Heiner Goebbels Has Won the International Ibsen Award

German director and composer Heiner Goebells has won the International Ibsen Award, according to published reports. He will receive the honor at a ceremony to be held at the International Ibsen Festival in Oslo in September.

Goebbels collaborated closely with Heiner Müller during the 1980s on such works as Verkommenes Ufer (Waste Shore), Die Befreiung des Prometheus (The liberation of Prometheus), Wolokolamsker Chaussee I-V (Volokolamsk Highway), and others. Among his other works are Max Black, Hashirigaki, Eraritjaritjaka, I went to the house but did not enter, Schwarz auf Weiss, and Eislermaterial, as well as Stifters Dinge, which was seen as part of Lincoln Center’s NewVisions series in 2009.

Goebbels also works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in Germany and is president of the Theatre Academy Hessen. In addition, he currently serves as the artistic director of the Ruhr/triennale International Festival of the Arts.

The Ibsen Award, which recognizes an individual who has brought “a new artistic dimension to the world of drama or theatre,” carries a cash prize of 2.5 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $435,000).