Hakan Savaş Mican

Born in Berlin in 1978 and raised in Turkey, Hakan Savaş Mican studied architecture in Berlin before he decided to attend a directing course at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie. Various film and television projects for ARTE and RBB were followed since 2008 by theatre productions at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Staatstheater Mainz, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Münchner Volkstheater. Hakan Savaş Mican is the author of numerous plays, among them “Der Besuch”, “Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof” or “Die Saison der Krabben”, which received the award for the best contemporary drama at the 2013 Hamburg Privattheatertage.

In 2014, his production “Schwimmen Lernen – ein Lovesong” was invited to the theatre festival Radikal jung at Münchner Volkstheater.

As a fellow of the cultural academy Tarabya in Istanbul, he shot the documentary feature film “Die Zeit der Haselnüsse” in 2014.