Gilla Cremer edit
Gilla Cremer (born 19 December 1956) is a German actress, author and producer of her own solo plays.
Contents
1 Early life/career
2 Theatre
3 TV/Film
4 Audio dramas
5 Awards
6 External links
7 References
Early life and career
Gilla Cremer was born the fourth of five children in Königswinter am Rhine, North Rhine Westphalia. Her father was a businessman and her mother a gardener by profession. After graduating from school in 1976, Gilla Cremer spent two years in the USA. She took courses in modern dance in Austin, Texas and New York, taught by the dancer and performance artist Deborah Hay among others, and participated in classes at the Actors Studio. Influenced by the writings of the theatre directors Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski, she spent a year in Bali, Indonesia to study mask dance, mask carving and kung fu. In 1979 she met Eugenio Barba from Odin Teatret and became a drama student at the International School of Theatre Anthropology – ISTA in Bonn, Volterra, Holstebro and Bologna over the next few years. This was followed by drama seminars with Günther Einbrodt (Tabori Gruppe), Ingemar Lind, Werner Schroeter, Augusto Fernandez and others. In 1981 she co-founded the independent theatre group Theater Tilbut in Frankfurt. After the birth of her first child in 1984, she began working as a soloist. Since 1987 Gilla Cremer has been writing and producing solo plays in her own theatre company Theater Unikate. With 13[1] productions in her repertoire, she gives both national and international guest performances. She has worked with directors Max Eipp, Hans-Ulrich Becker, Johannes Kaetzler, Michael Heicks, Eva-Maria Martin, Brigitte Landes and Dominik Günther. In cooperation with the Magdalena Project, an international network by and for women from various theatre sectors, she also shows her plays in English and has performed in Denmark, France, Poland, Hungary, New Zealand and the Netherlands. In addition to her solo work, Gilla Cremer has performed in Kohelet in 1999, a production directed by David Mayaan and his Israeli group Akko in Weimar and at the Wiener Festwochen. In 2006 she had a guest appearance in the production of Mobil in Hanover Schauspiel Hannover. Between 2001 and 2009 she guested at the Thalia Theater Hamburg in Damen der Gesellschaft and with her solo productions Seaside and The Sinner - Hildegard Knef. In her socially critical plays the actress comes up against extremely contradictory female characters, sheds light on German sensibilities from 1933 until the present day, and time and again uses her work to address social concerns. In her production Seaside she addresses child poverty and the hardship of single mothers. The Bitch of Buchenwald and Nightfather was performed in schools as part of political education programmes.
Theatre
1981: Der schmale Weg in den tiefen Norden by E. Bond, Frankfurt 1984: Shanghai Express by Theater Tilbut, Frankfurt 1986: Der Truthahn by S. Mrozek, Frankfurt 1987: Odyssee Embryonale by G. Cremer and Max Eipp 1989: Gebrüllt vor Lachen by Ch. Durang, Theater am Turm 1991: Einmal lebt ich by Natascha Wodin, Gallus Theater Frankfurt/Kampnagel Hamburg 1993: Rita - allein gegen die Mafia by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele 1995: Die Kommandeuse by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg 1997: Morrison Hotel by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg 1998: Guest performances in Denmark, Netherlands, France, Poland, Hungary and New Zealand 1999: Kohelet with the Israeli group Akko, Vienna Festival 1999: Vater hat Lager by Carl Friedman, TiK, Thalia in der Kunsthalle Hamburg 2000: m.e.d.e.a. by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele 2001: Damen der Gesellschaft, guest at Thalia Theater 2003: Meeresrand by Véronique Olmi, Theater Bielefeld and Thalia in der Gaußstraße 2004: So oder so – Hildegard Knef by G. Cremer, St.-Pauli-Theater/Thalia Theater 2006: Mobil, guest at Schauspiel Hannover. 2007: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht by A. Veteranyi, Hamburger Sprechwerk 2008: Mobbing by Annette Pehnt, Theater Bielefeld/Hamburger Kammerspiele 2010: An allen Fronten: Lili Marleen & Lale Andersen by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele/Theater Wolfsburg 2014: Die Dinge meiner Eltern by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele/Theater Wolfsburg 2016: #Freundschaft by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele 2018 Halbzeit – an anniversary road movie and a show of 30 years of performance by Theater Unikate
TV/Film
1990: Und wenn's nicht klappt, dann machen wir's noch mal – Director: Lothar Kurzawa 1994: Zappenduster – Director: Marek Gierzdal 1996: Doppelter Einsatz 2000: Aus gutem Hause – Director: Lars Jessen 2001: Großstadtrevier – Director: Lars Jessen 2002: Juls Freundin – Kai Wessel 2003: Tatort – Mietsache – Director: Daniel Helfer 2003: Tatort – Wenn Frauen Austern essen – Director: Klaus Emmerich 2005: Bettgeflüster & Babyglück – Director: Annette Ernst 2005: Tatort – Dunkle Wege – Director: Christiane Balthasar 2005: Der Preis der Freundschaft – Director: Claudia Garde * 2005: Tatort – Dunkle Wege – Regie: Christiane Balthasar
- 2005: Der Preis der Freundschaft – Director: Claudia Garde
- 2005: Der Liebeswunsch – Director: Torsten C. Fischer
- 2006: Tatort – Schattenspiele – RDirector: Claudia Garde
- 2006: Die Frau am Ende der Straße – Director: Claudia Garde
- 2007: Väter – Denn sie wissen nicht, was sich tut – Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
- 2008: Das Duo – Sterben statt erben, Part: Christel – Director: Maris Pfeiffer
- 2009: Same Same But Different – Director: Detlev Buck
- 2015: Tatort – Die Rückkehr des stillen Gastes, Part: Constanze Jung – Director: Claudia Garde
Audio dramas
2006: Ludwig Fels: Hello, I'm Glen Sherley – Director: Christiane Ohaus (Hörspiel – RB) (audio drama – RB) 2003: Véronique Olmi: Meeresrand - Director: Wolfgang Stockmann 2005: So oder So – Hildegard Knef by Gilla Cremer – Director: Wolfgang Stockmann
Awards
2008: Theaterpreis Hamburg – Rolf-Mares-Preis 2015: Inthega Sonderpreis 2018: Senator-Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille[1]
External links Commons: Gilla Cremer – Selection of images
Literature by and about Gilla Cremer in the catalogue of the German National Library Gilla Cremer in the internet movie database (English) Internet presence Gilla Cremer [1]
Reference [2] Category:female Artists Category:Actresses