Andres Müry

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Andres Müry (born April 6, 1948 in Basel ) is a Swiss author, theater critic and book editor who has also worked as a dramaturge .

education

As a 15-year-old, the son of the music critic Albert Müry was enthusiastic about the theater and its possibilities of action on the occasion of the scandal surrounding Rolf Hochhuth's "deputy" in Basel. After graduating from high school, he began studying theater studies in West Berlin in the fall of 1967 at the FU. Private acting lessons and directing traineeships at the Schiller Theater (among others with Fritz Kortner ). 1969/70 assistant director at the Staatstheater Kassel. Müry then returned to the university and studied in Frankfurt a. M. Sociology, Social Psychology and Philosophy. While working as a dramaturge assistant at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in Heiner Müller's revolutionary play "Zement" (directed by Peter Palitzsch), he came across the topic of his diploma thesis on collective workers' jurisdiction in the early Soviet Union and the GDR.

Professional career

After graduating as a sociologist, Müry had engagements as a dramaturg at the Basler Theater (1978/79), at the Wuppertaler Bühnen (1979/80) and under the direction of Jürgen Flimm at the Cologne Theater (1980-82), where he premiered in Germany Ernst Jandl's speech piece “Die Humanisten” staged. Encouraged by Gaston Salvatore , he published a satire on major German directors in the magazine " TransAtlantik " in 1982 , gave up the profession of dramaturge and settled as a freelance writer, editor and translator in Frankfurt a. M. down. From then on he wrote reports and portraits for “TransAtlantik”, “ FAZ -Magazin”, “ Theater heute ”, “du”, “ Die Weltwoche ”, “ Die Zeit ”; also numerous satires and dramolets. In the mid-1980s, two stage pieces were created together with the Basel writer Jürg Laederach , "Tod eines Kellners" (premiere 1986, Schauspiel Bonn) and "Körper Brennen" (premiere 1987, steirischer herbst Graz) as well as the adaptation of the film "They shoot horses, don't they? “(Horace McCoy / Sidney Pollack) for Theater Basel (premiere 1988). Müry has also translated French plays (by Chantal Akerman , Michel Deutsch , René Kalisky, among others ). Under the title “Minetti eats pork knuckle. In 1992 Müry's collected portraits, reports and satires were published as a book. In the mid-1990s Müry began to write theater reviews for the Berlin “ Tagesspiegel ”, “ Die Zeit ” and “ Theater heute ”, was a juror at the Berlin Theatertreffen in the 1995/96 season and was a theater columnist for the magazine “ Focus ”, for which he was up to Remained active in 2009. With the prose piece "Roswitha, Bremspedal", Müry came second in 1995 at the "Gratwander Prize for Erotic Literature" of the magazine "Playboy"; In the same year he was invited to the journalists' reading competition for the Joseph Roth Prize in Klagenfurt with the report “Noah's Ark in the Ice” about the Moscow Animal Theater . In 1996 Müry moved to Salzburg because of marriage and began to deal with the Salzburg Festival and its history. Under the title “Origin and Ideology of the Salzburg Festival” (2000) he edited the groundbreaking study “The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival” by the American cultural historian Michael P. Steinberg and wrote the book “Jedermann may not die. History of a Salzburg Cult ”(2001), which became the basis of an ORF / 3sat film (directed by Günter Schilhan) and was also published as an audio book. As editor and co-author, he was also responsible for a “Little Salzburg Festival Story” (2002) and edited the interview book “I am available” (2004) with the Jedermann actor Peter Simonischek . In 2009, Müry was reappointed as a juror at the Berlin Theatertreffen for three years. In the same year he helped found the Müry Salzmann Verlag , for which he worked as editor and editor until the end of 2013. Since 2014 he has had an independent office for text, editing and proofreading, “ die satzkammer ”, which has been based in Vienna since 2016. In 2016 his first prose book "Two couples without sex in the Waldviertel" was published. Müry has two sons (Adrian, 1996; Zeno, 1998) and a daughter from a previous relationship (Noemi v. Alemann, 1978).

Book publications

  • Minetti eats pork knuckle: praise the backstage. Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11376-8 .
  • Everyone mustn't die. History of a Salzburg cult. Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7025-0429-X .
  • A brief history of the Salzburg Festival. (with H.-K. Jungheinrich, J. Stenzl, B. Zuber), Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7025-0447-8 .
  • I am available. Peter Simonischek in conversation with Andres Müry, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85002-567-5 .
  • Everyone mustn't die. History of a Salzburg cult. (updated new edition), Salzburg 2014 ISBN 978-3-7025-0769-5
  • Two couples without sex in the Waldviertel. Stories , Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86337-095-4
  • Never stop starting. The Sailer Story, Santanyi / Mallorca 2017

Editorships

Book translations

  • Luc Bondy: The festival of the moment. Conversations with Georges Banu. Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-7017-1064-3 .
  • Chantal Akerman: A Couch in New York. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39179-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Marschall : Andres Müry . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1297.
personal data
SURNAME Müry, Andres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel