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Milo Rau

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Milo Rau studierte Soziologie, Germanistik und Romanistik in Paris, Zürich und Berlin, u. a. bei Tzvetan Todorov und Pierre Bourdieu. 1997 unternahm er erste Reportagereisen nach Chiapas und Kuba und war ab 2000 als Autor für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung tätig. Seit 2002 veröffentlichte er ca. 50 Theaterstücke, Filme, Bücher und Aktionen, die u. a. am Theatertreffen Berlin, Festival d’Avignon, Biennale di Venezia, Wiener Festwochen und Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brüssel aufgeführt wurden und durch 30 Länder tourten. Rau arbeitete u. a. an der Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, dem Théâtre des Amandiers in Paris, der Beursschouwburg Brüssel und den Münchner Kammerspielen. 2007 gründete er für die Produktion und Auswertung seiner künstlerischen Arbeiten die Theater- und Filmproduktionsgesellschaft IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder, die er seitdem leitet. Neben seiner Arbeit für Bühne und Film ist Rau als Dozent für Regie, Kulturtheorie und soziale Plastik an Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen tätig. Reportagereisen führten ihn u. a. nach Ruanda, in den Kongo, nach Lateinamerika, in den Irak und nach Syrien an die Kriegsfront zum IS.

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Life

Milo Rau was born in Bern, Switzerland. He studied sociology, German studies, and Romance studies in Paris, Zürich, and Berlin, working under the instruction of Tzvetan Todorov and Pierre Bourdieu, amongst others. In 1997, he traveled as a journalist to Chiapas and Cuba, and in 2000 began writing for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Since 2002, he's been active as a playwright, author, and director in Switzerland and abroad, working with the Maxim Gorki Theater and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Belgium's NTGent Stadstheater, and many other theaters. His work has earned him invitations to some of the world's largest theater and arts festivals, including the 2012-2013 Berliner Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale, and the Vienna Festival. In 2019, his piece ''La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)'', which documents the, was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.

In 2007, he founded a theater and film production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), which he's been running since. The company was originally founded to coordinate Rau's project documenting the 1989 executions of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu (The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu). Over time, the institution's focus broadened to its current goal of "the multimedia treatment of historical and sociopolitical conflicts," from the Rwandan genocide (Hate Radio) to Anders Breivik's far-right terrorism (Breivik's Statement). Since its founding, the IIPM has realized more than 50 theatrical productions, films, books, exhibitions, and political actions.

Alongside his work as a playwright and director, Rau has taught directing, cultural theory, and social sculpture at various universities and conservatories.

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Für 2017 wurde Rau auf die Saarbrücker Poetikdozentur für Dramatik berufen. Zudem ist er seit Januar 2017 neben Elke Heidenreich, Rüdiger Safranski und Martin Ebel fester Experte der Sendung Literaturclub. Seit der Saison 2018/19 ist Rau Intendant des NTGent. Dort will Rau ein auf internationale Tourneen spezialisiertes „globales Volkstheater“ etablieren. Er folgte auf den niederländischen Regisseur Johan Simons.

Rau ist Vater von zwei Töchtern und lebt in Köln, Zürich und Südfrankreich.

Werk

Unter anderem holte der Schweizer Regisseur die Verurteilung und Erschießung des Ehepaars Ceausescu (Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus), ein ruandisches Völkermord-Radio (Hate Radio) und den norwegischen Rechts-Terroristen Anders Behring Breivik (Breiviks Erklärung) auf die Bühne, boxte mit einer virtuellen Partei das Ausländerstimmrecht ins Parlament einer Schweizer Großstadt (City of Change), hob mit zwei mehrtägigen Justiz-Spektakeln (Die Moskauer Prozesse und Die Zürcher Prozesse) ein neues Theaterformat aus der Taufe und erneuerte mit seinem mehrteiligen „Magnum Opus“ Die Europa Trilogie das Genre des Erzähltheaters.

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Since 2017, he has also been a regular guest on the Swiss talk show, and in 2018 he became the artistic director of the Belgian NTGent, following the Dutch director Johan Simons. With the company, Rau intends to establish a "global popular theater," specializing in international tours.

Work

Amongst other work, Rau wrote and directed plays portraying the conviction and execution of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu (The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu), Romanian Communist leaders; documenting a Rwandan radio station and its role in the Rwandan genocide (Hate Radio) ; and presenting Anders Breivik's address to the Oslo district court (Breivik's Statement). He's also engaged in more overtly political actions, from introducing a self-declared interim government in St. Gallen, Switzerland and calling for foreigners' right to vote (City of Change) to staging show trials in Zürich and Moscow.

