Andreas Lechner

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Andreas Lechner (born May 6, 1959 in Munich ) is a German author , director , producer , composer and actor .

Life

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While studying music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, where he majored in double bass, he founded the (folk) music cabaret group "Guglhupfa", for which he wrote the lyrics and music. He plays several instruments. Between 1978 and 1990 he performed across Germany, with Dieter Hildebrandt and Otto Grünmandl , among others . The group also appeared on German television with their critical songs, although they were reported by the then Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss for one of their texts. In 1990 the "Guglhupfa" broke up.

In Josef Bierbichler's film Triumph der Gerechten (1987), Lechner first worked as an actor and production assistant. Parallel to his work for the theater, he was seen in other films such as Herbert Achternbusch's Mix Wix (1989) and Thomas Kronthaler's film Die Scheinheiligen (2001). From 1984 until today he has worked as an actor in TV and cinema productions.

As an actor and musician he had various engagements at theaters, including a. for the opening of the Münchner Volkstheater with the play Glaube und Heimat by Karl Schönherr directed by Ruth Drexel , where he and his group Guglhupfa were responsible for the incidental music and texts, at the Bavarian State Theater again music and texts for the Austrian premiere of the play Zwölfeläuten von KH Unger, directed by Rüdiger Hacker (Artistic Director Günther Beelitz ), at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and stage music and actor in the stage adaptation of the film No Jobs, No Freedom, Standstill, Munich by Herbert Achternbusch, directed by Josef Bierbichler (Artistic Director Frank Baumbauer) . Lechner also worked in the independent scene and staged his own plays such as Berber - about Munich's homeless in the Feierwerk theater hall and The poet Johann with Otto Grünmandl in the Munich theater tent “Das Schloss”.

By meeting with Hans Werner Henze he received for the Munich Biennale composition and libretto orders ( The last Milkaner - A farmer Requiem , Sünde.Fall.Beil - Royal Opera in five acts. (Music: Gerhard Stäbler / Staging: Tobias Richter with the Bremen Theater) after Alexander Dumas the Elder ). His chamber music piece Croatian Dance was premiered at the Klangspuren as part of the Munich Biennale.

Andreas Lechner produces, develops film material and also directs, as with Hot Dogs - a youth film project in the Munich district of Hasenbergl (invited to the German series Cannes Film Festival) and the cinema film Butterflies of the Night (1999), which he showed himself throughout Germany. In 2006 he founded Berg Film Produktions GmbH. He works on the realization of several projects u. a. "Strassbergers Gold" and "Lina". In 2007 he brought out his monologue Frieda - a Munich life and moral story - in an audio book publisher.

In 2009 he was a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades ( Los Angeles ). Since then he has been musically active again and is on stage with musicians from the newer folk music scene and accompanies z. B. Josef Bierbichler reading his novel Mittelreich . Andreas Lechner is a founding member of the “First Bayerische Filmfoniker” in Munich and played the double bass there . Since 2014 he has been living and working on his projects in Berlin and at Tegernsee. In 2015 there was a Guglhupfa Revival on the occasion of "40 Years of Theater at Fraunhofer" in Munich. The Rottach label “Nasswetter Music Group” brought a “digital album” of the two LPs Tohuwabohu and Hailing from Munich under apple music - Everything is colorful. Guglhupfa, which have been published by Trikont. Also in 2015 he was an actor at the Berliner Ensemble under the direction of Claus Peymann at the world premiere of Schlafe, mein Prinzchen - a musical evening by Franz Wittenbrink . The musical evening dealt with the subject of abuse among the Regensburger Domspatzen and in the Odenwald School. The play was canceled after only eight performances. Andreas Lechner recorded the last screening with his film company Berg Film and brought the cinematic realization as special screenings to the Kino Filmtheater am Sendlinger Torplatz in Munich and Kino Ostentor in Regensburg.

In 2017 he took on a supporting role in Josef Bierbichler's feature film “Zwei Herren im Maß” (X-Films) based on motifs from his novel “Mittelreich” (Suhrkamp Verlag) and accompanied the filming for Bavarian television as a documentary. For the cinema release in spring 2018 of “Two Men in a Suit”, Bayerischer Rundfunk Lechner's kinokino will broadcast extra “Seeuferblues” - from the novel “Mittelreich” to the movie “Two Men in a Suit”.

In 2019, Andreas Lechner's novel “Heimatgold” will be published in May.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Triumph of the Righteous . filmportal.de. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ The Last Milkan - A Peasant Requiem. In: archive.muenchener-biennale.de. Munich Biennale , 1988, accessed on January 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sin.Fall.Beil - Royal Opera in five acts. In: archive.muenchener-biennale.de. Munich Biennale , 1992, accessed on January 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ BVR - Article - BVR directors over 15 years of Villa Aurora In: regieverband.de , November 29, 2010, accessed on June 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Sebastian Bauer: Franz Wittenbrink brings abuse into the theater. In: bz-berlin.de. June 21, 2015, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Christine Straßer: Abuse in the shadow of the cathedral. In: Mittelbayerische.de. July 5, 2016, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Film Detail - Zement In: hff-muenchen.de , accessed on June 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director, producer, composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich