Artists
About Artist
René Pollesch
Director
Born
in Friedberg, Hessen, in 1962. He studied Applied Theatre Science in Gießen,
under Heiner Müller, George Tabori and John Jesurun among others. From 1992, he
developed projects at the Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt/Main under manager
Tom Stromberg.
In
1996 he received a working scholarship at the Royal Court Theatre London with
seminars given by Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill. Since 1998, he has staged
productions at municipal theaters in Berlin, Leipzig and Stuttgart. During 1999
and 2000, he worked as in-house writer and director at the Lucerne Theatre,
then at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. From the 2001/2002 season
until 2006/2007 Pollesch has been the artistic director of the Prater at the
Berliner Volksbühne, a sort of homebase where in recent years he has constantly
been developing his working method.
Together
with Frank Castorf, Pollesch is considered one of the most influential
directors at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. In 2001 and
2006, Pollesch received the Dramatist Prize of the town of Mülheim and in 2007
the Viennese Nestroy Prize.