The Author
Roland Schimmelpfennig

was born in Göttingen in 1967, Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most produced playwrights in Germany. He has written 16 plays which have been translated into 20 different languages. After a lengthy engagement as a journalist in Istanbul, Schimmelpfennig studied directing at the Otto-Falkenburg- Schule in Munich. He was an assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele and became a member of the theater's artistic staff in 1995. He began working as a freelance author in 1996. He spent a year in the United States in 1988, where he worked as a translator. In the same year, he received the Schiller Memorial prize. He worked as a dramaturg at the Schaubühne in Berlin from 1999 to 2001 and was playwright in residence at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg during the 2001/ 2002 season. Since 2000 he has been working on numerous commissions from the Staatstheater Stuttgart and Hannover, the Burgtheater Vienna, Schauspielhause Zürich and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, among others. He lives in Berlin.

Plays (Selected)
Arabian Night
Push-up 1-3
Before/After
For a Better World