Nicolas Stemann
Nicolas Stemann ( born November 30, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German film director.
Life
After school and civil service, he studied German and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and Director at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna among others Achim Benning and at the Theatre Academy in Hamburg Jürgen Flimm and Christof Nel. Meanwhile, he took odd jobs as a hotel pianist and ship photographer and played in several bands. Since 1995, he staged for the theater. In 1997 he founded the "Group Stemann ", with the central members, it largely to this day works ( as the playwright Bernd Stegemann, the set designer Nottrodt, the costume designer Esther Bialas, the musician Thomas Kürstner and Sebastian Vogel and the actor Philip Hochmair and Sebastian Rudolph ). In the works since around 2005 the playwright Benjamin von Blomberg, the costume designer Marysol del Castillo and the video artist Claudia Lehmann among his closest staff. Since 2002 Stemann works together with the Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, whose plays he often brought to the prehistory and premiere.
Working
The first time was known nationally Stemann by staging its "terror trilogy " 1997 Kampnagel Hamburg, in cooperation with the Hamburg Chamber of games and the Gostner Court Theatre in Nuremberg ( Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner ). The end was also in Nuremberg production of " Werther " by Goethe with Philipp Hochmair plays up to the present in numerous national and international theaters. In the following years he has staged at various German state theaters, including Theatre Basel, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg Schauspielhaus Bochum, Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Theater am Turm Frankfurt, schauspielhannover (Lower Saxony State Theatre). From 2004-2007 was Stemann house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Between 2003 and 2006 he worked in Bogota and Cartagena ( Colombia), with the dance company " El colegio del cuerpo " the Colombian dancer Alvaro Restrepo. Currently, he works primarily at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg), the DT ( Deutsches Theater Berlin) and at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne ( Nathan the Wise ). Since 2010 he has worked as an opera director (La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, Komische Oper Berlin). In 2011, he staged at the Salzburg Festival Faust I and Faust II (co-produced with the Thalia Theater ( Hamburg) ) and in spring 2012 at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne, the musical project " The demographic factor ". In July 2012, he continued with his "Fast theatrical force" the theater text " Pure Gold" by Elfriede Jelinek in a performance stick musical theater Urlesung first time in the scene ( Bavarian State Opera on the Prince Regent Theatre). Within the framework of the Vienna Festival in 2013 conceived and directed Stemann drama performance " community of truth. Reality machine ".
Stemann regarded as " one of the most renowned directors in German theater" (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
Invitations and Awards
Stemann works have been invited six times to the Berlin Theatre Meeting and four times to the Mülheim Theatre Days Festival, as well as to various international festivals in Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, Bogota, Toronto, Belgrade, Manchester, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Warsaw and others. With his production of The contracts of businessman he was in July 2012 for the first time at the theater festival in Avignon guest. He was nominated three times for the Austrian Theatre Prize " Nestroy " as well as for the German Theatre Award "Faust". The magazine " Theater heute" elected him in 2000 for "Young Director of the Year ," his "Hamlet" won prizes in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb. His production of " Ulrike Maria Stuart " by Elfriede Jelinek in 2007 "Best play" awarded the "Cultural News Award" in the category, "Theater heute " is selected in the critics' poll of the magazine play of the year. In 2009 he was awarded for his production of "The Robbers" Hamburg Rolf- Mares- price, his production of Jelinek's business comedy " The Contracts of the Businessman " was honored in 2009 with the Cologne Kurt- Hackenberg- price. For his production of Faust I and Faust II, he was awarded the " 3sat Prize " for " particularly pioneering achievements in the theater " and the " Culture News Award " in the category "Best play". In addition, he was in 2012 elected for Faust I II of the magazine Theater heute " Director of the Year " ( more winners were Sebastian Rudolph for his performance and Benjamin von Bomberg for his dramaturgy in that very production, which has also been invited to the Berlin Theatre Meeting. Stemann was elected at the spring meeting of the Academy of Arts in Berlin on 25 May 2013 as the new member in the section Performing Arts.
Others
Nicolas Stemann is also a guest lecturer at the University for Music and Theatre in Hamburg and at the Academy of Dramatic Arts " Ernst Busch" Berlin since 2003. Besides his work as a director, he is increasingly seen also as a musician and performer, for example, in which he developed in collaboration with Thomas Kürstner and Sebastian Vogel format " risk - Bar " or in some of his productions (eg in " The Contracts of the Businessman ", " 12 last Songs " at DT and " The demographic factor " at the Schauspielhaus Köln).