Hans Block
Director
Hans Block is a German theater director, filmmaker
and musician. He studied music (drums) at
the University of Arts in Berlin and theater directing at
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
In 2014, Block became resident director and member
of the Artistic Direction of the Box at Schauspiel
Frankfurt. Productions there included Mysterien –
Unberechenbar werden by Knut Hamsun, Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch by Fjodor Dostojewski and Flankufuroto by Bonn Park. In 2014, he was invited to the festival “Radikal Jung“ at the Münchner Volkstheater with his production Austrian Psycho, which
was awarded the Best Production Prize of the festival.
His radio drama production Don Don Don Quijote -
Attackéee was awarded as best production of Prix
Marulić 2015. Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck work
collaboratively under the label “Laokoon” named after
the legendary Trojan seer who revealed the Trojan
Horse as a dangerous fraud. In their works Riesewieck
and Block aim to reveal the Trojan horses of
our time. Their projects which they develop in various
media forms start with investigations and end up as
striking, complex narrations.
