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Christian Lollike

Christian Lollike (born 20. April 1973) is a danish playwright, theater director and artistic director of Sort/Hvid (teater) (formerly Café Teatret) in Copenhagen. Christian Lollike is working with stage and installation art in theaters, public areas and virtual platforms. He often uses current political events in his work.

Career

Lollike studied playwriting at Danish National School of Performing Arts in Aarhus in 2001. He had his debut as playwright at Aarhus Teater with Operation: Louise and Ferdinand in 2002. In 2005 he became resident playwright and director at Aarhus Theater. Here he, among other things, created the play Nathan (without title), that was written for Aarhus Cathedral.

In 2009 he became leader of playwriting at Danish National School of Performing Arts together with Mads Thygesen. In July 2011 he took up the position as artistic director of Café Teatret (now Sort/Hvid) in Copenhagen. He has also written the play The Normal Life, that has been performed in i.a. Germany, Vienna and Sweden, and the plays The wonder - the re-mohammed-ty show and Cosmic Fear, that has been performed in France and Quebec, Canada. In addition The wonder - the re-mohammed-ty show was produced for Danish Radio Drama. In 2012 Lollike got a lot of media coverage with the play Manifesto 2083, that is based directly on Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto in relation to the terrorist attack in Oslo, the 2011 Norway attacks.

Lollikes reinterpretation of the classic danish play Erasmus Montanus by Ludvig Holberg was performed first at Aarhus Theater in 2017 and was later restaged at Østre Gasværk Teater in Copenhagen in 2018.

Honour

Christian Lollike has been nominated several times for awards, of which he has won several of them, including a Reumert in 2009 as Playwright of the Year for Cosmic Fear and three Reumert Prizes in 2013: Playwright of the Year for Skakten, Manifesto 2083 and Kagefabrikken, The Jury’s Special Award for Manifesto 2083 and Performance of the Year for Skakten. In 2016, Christian Lollike received Teaterporkalen for his work with Living Dead. In 2017 Lollike’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Erasmus Montanus received three Reumert Awards. These include Theater Performance of the Year 2017, Male Leading Role of the Year 2017, and Stage Design of the Year 2017. The same year Living Dead received the Reumert Jury’s special Prize.