Johan Simons
Johan Simons ( born September 1, 1946 in Heerjansdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch actor, director and theater director. By 2015 he is director of the Munich Chamber games. From 2015 to 2017, he will lead the Ruhr Triennale.
Life
Johan Simons was born in 1946 in the Dutch Heerjansdam. With 7 years he experienced the flood disaster of 1953; It was an experience that would shape him throughout his long artistic career. After Johan Simons had initially trained as a dancer at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and as an actor at the Theatre Academy in Maastricht, he was actor and director of 1976 Haagsche Comedie year. Here he staged his first performance.
Simons lives with actress Elsie de Brauw and their children in Varik in Gelderland.
Netherlands and Belgium
Simons in 1979 was one of the founders of the wasp theater, a collective actor, which was inspired by the famous theater work. As the wasp Theatre disbanded in 1982, Johan Simons founded the Regio Theatre and became its artistic director. Destination, mode of operation and style corresponded to the wasp theater. However, the pieces no longer arose from improvisations, but were written specifically for the ensemble of experienced writers. The drummer Paul Koek worked on some productions as a musician. 1985 merged Het Regio theater with the theater company Eight in October for theater Hollandia. From 1987, Paul Koek acted as co-director, he was second artistic director in 1993. Hollandia produced and played performances far away from the great theater cities, deep in the province, in the country, in empty factory halls, barns and churches, car scrap yards and under bridges. Simons and Koek staged mainly peasant pieces by Frans Xaver Kroetz and Herbert Achternbusch and Greek classics of Aeschylus. They developed a very peculiar form of musical theater, had equal rights in the text and music. Simons sought with his actors ( Jeroen Willems, Bert Luppes, Betty Schuurman, Elsie de Brauw, ... ) to a highly musical playing style.
2001 joined the Theatre Company Hollandia with the Zuidelijk Toneel from Eindhoven together to ZT Hollandia. The actors Aus Greidanus Jr., Sanne van Rijn and Chris Nietvelt joined the ensemble. ZT Hollandia has been awarded several prizes. The highlight was the European Award for Innovation in the theater, the Johan Simons and Paul Koek have received in 2000 in Taormina.
2005-2010 led Simon the Flemish city theater NTGent. He directed the novel arrangements of Arnon Grunberg, Michel Houellebecq, Louis Paul Boon and JM Coetzee, as well as adaptations of classics such as the Oresteia and Life is a Dream.
Germany
In the following years, Johan Simons was regularly invited as guest director of the German theaters: He directed Portable ( Schauspielhaus Zurich, 2001), Hannibal ( Staatstheater Stuttgart, 2002), Anatomy Titus ( Munich Studio Theater, 2003) and elementary ( Schauspielhaus Zurich, 2004). The highlight of the season 2003/ 04 were the performances The Fall of the Gods (premiere on 25 August 1999, German version in 2000 in Braunschweig at the festival theater forms ) and two voices (premiere on 11 April 1997 in Haarlem Toneelschuur locatie theater ) under the Festival d' Avignon. With its Munich production of Heiner Müller's Anatomy Titus Johan Simons was invited to the Berlin Theatre Meeting 2004. Elementary particles according to Houellebecq at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich was awarded as the best German -language performance in 2004 with the Nestroy Theatre Prize. 2010 moved Simons as successor to Frank tree farmer as director of the Munich Chamber games that he wants to leave in 2015 to take over the Ruhr Triennale in 2017.
Were present for the Ruhr Triennale to see from him: The Fall of the Gods and The Bacchae (2002), Sentimenti (2003), Fort Europa (2005) and Life is a Dream (2006).
At the Festival d' Avignon in 2009 Simons Kasimir and Karoline led on. In Munich, he staged in February 2011 Winter Travel by Elfriede Jelinek. The premiere was on February 3, 2011. He was invited with a production of Cleansed / greed / 4.48 Psychosis to the Berlin Theatre Meeting, 2012. 2012 at the Schauspielhaus the Munich Chamber Games was the work of the street. The city. The raid by Elfriede Jelinek premiered, was commissioned for the 100th year of the chamber games, which deals with the myth of Munich Maximilian street.
Awards
2000 European Award for Innovation in the theater. 2004 Nestroy for elementary ( Schauspielhaus Zurich ). 2004 Director of the Year ( Theater Today). 2009 Honorary Doctorate of University of Ghent. , 2013, theater of the year ( Munich Chamber games).