Roland Schimmelpfennig
Schimmelpfennig in 2009
Born (1967-09-19) 19 September 1967
Gottingen, Germany
EducationOtto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts
Occupations
  • Theatre director
  • playwright
  • librettist
  • radio writer

Roland Schimmelpfennig (born 19 September 1967) is a German theatre director and playwright. His plays are performed in more than 40 countries.[1]

Biography

Schimmelpfennig was born in Gottingen.[2] He began his career as a journalist in Istanbul, but starting in 1990 he studied at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts to be a theatre director.[3] He is one of Germany's most prolific playwrights, widely praised in Europe but relatively obscure in the United States.[4] His work is said to vary from "kaleidoscopic" and dreamlike to naturalistic. He lives in the Eastern part of Berlin with his wife.[5] Two of his plays, translated as Push Up and The Woman Before, have been performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London. His play Ant Street was staged as part of Volta International Festival at the Arcola Theatre in 2015.[6]

He wrote the libretto for the opera Der goldene Drache by Péter Eötvös, composed and premiered in 2014, based on his 2010 play. Schimmelpfennig's debut novel, An einem klaren eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts was translated into English by Jamie Bulloch and published by MacLehose Press in 2018 as One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. Schimmelpfennig's work has been presented on BBC Radio, most recently the International Arts Production of Black Water on BBC Radio 3.[7]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Hugendick, David (17 March 2016). "Ach, wie kalt ist die Welt!". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Hayer, Björn (24 August 2017). "Auch Wunder brauchen Atempausen". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Neue Dramatik – Goethe-Institut". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Roland Schimmelpfennig". www.nytheatre-wire.com. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Marcus, J. S. (17 December 2010). "The Future of German Theater". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "VOLTA International Festival at The Arcola Theatre - Review". LondonTheatre1. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Black Water". BBC. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  8. ↑ Ulbricht, Margitta (4 June 2010). ""Stücke"-Sieg für Schimmelpfennigs "Drachen"". Der Westen (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "Schimmelpfennig mit Dramatikerpreis geehrt". Main Post (in German). Würzburg. dpa. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  10. ↑ Muscionico, Daniele (3 October 2003). "Roland Schimmelpfennig – Fisch um Fisch". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zürich. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  11. ↑ Weinzierl, Ulrich (14 October 2009). "Darum ist der "Nestroy" besser als der "Faust"". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 14 October 2019.


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