{{Short description|German author and playwright (1962–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = René Pollesch | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1962|10|29|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|2|26|1962|10|29|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Author and playwright | years_active = | spouse = }}
'''René Pollesch''' (29 October 1962 – 26 February 2024) was a German author and dramatist.
==Life and career== From 1983 to 1989, he studied Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen.<ref>[http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/nds/nds/aut/pol/enindex.htm New German dramatic art]</ref> He won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2001 for ''world wide web-slums''<ref>{{cite news |title=Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis für René Pollesch |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |date=11 June 2001 |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/auszeichnung-muelheimer-dramatikerpreis-fuer-rene-pollesch-122598.html}}</ref> and again in 2006 for ''Cappuccetto Rosso''.<ref name=WSJ>{{cite news |title=Theater With a Biting View of Society |author=J. S. Marcus |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=17 August 2007 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118729750601900091}}</ref> In 2012 Pollesch organized an exhibition project at Galerie Buchholz, which culminated in a publication.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brandl-Risi |first=Bettina |date=March 2012 |title=Gegen Die Vierte Wand: Üer René Pollesch in der Galerie Buchholz, Berlin |journal=Texte zur Kunst |issue=85 |pages=164–167}}</ref> He was named as the new director of Berlin's Volksbühne Theatre in 2019 and took up the role in 2021. Pollesch died in Berlin on 26 February 2024, at the age of 61.<ref>[https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/rene-pollesch-ist-tot-a-b5c5437f-93be-4c41-9a87-e295ddaf475f Volksbühnen-Intendant René Pollesch ist tot] {{in lang|de}}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb/27/rene-pollesch-maverick-german-theatre-director-dies-aged-61 René Pollesch, maverick German theatre director, dies aged 61]</ref> He outed himself as gay.<ref>[https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=48608 Queer.de: Theaterwelt trauert um René Pollesch], 27 Februar 2024</ref>
==Sources== * Franz-Josef Deiters: "'Mit Hamlet kann ich meinen Alltag nicht bewältigen'. René Polnischs Theorietheater des Nichtrepräsentierbaren". In: Franz-Josef Deiters: ''Neues Welttheater? Zur Mediologie des Theaters der Neo-Avantgarden''. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2022, pp. 85-113 ({{ISBN|978-3-503-20998-9}}).
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|689549}}
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