the Netflix television thriller series Babylon Berlin (2017–present) and as Rudolf Höss in the 2023 drama The Zone of Interest.
Michael Simon is a German theatre director, opera director and scenic designer.
Clemens Schick is a German actor, model, political activist and human rights advocate.
Peter Fitz was a German stage and film actor.
Tomek Kolczynski, aka Kold, born 1973 in Gdańsk, Poland, is a Swiss musician, composer and sound designer.
Hanover Drama is a theatre company in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The company is resident at the Hanover Playhouse situated approximately 200 metres (660 ft) east of Hanover Opera House, and the Ballyard situated approximately 530 metres (1,740 ft) west-southwest of the opera house in the old town. Collectively these venues have five stages:
Michaela Steiger is a German actress for theatre, film and television. Steiger was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and completed her acting training in New York with Susan Batson and Herbert Berghof. Her first permanent engagement was in Theater Basel where she worked under the direction of Frank Baumbauer with the directors Jossi Wieler, Andreas Kriegenburg, Frank Castorf and Barbara Frey. Then she moved to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1993 to 1996. She became a member of the ensemble of the Schaubühne in Berlin under director Thomas Ostermeier. Steiger had numerous guest engagements at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Munich Kammerspiele. From 2011 to 2016 she was a member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater in Munich, where she worked with directors Martin Kušej, Katrine Wiedemann, Daniela Löffner and Bernhard Mikeska, among others. She has been associated with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus since the 2016/17 season. She is also involved in various film and television productions.
Hasko Weber is a German actor and theatre director.
André Kaczmarczyk is a German actor.
Kristo Šagor is a German playwright and director. He has received numerous awards, and his plays Dreier ohne Simone, FSK 16 and Trüffelschweine are now among the most frequently performed plays in German-speaking countries.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
