Name Karin Beier Role Theatre Director | Spouse Michael Wittenborn | |
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Awards Sterija Award for Best Director Similar People Michael Wittenborn, Lina Beckmann, Karin Henkel, Jorg Gollasch, Charly Hubner | ||
Karin beier ber ihre er ffnungsinszenierung die rasenden
Karin Beier (born 1965 in Cologne) is a German theatre director.
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- Karin beier ber ihre er ffnungsinszenierung die rasenden
- Trailer Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf
- Literature
- References
After studying English in Cologne, Karin Beier moved into theatre. She established an English language theatre and staged Shakespeare plays in their source language. Theatres began to grow in popularity, and she became the director of the Düsseldorf Theatre. Here she was able to display her first professional theatre production. In Düsseldorf she studied under Iraqi director David Mouchtar-Samorai.
After her 1994 production of Romeo and Juliet she was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen and granted an award by the leading German theater magazine Theater heute. The following year she directed productions at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Munich Kammerspiele, and the Burgtheater in Vienna.
In 2004 and 2005 she directed at the Nibelungen-Festival in Worms, performing Christian Friedrich Hebbel's 1861 play Nibelungen.
Since 2007 Beier is the director of the main playhouse in Cologne (Schauspiel Köln).
Trailer "Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?"
Literature
Interview with Karin Beier in: Vivien Gröning, Kirsten Sass: WOMAN@WORK Wege nach dem Abi – Wie FRAU heute Karriere macht. 22 Interviews mit erfolgreichen Frauen. Renningen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8169-3237-6.