Andreas Marber

Andreas Marber was born in Radolfzell at Lake Constance in 1961. He worked as a dramaturg at the theatres in Stuttgart, Bochum and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He wrote a number of well-known plays in the Nineties which were staged by such directors as Johann Kresnik, Jürgen Kruse and Leander Haußmann, translated into English and French and received the Price for Young Dramatists of the Schiller Memorial Aways. His novel Platon was published in 2006. His play Die Beißfrequenz der Kettenhunde was premiered at the Thalia Theater Hamburg in Oktober 2007, directed by Stephan Kimmig; Seine Braut war das Meer und sie umschlang ihn in November 2010 at the Staatstheater Mainz und most recently, his Fliegender Holländer opened at the Landesbühne Esslingen in September 2015.