David Bösch

David Bösch was born in 1978 in Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2000 to 2004, he studied directing at the College of Music and Theatre in Zurich, where the works he directed included Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening) by Wedekind and Leonce und Lena – a better day (Leonce and Lena – a better day) based on the play by Georg Büchner. He was awarded the First Prize in the 2003 Körber Young Directors Studio competition for his interpretation of Jessica Goldberg’s Fluchtpunkt (Refuge) .

In 2004, he directed Port by Simon Stephens as part of the Young Directors Project at the Salzburg Festival, a coproduction with the Thalia Theater Hamburg. He went on to direct Romeo and Juliet at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Der Drang (Urge) by Franz Xaver Kroetz at the Theater Bern, George Tabori’s Mein Kampf (My Struggle) at the Thalia in der Gaußstraße, The Dispute by Marivaux at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (Schiffbauhalle) and Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing – another coproduction between the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival –, for which he won the 2006 Young Directors Award.

Since the 2005/06 season, David Bösch has been director in residence at the Schauspiel Essen under its artistic director Anselm Weber. In 2005, he directed the opening play of Weber’s first season in Essen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, which became a big hit with the public. This has been followed by Werner Schwab’s Volksvernichtung oder Meine Leber ist sinnlos (People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless) and Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Ordeal by Fire) in 2006, Molnár’s Liliom and Büchner’s Woyzeck in 2007, and Sophocles’s Antigone in 2008.