René Pollesch

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Born in Friedberg, Hesse, in 1962. 1983-1989 Studied Applied Theatre Science in Gießen, under Heiner Müller, George Tabori and John Jesurun among others. From 1992 projects at Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt/Main under the then manager Tom Stromberg. In 1996 he received a working scholarship at the Royal Court Theatre London with seminars given by Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill.

Since 1998 productions at municipal theatres in Berlin, Leipzig and Stuttgart. 1999/2000 in-house writer and director at Lucerne Theatre, then at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. His theatre soap project that he developed there, “World Wide Web-Slums 1-10” won the Mülheim Dramatists’ Prize in 2001.

From the 2001/2002 season until 2006/2007 Pollesch has been artistic director of the Prater at the Berliner Volksbühne (manager: Frank Castorf). In 2002 Pollesch was voted the best German dramatist in a critics’ survey by “Theater heute”. He produces in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Vienna.