Vita | NINA KUPCZYK

Nina Kupczyk.

Playwright. Author.
Graduate Music Theater and Drama Director
for Opera, Concert Halls, Theater and Film.
Graduate Psychologist.
Doctoral Student, Department 11, University of Bremen.

Nina Kupczyk comes from a Bremen artist family, the successor to the composer Henryk Wieniawski.
She began her stage career at the age of 8 in numerous roles and training
to become a dancer at the Bremer Theater am Goetheplatz with Johann Kresnik and Reinhild Hoffmann.
At the same time she received violin lessons from her father Franz-Josef Kupczyk (+ 2012),
the first concertmaster of the Bremen Philharmonic State Orchestra for decades,
the Bayreuth Festival and professor of violin in Bremen and Tokyo.
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After graduating from high school, Nina Kupczyk first studied acting, then
multimedia composition and music theater directing at the Hamburg Theater Academy (diploma with distinction) as well
Psychology, cultural psychology, psychoanalysis, neurocognition and forensics at the University of Bremen (diploma).
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She took directing master courses with Peter Konwitschny, Calixto Bieito, Peter Michael Hamel, Andreas Kriegenburg,
observed and assisted Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki, Günter Krämer, Werner Schroeter and was
Scholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival and the international forum of the Berlin Theatertreffen.
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Since 1995 she has published various texts in magazines and anthologies. (Federwelt, Worthandelverlag, S. Fischer-Verlag, Athena-Verlag).
Her texts were broadcast and recorded by various radio stations (Nordwestradio, Deutschlandfunk).
In 2000 she was invited to Bookexpo Chicago with her novel “The Teacher and the Prodigy.”
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In 2009, based on her text, she directed her opera art film “The Child Mozart” in cooperation with Studio Hamburg
and received the rating “valuable” from the Wiesbaden film rating agency.
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Since 2014 she has been designing, writing and directing new musical theater formats for concert halls.
There were premieres for the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic,
for the Lucerne Festival, for the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, the Konzerthaus Vienna and for the Musikverein Wien.
Nina Kupczyk directed Viktor Ullman’s „The Emperor of Atlantis“ and „Vanitas“ by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Hamburg State Opera,
Mozart’s „Cosi fan tutte“ and a remake of Puccini’s „Butterfly“ at the Opernloft Hamburg,
the German premiere of Lorenzo Ferrero’s „la filglia del Mago“ for the theater festival „Feuertaufe“ at the Theater Kiel,
the own premiere of “The Child Mozart” at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg,
Dvorak’s „Rusalka“ at the Hagen Theater, Mozart’s „Don Giovanni“ at the Halle Opera, Donizetti’s „Don Pasquale“ at the Görlitz Theater,
Stravinsky’s „Renard“ as a modern, political fable with the Berlin Philharmonic
conducted by the Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv with Russian and Ukrainian singers.
She staged the premiere of her piece “Amadeus Superstar” at the New Theater in Halle.
Tchaikovsky’s „Francesca di Rimini“ with the Berlin Philharmonic, this time under the direction of Kirill Petrenko.
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In 2024/25 she will stage Udo Zimmermann’s “White Rose” at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.
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She is co-founder of Transform23 and lives in Berlin.

WORKS

The child’s Mozart@sotto voce in the night
Awarded the rating ‚valuable‘

(…) With impressive image compositions from three perspectives
the performance interprets the three different selves of the child prodigy Mozart,
shows his ambivalent relationship with his father, his search for love and recognition,
his dealings with his own genius, his emotional contribution to his own music. (…)

Jury statement from the German Film and Media Assessment / FBW

(…) She has highly creative and imaginative professionalism
and is a top talent as both a director and an author
for the German music theater and German film. (…)

Prof. Klaus Bernbacher / German Music Council

(…) it is the young director Nina Kupczyk,
who I consider to be an extremely versatile artist,
not only in musical theater, but also in film and as a poet.
She is constantly looking to expand existing forms of theater,
a search that has to do with her diverse talents. (…)

Andreas Homoki / Zurich Opera House

(…) It’s nice that there are artists like you who uncompromisingly
engage with young audiences and move things forward in such a consistent way.
Your contribution to the Philharmonie’s programming was essential
and has also given a dimension to the orchestral programs,
that we haven’t had yet. (…)

Pascal Sticklies / Philharmonie Luxembourg

(…) You can unleash theater. (…)

Peter Konwitschny / German opera and theatre director legend

(…) You have to call that a hammer:
The premiere of Nina Kupczyk’s play “Amadeus Superstar”.
A brilliant imposition in the best sense of intelligent contemporaneity
and critical participation with which the author and director
her great ensemble and the audience challenges.
Smart, sensual theater by actors. (…)

Andreas Montag / Mitteldeutsche Zeitung - Newspaper

(…) I am delighted – and I wish this text,
There was a lot of interest in this production and the great ensemble
on this special theater product “Amadeus Superstar” (…)

Matthias Brenner / Intendant Bühnen-Halle

(…) Congratulations.
We really liked your direction.
Unusual ideas, precise actors
and a convincing overall concept. (…)

Rusch-Stiftung / Foundation

(…) In my 15 years of university work in Hamburg
Professorship/Chair of Composite Theory HfMT (Ligetin successor)
I met Nina Kupczyk in the music theater directing course,
one of the most talented and independent young directors
and authors whose journey I have followed in amazement ever since.
She has a variety of original, not averse to new media,
and yet still comes from the music-immanent substance
and created stage works that convey human depth. (…)

Prof. Dr. h. c. Peter Michael Hamel / Former music director of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

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