EDUCATION
2008 - 2012 Workshop | New Documentary Theatre with Hans-Werner Kroesinger
Academy of the Union of the Theatres of Europe | Schauspielhaus Graz | Austria | December 2012
Projectweek | Factory of Products for Radical Change with Jan Ritsema
Forum Freies Theater | Düsseldorf | May 2012
Studies | Theatre Directing
Folkwang University of the Arts | Essen
artist diploma/masters degree | March 2012
Workshop | Translating the Unknown with Guido Kleene and Lotte van den Berg
Herbst Academy | Steirischer Herbst | Graz | Austria | October 2011
Erasmus Exchange | Theatre Directing
Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático | Madrid | Spain | September 2010 - April 2011
2005 - 2008 Studies | Film Directing Masterclasses i.e. with Andreas Dresen, Andres Veiel
filmArche Berlin
graduated 2008
Advanced Class | Script Supervising and Continuity with Randy Feldman
New York Film Academy (NYFA) | New York | USA | June 2005
2002 - 2005 University | Islamic Sciences | Politics
Freie Universität Berlin | University of Potsdam | Focus: Arabic Language | Berlin
DIRECTING WORKS - selection
2011/12 SPRING and HOPE = BAHAR and OMID
masters/diploma | theatre directing | Folkwang University of the Arts
premiered: 22nd of September 2011 | Pina Bausch Theater Essen
* Körber Studio Junge Regie 2012 | Thalia Theater Hamburg
* ACT Festival | Bilbao | Spain | 2012
* IT’s Festival | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2012
* NEU/NOW Festival | Porto | Portugal | 2012
* Folkwang-Award for Performing Arts | 2012
2011 Error en el sistema | Trouble in the works by Harold Pinter
practicing piece | Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático | Madrid | Spain
self-made translation: English/Spanish
2010 LΩΩP³
shortfilm | 19 minutes | Cologne/Essen
Co-production of AZ Filmproduktion and FilmhausKöln
funded by the „Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW“
Da kommt noch wer | Someone is going to come by Jon Fosse
bachelor | theatre-directing | Folkwang University of the Arts
* guest performance at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in April 2011
2009 Die Räuber | The robbers by Friedrich Schiller
practicing piece | Folkwang University of the Arts
The Blue Room by David Hare
practicing piece | Folkwang University of the Arts
self-made translation: English/German
2008 Emilia Galotti by G.E. Lessing
practicing piece | Folkwang University of the Arts
2007 Scarves
short documentary | 14 minutes | Istanbul | Ljubljana | NoviSad | Mostar | Berlin
documentation for the international filmproject „Divided God“
funded by the „European Cultural Foundation“
ThIstanbul
short documentary | 7 minutes | Istanbul | Turkey
* awarded at the International Filmfestival Istanbul 2007
2006 Der Da Vor Stand | Out Of It
shortfilm | 3 minutes | Berlin
Co-production of AZ Filmproduktion and filmArche
100 Sachen | 100 mph
shortfilm | 8 minutes | Berlin
Co-production of AZ Filmproduktion and filmArche
* Filmfestival Münster | 2007
* Publikumspreis | Kurzfilmnacht Flensburg | 2007
Con
shortfilm | 7 minutes | Berlin
AZ Filmproduktion
2005 Parkstories
shortfilm | 30 minutes | Brooklyn | USA
* Tribeca Filmfestival | New York | 2006
Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst | I spy with my little eye
shortfilm | 5 minutes | Berlin
* Bergischer Filmpreis Wuppertal | 2006
* Bester Nachwuchsfilm | Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Salzburg | 2005
2004 Generation F
documentary | 60 minutes | USA
ASSISTANT WORKS AND INTERNSHIPS - selection
2009 Mein Leben im Off | 1st assistant director
motion picture | director: Oliver Haffner | if…Productions | Munich
2008 24h Berlin – Ein Tag im Leben | 1st assistant director
TV-documentary | artistic director: Volker Heise | zero one film |arte/rbb | Berlin
2007 Unter Eis | Under Ice by Falk Richter | intern/assistant director
opera | director: Falk Richter | music: Jörn Arnecke | Ruhr-Triennale | Bochum
2006 Die Fälscher | The Counterfeiters | video-operator
motion picture | director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion | Vienna | Austria
* Academy Award for best foreign film | 2008
2005 The Sopranos 6th season | production assistant
TV series | director: div. | HBO | New York | USA
2004 GG19 - 19 good reasons for democracy | production assistant
motion picture | artistic director: Harald Siebler | movie members filmproduktion GmbH | Berlin
OTHER
2012 foundation | satellit produktion
label for stage projects | Munich
2011 project managing collaboration | Emergency Entrance
International Theatreproject and Festival | Schauspielhaus Graz | Austria
2011 member of the programming-team | INSTED@ITs 2011
Organisation of “Encounter”, the meeting of the international directors
ITs Festival Amsterdam | Netherlands
2010 member of the jury | NRW - Theatertreffen 2010
selection of the best plays in the state of NRW for the festival in 2010
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
seit 2008 member | INSTED
International Network of Young Theatre Directors
annual meetings and cooperations in and with various countries
founded in 2006 in Amsterdam | Netherlands
2005 - 2008 member | NISI MASA
European Network of Young Cinema
2001 NGO for peace | JUGEND FÜR FRIEDEN
organisation of events for political education | Munich
Languages:
German | native
English | native
Spanish | fluent
French | okay
Experience outside of Germany/Austria:
2012 | research for theatre-project | Tel Aviv/Jerusalem | Israel
2011 | research for theatre-project | Tehran/Esfahan | Iran
2010-2011 | studies | Madrid | Spain
2006 | research for film-project | Buenos Aires | Argentina
2006 | work and travel | Virgin Islands | Caribbean
2005-2006 | film work | Brooklyn | New York | USA
2004 | film work | Chicago/Detroit/New York | USA
1998-2000 | highschool | Champaign-Urbana | Illinois | USA
