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 was 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 – RDirector: 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/
• 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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