Torsten Fischer (born 26 April 1958) is a German

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and theater intendant.

Career

Born in Berlin, Fischer originally wanted to become a painter, but then studied biology and chemistry for a higher teaching position at the Free University of Berlin. From 1978 to 1981, he was a teacher and supervisor for drug addicts and foreign prisoners in the juvenile detention center of the Plötzensee Prison. He frequently attended theatre rehearsals and was engaged in 1981 as assistant director and dramaturg for

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and at the

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under director . As a guest director he was assistant director and dramaturge at the Schiller Theater in Berlin in 1984, but as Krämer moved to the Theater Bremen in 1984, Fischer followed him there. In 1986, he led to differences between General Director Tobias RichterThomas Richter
/ref> and Krämer, who succeeded in ensuring that Fischer could remain at the house as a permanent guest director. When Krämer became

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of the Kölner Schauspiel in 1990, he was appointed senior director of the

Bühnen der Stadt Köln Bühnen der Stadt Köln (engl.: Stages of the City of Cologne) is an umbrella term for different cultural institutions in Cologne. Schauspiel Köln and Cologne Opera The Cologne Opera (German: Oper der Stadt Köln or Oper Köln) refers both to ...

. For his debut he staged a Tabori project with the farce ''

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''. Further productions in Cologne were '' Die Räuber'' (1991), Kroetz’ ''Bauerntheater'' (1991), Hebbel's '' Maria Magdalena'' (1992), Shakespeare's '' Twelfth Night'' (1993) and Jean Racine's '' Phèdre'' (1993). He supported the playwright Marlene Streeruwitz and staged the premieres of several of her plays. As a guest director, Fischer was especially active in Vienna at several theaters there. From 1995 to 2003 he held the position of acting director in Cologne. Other productions there included Ferenc Molnár's '' Liliom'' (1996), the world premiere of

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's ''Mordslust'' (1996), the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's ' (1996) and Eugene O’Neills '' Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1998).

Awards

In 1988 and 2005 Fischer received the of the City of Vienna. At the NRW-Theatertreffen he was awarded the production prize for the best director (''Mein Kampf / Kannibalen'') in 1991 and the recording prize for Marlene Streeruwitz’ ''Waikiki-Beach''. In 2013, Fischer was awarded the Golden Schikaneder named best director of the year 2012 for Gluck's Opera '' Telemacco, ossia L’isola di Circè'' at the Theater an der Wien.

Bibliography

* : ''Theaterlexikon. Autoren, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Dramaturgen, Bühnenbildner, Kritiker.'' Von Christine Dössel und Marietta Piekenbrock unter Mitwirkung von Jean-Claude Kuner und C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, München 2nd edition, 1999 .

References

External links

Torstern Ficher
(Opera base)
Torsten Fischer
(Opera musica) *

(gaertnerplatztheater) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Torsten 1958 births Living people People from Berlin German theatre directors German opera directors Dramaturges