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2015 versammelte Rau im kongolesischen Bürgerkriegsgebiet 60 Zeugen und Experten zu seinem Kongo Tribunal. „Das ambitionierteste politische Theaterprojekt, das je inszeniert wurde“, urteilte die Zeitung The Guardian über das Stück. „Ein Wahnsinnsprojekt“, schrieb die Zeit: „Wo die Politik versagt, hilft nur die Kunst.“ Raus im Vorfeld umstrittenes Stück Five Easy Pieces, in dem Kinder die Verbrechen des Kindermörders Marc Dutroux nachspielen, wurde 2016 als erste ausländische Produktion mit dem Spezialpreis der Jury der Belgischen Theaterkritik ausgezeichnet. 2017 lud das Berliner Theatertreffen „Five Easy Pieces“ ein.

Rau gilt als „einer der Wichtigsten und Einflussreichsten im europäischen Theaterbetrieb“. Unter anderem wurde er mit dem Schweizer Theaterpreis, dem Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden , einer Besonderen Auszeichnung auf dem Festival des deutschen Films, dem Jurypreis des Festivals Politik im Freien Theater , dem ''Konstanzer Konzilspreis. Preis für Europäische Begegnungen und Dialog und als jüngster Preisträger mit dem Preis des Internationalen Theaterinstituts (ITI)'' ausgezeichnet. 2015 schrieb der Tages-Anzeiger: „Der «Milometer» ist inzwischen so etwas wie der Goldstandard der Postdramatik: Milo Rau, der mit dokumentarischen Theatersprengungen die Häuser füllt, ist es gelungen, seine Kunst weit hinauszuwerfen aus dem Elfenbeinturm. So weit, dass sich seine Person selbst wieder zu einer Projektionsfigur verfestigt hat.“

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In 2015, Rau convened an assembly of 60 victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the Second Congo War, the Congo Tribunal. The Guardian called it perhaps "the most ambitious political theatre ever staged" ; Die Zeit wrote: "an insane project. Where politics fails, only art can help." In 2016, Rau's controversial play Five Easy Pieces, in which child actors play out the crimes of the child molester and serial murderer Marc Dutroux, became the first foreign production awarded the Special Prize of the Jury of Belgian Theater Critics. In 2017, the play was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen.

Rau has been called "one of the most important and influential personalities in the European theater." He's been awarded the Schweizer Theaterpreis, the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, and the jury prize of the festival Politik im Freien Theater, amongst others, and was the youngest-ever winner of the Preis des . In 2015, the Tages-Anzeiger wrote: "Milo Rau, whose documentary-theatrical explosions regularly fill houses, has managed to cast his art far out of the ivory tower."

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Zugleich hat sein oft von Prozessen und öffentlichen Auseinandersetzungen begleitetes Werk Milo Rau den Ruf eines „Skandal-Regisseurs“ eingebracht. So wurde Raus Stück Breiviks Erklärung u. a. im Nationaltheater Weimar und im Münchner Haus der Kunst die Aufführung verweigert, Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus führten zu einem Prozess des Adoptivsohns des Diktators gegen den Regisseur , anlässlich der Moskauer Prozesse kam es zu einer Razzia der russischen Behörden und Aufführungen von Five Easy Pieces wurden in Singapur und verschiedenen deutschen Städten zensiert oder abgesagt. „Ist hier am Ende ein politischer Wirrkopf am Werk? Ein Künstler, der sich das Superman-Kostüm übergestreift hat und nun den Weltenretter mimt?“, fragte nachtkritik.de anlässlich von Raus Kongo Tribunal. Eugen Sorg bemerkte bei Rau "masslose Schweiz-Beschimpfungen" und warf dem "Berufsintellektuellen" mangelnde Bodenhaftung durch das Fehlen der "Schwerkraft des praktischen Lebens" vor; Raus Essay Was tun? enthülle "blasierten Zynismus, Wichtigtuerei und moralischer Nihilismus" hinter der angeblichen Sorge um die Welt.

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At the same time, his controversial work is often accompanied by trials and public debate, bringing Rau the reputation of a "Scandal-Director." Breivik's Statement, for example, was banned from performance in the Nationaltheater Weimar and in Munich's Haus der Kunst, and during the production of The Last Hours of the Ceausescus, the dictator's adopted son sued Rau, claiming a trademark on the family name. During the Moscow Trials, Russian authorities raided the theater, and performances of Five Easy Pieces were censored or cancelled in Singapore and various German cities.

