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Kaca Celan
Award-winning writer, theater director, professor for directing and acting
WORKS
PLAYS
• “The Death of Omer & Merima” - Teater Amfiteater Sarajevo (TAS) & Kotor Art International Theater Festival in Kotor (Montenegro), 1987
• “Heimat” - National Theater in Subotica (Serbia), YU Festival, featuring a collection of the best plays from Yugoslavia, presented in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Muehlheim an der Ruhr (Germany), 1988
• “The Royal Marine” - commissioned by the National Theater in Subotica (Serbia), 1989
• “The Children Cabaret” - Theater Koliba, Sarajevo (Bosnia), 1991
• “Commedia Goldoniana” - commissioned by SMG Ljubljana (Slovenian Youth Theater), 1992
• “The Last Story” - WLT (State Theater of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), 1995 - Theater TAS at Burgau Castle (Germany), 1999
• “Heimatbuch” - Bonner Schauspielhaus (House of Theater Bonn, Germany), 1997 - Theater TAS at Burgau Castle (Germany), 2006
• “Chekhov” - WLT (State Theater of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), 1999
• “Woyzeck Von Sarajevo” - Theater TAS at Burgau Castle (Germany), 2002
• “The Struwwelpit & Co.” (collaboration with Maria Fuss) - Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2003
• “Piccolo Fratello Francesco” - Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2006
DIRECTION
• “The Stronger”, text by August Strindberg, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo, 1981
• “Orpheus & Eurydice”, text by Sylvia Plath, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo, 1982
• “Triptych”, text by Fernando Arrabal, Kaca Celan & Samuel Beckett, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo, 1985
• “Everything and Nothing”, text by Jorge Louis Borges, Shakespeare Fest at the National Theater in Subotica, 1986
• “The Death of Omer & Merima”, text by Kaca Celan, Teater Amfiteater Sarajevo & Kotor Art International Theater Festival in Kotor (Montenegro), 1987
• “Valde Confusus in Anima”, text by Ivo Andric, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo at the National Library Sarajevo, 1988
• “Another Tale About the Rose”, text by Ferida Durakovic, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo, 1989
• “The Wall, the Lake”, text by Dusan Jovanovic, Chamber Theater 55, Sarajevo (Experimental Theater Festival - Cairo, Egypt), 1990
• “Hamlet”, text by William Shakespeare, Teatar Amfiteatar Sarajevo , 1990
• “The Children Cabaret”, text by Kaca Celan, Koliba Theater, Sarajevo, 1991
• “The Animal Cabaret”, text by Boris A. Novak, SMG Ljubljana, 1993
• “Project 3”, text by Samuel Beckett, Kaca Celan and Peter Handke, Theater TAS in Exile, Germany - national tour, 1993-1995
• “The Last Story”, text by Kaca Celan, WLT (Germany), 1995
• “The Evenings”, text by Gerard Reve, WLT (Germany), 1997
• “Hackefey”, text by Monika Rothmeyer, Theater Düren (Germany), 1998
• “Chekhov”, text by Kaca Celan, WLT (Germany), 1999
• “The Last Story”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle & Heinrich-Böll Haus (Germany), 1999
• “A Marriage Proposal”, text by Anton Chekhov, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle (Germany), 2000
• “Prometheus”, texts by Aeschylus & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2000
• “Roses are Immortal”, poetry performance, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2000
• “Cabaret International”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2000
• “Art” text by Yasmina Reza, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2001
• “Footfalls” text by Samuel Beckett, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2001
• “Song of Songs”, text from the Old Testament, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2001
• “Cabaret International Vol. 2”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2001
• “Romeo & Juliet”, text by William Shakespeare, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2001
• “Woyzeck”, text by Georg Büchner, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2002
• “Woyzeck Von Sarajevo”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2002
• “Antigone”, text by Sophocles, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2002
• “Zoo Story”, text by Edward Albee, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2002
• “A Report to an Academy”, text by Franz Kafka, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2003
• “Hamlet”, text by William Shakespeare, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2003
• “The Struwwelpit & Co.”, text by Kaca Celan & Maria Fuss, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2003
• “Aska and the Wolf”, text by Ivo Andric, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2004
• “Macbeth”, text by William Shakespeare, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2004
• “The Robbers”, text by Friedrich Schiller, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2004
• “I Slaughtered my Aunt” - Cabaret, text by Frank Wedekind, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2004
• “Othello”, text by William Shakespeare, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2005
• “Waiting for Godot”, text by Samuel Beckett, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2005
• “The Little Prince”, text by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2005
• “The Children Cabaret”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2006
• “King Lear’s Daughters”, texts by Aeschylus, Euripides & William Shakespeare, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2006
• “Heimatbuch”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2006
• “Piccolo Fratello Francesco”, text by Kaca Celan, Theater TAS at Burgau Castle, 2006
AWARDS
• Best Young Actress in Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1983

• Yugoslavian Award for Avant-Garde Arts, Zagreb, 1983

• Best Director Award - Avant-Garde Theater Festival in Kotor (Montenegro), 1985
• Dramatist Award of the Theatergemeinden (Theater Authorities) for the best German-language play for her play “Heimatbuch”, 1995
• Kristal Vilenice - International Literature Award for Poetry (Slovenia), for her poetry collection “Me and You – Book of Love Poetry”, 1996
• Artist Award of the Cultural Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the field of Theater Literature, 1997
FELLOWSHIPS
• Fellow of the Cultural Ministry of Russia - 1988
• Fellow of the Government of Austria - 1990
• Fellow of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Heinrich-Böll Foundation (Germany) - 1993
Education
• Degrees in Comparative Literature, Theater Studies and Acting - University of Philosophy, Sarajevo, (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - 1981
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• Member of the German PEN Center from 1993 to 2007

• Member of the PEN American Center since 2008