Kastorf, Frank

After serving in the border troops, from 1971 to 1976 he studied theater studies at the Humboldt University (Berlin). His final work "The main lines of development of the philosophical, ideological and artistic-aesthetic positions of Ionesco" was awarded "very good".

From 1976 to 1979 he was a playwright, and in 1979–1981 he was a director in the city theater of Brandenburg (Havel). From 1981 to 1985, Kastorf was a senior director at the Anklam Theater. In the same place, in 1984, his performance by Bertold Brecht “Drums in the Night” was banned under pressure from the SED. It came to a disciplinary hearing, and he was fired. In the following years, Castorf worked at the Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater, the New Theater Hall, the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. His play "The Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen was awarded an invitation to the theater festival of the GDR.

Before the unification of Germany, in 1989 he worked at the State Theater of Bavaria in Munich ("Miss Sarah Sampson" by Lessing) and at the Theater of Cologne ("Hamlet" by William Shakespeare). In 1990, he was the resident director of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where his performance on Ibsen - "John Gabriel Borkman" - in 1991 received an invitation to the Berlin festival. The hot controversy was caused by his staging in Wilhelm Tell in Basel (by Friedrich Schiller) to the 700th Swiss National Jubilee, because there he settled on Switzerland’s self-assessment and drew parallels between Switzerland and the German Democratic Republic. Since 1992, Castorf has been the director of Volksbühne-Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin-Mitte, his contract is valid until 2016. In 1993, in the first year of his directorship, the magazine “Theater Today” named Volksbyune “Theater of the Year”.

In 1994, he was awarded the Fritz Kortner Prize. In 1998, he staged his first opera, Othello (Giuseppe Verdi) in Basel. In 2000, he received the Berlin Theater Award, the Foundation of the Kingdom of Norway and a nomination for the Nestroy Award; In 2003, he was awarded the prize of the International Theater Institute (ITI) and Friedrich Luft. Theater Today Magazine chose him in 2002 and 2003 as Director of the Year.

In 2004, Castorf was the artistic director of the Ruhr festival. In 2013, he put on the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's “Ring of the Nibelung” (conducted by Kirill Petrenko). ^[3]