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Seine erste Saison am NTGent eröffnete Rau 2018 mit dem Stück "Lam Gods", das er mit seinem Ensemble auf Grundlage des "Genter Manifests" (enthalten in seinem Buch "Globaler Realismus") zu dem Genter Altar der Brüder Van Eyck entwickelte. Der Deutschlandfunk sah in dem Stück den "Versuch, die von Konflikten und Spaltungen zerrissene Genter Gesellschaft mithilfe des größten Kunstwerkes der Stadt zu versöhnen." Zum Beginn seiner Intendanz startete er zudem am NTGent in Kooperation mit dem Verbrecher Verlag die Reihe "Goldenes Buch/Golden Book", in der er seine "programmatischen Texte zu Theater, Ästhetik und Politik" veröffentlichen wird, sowie Texte zu den größeren Projekten am NTGent.

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In 2018, Rau opened his first season at the NTGent with the play Lam Gods, based on the Ghent Altarpiece and developed with his ensemble on the basis of their "Ghent Manifesto." In addition, he began the series "Goldenes Buch/Golden Book," publishing "programmatic texts about theater, aesthetics, and politics," as well as texts about larger projects at NTGent, in cooperation with the.

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Life
Milo Rau was born in Bern, Switzerland. He studied sociology, German studies, and Romance studies in Paris, Zürich, and Berlin, working under the instruction of Tzvetan Todorov and Pierre Bourdieu, amongst others. In 1997, he traveled as a journalist to Chiapas and Cuba, and in 2000 began writing for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Since 2002, he's been active as a playwright, author, and director in Switzerland and abroad, working with the Maxim Gorki Theater and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Belgium's NTGent Stadstheater, and many other theaters. His work has earned him invitations to some of the world's largest theater and arts festivals, including the 2012-2013 Berliner Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale, and the Vienna Festival. In 2019, his piece ''La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)'', which documents the, was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.

In 2007, he founded a theater and film production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), which he's been running since. The company was originally founded to coordinate Rau's project documenting the 1989 executions of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu (The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu). Over time, the institution's focus broadened to its current goal of "the multimedia treatment of historical and sociopolitical conflicts," from the Rwandan genocide (Hate Radio) to Anders Breivik's far-right terrorism (Breivik's Statement). Since its founding, the IIPM has realized more than 50 theatrical productions, films, books, exhibitions, and political actions.

Alongside his work as a playwright and director, Rau has taught directing, cultural theory, and social sculpture at various universities and conservatories. Since 2017, he has also been a regular guest on the Swiss talk show, and in 2018 he became the artistic director of the Belgian NTGent, following the Dutch director Johan Simons. With the company, Rau intends to establish a "global popular theater," specializing in international tours.

Work
Amongst other projects, Rau has written and directed plays portraying the conviction and execution of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu (The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu), Romanian Communist leaders; documenting a Rwandan radio station and its role in the Rwandan genocide (Hate Radio) ; and presenting Anders Breivik's address to the Oslo district court (Breivik's Statement). He's also engaged in more overtly political actions, from introducing a self-declared interim government in St. Gallen, Switzerland and calling for foreigners' right to vote (City of Change) to staging show trials in Zürich (the Zurich Trials) and Moscow (the Moscow Trials). In 2015, he convened an assembly of 60 victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the Second Congo War, the Congo Tribunal. The Guardian called it perhaps "the most ambitious political theatre ever staged" ; Die Zeit wrote: "an insane project. Where politics fails, only art can help." In 2016, Rau's controversial play Five Easy Pieces, in which child actors play out the crimes of the child molester and serial murderer Marc Dutroux, became the first foreign production awarded the Special Prize of the Jury of Belgian Theater Critics. In 2017, the play was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen.

Rau has been called "one of the most important and influential personalities in the European theater." He's been awarded the Schweizer Theaterpreis, the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, and the jury prize of the festival Politik im Freien Theater, amongst others, and was the youngest-ever winner of the Preis des . In 2015, the Tages-Anzeiger wrote: "Milo Rau, whose documentary-theatrical explosions regularly fill houses, has managed to cast his art far out of the ivory tower." At the same time, his controversial work is often accompanied by trials and public debate, bringing Rau the reputation of a "Scandal-Director." Breivik's Statement, for example, was banned from performance in the Nationaltheater Weimar and in Munich's Haus der Kunst, and during the production of The Last Hours of the Ceausescus, the dictator's adopted son sued Rau, claiming a trademark on the family name. Russian authorities raided his Moscow Trials, and performances of Five Easy Pieces were censored or cancelled in Singapore and various German cities.

In 2018, Rau opened his first season at the NTGent with the play Lam Gods, based on the Ghent Altarpiece and developed with his ensemble on the basis of their "Ghent Manifesto." In addition, he began the series "Goldenes Buch/Golden Book," publishing "programmatic texts about theater, aesthetics, and politics," as well as texts about larger projects at NTGent, in cooperation with the.