Kaspar Fischer

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Kaspar Fischer

Kaspar Fischer (born May 19, 1938 in Zurich ; † January 23, 2000 in Männedorf ) was a Swiss actor , author and illustrator .

Life

Kaspar Fischer
Signature (1976)

Kaspar Fischer, the son of the painter Hans "fis" Fischer and the art weaver Bianca Wasmuth grew up in Küsnacht and Feldmeilen with his two sisters. His grandfather of the same name was rector of the Bern subsidiary trading school. After graduating from the Literature High School in Zurich in 1957, he completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1958 to 1961 . He appeared as an actor at the United Theaters in Graz from 1961 to 1963 and at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1963 to 1967 , including in the world premiere of Mauricio Kagel's pas de cinq .

In 1967 he started his own business as an author, actor and draftsman. In particular, he developed around twenty stage programs in which he embodied not only people, but also animals and things. His depiction of a vegetable soup with its ingredients became famous. During his performances he often drew on an overhead projector or showed shadow games . He sometimes designed his programs with his own drawings, e.g. B. the individual numbers of his circus program .

As early as 1968, Franz Hohler wrote about the versatility of his fellow artist Kaspar Fischer: "The resources of Kaspar Fischer's art are almost inexhaustible. (...) Actors, dancers, pantomime, singers, musicians, authors, directors, choreographers, draftsmen and make-up artists (. ..). "

Kaspar Fischer's stage world did not open up to everyone at the same time. "The quick-change artist and virtuoso constantly confronts the audience with new puzzles," said Christine Steiger. Conversely, understanding was not without difficulties. Kaspar Fischer stated: "What I like about my things is not what the audience likes best. It's a bit sad."

About his ability to transform, Mani Matter said : "We d Lüt z Uerzlike am Sunntig go for a walk and go see a Schnägg uf the rhinestone, call your child: 'Pass it on, maybe it's the Chaschper fisherman!'" (When the people in Uerzlikon [Fischer's place of residence] go for a walk on Sunday and see a snail on the street, they call to their children: 'Watch out, maybe it's Kaspar Fischer!' ")

Kaspar Fischer is the designer of the golden tuna , a sculpture that has been presented with the Swiss KleinKunstPrize every year since 1993 .

Kaspar Fischer was married to the medical historian Esther Fischer-Homberger from 1965 to 1988 and had three children. He lived in Uerzlikon from 1968 to 1978 , then in Bern until 1988 and finally back in Feldmeilen. In 1995 he married the actress Ingrid Heitmann. He died at the age of 61 from complications from cancer .

His estate with manuscripts, programs, photos, videos, correspondence and theater equipment is in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library and in part in the Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts in Bern.

Awards

Works

Publications

  • 1968 trained faces . Self-published, Uerzlikon
  • 1969 The tail . Cartoons. Self-published, Uerzlikon
  • 1971 Surprises for Noah . Children's book store, Zurich
  • 1971 Metamorphosis I . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1972 discharges from hell . Drawings. Raeber Gallery, Lucerne
  • 1973 The waiter . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1974 Metamorphoses II . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1975 Aff, Bräzeli, Chämifäger . Children's bookshop, Zurich 1975 (ABC poster)
  • 1975 17 Zürcher Sagen- (by Esther Fischer-Homberger), illustrations by KF Zytglogge Verlag
  • 1977 circus miniatures . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1978 Christhoph Columbus (in Schultheater 2) Zytglogge Verlag
  • 1978 The Starche Noah / The Knights of Bubikon (in Spiele Sielen Splelen)
  • 1980 Through the year with Hansel and Gretel . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1981 Swiss criminal law, by Peter Noll . Illustrations by KF
  • 1983 drawings . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1984 The tell plate . Zytglogge Verlag (record)
  • 1985 Sleeping Beauty (in school theater 4 ) Zytglogge Verlag
  • 1986 moon cake and bats. 4 essays from a trip to China . Verlag Gute Schriften (GS 525)
  • 1990 directory . Published in 60 numbered copies
  • 1991 The monastery magazine / relief and smear cloth . Zytglogge Publishing House
  • 1994 Tanaswarímbantac. The city in the jungle . Zytglogge Verlag, ISBN 3-7296-0468-6
  • 1996 Hans Fischer. Etchings , ed. by Kaspar Fischer. Exhibition catalog, ISBN 3-85823-634-9
  • 1998 Wezelsmund Föraltepise (Pustohelfisische texts & drawings) self-published, Feldmeilen
  • 2017 The Prince of Shortcrust pastry , facsimile of his last theater manuscript. Zytglogge Publishing House

