Georgia Doll (born July 2, 1980 in

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) is an Austrian-born German

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and

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Life and career

Georgia Doll was born in 1980 in Vienna. At the age of eight years her parents left

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and moved to

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. After graduation and her literature and theater studies at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

, she left Hamburg and studied theater in

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, theater directing in

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and playwriting in

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. 2006 her piece ''Le Pays Sombre'' is played at the ''Théatre Ouvert'' in Paris. Her other plays ''Miss Europa fährt nach Afrika'', ''Der Hang zum Grundsätzlichen'', ''Der König hat Hunger'', ''Lorenzos Rückkehr'', ''Das blaue Gold'', ''Stranger'' as well as short pieces were played in

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and

, in particular in the cities of

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Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

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, at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the

Munich Kammerspiele The Munich Kammerspiele (German: Münchner Kammerspiele) is a state-funded German-language theater company based at the ''Schauspielhaus'' on Maximilianstrasse in the Bavarian capital. The company currently has three venues: the main stage of ...

and the

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. In 2006 she also staged ''Miss Europa fährt nach Afrika'' in Paris, in 2007 she founded the youth theater troupe "Anyigba Yéyé" in Amlame,

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, with whom she developed ''Visite sur Terre'' and 2008 the

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play ''Die Ausnahme und die Regel'' (2009 on Goethe Institute Lomé) and in 2013 she directed ''Das blaue Gold'' in

. In 2011 Georgia Doll was nominated for the ''Munich Prize for German language and drama''. Together with director Ida Clay in 2012 she co-directed the short film ''Der Vogel und die Fenster''. In 2013 she worked together with the actor and director Philip Baumgarten in an artist residency at the Marelle villa des Auteurs in the Friche de la Belle de Mai in

for their production ''Sous le sixieme soleil'', that has been sent in April of the same year in the Radio Grenouille in Marseille. As part of the author inside workshop out - new German pieces -, a cooperation of cultural and lifestyle publication ''freitext'', ''Ballhaus Naunynstraße'' and the Ensemble of the

, her play ''ich waren wir wir waren ich'' was shown at the studio Я of the

and in the Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Since 2012 she works in Marseille with her company Les Passagers du Mardi. Georgia Doll writes both in German and in French. In 2002 she published lyrical texts in the series ''Junge Lyrik'' in the

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. In 2010 she was published in the anthology ''Zwischenspiele: Neue Texte, Wahrnehmungs- und Fiktionsräume in Theater, Tanz und Performance'' in the ''transcript Verlag''. In 2013 she published her bilingual play ''Das blaue Gold: L'or bleu'' in the ''Drei Masken Verlag''.

Awards

* 2011: Nomination for the ''Münchner Förderpreis für deutsche Sprache und Dramatik''

Publications (selection)

Books

* ''Das blaue Gold: L'or bleu'', Drei Masken Verlag, Toulouse: Presses Univ. du Mirailm, 2013,

Anthologies (selection)

* ''Junge Lyrik III - 50 Dichterinnen und Dichter.'' Anthology,

, Melsbach 2002, . Also second, revised edition.''Georgia Doll.'' In: ''Junge Lyrik: (Jahrgänge 1967 - 1982), Band 3.'', Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach, 2002, P. 542
/ref> (edited by

Martin Werhand Martin Werhand (born May 13, 1968, in Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German publisher, editor and writer. 1997 he founded the publishing house Martin Werhand Verlag in Melsbach with focus on Fiction. Life and work Martin Peter Werhand was ...

) * ''Zwischenspiele: Neue Texte, Wahrnehmungs- und Fiktionsräume in Theater, Tanz und Performance.'' Anthology, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2010,

Literature

''Georgia Doll.'' In: '' - Das blaue Gold: L'or bleu'', Drei Masken Verlag, 2013

External links

*
Georgia Doll in: Maxim Gorki Theater

Georgia Doll in: Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Georgia Doll in: Münchner Kammerspiele

References

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