René Pollesch

René Pollesch - © Thomas Aurin
© Thomas Aurin
René Pollesch, born at Friedberg/Hesse in 1962, devoted himself from 1983-89 to Applied Theatre Studies at Gießen with Andrez Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann, and to Stage Projects with guest lecturers Heiner Müller, George Tabori, John Jesurun, and others. In 1996 he had a working scholarship with the Royal Court Theatre in London inclusive of seminars with Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, etc. During the 1999/2000 season he was house author at the Lucerne Theatre, and in autumn 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
Since the 2001/2002 season Pollesch has been organizing the Prater programme at Berlin's Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

Prizes and Awards:

  • Grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, 1997
  • Mülheim Dramatists Prize, 2001
  • Invitation to the Mülheim Theatre Days, 2002