Dea Loher
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| Native name | Dea Loher |
| Born |
Andrea Beate Loher Traunstein, Germany |
| Pen name | Dea Loher |
| Occupation | Playwright and author |
| Language | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Berlin University of the Arts |
| Genre | Drama |
Dea Loher is a German playwright and author.
Biography
Dea Loher was born Andrea Beate Loher in 1964 in Traunstein, Germany. She initially used the first name Dea as a pen name, but eventually changed her name officially to Dea. She studied German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She then spent a year in Brazil. In 1990, she began studying creative writing for the stage with Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke at the Berlin University of the Arts.[1] Her first plays premiered in the early 1990s, and she gained recognition as one of the most important young playwrights of her time in Germany.[2] Dea Loher has since been awarded major prizes for drama and literature in Germany.
Works
Dramas
- Tätowierung (Premiere at the Ensemble Theater am Südstern, Berlin, 1992)
- Olgas Raum (Olga's Room) (Premiere at the Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg, 1992)
- Leviathan (Premiere at the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater, Hanover, 1993)
- Fremdes Haus (Premiere at the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater, Hanover, 1995)
- Adam Geist (Premiere at the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater, Hanover, 1998)
- Blaubart - Hoffnung der Frauen (Premiere at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel München, Munich, 1997)
- Manhattan Medea (Premiere at steirischer herbst, 1999)
- Berliner Geschichte (Premiere at the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater, Hanover, 2000)
- Klaras Verhältnisse (Premiere at the Burgtheater, Vienna, 2000)
- Der dritte Sektor (Premiere at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2001)
- Magazin des Glücks (Premiered at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2001-2002)
- Unschuld (Premiere at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2003)
- Das Leben auf der Praca Roosevelt (Premiere at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2004)
- Quixote in der Stadt (Premiere at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2005)
- Land ohne Worte (Premiere at the Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, 2007)
- Das letzte Feuer (Premiere at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2008)
- Diebe (Premiere at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 2010)
- Am Schwarzen See (Premiere at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 2012)
Libretto
- Licht. Opera. Music by Wolfgang Böhmer (Premiere at the Neuköllner Oper, Berlin, 2004)
Prose
- Hundskopf (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005)
- Bugatti taucht auf (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012)
Awards
- 1990 Playwrights Prize awarded by the Hamburger Volksbühne for Olgas Raum
- 1992 Royal Court Theatre Playwrights Award
- 1993 Stücke-Förderpreis awarded by the Goethe Institute (for Tätowierung in Friderike Vielstich's production at the Theater Oberhausen)
- 1993 Frankfurter Autorenstiftung Prize (Frankfurt Author Foundation)
- 1993 Chosen as "Nachwuchsdramatikerin des Jahres" (Young Playwright of the Year) by the German publication Theater heute
- 1994 Chosen as "Nachwuchsdramatikerin des Jahres" (Young Playwright of the Year) by the German publication Theater heute
- 1995 Schiller Memorial Prize
- 1997 Jakob-Michael-Reinhold-Lenz Prize for Drama (forAdam Geist)
- 1997 Gerrit-Engelke Prize
- 1998 Mülheimer Drama Prize (for Adam Geist)
- 2005 Else Lasker Schüler Drama Prize
- 2006 Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize
- 2008 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis (for Das letzte Feuer)
- 2008 Play of the Year for Das letzte Feuer by jury selection for the German publication Theater Heute
- 2009 Berlin Literature Prize
- 2009 Marieluise Fleißer Prize
Secondary Literature
Dea Loher's work has been the subject of scholarship, most notably in Birgit Haas' Das Theater von Dea Loher: Brecht und (k)ein Ende. Her works have been translated into French and English.
References
- ↑ Dea Loher. AO International. Retrieved 18 March 2014 from http://www.aoiagency.com/2010/07/dea-loher/
- ↑ Dea Loher (Germany). internationales literaturfestival berlin Retrieved 18 March 2014 from http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2010/dea-loher
External links
- Works by and about Dea Loher on Worldcat.org
- Dea Loher biography, part of the Goethe Institute's New Dramatic Art