{"id":51,"date":"2025-01-25T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-01-25T03:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:26:59","slug":"vita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8220;&#8220; content_placement=&#8220;middle&#8220; el_name=&#8220;VITA&#8220; bklyn_section_anchor_id=&#8220;WORKS&#8220; css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1737748748211{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8220;][vc_column]<div class=\"wpb_content_element  vc_custom_1717968702516\"><style type=\"text\/css\">#ut_header_69d6e08bb2e03 h2.section-title { font-size:45px !important; }<\/style><header id=\"ut_header_69d6e08bb2e03\" class=\"section-header  ut-no-title-linebreak-mobile pt-style-7 header-center header-tablet-center header-mobile-center\"><h2 data-title=\"Nina Kupczyk.\"  data-responsive-font=\"section_title\" data-responsive-font-settings=\"{&quot;base-font-size&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;font-size-unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;font-size&quot;:{&quot;desktop_large&quot;:&quot;45&quot;},&quot;base-line-height&quot;:&quot;global&quot;,&quot;base-letter-spacing&quot;:&quot;global&quot;}\" class=\"section-title  \"><span>Nina Kupczyk.<\/span><\/h2><\/header><\/div><div class=\"wpb_content_element \"><style type=\"text\/css\">#ut_header_69d6e08bb8dbc h2.section-title { font-size:30px !important; }@media (max-width: 767px) {#ut_header_69d6e08bb8dbc h2.section-title { font-size:20px !important; }}<\/style><header id=\"ut_header_69d6e08bb8dbc\" class=\"section-header  ut-no-title-linebreak-mobile pt-style-2 header-center header-tablet-center header-mobile-center\"><h2 data-title=\"Playwright. Author.&#13;&#10;Graduate Music Theater and Drama Director&#13;&#10;for Opera, Concert Halls, Theater and Film.&#13;&#10;Graduate Psychologist.&#13;&#10;Doctoral Student, Department 11, University of Bremen.\"  data-responsive-font=\"section_title\" data-responsive-font-settings=\"{&quot;base-font-size&quot;:&quot;30&quot;,&quot;font-size-unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;font-size&quot;:{&quot;desktop_large&quot;:&quot;30&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;:&quot;20&quot;},&quot;base-line-height&quot;:&quot;global&quot;,&quot;base-letter-spacing&quot;:&quot;global&quot;}\" class=\"section-title title-with-linebreak \"><span>Playwright. Author.<br \/>\nGraduate Music Theater and Drama Director<br \/>\nfor Opera, Concert Halls, Theater and Film.<br \/>\nGraduate Psychologist.<br \/>\nDoctoral Student, Department 11, University of Bremen.<\/span><\/h2><div data-delay=\"0\" class=\"lead title-with-linebreak\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15px; font-size: 14px;\">Nina Kupczyk comes from a Bremen artist family, the successor to the composer Henryk Wieniawski.<br \/>\nShe began her stage career at the age of 8 in numerous roles and training<br \/>\nto become a dancer at the Bremer Theater am Goetheplatz with Johann Kresnik and Reinhild Hoffmann.<br \/>\nAt the same time she received violin lessons from her father Franz-Josef Kupczyk (+ 2012),<br \/>\nthe first concertmaster of the Bremen Philharmonic State Orchestra for decades,<br \/>\nthe Bayreuth Festival and professor of violin in Bremen and Tokyo.<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nAfter graduating from high school, Nina Kupczyk first studied acting, then<br \/>\nmultimedia composition and music theater directing at the Hamburg Theater Academy (diploma with distinction) as well<br \/>\nPsychology, cultural psychology, psychoanalysis, neurocognition and forensics at the University of Bremen (diploma).<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nShe took directing master courses with Peter Konwitschny, Calixto Bieito, Peter Michael Hamel, Andreas Kriegenburg,<br \/>\nobserved and assisted Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki, G\u00fcnter Kr\u00e4mer, Werner Schroeter and was<br \/>\nScholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival and the international forum of the Berlin Theatertreffen.<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nSince 1995 she has published various texts in magazines and anthologies. (Federwelt, Worthandelverlag, S. Fischer-Verlag, Athena-Verlag).<br \/>\nHer texts were broadcast and recorded by various radio stations (Nordwestradio, Deutschlandfunk).<br \/>\nIn 2000 she was invited to Bookexpo Chicago with her novel \u201cThe Teacher and the Prodigy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nIn 2009, based on her text, she directed her opera art film \u201cThe Child Mozart\u201d in cooperation with Studio Hamburg<br \/>\nand received the rating \u201cvaluable\u201d from the Wiesbaden film rating agency.<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nSince 2014 she has been designing, writing and directing new musical theater formats for concert halls.