Remembering Playwright and Director René Pollesch

Be part of us for a night celebrating the life and work of the late playwright and director René Pollesch who died unexpectedly at age 61. New York theatre artist Matt Gasda and his ensemble from the Brooklyn Heart for Theatre Analysis shall be joined by David Levine for readings of two Pollesch performs Heidi Hoh, translated by Rose Riggs, and Insourcing …, translated by David Tushingham.

Readings in English adopted by a panel with Matt Gasda, David Levine, and others. Moderated by Frank Hentschker.

“René Pollesch, a prolific playwright and stage director whose work—intellectually severe but irreverent, chatty, goofy and riddled with pop-culture references—made him probably the most vital forces in German theater of the previous three many years, died on Monday in Berlin. He studied below Andrzej Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann on the legendary Institute for Utilized Theatre Research in Gießen, Germany. He was 61. His sudden loss of life was introduced by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz theater, the place he had been inventive director since 2021. Pollesch wrote roughly 200 performs and directed nearly all of them himself, usually at main theaters within the German-speaking world. However whereas his performs lit up levels in locations like Stuttgart, Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich, he was most carefully related to the Volksbühne, a publicly funded playhouse in what as soon as was East Berlin that had a repute for making daring and provocative theater.” (A.J. Goldmann, New York Instances)

Particular due to Nils Tabert, head of Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Germany. With the help and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute New York, Jörg Schumacher.

Matthew Gasda is a playwright and director and the founding father of the Brooklyn Heart for Theater Analysis (BCTR). His first assortment, Dimes Sq. and Different Performs, is accessible from Applause and his subsequent assortment Zoomers and Different Performs shall be launched in 2025. His latest play, Morning Journal, has simply begun its run on the BCTR.

David Levine is an OBIE and Guggenheim-award successful director and visible artist. His work has been coated by Frieze, Artforum, and The New York Instances, and his writing has appeared in n+1, Theater, and Parkett. He’s Professor of the Apply of Efficiency, Theater and Media at Harvard College, and the creator, with Shonni Enelow, of A Discourse on Technique, printed by 53rd State Press. His holographic movie, Dissolution, premiered on the Museum of the Transferring Picture final October.