Jan-Christoph Gockel

Jan-Christoph Gockel studied Theatre, Film & Media Science in Frankfurt and Directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch (Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts) in Berlin. He creates dense collages of text, music, film and puppetry as well as numerous theatrical developments with political leanings such as Ramstein Airbase: Game of Drones (2015) and travel projects such as Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder! (The Revolution Consumes Its Children! – 2018), which was created in Burkina Faso as both a theatre project and a film and was awarded the 2019 Nestroy Prize. After a six-year stint as In-House Director at the Staatstheater Mainz, Jan-Christoph joined the Münchner Kammerspiele as part of the Artistic Directional Team.