Ana-Maria Bamberger
Ana-Maria Bamberger is a playwright of Romanian origin working in French, English, German, and Romanian.
Her plays are performed in theatres and at festivals in more than 15 countries.[1]
A native of Bucharest, Bamberger studied medicine and worked in medical research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (United States) and at the University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany.[2] She began writing plays in 2003. Playwriting Masterclass with Stephen Jeffreys at the Royal Court Theatre in London (2011).[3] She was Visiting Dramatist and Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Arts and Culture, the Paris Campus of Kent University.
She formed a close artistic relationship with the actress Olga Tudorache who performed in her first three plays.[4]
The FOYER Theater Magazin, 3Sat, described her plays as "psychologically subtle, combining humour and depth". The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees "a deep seriousness behind biting sacarsm".[5]
Selected plays and productions
[edit]The Paradoxe of Desire
[edit]- 2024 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse (French title: Le Paradoxe du désir)[6]
One Whole Night
[edit]- 2023 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse (French title: Une nuit entière)[7]
- 2023 London - White Bear Theatre[8]
Talking to you
[edit]- 2018 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse (French title: Parler avec toi)[9]
- 2022 Bucharest - Teatrelli (Romanian title: Să vorbesc cu tine)
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest[10]
Criminals
[edit]- 2017 Bucharest - Romanian Playwrights' Theatre (Teatrul Dramaturgilor Români) (Romanian title: Infractorii)[11]
- 2019 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse (French title: Cambriolage)[12]
The Stone (co-authored with Christoph M. Bamberger)
[edit]- 2013 Germany - Theater Paderborn (German title: Der Stein)[13]
- 2014 Paris - Théâtre Studio Hébertot (Transfer: Théâtre Essaion Paris 2015, Festival Avignon - Théâtre des Corps Saints 2015) (French title: Le Rocher)[14]
- 2014 London - Tristan Bates Theatre (Used title: Rock and a Hard Place)[15]
- 2019 Salzburg - Kleines Theater[16]
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest (Romanian title: Pietroiul)[17]
10 Questions
[edit]- 2011 Brighton - Marlborough Theatre[18]
- 2012 Romania - Anton Pann Theatre (Romanian title: 10 Întrebari)[19]
- 2014 Germany - Lichthof Theatre Hamburg (German title: 10 Fragen)[20]
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest[21]
Taxi Blues
[edit]- 2011 Bucharest - Nottara Theatre / Teatrul National Bucuresti 2015[22]
Blind Date
[edit]- 2011 Hamburg - Kontraste Theater[23]
Belvedere
[edit]- 2010 Hamburg - Kontraste Theater / Vagantenbühne Berlin[24][25]
- 2011 Romania - Classic Theatre Arad[26]
- 2012 London - White Bear Theatre[27]
- 2020 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse[28]
- 2021 Madrid - Teatro Sanchinarro & Teatro Carril del Conde
- 2021 London - Old Red Lion Theatre[29]
- 2022 Paris - Théâtre de Nesle (English)[30]
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, UNITER AWARD nomination[31]
Three O'Clock
[edit]- 2010 Romania - National Theatre Sibiu, German Section[32]
- 2010 Munich - Rosstall Theatre[33]
- 2021 Germany - Stadttheater Weilheim[34]
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, Best actress Award, Grand Prix Nova[35]
The Portrait of Donna T.
[edit]- 2008 Bucharest - Arcub Theatre / Transfer: Mic Theatre (Teatrul Mic) (Romanian title: Portretul doamnei T.)[36][37]
- 2008 Germany - EuroCentral Theatre Bonn (German title: Das Portrait der Donna T.)[38]
- 2011 Prague - ABC Theatre (Divadlo ABC)
- 2022 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse (French title: Le Portrait de Madame T.)[39]
- Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, UNITER AWARD winner[40]
Martha, Marina
[edit]- 2004 Bucharest - Theatrum Mundi / Transfer: Metropolis Theatre (Romanian title: Peste cu mazare)[41]
- 2008 Munich - Rosstall Theatre (German title: Martha, Marina)[42]
- 2011 New York City - Davenport Studio staged reading with Tony Award Winner Mary Lou Wilson & Mary McCann[43]
- 2016 Avignon - Théâtre La Luna (French title: Poisson et petits pois)[44]
- 2018 Paris - Théâtre Funambule Montmartre (French title: Poisson et petits pois)[45]
November
[edit]- 2003-2012 Bucharest - National Theatre Bucharest (Romanian title: Noiembrie)[46]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger | Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG". www.felix-bloch-erben.de. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger | Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG". www.felix-bloch-erben.de. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger | Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG". www.felix-bloch-erben.de. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ "Ana Maria Bamberger". regizorcautpiesa.ro (in Romanian).
