Karin Beier is a German

Germany

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 theatre director.

After studying English

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 in Cologne, Karin Beier moved into theatre. She established an English language

English language

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 theatre and staged Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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 plays in their source language. Theatres began to grow in popularity, and she became the director of the Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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 Theatre. Here she was able to display her first professional theatre production. In Düsseldorf she studied under Iraq

Iraq

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i director David Mouchtar-Samorai.

After her 1994 production of Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

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she was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen

Berliner Theatertreffen

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 and granted an award by the leading German theater magazine Theater heute. The following year she directed productions at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus

Deutsches Schauspielhaus

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 in Hamburg

Hamburg

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, Schauspielhaus Bochum

Schauspielhaus Bochum

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, Munich Kammerspiele

Munich Kammerspiele

The Munich Kammerspiele is a successful German language theatre in Munich. The Schauspielhaus in the Maximilianstrasse is the major stage.-History:...

, and the Burgtheater

Burgtheater

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 in Vienna

Vienna

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.

In 2004 and 2005 she directed at the Nibelungen-Festival in Worms

Worms, Germany

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, performing Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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's 1861 play Nibelungen.

Since 2007 Beier is the director of the main playhouse in Cologne (Schauspiel Köln).

External links

• Karin Beier: 50 directors working in Germany Goethe-Institut
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