Roland Schimmelpfennig

Roland Schimmelpfennig (born in Göttingen on 19 September 1967) is an award-winning German theatre director and playwright. He began his career as a journalist, but starting in 1990 he studied at the Otto Falkenberg School to be a theatre director.^[1] He is one of Germany's most prolific playwrights, widely praised in Europe but relatively obscure in the United States.^[2] His work is said to vary from "kaleidoscopic" and dreamlike to naturalistic. He lives in the Eastern part of Berlin with his wife.^[3] Two of his plays, translated as Push Up and The Woman Before, have been performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London

Awards

• 2010 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
• 2010 and 1997 Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis
• 2009 and 2002 Nestroy-Theaterpreis

References

1. Goethe Institute
2. New York Theatre Wire
3. The Wall Street Journal