<br \/>\nThere were premieres for the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic,<br \/>\nfor the Lucerne Festival, for the Festspielhaus St. P\u00f6lten, the Konzerthaus Vienna and for the Musikverein Wien.<br \/>\nNina Kupczyk directed Viktor Ullman&#8217;s &#8222;The Emperor of Atlantis&#8220; and &#8222;Vanitas&#8220; by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Hamburg State Opera,<br \/>\nMozart&#8217;s &#8222;Cosi fan tutte&#8220; and a remake of Puccini&#8217;s &#8222;Butterfly&#8220; at the Opernloft Hamburg,<br \/>\nthe German premiere of Lorenzo Ferrero&#8217;s &#8222;la filglia del Mago&#8220; for the theater festival &#8222;Feuertaufe&#8220; at the Theater Kiel,<br \/>\nthe own premiere of \u201cThe Child Mozart\u201d at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg,<br \/>\nDvorak&#8217;s &#8222;Rusalka&#8220; at the Hagen Theater, Mozart&#8217;s &#8222;Don Giovanni&#8220; at the Halle Opera, Donizetti&#8217;s &#8222;Don Pasquale&#8220; at the G\u00f6rlitz Theater,<br \/>\nStravinsky&#8217;s &#8222;Renard&#8220; as a modern, political fable with the Berlin Philharmonic<br \/>\nconducted by the Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv with Russian and Ukrainian singers.<br \/>\nShe staged the premiere of her piece \u201cAmadeus Superstar\u201d at the New Theater in Halle.<br \/>\nTchaikovsky&#8217;s &#8222;Francesca di Rimini&#8220; with the Berlin Philharmonic, this time under the direction of Kirill Petrenko.<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nIn 2024\/25 she will stage Udo Zimmermann&#8217;s \u201cWhite Rose\u201d at the Mainfranken Theater W\u00fcrzburg.<br \/>\n\u2022<br \/>\nShe is co-founder of Transform23 and lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/header><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1703192684772{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/unitedthemes-xml\/demo_21\/2016\/07\/cubes.png?id=617) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}&#8220;][vc_column]<div id=\"qtSliderOuter69d6e08bb9832\" class=\"wpb_content_element \"> <style type=\"text\/css\">@media (min-width: 1025px) {#qtSliderOuter69d6e08bb9832 .owl-carousel {padding-left: 80px;padding-right: 80px;}#qtSliderOuter69d6e08bb9832 .bkly-testimonials-style2 {padding: 0 80px;} }#qtSliderOuter69d6e08bb9832 .owl-dots { text-align: center } <\/style><div  class=\"ut-bkly-qt-rotator ut-bkly-text-rotator ut-bklyn-qt-rotator-style-2  ut-bklyn-qt-rotator-style-2-align-center\"><div id=\"qtSlider_69d6e08bb9830\" class=\"owl-carousel\" data-settings=\"{&quot;items&quot;:1,&quot;smartSpeed&quot;:600,&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:true,&quot;autoplayTimeout&quot;:&quot;7000&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;nav&quot;:false,&quot;dots&quot;:true,&quot;animateIn&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;animateOut&quot;:&quot;fadeOut&quot;}\"><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p>The child&#8217;s Mozart@sotto voce in the night<br \/>\nAwarded the rating &#8218;valuable&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;) With impressive image compositions from three perspectives<br \/>\nthe performance interprets the three different selves of the child prodigy Mozart,<br \/>\nshows his ambivalent relationship with his father, his search for love and recognition,<br \/>\nhis dealings with his own genius, his emotional contribution to his own music. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Jury statement from the German Film and Media Assessment \/ FBW<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) She has highly creative and imaginative professionalism<br \/>\nand is a top talent as both a director and an author<br \/>\nfor the German music theater and German film. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Prof. Klaus Bernbacher \/ German Music Council<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) it is the young director Nina Kupczyk,<br \/>\nwho I consider to be an extremely versatile artist,<br \/>\nnot only in musical theater, but also in film and as a poet.<br \/>\nShe is constantly looking to expand existing forms of theater,<br \/>\na search that has to do with her diverse talents. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Andreas Homoki \/ Zurich Opera House<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) It&#8217;s nice that there are artists like you who uncompromisingly<br \/>\nengage with young audiences and move things forward in such a consistent way.<br \/>\nYour contribution to the Philharmonie&#8217;s programming was essential<br \/>\nand has also given a dimension to the orchestral programs,<br \/>\nthat we haven&#8217;t had yet. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Pascal Sticklies \/ Philharmonie Luxembourg<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) You can unleash theater. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Peter Konwitschny \/ German opera and theatre director legend<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p>(&#8230;) You have to call that a hammer:<br \/>\nThe premiere of Nina Kupczyk&#8217;s play \u201cAmadeus Superstar\u201d.<br \/>\nA brilliant imposition in the best sense of intelligent contemporaneity<br \/>\nand critical participation with which the author and director<br \/>\nher great ensemble and the audience challenges.<br \/>\nSmart, sensual theater by actors. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Andreas Montag \/ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung - Newspaper<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) I am delighted &#8211; and I wish this text,<br \/>\nThere was a lot of interest in this production and the great ensemble<br \/>\non this special theater product \u201cAmadeus Superstar\u201d (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Matthias Brenner \/ Intendant Bu\u0308hnen-Halle<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/><br class=\"\u201cclear\u201d\" \/>(&#8230;) Congratulations.<br \/>\nWe really liked your direction.<br \/>\nUnusual ideas, precise actors<br \/>\nand a convincing overall concept. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bklyn-about-testimonials-author\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author-wrap\"><h3 class=\"bklyn-testimonials-author\">Rusch-Stiftung \/ Foundation<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ut-bkly-qt-slide\"><div class=\"bkly-testimonials-style2\"><div class=\"bklyn-testimonials-quote\"><p>(&#8230;) In my 15 years of university work in Hamburg<br \/>\nProfessorship\/Chair of Composite Theory HfMT (Ligetin successor)<br \/>\nI met Nina Kupczyk in the music theater directing course,<br \/>\none of the most talented and independent young directors<br \/>\nand authors whose journey I have followed in amazement ever since.<br \/>\nShe has a variety of original, not averse to new media,<br \/>\nand yet still comes from the music-immanent substance<br \/>\nand created stage works that convey human depth. 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Peter Michael Hamel \/ Former music director of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><a href=\"#\" data-for=\"qtSlider_69d6e08bb9830\" class=\"ut-prev-gallery-slide\"><i class=\"Bklyn-Core-Left-2\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"#\" data-for=\"qtSlider_69d6e08bb9830\" class=\"ut-next-gallery-slide\"><i class=\"Bklyn-Core-Right-2\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_name=&#8220;CONTACT&#8220; bklyn_section_anchor_id=&#8220;CONTACT&#8220; css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1701761880382{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;border-bottom-width: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8220;][vc_column]<div class=\"wpb_content_element \"><style type=\"text\/css\">#ut_header_69d6e08bb9f4e h2.section-title { font-size:40px !important; }<\/style><header id=\"ut_header_69d6e08bb9f4e\" class=\"section-header  ut-no-title-linebreak-mobile pt-style-2 header-center header-tablet-center header-mobile-center\"><h2 data-title=\"Contact.\"  data-responsive-font=\"section_title\" data-responsive-font-settings=\"{&quot;base-font-size&quot;:&quot;global&quot;,&quot;font-size&quot;:{&quot;desktop_large&quot;:&quot;40&quot;},&quot;base-line-height&quot;:&quot;global&quot;,&quot;base-letter-spacing&quot;:&quot;global&quot;}\" class=\"section-title  \"><span>Contact.<\/span><\/h2><div data-delay=\"0\" class=\"lead \"><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px; font-size: 18px;\">Office Fon: +49 (0)30 23 53 50 60<br \/>\nOffice Fax: +49 (0)30 23 53 50 66<br \/>\neMail &#8211; office[ at ]ninakupczyk.com<\/p>\n<\/div><\/header><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8220;&#8220; content_placement=&#8220;middle&#8220; el_name=&#8220;VITA&#8220; bklyn_section_anchor_id=&#8220;WORKS&#8220; css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1737748748211{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8220;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1703192684772{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/unitedthemes-xml\/demo_21\/2016\/07\/cubes.png?id=617) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}&#8220;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_name=&#8220;CONTACT&#8220; bklyn_section_anchor_id=&#8220;CONTACT&#8220; css=&#8220;.vc_custom_1701761880382{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;border-bottom-width: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8220;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninakupczyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}