René Pollesch

René Pollesch (born October 29, 1962 in Dorheim / Friedberg, Hessen; died February 26, 2024 in Berlin) was a human being who does a lot of theater and in 2021/22 took over his reign as Volksbühnen - Boss.
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He learned his theatrical craft on Hessian homeground in a small town, whose alumni were to gain fame and honor beyond national borders in the decades that followed. Even if they all found different forms of theater in certain respects, what they all had in common was that they all knew a lot. And in the following years that became in a certain sense the trademark for all those who wanted to learn their theatrical craft there. It is not certain today whether that was the Pollesch effect or just a zeitgeist. Anyways, in the middle of the 1990s, things went like Geschnitten Brot for Pollesch so much that even Pollesch became a trademark itself, probably comparable to the Lubitsch-Touch.
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His success ensured that, from 2001, he headed the Prater, an outside exclave of the Volksbühne empire outside of the Platz. There he did a lot of theater with, among others, Sophie Rois and Fabian Hinrichs.
Like almost everyone from the court of Frank I. he abdicated in time for the proclamation of the " Empire of Dercon" and went into exile.
After a major debacle that rolled out since the Intendantenwechsel of 2017 where not one but more reigns at Volksbühne where cut short, the German theater aristocracy shuddered. Was there a curse on the title of Volksbühnen Boss? After some drag, he was the only willing person who surrendered to their fate and was appointed Volksbühnen boss in 2020. He took up his reign as René I in September 2021. 
In 2022, at a time of ongoing crises, he asked Geht es dir gut? (Are you okay?). In 2024, he himself provided the answer with ja, nichts ist ok (yes, nothing is ok). Two weeks later, he was dead.Zum Tod von René Pollesch (Deutsche Bühne, 27th of February 2024)This made him the first Volksbühne boss not to survive his reign. His plays run in the Volksbühne programme.
==Links==
*René Pollesch in the Volksbühne archive of the Akademie der Künste
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