Matthias Lilienthal
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Matthias Lilienthal studied theatre, history and German studies. He started his career in theatre in 1979, and has since worked as artistic director at Theater Basel and the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin). He has worked as a freelance journalist for publications including the taz or the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and has given lectures in Tokyo, Krakow, Buenos Aires and other places. In mid-2000, Lilienthal was appointed deputy director of performing arts at the Berlin Akademie der Künste, and was program director for Theater der Welt 2002 festival in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Duisburg later that year. He was manager and artistic director of the new HAU (Berlin) since September 2003. Under Lilienthal’s directorship, HAU was named Theatre of the Year by the magazine Theater Heute in 2004, and in 2007 won the German Design Award for its campaign with Neukölln boxers. In 2012/13 Lilienthal was resident producer of Ashkal Alwan’s second edition of the Home Workspace Program. In 2014 he was artistic director of Theater der Welt 2014 in Mannheim. At the beginning of the season 2015/16, Matthias Lilienthal took over the artistic direction of the Münchner Kammerspiele.
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Matthias Lilienthal studied theatre, history and German studies. He started his career in theatre in 1979, and has since worked as artistic director at Theater Basel and the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin). He has worked as a freelance journalist for publications including the taz or the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and has given lectures in Tokyo, Krakow, Buenos Aires and other places. In mid-2000, Lilienthal was appointed deputy director of performing arts at the Berlin Akademie der Künste, and was program director for Theater der Welt 2002 festival in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Duisburg later that year. He was manager and artistic director of the new HAU (Berlin) since September 2003. Under Lilienthal’s directorship, HAU was named Theatre of the Year by the magazine Theater Heute in 2004, and in 2007 won the German Design Award for its campaign with Neukölln boxers. In 2012/13 Lilienthal was resident producer of Ashkal Alwan’s second edition of the Home Workspace Program. In 2014 he was artistic director of Theater der Welt 2014 in Mannheim. At the beginning of the season 2015/16, Matthias Lilienthal took over the artistic direction of the Münchner Kammerspiele.
August 2, 2013
July 18, 2013
It’s so easy to get it wrong. Soon after arriving in Beirut, I end up at a kefta stand; a small, garage-like shack that no tourist would voluntarily set foot in. Yet the kefta and the chicken skewers taste fantastic. While eating, I look around. Straight across, there is a bus terminal. Especially in the darkness, it is at first difficult …
June 12, 2013
My flat is located in the Armenian neighbourhood of Geitawi. It is beautiful and spacious. Directly across, a man shouts every ten minutes. He used to teach Arabic, then he got fired. Now he teaches the street swearwords and curses, of which the Arabic language knows many. The light goes on and his voice thunders …