Thomas Köck

Thomas Köck was born in Steyr, Upper Austria in 1986. He grew up with music and studied Philosophy in Vienna as well as Scenic Writing and Film at the Berlin University of the Arts. He worked at the theatercombinat wien, was invited to Berlinale Talents with a documentary film project about Beirut, was an in-house writer at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, writes for the blog nazisundgoldmund.net and develops concert readymades for the label ghostdance together with Andreas Spechtl. He has received several awards for his plays, including the »Text & Sprache« literature prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in 2018, the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2018 and 2019, and most recently the audience award at the Mülheimer Theatertage NRW.