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'Anis Hamdoun'

Anis Hamdoun (born 17 July 1985) is a Syrian theatre director, writer and film maker.

Biography

Anis Hamdoun was born in 1985 in Homs, Syria, and grew up in a politically active leftist theater family. In 2004 he began studying chemistry, but spent the most of the time with the theater, where his grandfather Farhan Bulbul, one of the best known theater authors and scholars in the Arab world, mentored him. From 2006 Hamdoun worked as an assistant director for Farhan Bulbul. At the same time he taught theater and English at a private school, where he developed his unique course using a figure of an Arab narrator helping and supporting children in their personality development.

In the wake of the Arab Revolution against the Assad regime, Hamdoun was politically active; he participated in the most notable demonstrations and helped international journalists with their reports on Homs. As a prelude to a cultural movement of the revolution, in 2011 he accomplished his own theater project in the district of Al-Khalidya. Few months later the neighborhood was destroyed by the Assad regime; in an attack in which 150 people died and 300 were injured, Hamdoun was seriously wounded. In 2012 he had to leave Syria, as the secret service arrested a close friend. He came to Osnabrück, Germany, at the end of 2013 via Egypt.

Career

For the English theater group The Ostensibles, Hamdoun staged here The Picture of Dorian Gray and Tartuffe. At the Theater Osnabrück Hamdoun staged for the 6th Spieltriebe Festival his own piece The Trip, which shares his experiences as a border crosser between Syria and Germany. The Trip won the prize of the Nachtkritik theater magazine in January 2016. He currently leads the „Artist Training for Professionals – Performing Arts“ at the University of Arts Berin. In 2019 he and his colleagues established the Berlin art collective Critical I, for theater, cinema and music.

Notable works

As a director:


 * The Picture of Dorian Gray at The Ostensibles 2014
 * Tartuffe at The Ostensibles 2014
 * The Trip at Theater Osnabrueck 2015
 * Odyssee at Werftpark theater Kiel 2016
 * Fidelio the opera at RBB Berlin 2016
 * Fidelio the opera at the European Solidarity Center, Gdansk, Poland
 * Alisar in Wunderland at Kulturboerse in Gnoien, Germany 2017
 * Odyssa at Die Etage theater school Berlin 2018
 * Co-developed Risk Lab at Camden People’s Theatre in London 2018

As a writer:


 * The Trip at Theater Osnabrueck 2015


 * Odyssee at Werftpark theater Kiel 2016


 * The Unknown City at Theater Osnabrueck 2016


 * The Rehearsal- Galixeo in Deutschmania at Boat People Projekt, Goetting, Germany 2017


 * Odyssa at Die Etage theater school Berlin 2018


 * I, Europe as a co-playwright at Dortmund Theater 2018


 * Let’s Pinkel at Koblenz Theater 2019

Films:


 * 5000 Eyes for Museum Kleve, as a director


 * A Step without Feet, as a writer and narrator


 * Eyeliner as a director