Calle Fuhr (GER)
Authors / Theater / Directors / Theater
is a playwright, theater director and podcaster born in Düsseldorf in 1994.
After graduating from high school, he worked as an assistant director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Studio of Heroes Prague and the Volkstheater Vienna where he created his first own productions. In 2020, he took over the artistic direction for the Volkstheater Wien in the districts.
Since 2017 Calle Fuhr has been working as a freelance director and author. His investigative theatre piece “DAS KRAFTWERK – Ein Abend über Wasser, Kohle und die Ewigkeit” is based on research by the journalistic collective CORRECTIV, premiered at the Staatstheater Cottbus in 2023 and has been invited to the “radikal jung” festival in Munich in 2024. The latest production AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO is a monologue starring Calle Fuhr which, in cooperation with the journalist collective DOSSIER, uncovers the bankrupt real estate tycoon René Benko (premiere on 16 March 2024 at the Volkstheater Vienna).
Calle’s podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR (en. No comment) based on the research for his play DIE REDAKTION, is available in German language on major podcasting plattforms.
Works (selection)
AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO (The Rise and Fall of Mr. René Benko)
March 16, 2024
Premiere: Volkstheater Wien
In his play, Calle Fuhr uncovers the evil machinations behind property speculation, gentrification and fraud. As he unveils one scandal after another in the most entertaining way, one can’t help but stunning. At the end, you begin to ask yourself who can actually be trusted.
DAS KRAFTWERK (The Power Station)
September 23, 2023
Premiere: Staatstheater Cottbus
Carla, a young journalist, returns to her hometown Cottbus. Her late grandfather has left her a folder: it contains documents with information about the LEAG company, the Jänschwalde power plant, a regional lake and a gigawatt factory. Carla’s journalistic investigation of a huge scandal begins…
An interwoven story about the coal industry, based on exclusive research by the investigative journalistic collective CORRECTIV on the water supply in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.
DIE REDAKTION (The Editors)
2023
Premiere: Volkstheater Wien
“[The audience] … rose from its red velvet seats and applauded, for minutes. […] The four-member ensemble, consisting of Gerti Drassl, Murali Perumal, Christoph Schüchner and Magdalena Simmel, takes you on an intense hunt for the truth full of intimidation lawsuits, corruption and a bunch of post haggling.” – Wiener Zeitung online (quote originally in German)
“Despite the serious background, however, ‘Die Redaktion’ comes across as genuinely humorous. […] Fuhr has succeeded in telling the affairs of the part-state oil company in recent years in a very accessible and exciting way.” – APA (quote originally in German)
Based on a true story around the journalist collective DOSSIER, Calle Fuhr’s most recent play depicts machinations of the environmentally destructive corporation OMV, which – funded by taxpayers’ money – engages in corruption, whitewashes itself by subsidizing high-culture institutions and undermines press freedom through targeted advertising policies and bullying.
MUSKETIERE
2022
Premiere: Volkstheater Wien
ENCORE
2021
Premiere: Volkstheater Wien
In Theresa’s memory, her family was only happy when they sat together watching TV: A living room in the Salzburg suburbs, THE BLACK LIGHTNING on the screen, Toni Sailer in front of the camera – the hero of her brother Pepi. After Pepi dies in a tragic car accident, in which Theresa feels involved, the family disintegrates. Years later, the accusations of physical violence, abuse of power and cover-up against Toni Sailer reach the public and Theresa is torn inside: What was this idol of an entire nation really like? What should she believe in from now on, what should she keep in her memory?
A monolg as poignant as an ancient drama, where fate arbitrarily decides on lives and topples the sinful gods from pedestals.
HELDENPLÄTZE
2020
Premiere: Volkstheater Wien
In Theresa’s memory, her family was only happy when they sat together watching TV: A living room in the Salzburg suburbs, THE BLACK LIGHTNING on the screen, Toni Sailer in front of the camera – the hero of her brother Pepi. After Pepi dies in a tragic car accident, in which Theresa feels involved, the family disintegrates. Years later, the accusations of physical violence, abuse of power and cover-up against Toni Sailer reach the public and Theresa is torn inside: What was this idol of an entire nation really like? What should she believe in from now on, what should she keep in her memory?
A monolg as poignant as an ancient drama, where fate arbitrarily decides on lives and topples the sinful gods from pedestals.
ALL DAS UNGESAGTE
2018