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger | Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG". www.felix-bloch-erben.de. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Web, UK Theatre. "Archive for One Whole Night at White Bear, London. 2023. [LONDON]". UK Theatre Web. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Arhive Sa vorbesc cu tine". Radio România Internațional (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "INFRACTORII – Teatrul Dramaturgilor Români" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "LICHTHOF Theater Hamburg - Der Stein". archiv.lichthof.de. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "A Rock and a Hard Place". Time Out London. 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Nachrichten, Salzburger (2019-10-24). "Edi Jäger spielt "Der Stein": Ein Problem kann auch Lösung sein". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "srr.ro". srr.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Brighton Magazine - Ginny Davis Gives An Insight Into How Brighton Festival and Fringe Performers Retain Their Lines". Magazine.brighton.co.uk. 2024-05-11. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Premiera cu spectacolul '10 Intrebari' de Ana-Maria Bamberger, la Teatrul Anton Pann". www.hotnews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "10 FRAGEN". LICHTHOF Theater (in German). 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "srr.ro". srr.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Taxi Blues". www.tnb.ro. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Opresnik, Miriam (2011-12-02). "Pendlerin zwischen Theater und Medizin". www.abendblatt.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Die Rolle ihres Lebens - WELT". DIE WELT (in German). 2011-11-19. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ ""Belvedere" von Ana-Maria Bamberger auf der Vaganten Bühne Berlin". Theaterkompass - Für Theaterbesucher und Theatermacher (in German). 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ admin (2010-12-06). "Belvedere, la Teatrul Clasic "Ioan Slavici" Arad". News Arad (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Belvedere by Ana Maria Bamberger at White Bear Theatre". London Theatre. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Pulit, Magdalena (2021-11-02). "Review: Belvedere at The Old Red Lion Theatre". Theatre Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Belvedere - Théâtre de Nesle - Theatre In Paris". www.theatreinparis.com. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Belvedere de Ana-Maria Bamberger | UNITER" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Premiera teatrala la Sibiu cu piesa 'Three O Clock'". www.hotnews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Rina, Kath O. "Theater - Chronik 1". Roßstall neu (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "THREE O´Clock - Komödie". hey.bayern (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "radioromaniacultural.ro". radioromaniacultural.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "OLGA TUDORACHE ÎN PORTRETUL DOAMNEI T la ArCuB – ARCUB" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Olga Tudorache, dincolo de durerea unei iubiri frânte în tinerețe". comentator.ro (in Romanian). 2022-07-24. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Das Portrait der Donna T. - kultur 50 - Oktober 2008 | Theatergemeinde BONN | Kultur. Vielfalt. Erleben". theatergemeinde-bonn.org. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Ana-Maria Bamberger en spectacle, au théâtre - L'Officiel des spectacles". www.offi.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Portretul Doamnei T de Ana-Maria Bamberger | UNITER" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "O poveste de succes, scrisa in 6 ani. Teatrul Metropolis aniverseaza 6 ani cu premiera spectacolului Lectia de violoncel, cu Radu Beligan". www.hotnews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Rina, Kath O. "Theater - Chronik 1". Roßstall neu (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Davenport, Ken (2011-12-05). "Our final reading of 2011 – and you are invited. - Ken Davenport". Ken Davenport -. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Théâtre La Luna". Théâtre La Luna (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Poisson et petits pois ! - Théâtre Le Funambule". www.funambule-montmartre.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "November". www.tnb.ro. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
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