René Böttcher

At the same time, Böttcher took over as artistic director of the training stage belonging to the school, the Studiobühne Siegburg, which he also founded.

[3] In addition to directing the drama school and the studio stage, Böttcher works at the school as a theater pedagogue for acting and scene work and also takes on the direction of various productions of his own productions, which are regularly shown at the Studiobühne Siegburg as well as in part at guest performances at other theaters.

[4] For example, Böttcher directed Peter Turrini's one-person play Endlich Schluss (2006), with which he was also invited to a guest performance at the Theater am Schlachthof in Neuss,[5] and the Greek tragedy Agamemnon after Aeschylus (2007/2008), in the fairy tale classics The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (2007/2008) and Heart of Stone by Wilhelm Hauff (2011/2012),[6] and in the comedy A Dream of Marriage by Robin Hawdon (2011).

[7] In the 2012/2013 season, Böttcher directed, among others, the two-person drama norway.today [de] by Igor Bauersima, which brought the Studiobühne numerous sold-out performances and with which he was invited to the Arkadaş Theater – Stage of Cultures in Cologne.

[8][9] In 2017, Böttcher wrote the thesis attack "95 Thesen gegen Schule" ("95 Theses against School")[10] in cooperation with Bertrand Stern and others.