Simon Zagermann

Geboren 1981 in München, studierte Simon Zagermann an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst «Ernst Busch» in Berlin. Er gastierte am Nationaltheater Mannheim, am Maxim Gorki Theater und am Deutschen Theater Berlin, bevor er 2008 Ensemblemitglied am Deutschen Nationaltheater in Weimar wurde. 2011 führte es ihn als regelmäßigen Gast an das Schauspielhaus Graz sowie von 2013 bis 2015 als Ensemblemitglied an das Schauspielhaus Wien. 2015 wurde Simon Zagermann Mitglied im Ensemble am Theater Basel und war dort u. a. in Inszenierungen von Regisseur*innen wie Nora Schlocker, Simon Stone, Thom Luz, Nuran David Calis und Mateja Koležnik zu sehen. 2019 folgte er Andreas Beck ans Residenztheater.

Performing in

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s. 

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 1

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s.

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 2

In June 1816 the «Medusa», the fastest frigate of its time, sets to sea. Its destination is Saint-Louis in Senegal. There are two hundred and forty people on board – besides the sailors, most of them are soldiers, but they also include the colony’s Governor and his family together with priests, teachers, doctors and engineers. Two days’ journey from their destination the ship runs aground on a sandbank and splits. As there is not enough room for everyone in the lifeboats, a raft is cobbled together for the lifeboats to tow on shore. But as soon as they set off, the rudderless and heavily overloaded raft is left behind by the boats on which the dignitaries are rescuing themselves. Of one hundred and seventeen men only fifteen will survive. Many of them will fall victim to their own comrades because the few goods they were able to save – barrels of wine, sodden biscuits, a few weapons and valuables – are as heavily fought over as the power the make decisions about possible rescue measures.

Der Schiffbruch der Fregatte Medusa (The shipwreck of the frigate Medusa)

The Australian writer and director Simon Stone took Chekhov’s famous play as the starting point for his rewriting – voted «Play of the Year 2017» in «Theater heute» magazine – that combines rapid fire dialogue, subtle character studies and the ambivalence that arises from them while locating the play thematically in the here and now.

Drei Schwestern (Three sisters)

A caretaker is murdered with no reason or motive. Alienated from himself and life in general by a working day that is always the same, a bank clerk seizes an axe and commits murder. This action lacking any obvious cause shocks state prosecutor Martin, who is in charge of the case. In the murder and his crime he can see a reflection of his own imprisonment in a bourgeois existence dominated by duty, law and order. The prosecutor is immediately struck by an existential fear that drives him to escape into the fairy tale world of a mysterious alter ego: the world of Count Öderland.

Graf Öderland (Count Öderland)

The Australian playwright and director Simon Stone whose attention-grabbing contemporary interpretations of classic dramas have caused an international sensation, takes characters, narrative threads and motifs from Horváth’s works, catapults them into the present day and weaves them together into a touching, post-heroic panorama of human effort in times of crisis.

Unsere Zeit (Our Time)

Seven years after her production of «Oedipus», the Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik now brings the next instalment of the Theban myths to the Resi stage: both a political thriller and an epic family drama.

Antigone
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 04 Nov

No other play by Heinrich von Kleist inspires quite so many superlatives as «Käthchen of Heilbronn». It is not only the most successful, but also the most romantic, the most fairy tale-like and at the same time the most mysterious play that he wrote.

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (KÄTHCHEN OF HEILBRONN)
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 18 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 20 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 01 Nov
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 29 Nov

When Goethe set «Götz von Berlichingen» down on paper in 1771 in a true writing frenzy, the 22-year-old writer was still a complete unknown. This came to an abrupt end with the publication of «Götz», as suddenly the young poet was being talked about everywhere. Goethe’s early work is a powerful stage epic with over fifty locations, several plots running in parallel and a huge cast of characters. What is more: Goethe dispensed with all the customary conventions that 18th century drama had been using up to that point.

Götz von Berlichingen
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Tue 24 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Thu 02 Nov

«Peer, you’re lying!»: Henrik Ibsen immediately highlights the key theme of his dramatic poem  in its opening line – the blurred boundary between illusion and reality. Because Peer, whose youth is shaped by the poverty of his farming background, continually reinvents himself with the aid of stories, lies and the arts of fabulation – as a cosmopolitan, a colonial master and even an Emperor.

Peer Gynt
Premiere
Residenztheater
Sat 14 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Tue 17 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Mon 23 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Fri 03 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Sat 11 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Mon 20 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Tue 21 Nov

Ensemble