Andreas Kriegenburg

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Born in Magedeburg on 15 November 1963. Until 1980 senior school; followed by training as a model carpenter. 1982-1984 Technician and carpenter at Magdeburg Theatre. In 1984 he moved to the Gerhart Hauptmann Theatre in Zittau as an assistant director, there he made his directorial debut in the same year with Yevegeny Schwarz’s “Little Red Riding Hood”. 1987-1991 assistant director, then director at the Kleist Theatre in Frankfurt/Oder. There, in January 1989 he produced Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” and, on 9 November 1989, the day when the Berlin Wall came down, Lothar Trolle’s “Barrack Residents” (as a reaction to “the euphoria sweeping the country at the time”).

In 1991 he moved to the Berlin Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburger Platz as a staff director, where he enjoyed a great success from the very start with Büchner’s “Woyzeck”. Guest productions in Basel, Bonn and Hanover, among other towns. 1994-1999 staff director under Ulrich Khuon at the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hanover and regular guest director at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich. In Munich he was awarded the Bavarian Theatre Prize in 1997.

1999-2001 in-house director at Vienna’s Burgtheater Zurich under the management of Klaus Bachler. In the 2001/2002 season Kriegenburg followed Ulrich Khuon to Hamburg’s Thalia Theater where he has been senior director ever since. As a guest he has most recently produced at the Munich Kammerspiele and Zurich Schauspielhaus. Since the 2009/2010 season he is in-house director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, which was currently taken over by Ulrich Khuon.