Florian Fiedler

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Florian Fiedler was born in 1977 and grew up in Hamburg. He broke off an attempt to study German literature after just two days, then worked as an assistant director under Stefan Bachmann, Lars-Ole Walburg, Kathrina Thalbach and Nicolas Stemann in Basel. His first productions were “Who Loves You Baby? The Nearly Elvis Show”, “Planet Porno” and “Norway Today” in Hamburg and Basel. Since then, Fiedler has directed regularly at the Theater Basel, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Munich Volkstheater and the schauspiel frankfurt. In 2003 he was choosen by the magazine Theater Heute as newcoming director of the year and he also received the Gertrud Eysolt ring for his production "Lower Bavaria". Fiedler has been appointed the director of the Schmidtstraße, the schauspiel frankfurt’s studio theatre, until 2009.