• 1978: "Entrepreneurial People" by Vasily Shukshin, Theater Greifswald; “The Golden Streams of Steel” by Karl Grunberg (with director Manfred Rafeld), City Theater Brandenburg
• 1980: “Expedition of Professor Taratoga” by Stanislav Lem, Brandenburg Theater
• 1981: “On the night after the closing ceremony”, Anklam Theater
• 1982: The Battle of Heiner Muller, Anklam Theater; William Shakespeare's Othello, Anklam Theater
• 1983: “Order” by Heiner Muller, Anklam Theater
• 1984: “Drums in the night” by Berthold Brecht, Anklam Theater
• 1985: “Dolls House” by Henrik Ibsen, Anklam Theater
• 1986: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Clavigo, Hera Theater; “Construction” by Heiner Muller, Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater; "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca.
• 1988: "The Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen, Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater; “Volokolamsk Highway I — IV” by Heiner Muller Kleist Theater in Frankfurt
• 1989: William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cologne Drama Theater; Sophocles Ajax, Theater of Basel; "Miss Sarah Sampson" by Lessing, Prince Regent's Theater in Munich
• 1990: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Stella, Deutsches Theater, Hamburg; Friedrich Schiller's “bandits”, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 1991: Friedrich Schiller's "William Tell", the Theater of Basel; "Torquato Tasso" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bavarian National Theater (now the Residenz Theater, Munich)
• 1992: “King Lear” by William Shakespeare, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; "Strangers in the Night" by Jochen Berg, Cinema Babylon, Berlin
• 1993: "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Alkesta by Euripidai, Vienna Festival “Woman from the Sea” by Henrik Ibsen, Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 1994: 'Karl Wilhelm Jacobi "by Heiner Muller, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; The Danton Affair by Stanislav Psheshyshevsky, Volksbyune am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 1995: "District Service or you do it all" Elfriede Jelinek, Deutsches Theater Hamburg; Friedrich Goebbel's Die Nibelungen, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Nibelung II-Born Bad by Friedrich Goebbel, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Pelmeni” by Vladimir Sorokin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prather), Berlin; “The idea failed” by Daniil Kharms, Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prather), Berlin
• 1996: “Mister Puntila and his servant Matti” by Berthold Brecht, Deutsches Theater, Hamburg; “The Golden Streams of Steel” / “Volokolamsk Highway” by Karl Grünberg and Heiner Muller, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Order” by Heiner Muller, Berliner Ensemble; "The Marquis de Sade" by Charles Mere, Drama Theater in Bochum
• 1997: Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; The Bat, Johann Strauss, Deutsches Theater Hamburg; “Black Flags” by Augustus Strindberg, Stockholm; “On the needle” by Irvin Welch, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 1998: “Dirty Hands” by Jean-Paul Sartre, Volksbühne am Rose-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 1999: “Richard II” by William Shakespeare, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prather), Berlin; “Demons” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vienna Festival (Burgtheater, Vienna); "Henry VI" by William Shakespeare, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prather), Berlin; “Caligula” by Albert Camus, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 2000: Fatherland by Robert Harris (world premiere), Deutsches Theater Hamburg; Tennessee Williams' Tramway Desire, Salzburg, Berlin Festival (Salzburg State Theater); “Elementary Particles” by Michel Huelbeck, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 2001: “Berlin, Alexanderplatz” Alfredv Deblin, Zurich Theater; "Humiliated and offended" Fedor. Dostoevsky, Vienna Festival (Museum Hall E)
• 2002: “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, co-production: Vienna Festival / Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin http://www.smotr.ru/5chehov/5ch_mm.htm
• 2003: “Mourning Electra to Face” by Eugene O'Neill, Theater in Zurich; Forever Young (Sweet Bird of Youth), co-production: Vienna Festival / Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 2004: Cocaine (world premiere), Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin; “Greed for Gold” by Frank Norris, co-production: The Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen / Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “My Snow Queen” Frank Kastorf by Hans Christian Andersen (world premiere), Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
• 2005: “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vienna Festival (Theater an der Wien)
• 2006: “In the jungle of cities” by Berthold Brecht, Volksbühne am Rose-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Meistersinger” by Richard Wagner and Ernst Toller, Grand Theater de la Ville de Luxembourg
• 2007: “To the North” by Louis-Ferdinand Selin, Vienna Festival (Museum Hall E); “Emil and detectives” by Erich Kestner (2 versions: 9+ and 17+), Volksbühne am Rose-Luxembourg-Platz, Berlin
• 2008: "Fuck off, America" ​​by Eduard Limonov, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Action / Mauser” by Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Muller, Volksbüne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Faust Faust Faust No. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; “Hamlet Machine” by Heiner Muller, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin;
• 2009: “Hulla Bulla di or Amanulla Amanulla” by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prather), Berlin; Medea Seneca, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz (Agora), Berlin;
• 2010: “To Moscow, to Moscow!” By Anton Chekhov, Vienna Festival (Museum Hall E); http://ria.ru/analytics/20100528/239639825.html
• 2011: “Player” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vienna Festival (Theater an der Wien); "Casimir and Caroline" by Odon von Croat, Bavarian National Theater (now the Residenz Theater).
• 2012: "The Lady of the Camellias" by Alexandre Dumas-son, Odeon Theater, Paris; "Marquis von O ..." Heinrich von Kleist, Volksbühne am Rose-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; "America" ​​by Franz Kafka, Zurich Theater; "Miser" Moliere, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; "Mistress" of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin.
• 2013: “The Duel” by Anton Chekhov, Volksbyune am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; "Journey to the Edge of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Selin, Residenz Theater Munich.
• 2014: The Coronation of Richard III, Hans Henny Yann, Burgtheater, Vienna.
• 2017: “Faust” by I. Goethe, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

• Berliner Theatertreffen - 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (twice), 2014, 2018
• ( Mannheim ) - 2002
• Order of Merit for the Federal Land Berlin - 2003
• Berlin Bear 2014

• Frank Castorf (eng.) . 50 Directors working at German Theaters . Goethe Institute . The appeal date is July 2, 2014.
• http://os.colta.ru/theatre/names/details/1283/
• http://gazeta.aif.ru/_/online/europe/135-140/05_01