Anna Kohler
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Anna Kohler is a German-American theater actress, director and translator. She is currently (since September 2010) a Senior Lecturer in Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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brought her to New York in 1982.
, Richard Foreman
, Jeff Weiss
, Fiona Templeton
and Georg Osterman. Her night club performances with Steve Buscemi
and Mark Boone Junior
were legendary. Among others, she appeared in Werner Herzog
's Variete at the Hebbel Theater Berlin. Anna Köhler is an Associate Member of the Wooster Group; she was full time member of the group from 1983 to 1993. In 2003, she reprised her role as Natalya in the Wooster Group's revival of Brace Up!; her performance was praised in The New Yorker
as the "emotional center" of the show. More recently, she appeared in Richard Maxwell's "Ode to the Man Who Kneels". Her film work includes Hal Hartley
's The Book of Life, Bruno de Almeida
's On the Run with Michael Imperioli
, and uncredited appearances in Jonathan Demme
's Philadelphia, as well as "Sex and the City
" (Episode 6: Secret Sex.)
As a translator, Köhler has translated works from English to German as well as from German to English; her translation of Rene Pollesch
's "24 Stunden sind kein Tag" (24 hours are not a day) has been published in Theater (Duke University Press), and John Jesurun's "Philoctetes" in Theater der Zeit (2005). She also translated Norway.today by the Swiss playwright Igor Bauersima (available through the Goethe Institut Theater Library) into English, and several plays by Richard Foreman and Richard Maxwell into German.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
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Early life
She was born in Giessen, Germany, and after graduating from high school (Gymnasium) in 1976, she trained at the Conservatory for Art and Drama, the Mozarteum, in Salzburg (Austria) and graduated at the Université de Paris VIII, Vincennes. A collaboration with Stuart Sherman (artist)Stuart Sherman (artist)
Stuart A. Sherman was a performance artist, playwright, filmmaker, videographer, poet, essayist, sculptor and collagist. He was born 9 November 1945 to Helen Gordon and Samuel Sherman in Providence, Rhode Island. Soon after attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Sherman moved to...
brought her to New York in 1982.
Career
As a performer, Köhler has worked with John JesurunJohn Jesurun
John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.-...
, Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.-Life :...
, Jeff Weiss
Jeff Weiss
Jeffrey Weiss is an American playwright and actor on Broadway. Weiss grew up in Allentown, PA, in a Lutheran family of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. In 1992, Weiss' play Hot Keys won an Obie award. His nephew is actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas...
, Fiona Templeton
Fiona Templeton
Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer. Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, You-The...
and Georg Osterman. Her night club performances with Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an American actor, writer and film director. An associate member of the renowned experimental theater company The Wooster Group, Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films including New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs,...
and Mark Boone Junior
Mark Boone Junior
Mark Boone Junior is an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as Bobby Munson in FX's Sons of Anarchy and in two films by Christopher Nolan, Memento and Batman Begins...
were legendary. Among others, she appeared in Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
's Variete at the Hebbel Theater Berlin. Anna Köhler is an Associate Member of the Wooster Group; she was full time member of the group from 1983 to 1993. In 2003, she reprised her role as Natalya in the Wooster Group's revival of Brace Up!; her performance was praised in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
as the "emotional center" of the show. More recently, she appeared in Richard Maxwell's "Ode to the Man Who Kneels". Her film work includes Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s...
's The Book of Life, Bruno de Almeida
Bruno de Almeida
Bruno de Almeida was born in Paris in March 1965. Of Portuguese origins, he has lived between New York City and Lisbon since 1985.-Career:In 1993 his first film, The Debt, won the award for best short at the Cannes Film Festival Critic's Week and had a long run playing in 85 film festivals and...
's On the Run with Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli , commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an American actor and television writer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He also...
, and uncredited appearances in Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop...
's Philadelphia, as well as "Sex and the City
Sex and the City
Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
" (Episode 6: Secret Sex.)
As a translator, Köhler has translated works from English to German as well as from German to English; her translation of Rene Pollesch
René Pollesch
René Pollesch is a German author and dramatist.From 1983-89 he studied Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen. He won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2001 for world wide web-slums and again in 2006...
's "24 Stunden sind kein Tag" (24 hours are not a day) has been published in Theater (Duke University Press), and John Jesurun's "Philoctetes" in Theater der Zeit (2005). She also translated Norway.today by the Swiss playwright Igor Bauersima (available through the Goethe Institut Theater Library) into English, and several plays by Richard Foreman and Richard Maxwell into German.