Ruedi Häusermann

Ruedi Häusermann (born December 5, 1948 in Lenzburg ) is a Swiss musician , composer and director .

Life

From 1969 to 1974 Häusermann studied economics at the University of Zurich . From 1975 to 1980 he studied music with a focus on classical flute . He was interested in jazz and free improvisation at an early age . As a teenager he played in Pepe Lienhard's orchestra . Together with the cellist Martin Schütz and the drummer Martin Hägler he founded the trio The Immervollesäle . He worked with the painter Giuseppe Reichmuth and the musician and director Christoph Marthaler . In 1992 he put his own music into a theatrical context for the first time with the solo program The Step into the Beyond . In the scenic compositions for musicians and actors, he invents his own poetic and humorous world. In the productions, he addresses the situations of human failure with a view to the little things of everyday life.

Häusermann has staged at the Basel Theater , the Volksbühne Berlin , the Schauspielhaus Graz , the Schauspielhaus Hanover , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the State Theater Stuttgart , the Burgtheater Vienna and the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

In 1996 Häusermann received the Swiss Radio Play Award. In 1999 he was awarded the Bavarian Theater Prize. In 2003 he received the Aargau Culture Prize . In 2011 he was awarded the Zurich Art Prize.

Productions

• The step into the afterlife , world premiere: Volksbühne Berlin 1992
• Baden together , world premiere: Volksbühne Berlin 1993
• Why eat trout in Rapperswil when we can have bacon in Appenzellerland based on texts by Robert Walser , world premiere: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich 1994
• De Schattehof in Neumarktsäli based on texts by Hans Roth and Ernst Burren , world premiere: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich 1995
• Changing sides , world premiere: Volksbühne Berlin 1996
• Rest. Frohsinn , world premiere: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich 1997
• Dept. closed , world premiere: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich 1997
• The stuffed deer based on texts by Norbert Kaser, world premiere: Schauspielhaus Wien 1997
• Perpetual motion machine based on texts by Paul Scheerbart and Velimir Chlebnikov , world premiere: Volksbühne Berlin 1998
• I used to be very calm, now it's a little better based on texts by Peter Bichsel , world premiere: Theater Basel 1999
• The best of: The Human Failure (Part I) , world premiere: Theater Basel 1999
• Canon for a private society , first performance: Bavarian State Opera Munich 2000
• Our fathers , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Zurich and Bavarian State Opera Munich 2001
• Long – slow fade , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Zürich 2001
• Cloudy sources , world premiere: Theater Basel 2002
• Death and the Maiden: Rosamunde by Elfriede Jelinek , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Graz 2002
• It is dangerous to think about everything that comes to mind based on texts by Daniil Charms , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Hannover 2004
• Lessons in the art of not forfeiting happiness, based on texts by Robert Walser, world premiere: Theater Basel 2004
• V. v. V. - Bowing to Valentin , world premiere: Theater Basel 2005
• Selected profile: Lautlos , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Hannover, Bavarian State Opera Munich and State Theater Stuttgart 2006
• If one is called Dolores, it doesn’t have to be beautiful, according to texts by Peter Bichsel, world premiere: Schauspielhaus Zürich 2007
• About animals by Elfriede Jelinek, world premiere: Burgtheater Vienna 2007
• The bells of Innsbruck ring in the Sunday , world premiere: Burgtheater Vienna 2009
• But no - they are still alive! Odeanbusch , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Hannover 2009
• Randolph's heirs: wind and string instruments purchase and sale , world premiere: Staatstheater Stuttgart 2009
• Der Hodler , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Zürich 2010
• Walk to the patent office based on texts by Paul Scheerbart, world premiere: Hebbel am Ufer Berlin 2010
• Variety of low whistles. Detours to the concert , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Zürich 2012

Publications

• Peter Bichsel: By the way, sailors think pigeons are migratory birds. Radio play adaptation by Ruedi Häusermann. Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-357-0 .
• Elfriede Jelinek: About animals. A musical crossing by Ruedi Häusermann. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-85616-419-5 .
• Ruedi Häusermann: Weather miniatures. col legno , Vienna 2010.

Awards

• 1996 Swiss radio play award
• 1999 Bavarian Theater Prize for The Best of: Human Failure (Part I)
• 2003 Aargau Culture Prize
• 2011 Zurich Art Prize
• 2018 Swiss Theater Prize (with Chapel Eidg. Moos)

literature

• Hanspeter Renggli: Ruedi Häusermann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 807 f.
• Judith Gerstenberg (ed.): Detours to the concert. Ruedi Häusermann - a retrospective . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-038-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ruedi Häusermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ruedi Häusermann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Ruedi Häusermann page from the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• Original broadcast: The Hodler and the Hodler Quartets page from Swiss radio and television
• Ruedi Häusermann: Go to the patent office page from the Wiener Festwochen
• No dizziness! The time of May 11, 2005
• Miniatures of futility: Ruedi Häusermann brings Karl Valentin to the Theater Basel Neue Zürcher Zeitung on May 17, 2005
• Selected profile: silent at the Stuttgart State Opera November 30, 2006
• An exhibition space for a sketch: Ruedi Häusermann's Hodler in the shipbuilding box of the Schauspielhaus Zürich Neue Zürcher Zeitung on April 12, 2010
• Interview: Gears and other nightingales Der Standard from May 26, 2011
• From countries and micrograms: The City of Zurich Art Prize this year goes to musician and director Ruedi Häusermann Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 23, 2011
• The concrete cube becomes a place of art: An acoustic theater walk with Ruedi Häusermann Neue Zürcher Zeitung on April 23, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release page from the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, accessed on July 20, 2011