Plays

(place and year of the premiere in brackets)

  • Circus (Munich, 1963), new version: Zurich, 1992
  • A man is made (Bern, 1968), new version: A man made , Basel, 1993
  • Mask appearances (Zurich, 1968)
  • Pantalone goes to the monastery (Zollikon, 1969), with Olga Piazza, Urs Hefti and Regine Wolfensberger
  • In India (Zug, 1970), with Olga Piazza
  • The waiter (St. Gallen, 1972)
  • Christoph Columbus (Zug, 1974), played by the respective audience children
  • The King (Zug, 1975)
  • Spectators in the brain (Bern, 1979)
  • Keeping animals (Reinbach BL, 1980)
  • In Heaven (Bern 1982)
  • Yuya (Bern, 1985), with the musicians Theo Huser, Regula Gerber and Mich Gerber
  • The island fish (Hausen a. A., 1986), with Regula Gerber, double bass, and Gudula Rettler, dance
  • The omelette saint (Langenthal, 1988)
  • Pitzl (Bremen, 1989)
  • At the Mondkalb (Zurich, 1992), reading performance by the Zurich Acting Academy
  • The Tree of Life (Hausen a. A., 1991)
  • Die Makkaronisten (Rubigen, 1995), with Ingrid Heitmann
  • The pirate gift (Hausen a. A., 1997), with Ingrid Heitmann
  • Der Fürst von Shortcrust pastry (The planned premiere in June 2000 did not take place.)

Festivals

  • 1976 Styrian Autumn, Graz
  • 1978 Berliner Festwochen
  • 1980 Espaces Milano Marzo 80
  • 1983 Swiss scene, Cologne
  • 1986 Wiener Festwochen

Television recordings

  • 1973 Circus, SDR Stuttgart
  • 1975 The waiter, SDR Stuttgart
  • 1980 Animal keeping, SF DRS
  • 1983 In Heaven, SF DRS
  • 1983 Animal husbandry, WDR Cologne
  • 1983 In Heaven, ZDF Mainz
  • 1987 Yuya, SF DRS

Theater workshops

  • 1983 Music Academy Basel
  • 1984 and 1988 Theater am Gleis, Winterthur
  • 1987 and 1992 Freiraumtheater, Bremen
  • 1990 and 1992 Acting Academy, Zurich
  • 1996 to 1999 every summer in the Sunnehus , Wildhaus

Exhibitions

  • 1972 Raeber Gallery, Lucerne
  • 1976 Commercio Gallery, Zurich
  • 1978 National Gallery, Berlin
  • 1979 Kunsthaus, Zug
  • 1983 and 1993 Museum Strauhof, Zurich
  • 2001 Memorial exhibition The Total Work of Art Kaspar Fischer , Museum Strauhof, Zurich

Sound carrier

  • The tell plate . LP. Zytglogge (Zyt 121), Gümligen 1984
  • Metamorphoses . Audio CD + booklet with drawings by Kaspar Fischer. Kein & Aber , Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0369-1107-3
  • On the wings of fantasy, Best of Kaspar Fischer, DVD presented by Franz Hohler, Zytglogge Verlag 2017

literature

estate

Web links

Commons : Kaspar Fischer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaspar Fischer , In: Der Bund, January 17, 1979.
  2. ↑ Kaspar Fischer: Video of the vegetable soup, approx. 1985. Retrieved on December 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Exhibitions 2001 , with a photo of a shadow play.
  4. ↑ Kaspar Fischer's artistic circus in the "Rampe" , In: Der Bund, May 24, 1967.
  5. ^ Franz Hohler : Scent of an Elephant, Kaspar Fischer's one-man program , In: Schweizer Theaterzeitung, September 1968, pp. 34-36.
  6. ↑ a b The magical prop master, In: Weltwoche, March 31, 1982.
  7. ↑ Franz Hohler: Far removed friends , in: Untierhaltung . The total work of art Kaspar Fischer , ed. by Thomas Bodmer. NZZ-Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85823-876-7 , p. 11.
  8. ^ Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis 1982 , In: Berner Zeitung, February 4, 1982. The year 1981 is incorrectly stated elsewhere.
  9. ↑ Berner Zeitung, December 17, 1981.
  10. ↑ The whole of Kaspar Fischer | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 21, 2001, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed December 4, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, cabaret artist, writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2000
Place of death Männedorf