Gilla Cremer

Gilla Cremer (born 19 December 1956) is a German actress, author and producer of her own solo plays.

Early life and career

Gilla Cremer was born the fourth of five children in Königswinter am Rhine, North Rhine Westphalia. Her father was a businessman and her mother a gardener by profession. After graduating from school in 1976, Gilla Cremer spent two years in the USA. She took courses in modern dance in Austin, Texas and New York, taught by the dancer and performance artist Deborah Hay among others, and participated in classes at the Actors Studio. Influenced by the writings of the theatre directors Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski, she spent a year in Bali, Indonesia to study mask dance, mask carving and kung fu. In 1979 she met Eugenio Barba from the Odin Teatret and became a drama student at the International School of Theatre Anthropology – ISTA in Bonn, Volterra, Holstebro and Bologna over the next few years. This was followed by drama seminars with Günther Einbrodt (Tabori Group), Ingemar Lind, Werner Schroeter, Augusto Fernandez and others. In 1981 she co-founded the independent theatre group Theater Tilbut in Frankfurt. After the birth of her first child in 1984, she began working as a soloist. Since 1987 Gilla Cremer has been writing and producing solo plays in her own theatre company Theater Unikate. With 13[1] productions in her repertoire, she gives both national and international guest performances. She has worked with directors Max Eipp, Hans-Ulrich Becker, Johannes Kaetzler, Michael Heicks, Eva-Maria Martin, Brigitte Landes and Dominik Günther. In cooperation with the Magdalena Project, an international network by and for women from various theatre sectors, she also shows her plays in English and has performed in Denmark, France, Poland, Hungary, New Zealand and the Netherlands. In addition to her solo work, Gilla Cremer has performed in Kohelet in 1999, a production directed by David Mayaan and his Israeli group Akko in Weimar and at the Vienna Festival. In 2006 she had a guest appearance in the production of Mobil in Hanover. Between 2001 and 2009 she guested at the Thalia Theater Hamburg in Damen der Gesellschaft and with her solo productions Seaside and The Sinner – Hildegard Knef. In her socially critical plays the actress comes up against extremely contradictory female characters, sheds light on German sensibilities from 1933 until the present day, and time and again uses her work to address social concerns. In her production Seaside she addresses child poverty and the hardship of single mothers. The Bitch of Buchenwald and Nightfather were performed in schools as part of political education programmes.

Theatre

• 1981: Der schmale Weg in den tiefen Norden by E. Bond, Frankfurt
• 1984: Shanghai Express by Theater Tilbut, Frankfurt
• 1986: Der Truthahn by S. Mrozek, Frankfurt
• 1987: Odyssee Embryonale by G. Cremer and Max Eipp
• 1989: Gebrüllt vor Lachen by Ch. Durang, Theater am Turm
• 1991: Einmal lebt ich by Natascha Wodin, Gallus Theater Frankfurt/Kampnagel Hamburg
• 1993: Rita - allein gegen die Mafia by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
• 1995: Die Kommandeuse by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg
• 1997: Morrison Hotel by G. Cremer, Kampnagel Hamburg
• 1998: Guest performances in Denmark, Netherlands, France, Poland, Hungary and New Zealand
• 1999: Kohelet with the Israeli group Akko, Vienna Festival
• 1999: Vater hat Lager by Carl Friedman, TiK, Thalia in der Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 2000: m.e.d.e.a. by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
• 2001: Damen der Gesellschaft, guest at Thalia Theater
• 2003: Meeresrand by Véronique Olmi, Theater Bielefeld and Thalia in der Gaußstraße
• 2004: So oder so – Hildegard Knef by G. Cremer, St.-Pauli-Theater/Thalia Theater
• 2006: Mobil, guest at Schauspiel Hannover.
• 2007: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht by A. Veteranyi, Hamburger Sprechwerk
• 2008: Mobbing by Annette Pehnt, Theater Bielefeld/Hamburger Kammerspiele
• 2010: An allen Fronten: Lili Marleen & Lale Andersen by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele/Theater Wolfsburg
• 2014: Die Dinge meiner Eltern by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele/Theater Wolfsburg
• 2016: #Freundschaft by G. Cremer, Hamburger Kammerspiele
• 2018 Halbzeit – an anniversary road movie and a show of 30 years of performance by Theater Unikate

TV/Film

• 1990: Und wenn's nicht klappt, dann machen wir's noch mal – Director: Lothar Kurzawa
• 1994: Zappenduster – Director: Marek Gierzdal
• 1996: Doppelter Einsatz
• 2000: Aus gutem Hause – Director: Lars Jessen
• 2001: Großstadtrevier – Director: Lars Jessen
• 2002: Juls Freundin – Kai Wessel
• 2003: Tatort – Mietsache – Director: Daniel Helfer
• 2003: Tatort – Wenn Frauen Austern essen – Director: Klaus Emmerich
• 2005: Bettgeflüster & Babyglück – Director: Annette Ernst
• 2005: Tatort – Dunkle Wege – Director: Christiane Balthasar
• 2005: Der Preis der Freundschaft – Director: Claudia Garde
• 2005: Tatort – Dunkle Wege – Regie: Christiane Balthasar
• 2005: Der Preis der Freundschaft – Director: Claudia Garde
• 2005: Der Liebeswunsch – Director: Torsten C. Fischer
• 2006: Tatort – Schattenspiele – Director: Claudia Garde
• 2006: Die Frau am Ende der Straße – Director: Claudia Garde
• 2007: Väter – Denn sie wissen nicht, was sich tut – Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
• 2008: Das Duo – Sterben statt erben, Part: Christel – Director: Maris Pfeiffer
• 2009: Same Same But Different – Director: Detlev Buck
• 2015: Tatort – Die Rückkehr des stillen Gastes, Part: Constanze Jung – Director: Claudia Garde

Audio dramas

• 2006: Ludwig Fels: Hello, I'm Glen Sherley – Director: Christiane Ohaus (Hörspiel – RB) (audio drama – RB)
• 2003: Véronique Olmi: Meeresrand - Director: Wolfgang Stockmann
• 2005: So oder So – Hildegard Knef by Gilla Cremer – Director: Wolfgang Stockmann

Awards

• 2008: Theaterpreis Hamburg – Rolf-Mares-Preis
• 2015: Inthega Sonderpreis
• 2018: Senator-Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille

External links

• Literature by and about Gilla Cremer in the catalogue of the German National Library
• Gilla Cremer in the internet movie database (English)
• Internet presence Gilla Cremer gillacremer.de
• https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/prize-gilla-cremer
• https://theaterpreis-hamburg.org/de_DE/preistraeger-container#2008
• http://www.inthega.de/ Archived 2020-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.kulturkarte.de
• http://www.odinteatret.dk/
• https://hamburger-kammerspiele.de/
• http://www.inthega.de/
• http://www.rowohlt-theaterverlag.de
• https://www.stageboxx.de/
• https://www.welt.de/
• http://www.taz.de/
• https://www.kultur-port.de/
• https://www.focus.de
• http://www.magdalenamuenchen.de/
• http://www.goliving.de
• https://www.stadttheater.de/
• https://www.fernsehserien.de/
• https://www.crew-united.com

References

(A) reviews in newspapers, magazines, radio, books

(B) Gilla Cremer - Author of theatre plays:

(C) Prizes plus articles

(D) Gilla Cremer on International Theatre - Festivals

(E) Film

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