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Armin Holz (born August 15, 1962 in Krefeld ) is a German theater director , opera director and set designer .

Life

Armin Holz studied theater studies and art history at the University of Vienna from 1983 to 1985 . He then learned directing at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich until 1989 . He was assistant to Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In addition to Zadek, his great role models are Rudolf Noelte , Klaus Michael Grüber and Patrice Chéreau .

Wood lives in Berlin.

Productions

The production by Oscar Wildes : Bunbury was Holzen's thesis at the Otto Falckenberg School . As a performance location he chose a greenhouse in Munich-Moosach , the Botanikum, which he had converted into a theater. In 1991 he brought Alfred de Musset's Man Not Playing With Love on stage in a tent in front of Lüntenbeck Castle . In 1992 he was brought to the Deutsches Theater Berlin , where he directed the play Wunderworte by Ramón del Valle-Inclán . In 1996 he staged The False Maid of Marivaux at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover . For this he received the prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts from Günther Rühle . The juror was theater maker Kurt Huebner . Hübner, praised the production as “the most lively theater” (laudation from Kurt Hübner to Armin Holz on receiving the award for directing from the German Academy of Performing Arts, Bensheim 1998).

In 2001, wood staged in-house production in Berlin by Jane Bowles in the garden house on the rehearsal stage on Cuvrystraße. With this seldom performed piece, Holz pleads for a theater of poetry and sensitivity. In 2003 he again realized Oscar Wilde's Salome on the same stage in Berlin as an in-house production . The title role was played by Jeanette Hain , who until then had mainly emerged as a film actress. In 2005, Holz became the artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum . In 2006, he presented Oscar Wilde's An ideal husband as his first production at this house . Sebastian Koch returned to the theater as Lord Goring after 12 years of stage abstinence with this work. The next production at the Schauspielhaus Bochum was Federico García Lorca's Dona Rosita or the language of flowers in 2006 , while Ilse Ritter made a big comeback with the performance of the title role. Arthur Schnitzler's The Lonely Path was his final production in Bochum.

In 2010 Holz returned with Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , a co-production of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen with the Renaissance-Theater Berlin, and cast the roles with eight great stage stars of German theater, only one of whom was younger than 60 years. In the summer of 2010, Holz staged August Strindberg's Miss Julie at Neuhardenberg Castle . At the Nationaltheater Mannheim in October 2013 Armin Holz performed his first opera with Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber .

In 2015, Holz presented his project family celebrations at the Landestheater Linz : Henrik Ibsen’s family drama Ghosts , Virginia Woolf’s story Mrs Dalloway and Paul Abraham’s operetta Viktoria und ihr Husar in one evening.

Employee

Actor
Holz has worked with numerous important actors from German theater such as Ingrid Andree , Veronika Bayer , Ortrud Beginnen , Margit Bendokat , Anne Bennent , Bärbel Bolle , Markus Boysen , Sibylle Canonica , Margit Carstensen , Hans Diehl , André Eisermann , Vadim Glowna , Sylvester Groth , Elsa Grube-Deister , Jeanette Hain , Corinna Harfouch , Ulrich Haß , Elfriede Irrall , Friederike Kammer , Nikolai Kinski , Sebastian Koch , Valerie Koch , Imogen Kogge , Ulrike Krumbiegel , Dieter Laser , Hans-Michael Rehberg , Ilse Ritter , Josefin Platt , Angela Schmid , Klaus Schreiber , Libgart Schwarz , Tatja Seibt , Reinhild Solf , Gundel Thormann , Elisabeth Trissenaar and August Zirner . In his production of Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , he
cast the role of the fool with the Danish pop and jazz singer Gitte Hænning .

Set design
Since The False Maid , Holz has also been active as a set designer for his work. For some productions, the stage design was created - deliberately across all disciplines - in collaboration between wood and an artist. Holz brought in the painter Jakob Mattner ( Salome ), the film set designer Heike van Bentum ( An ideal husband ) and the costume designer Andrea Schmidt-Futterer ( The lonely path ) for individual works. Since a stay at Villa Massimo on a practical scholarship in 2009, Holz has been working with the painter Matthias Weischer , a representative of the New Leipzig School . Their first work together was Shakespeare's What you want , for which both developed not only the set, but also the costumes. The sets of Strindberg's Miss Julie and Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz were also created as a joint effort by Holz and Weischer. At family celebrations , Holz designed sets and costumes together with the Berlin artist Michael Müller .

Costume
His costume designers include Lia Doornekamp from the Netherlands and Andrea Schmidt-Futterer, who is famous in the international opera world . Holz worked with the Berlin avant-garde fashion designers Claudia Skoda and Christine Birkle . He also employed film costume designers such as Esther Walz and Barbara Baum .

Music
Mike and Kate Westbrook , Georg Graewe , Irmin Schmidt (“ Can ”) and jazz stars like Till Brönner , Philipp Weiss and Lisa Bassenge worked for Holz as stage composers.

Light The renowned cameraman Benedict Neuenfels acted as a lighting designer
for Was ihr wollt . At Weber's
Der Freischütz , Holz worked with the lighting designer Sebastian Alphons.

Translations and arrangements
Holz translated (together with Richard Gardner) and edited The False Maid , Salome and Ein idealer Gatte for his productions. For Was ihr wollt and Fräulein Julie , he created the editing together with Gerhard Ahrens, the former artistic director of the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz .

Dramaturgy
Dramaturgical staff at Holz were Michael Zochow in Wuppertal, Annette Reber at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and Michael Huthmann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .

Theater photography
Since his first work in 1988, Joseph Gallus Rittenberg has documented his work with photographs.

Writings, interviews and journalistic encounters

In 1998 the journal “ Theater der Zeit ” published Holz's essay “My Theater”. Holz put Louis Jouvet's sentence ahead : “To be professional means to be authentic” and Peter Zadek's confession: “I dream of a theater that inspires courage”. Holz puts it: “I work for a theater in which the text is the focus. A theater that buries itself in the text, loves it. [...] I dream of a theater that does not exclude an audience. I dream of a gathering of people who are curious, naive and intellectual, strict and sensual. I share the audience's longing for heightened sensation, magic, festivity. [...] For me, directing means: putting an end to boredom, searching endlessly, going on a journey. Again and again the struggle between human representation and style, form and association. And dream again and again: of a theater that is not ashamed of being a theater. From a confident theater. From a theatrical theater. But above all: staging is a tender feeling. "( Armin Holz : Theater der Zeit , September 1998)

On the occasion of Zadek's eightieth birthday in 2006, Holz summarized it in the book “Peter Zadek. His Way ”:“ When I came to Peter Zadek at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1986 - at that time I was still a directing student at the Otto Falckenberg School - I thought I could learn how to direct from him. Of course I didn't learn. I didn't learn in the most wonderful way. What you can learn from Peter Zadek is that you cannot imitate him and his work. He is unique and the way he works is non-transferable (although he may think so). His way of working is deeply rooted in his humanity, in his emotional experience, in his sensitivity, and that's why you can learn everything from Peter Zadek. One can learn to discover oneself. You can learn that you cannot be and stage like someone else. One can learn to be undisguised. In this sense I learned a lot, if not everything, from Peter Zadek. ”( Armin Holz : in Klaus Dermutz (Ed.): Peter Zadek. His Way. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2006)

Holz rarely gives interviews. In 2001 he spoke to the journalist Helmut Schödel ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), in 2003 with the Spiegel author Jürgen Leinemann and in 2013 with Volker Corsten ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ).

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