The Golden Dragon was awarded the Mühlheimer Dramatists Award and was chosen as Theater heute’s Play of the Year in 2010. His plays include Hier und Jetzt (Here and Now), Die Frau von früher (The Woman from the Past), Vorher/Nachher (Before/Afterwards), Die arabische Nacht (The Arabian Night), Push-up 1-3, Peggy Pickit sieht das Gesicht Gottes (Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God), and Der goldene Drache (The Golden Dragon). The piece started in the state theatre of Stuttgart and exploded across Germany, produced at theatres in nearly every German city, and then around the world-a path many of his subsequent plays would follow.įrankfurt’s leading paper, the Rundschau, has declared Schimmelpfennig “the leading German dramatist.” Having written more than 30 plays in the last 15 years, he is undeniably one of the most prolific. Based in part on his experiences in Istanbul, the play took Germany by storm. He received his first major writing award in 1997, and in 2001 wrote his breakout hit, The Arabian Night. In 1996, Schimmelpfennig had his first professional production and started writing full-time. Upon his return to Germany, he studied directing and spent several years working at Kammerspiele, Munich’s flagship theatre, while writing plays.

He went straight from high school to Istanbul, where he spent much of the 1980s working as a journalist.

Born in Göttingen, Germany in 1967, he first became interested in drama at the town’s small regional theatre. Roland Schimmelpfennig is Germany’s most produced playwright.

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