Director

Torsten Krug, born in Stuttgart in 1973, studied modern German literature, musicology and philosophy in Tübingen and completed classical singing training. After completing his master's degree, he worked as an assistant director and director at the Volkstheater Rostock and the Chemnitz Theater and was the assistant of Katharina Thalbach and Katja Paryla, among others. Since 2006 he has been living as a freelance director, singer and author in Wuppertal.
He has staged at the Rostock Volkstheater, Chemnitz Theatre, Rudolstadt Theater in Thuringia, Heilbronn Theater, at the Tribüne in Berlin, at the Regensburg Theater, at the Bremen Shakespeare Company, at the Wuppertal Theater, for the Ötigheim folk theater and in the independent scene. Since 2017 he has been working regularly with the inclusive theater group "Bamboo".

He was a guest lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and at the Institute for Acting, Film and Television Professions ISFF in Berlin.

Since 2014 he has been a member of the jury for the ARD German Children's Radio Play Prize and the Filmstiftung NRW.

Since 2020 he has been managing the cultural venue INSEL in the legendary ADA in Wuppertal (www.insel.news).

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"Torsten Krug stages this with highly talented drama school graduates so precisely and relentlessly that it touches on one's own aggression and helplessness."

DIE ZEIT über "Stones"
"Director Torsten Krug and the ensemble succeed in a humorous evening. The actors reveal an amazing musical potential. Thunderous applause!"

BILD über "Wut und Wiege"
"People in their limitations, in their fallibility, that's what Torsten Krug tells with his production, which he leaves linguistically with Goethe, but otherwise brings far into the present. Convincing."

Chemnitzer Freie Presse über "Urfaust"
"The atmospheric setting of the production and the proximity to the actor, which almost lets the audience become part of the play, create an intense theater experience for all the senses - far removed from the usual distanced, passive spectator existence. That's how theater works today!"

Magazin "Auf der Höhe" über "Odyssee"
"As a war hero who becomes a gardener, Miko Greza is not just a stunner in person. The images of how he appropriates the greenhouse from the inside and outside stick with you for a long time."

Westdeutsche Zeitung über "Odyssee"
"Torsten Krug, the director, has a feeling for topics of this kind. As in 'Stones', the troupe is brimming with ideas and the actors romp furiously across the stage."

Thüringer Allgemeine über "Agent im Spiel"

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"Torsten Krug stages fast and without social kitsch, underlines the childish distance to reality with unreal and fantastic moments."

Ostthüringer Zeitung über "Agent im Spiel"

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"The ensemble is in a good mood. (...) There was a long silence after the last scene, but then there was long applause."

Chemnitzer Freie Presse
über "Biedermann und die Brandstifter"

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