Jump to content

Roland Schimmelpfennig

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 20:19, 8 December 2020 (Task 18 (cosmetic): eval 7 templates: del empty params (2×); cvt lang vals (1×);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Roland Schimmelpfennig
Schimmelpfennig in 2009
Born (1967-09-19) 19 September 1967 (age 57)
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

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.

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. ^ Goethe Institute
  4. ^ New York Theatre Wire
  5. ^ Marcus, J. S. (17 December 2010). "The Future of German Theater". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  6. ^ Ulbricht, Margitta (4 June 2010). ""Stücke"-Sieg für Schimmelpfennigs "Drachen"". Der Westen (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Schimmelpfennig mit Dramatikerpreis geehrt". Main Post (in German). Würzburg. dpa. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  8. ^ Muscionico, Daniele (3 October 2003). "Roland Schimmelpfennig - Fisch um Fisch". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zürich. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  9. ^ Weinzierl, Ulrich (14 October 2009). "Darum ist der "Nestroy" besser als der "Faust"". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 14 October 2019.


Stub icon

This article about a German dramatist or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland_Schimmelpfennig&oldid=993103052"