Joanna Lewicka: New acting director in Schwerin enthusiastic!

Joanna Lewicka: New acting director in Schwerin enthusiastic!

Schwerin, Deutschland - The theater scene in Schwerin can be happy: Joanna Lewicka, an innovative and creative director, will take over the position of the acting director at the Mecklenburg State Theater from the 2026/27 season. Born in Silesia in 1980 and grew up in Baden-Württemberg, she has already brought an impressive vita with him that she has known in many countries in many countries through extraordinary projects. Until she took office, Nina Steinhilber will continue to lead the acting division, which designs the transitional period exciting.

Lewicka's work is not only viewed locally. Her staging of the "Midsummer Night's Dream" with prison inmates and professional actors was voted for the cultural event of the year in Lublin from the "Gazeta Wyborcza". In addition, she led her theater projects and festivals to Cambodia, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Belarus and Ukraine. In 2022, she was awarded the “Der Faust” theater price for her staging of “Antigone” at the Plauen-Zwickau Theater. Hans-Georg Wegner, general director of the State Theater, thinks that Lewicka is an "exceptionally exciting artist personality".

Current topics in the theater

For her first piece at the Mecklenburg State Theater, Lewicka could intend to start with Ferdinand Bruckner's work "Disease of Youth". This drama, published in 1926, describes a generation that has difficulty taking obligations and instead is looking for closeness and love. The action is about a complex relationship between the students Marie, Petrell, Irene, Desiree and Freder and addresses violence, seduction and power games under the influence of drugs and alcohol. At a celebration of Marie's doctorate, the group gets into an emotional chaos that underlines the search game of the youth for meaning and support.

The topics of Bruckner's piece are more topical than ever. Leawicka's approach, staging old and new works in a fresh way, could bring a fresh air to the Schwerin theater landscape. Her testing even in difficult social contexts suggests that she is ready to break taboos and to explore deeper questions of human relationship.

The chairman of the Mecklenburg State Theater could have a direct hit with Lewicka's call, because their ability to move both emotional and social level speaks for an exciting future. "Disease of youth" would only fit too well into their repertoire and illuminate the challenges of intimacy and identity in our time.

While we are looking forward to the new beginning next year, it remains to be seen which creative impulses Joanna Lewicka will put in Schwerin. What is certain, however, is that with her impressive history and her feeling for complex topics, she inspires the audience and stimulates thought.

For further information about the projects of Joanna Lewicka and her work, visit [Süddeutsche] (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/theater-neue-polnische-Polnische-spiel Director-in-schwerin-newsml-dpa-com-250615-671859) and and [Disease of Youth] (https://lewicka.org/ Disease-der-jugend/).

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