Harry Fuhrmann

Harry Fuhrmann completed his theatrical studies in 1995 at the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg and worked for several years as an actor at various theaters in Germany. From 1998 – 2002, he studied directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts “Ernst Busch” in Berlin. During this time, he also worked as assistant director to Peter Zadek at the Vienna Burgtheater. In 2004, he founded the “Flying Fish” Theatre Group and realized an eight-month theatre journey through Nepal and India in 2005/06. The idea of the company is, to go to the people, collect their stories and to develop plays out of them.

Since 2002 he has worked in many theaters, such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Neues Theater Halle, Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Bern, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Cottbus, Theater Baden-Baden, Theater Ulm and Theater Augsburg. He taught at various acting schools all over the world, as “Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School” in Wellington, the “Victorian College of Arts” in Melbourne / Australia, the National School of Drama in Delhi, at KHIO and at Westerdals School of Arts in Oslo, the HKU in Utrecht, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the CUT in Mexico City, and New York University Berlin. Since 2015, he teaches regularly at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala/India. From October 2010 until 2017, he was theatrical lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts “Ernst Busch” in Berlin.