Sebastian Nübling

© Sebastian Hoppe

Born in Lörrach on 19 July 1960. Studied cultural sciences and aesthetic practice at Hildesheim University. Graduated in 1985. Co-founder of the independent group “Theater Mahogoni” in Hildesheim. From 1997 he produced at Basel’s Junges Theater and was invited to various German towns with Enda Walsh’s “Disco Pigs”.

Since 1999 he has worked at Basel Theatre, Staatstheater Stuttgart and Staatsschauspiel Hanover. He became nationally known in 2001 with the Stuttgart production of “I Furiosi” after the novel of the same name by the Italian writer Nanni Belestrini and in 2002 he was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen with his Basel production of Henrik Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkmann”. In the same year he was voted young director of the year.

His premiere of Klaus Händl’s “wilde - the man with the sad eyes”, a co-production between Staatschauspiel Hanover and steirischer herbst Graz, was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen and the Mülheimer Theatertage in 2004. In the same year he debuted at the Munich Kammerspiele with Friedrich Schiller's “Don Carlos” and at the Salzburg Festival with Christopher Marlowe’s “Edward II”.

In 2006, he staged the world premiere of Händl Klaus's “Dark Inviting World” at the Munich Kammerspiele, a production that was eventually invited to Berlin and Mülheim. Since the change of artistic management at Basel Theatre, he has been working for the Munich Kammerspiele, the Schauspiel Hanover and the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. At the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, he presented Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Stuttgart Staatsoper, his first major opera production.