Academy

Mario Simon

Audio-/videoproduction and audiovisual technology

Mario Simon studied german studies, literary- and cultural studies, film- and media science and philosophy at Universität Bonn, TU Dortmund and in Hagen. 2010-2011 he worked in Bonn for the research project “Mediatisierte Welten – Deliberation im Netz: Formen und Funktion des digitalen Diskurses am Beispiel des Microblogging-Systems Twitter“ with the Deutsche Forschungegemeinschaft.

Mario Simon worked continuously for Schauspiel Dortmund (Direktion: Kay Voges) from 2013 till 2020, starting as assistant and later as video artist and head of the video department. After his first work at Schauspiel Dortmund with “Einige Nachrichten aus dem All“ (Directed by Kay Voges, awarded as best production NRW at Theatertreffen 2013, 2^nd place at the Experimental Film Sunset Filmfestival Los Angeles) he worked with various directors as a video artist, e.g. Kay Voges („Die Borderline Prozession“, „Die Parallelwelt“), Claudia Bauer, Jörg Buttgereit and Klaus Gehre („Minority Report – der Live-Film“), Marcus Lobbes (“Ich, Europa”), as well as with the collective sputnik on the first live animation movie in the world: „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“. In 2017, Mario Simon was awarded with the young talent award of the state NRW.

Contact: mario.simon@theater.digital