Luis Krawen
Acting
Biography
Luis August Krawen is a German visual artist working on the verge of theatre and digital art. He grew up in Berlin, where he was a member of P14, the young people's theatre club of Volksbuehne, for several years. At the institue for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen he discovered 3D-animation as tool to develop his own artistic practice, which then led him to become a visual artist in the field of theatre and opera. In the last couple of years Luis has particitpated in numerous productions at many different houses such as Schauspielhaus Zurich, Staatsoper Hamburg, Muenchner Kammerspiele, Residenztheater, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Maxim-Gorki-Theater and Schauspiel Frankfurt (and more). In 2020 he was invited to be artist in residence at Muenchner Kammerspiele, where he got the opportunity to develop his own works. As part of this he showed the installation "The Shire", which was invited to multiple festivals, as well as the performance "Nightcore". His next project "Planet Magnon", a feature-length animated movie starring the ensemble of Muenchner Kammerspiele, is scheduled for mid 2024. In 2022 Luis created digital projections for two parts of "The Ring of the Nibelung" by Valentin Schwartz, as well as "Tristan and Isolde" by Roland Schwab at Bayreuther Festspiele.
Known For
A portrait of Berlin youth, sexuality, and identity.
Heal, Goose
Phoebe Phaidon works as a climatologist at an institute of cybernetics which is about to be shut down. So there has to be a solution in the form of a successful evaluation. The strategy consultants now work against the student movement in a virtual reality. Turmoils start.
Music and Apocalypse
A solar system in which the end of history has already been surpassed: people allow themselves to be ruled by computer reason – ActualSanity – which keeps the community of planets in an harmonious ideal state. Political processes no longer seem to be necessary in this AI-driven, totalitarian and cosy government; instead, identity-forming collectives distinguish themselves from each other solely by subtle behavioural differences. Until a threat looms on the horizon: the Broken Hearts Collective disquiets the solar system with terrorist attacks – a development at the centre of which Marten Eliot and Emma Glendale, young head fellows of the Dolphin Collective, unexpectedly find themselves.