Martin Heckmanns

Martin Heckmanns, was born in 1971 and studied Comparative Literature, Modern History and Philosophy. He made his name as a playwright with plays such as “Shoot, department store!” (premiere Staatschauspiel Dresden, 2002), “Irritate” (premiere Schauspiel Frankfurt, 2004), “The Wonderful Thing Between” (premiere Staatsschauspiel Hannover, 2005), “Words and Bodies” (premiere Staatstheater Stuttgart, 2007) and “A Man Comes Into the World” (premiere Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, 2007). Heckmanns was voted most promising playwright of they year by Theaterheute in 2002. He has twice won the audience prize at the Mühlheimer Theatertage – in 2003 for “Shoot, department store!” and 2004 for “Irritate” – and the Lower Saxony Prize for Literature awarded by the city of Krefeld in 2008. Martin Heckmanns has been writer in residence and dramaturg at Staatsschauspiel Dresden since 2009, where his theatre prologue “Future For Ever” opened the artistic directorship of Wilfried Schulz.

As of May 2011.