Heiner Goebbels

Many CD releases with ecm-records for which he received two Grammy nominations; writings, lectures. He received many international record-, radio-, theater- and music awards. Composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and for the Bochum Symphonics, member of several academies of arts, honorable fellow at Dartington College of Arts and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London; fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin (2007/08) and artist in residence at Cornell University, Ithaca USA. In 2012 Heiner Goebbels is winner of the International Ibsen Award, one of the world's most prestigious theater prizes.

Since the beginning of the 90s he composed and directed unique and celebrated music theater works such as "Black on White" (1996), "Max Black" (1998), "Eislermaterial" (1998), "Hashirigaki" (2000), "Landscape with distant relatives" (2002), "Eraritjaritjaka" (2004), "Stifters Dinge" (2007), "Songs of Wars I have seen" (2007), "I went to the house but did not enter" (2008) and "When the Mountain changed its clothing" (2012) among many others, which mostly have been produced by Theatre Vidy, Lausanne and have been invited to the most important international theater and music festivals in Europe, the US, South America, Australia and Asia.

Many CD releases with ECM Records for which he received two Grammy nominations; writings, lectures. He received many international record-, radio-, theater- and music awards. Composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and for the Bochum Symphonics, member of several academies of arts, honorable fellow at Dartington College of Arts and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London; fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin (2007/08) and artist in residence at Cornell University, Ithaca USA. In 2012 Heiner Goebbels is winner of the International Ibsen Award, one of the world's most prestigious theatre prizes.

Heiner Goebbels is professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus-LiebigUniversität Gießen and since 2006 President of the Theatre Academy of Hesse. From 2012 until 2014 he is artistic director of the RUHRTRIENNALE - International Festival of the Arts.