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Thorsten Lensing – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

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Saison 26/27

Thorsten Lensing

THORSTEN LENSING has been working as a freelance director since the mid-1990s. Since then he has produced and directed 15 theater performances. His productions are created as freelance productions in co-production with, for example, the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Sophiensæle in Berlin, Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Kampnagel Hamburg, deSingel in Antwerp and Volksbühne Berlin. Lensing's productions always feature top-class casts. He works with Ursina Lardi, Devid Striesow, André Jung, Josef Ostendorf, Viviane de Muynck, Ernst Stötzner, Lars Rudolph, Peter Kern, Sebastian Blomberg, Maria Hofstätter, Miriam Goldschmidt, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Charly Hübner and Peter Kurth, among others, as well as with musicians Jean-Paul Bourelly, Phil Minton and Willi Kellers, cultural journalist Dirk Pilz and set designer Johannes Schütz. After the successful novel adaptations of Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Friedrich Luft Prize for Best Berlin Performance in 2014) and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Berlin Theatertreffen 2019), Thorsten Lensing has written his first very own play for the theater with Verrückt nach Trost.

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