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Born in Stuttgart on 1 March 1959. After university entrance examination and alternative civil service, from 1981 to 1984 he trained at drama school in Munich. Assistant director at Schiller Theatre Berlin. From 1988 to 1996 he lived in Amsterdam, from 1986 he worked as a freelance director in the Dutch and Belgian independent scene. After 1991 he also produced in Freiburg, having been brought there by manager Friedrich Schirmer. The connection to Schirmer and his team continued, in various contractual forms, for many years at Stuttgart Staatstheater.
1996-1998 in-house director at Heidelberg Theatre, 1998-2000 full-time director in Stuttgart. Other productions in Hanover and Graz. Since 2000 Kimmig has mainly produced for the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, but repeatedly also at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and, in 2004, for the first time at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Kimmig is married to the set designer Katja Hass who has mainly designed the sets for his productions in recent years.
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