Robert Schuster

Robert Schuster ( born 1970 in Meissen ) is a German director and university teacher.

Life

Robert Schuster graduated from 1991 to 1992 an undergraduate course in Theatre Studies and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1992 he moved to study for theater directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts " Ernst Busch" Berlin, where he met his fellow student Tom Kühnel, with whom he formed a production team in the following years. Even with their early enactments made Schuster and Kühnel national attention and were quickly counted among the newcomers of German theater. Bernd Wilms, then director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, became aware of the director duo and after the measure of Bertolt Brecht asked for their production at the Theater Berlin 1994 received the Max -Reinhardt Prize of the Republic of Austria, Schuster and Kühnel, shortly afterwards with their Christmas at staging by Alexander Ivanovich Ivanov Vvedenski at the Maxim Gorki Theater awarded the Friedrich Luft Prize in Berlin. In 1997, Schuster with Christian Tschirner the author collective Sören Voima. It was followed by productions of common Schuster / Kühnel at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Theater Bremen and then a firm commitment at the spectacle Frankfurt. Your Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen brought the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus a national success and in 1997 they received the Otto - box prize, a " Prize of the German director ".

From 1999 to 2002 shoemaker guided together with Tom Kühnel the TAT in the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001, she revived the tradition of experimenta at TAT. At the invitation of the UN followed Schuster and Kühnel in 2000 to New York, where she showed her Berlin playhouses staging quota by the author collective Sören Voima, the diplomats and statesmen. Since 2000, Schuster staged for the opera and the theater alone. At the Theater Basel, at the Theater Bremen, at the Leipzig Schauspielhaus, the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, Theater Freiburg, drama Frankfurt and the Deutsches Theater Berlin. He was appointed Member of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 2001. In 2004 he was appointed professor of directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch ". 2012 was followed by his first feature film Outside is Over, an exploration of his childhood and youth in the GDR. Last Robert Schuster was seen with his very euphoric recorded by feuilleton staging Rats by Gerhard Hauptmann in Freiburg.

He is the younger brother of Stefan Schuster biophysicist.

Awards

• Friedrich Luft Prize, Berlin
• Max Reinhardt Prize of the Republic of Austria
• Otto Case Price

Presentations (selection)

1994-2013

• Christmas at Alexander Ivanov of Vedenskij at the Maxim Gorki Theater
• Stella or the last day of Miss Sara Sampson & Goethe, Lessing at the Maxim Gorki Theater
• The Dragon by Yevgeny Schwarz at the Maxim Gorki Theater
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt
• Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt
• Alice Underground by Lewis Carrol on spectacle Frankfurt
• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare at the Theatre Frankfurt
• Faust 1 of JW Goethe at the Theatre Frankfurt
• Faust 2 of JW Goethe (along with William Forsythe ) in acting Frankfurt
• German for foreigners by Sören Voima at TAT Frankfurt
• World Theatre of Albert Osterhaus Meier, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Marius von Meyenburg, Sören Voima at TAT
• Europe after Sophocles / Euripides at TAT
• Dogma by August Strindberg at TAT
• Contingent of Sören Voima at the theater Berlin
• Norma by Vincenzo Bellini Theater Basel
• The Nose by Dmitri Shostakovich at the Theater Basel
• Crush rooms by Wolfgang Mitterer ( world premiere)
• Platonov by Anton Chekhov on Acting Hannover
• Cold by Lars Noren at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Tartuffe by Molière at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing at Dusseldorf Schauspielhaus
• New Life premiere on a novel by Ingo Schulze at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Italian Night by Odon von Horvath at the Munich Chamber Games
• The Bacchae by Euripides at the Theater Bremen
• Woyzeck by Georg Büchner at the Theater Bremen
• Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt
• DNA from " Dennis Kelly" at the Theatre Frankfurt
• Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen at the Theater Bremen
• The rats of Gerhart Hauptmann at the Theater Freiburg
• King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Theater Freiburg
• Mesure pour mesure ( Measure for Measure ) of Shakespeare at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg
• Danton's Death by Georg Büchner at the Theater Freiburg