Christian Baier

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Christian Baier (* 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer, playwright, librettist, music theater dramaturge and music journalist.

Life

Christian Baier completed a degree in musicology and German at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the Austrian composer Fritz Egon Pamer .

From 1988 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of the Austrian music magazine . He worked as a journalist for specialist magazines in Austria, Germany, France, Bulgaria and the former Soviet Union. He worked closely with the music festivals Wien Modern , Hörzüge and Wiener Musikgalerie as well as with ORF . From 1994 to 2001 he was the leading music theater dramaturge at the Wiener Festwochen .

Baier then moved to the Wuppertaler Bühnen as head music theater dramaturge and was the production dramaturge for the production "Fragments" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the 2005/2006 season .

From 2006 to 2008 he was chief dramaturge of the music theater at Theater Dortmund , from 2008 to 2011 artistic production manager in the artistic directorate of the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

Baier has been chief dramaturge at Ballett Dortmund since September 2011 . Since 2012 he has been leading the “International Gluck Festival Nuremberg” together with Axel Baisch .

Guest dramaturgies led him a. a. to the Theater an der Wien , the Semperoper in Dresden, the Linzer Landestheater , the Musiktheater im Revier and the Hong Kong Ballet .

Christian Baier worked with Hans Neuenfels , Achim Freyer , Luc Bondy , Jürgen Flimm , Klaus Michael Grüber , Sebastian Hirn , Roland Schwab , Aniara Amos , Wang Xinpeng , Jakob Peters-Messer , Philip Stölzl , Kirsten Harms , Katharina Thalbach and Christine Mielitz . He supervised dramaturgically a. a. World premieres by Adriana Hölszky Die Walls , Olga Neuwirth Bählamms Fest , Christian Ofenbauer Penthisileia , Kurt Schwertsik Katzelmacher , Karl-Wieland Kurz Gute Miene, Bad Spiel , Peer Raben Lausekerl and Schwindelfinger , Franz Koglmann O Moon My Pin-Up , Fear Death by Water and Lera Auerbach Gogol .

In 2002 he was responsible for the Orpheus cycle of the Wuppertaler Bühnen and provided the staged premiere of the fragmentary opera The Indian Queen by Henry Purcell , and in 2003 for the rediscovery of the opera Orfeo by Luigi Rossi in a production with Michael Simon in Wuppertal. Almost 300 years after the premiere, he initiated the staged revival of the opera Siroe by Georg Friedrich Händel in the production of Sebastian Hirn in Götzis / Vorarlberg. A year later he was in charge of the production of Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production by Christine Mielitz in Dortmund.

Together with the choreographer Wang Xinpeng , he designed the highly acclaimed ballet productions Mein Bach (2006), Manon Lescaut (2007), Raum X (2007), Romeo and Juliet . The Birth of Sehnsucht "(2007) as well as War and Peace (2008), Le Sacre du Printemps (2009), The Last Future , element x and HAMLET - The Birth of Zorns (all three 2010) and Fantasia - Awake in Your Dream ( 2011), Swan Lake (2012) and Full Moon No Constancy (2013) at the Dortmund Opera House, The Dream of the Red Chamber (2012/13) at the National Ballet of Hong Kong and Tales from the Vienna Woods , Orpheus , Zauberberg (all 2014) and Faust I - Conscience! And Faust II - Redemption! (Both 2016). Together with Wang Xinpeng and Sebastian Hirn , he initiated the first scenic-choreographic performance of early cantatas by Georg Friedrich Handel, Delirio amoroso, in Dortmund in 2008 .

He wrote important studies on minimal music, silent film music, musical aesthetics, music theater, crossover, the Vienna School, the development of dodecaphony (twelve-tone technique) and contemporary composers such as Franz Koglmann , Olga Neuwirth , Karlheinz Essl , Shih , Peter Ablinger , Francis Burt , Marcel Rubin and Gerhard Lampersberg .

In 1996, Baier founded Austria's first German-language migrant theater, Die Menschenbühne , which was dedicated to the discovery of unknown contemporary authors and the development of polycultural theater forms and which fell victim to the Vienna theater reform in 2006. Baier has been awarded several international prizes for his literary work.

Publications

Novels
  • Joseph. A German fate. Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2001.
  • Romantics. Novel. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2006.
  • Tank battle. Novel. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2008.
  • The revenants. Novel. Luzifer Verlag, Bochum 2014. ISBN 978-3-943408-17-1
editor
  • Passions. An anthology. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2006.
  • Pedants and slobs. An anthology. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2007.
  • Stealing and robbing. An anthology. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2008.
  • Schlager and hits. An anthology. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2009.
  • Handicap - fate and chance. An anthology. Edition Splitter, Vienna 2011.
  • Xin Peng Wang, a retrospective. With photographs by Maria-Helena Buckley, Thomas M. Jauk, Bettina Stöß u. a., contributions by Christian Baier, Tobias Ehinger, Rebecca Schönsee and Dorion Weickmann. 96 pages, 90 illustrations, Japan binding, Dortmund 2012.
Plays

All published by Stückgut Verlag, Munich

  • The Indian Queen (music: Henry Purcell , premiere: Wuppertal 2002, production: Elisabeth Schafheutle )
  • The color of time (premiere: Vienna 2003, staging: Sebastian Hirn )
  • Opposite (premiere: Vienna 2005, production: Sebastian Hirn )
  • Who steals another violin (premiere: Dortmund 2006, staging: Christine Mielitz )
  • Who dances by the whistle (WP: Dortmund 2008, staging: Solveij Bauer)
Libretti

CD recordings of the works were released by: Between the Lines and HatHut-Records

  • O moon my pin up . Cantata (Music: Franz Koglmann , WP: Vienna 1998, Wiener Konzerthaus)
  • Fear Death by Water. A Beach Opera (music: Franz Koglmann , staging: Michael Scheidl , premiere: Vienna 2003, Museumsquartier, hall E)
  • Let's Make Love (Music: Franz Koglmann , WP: Vienna 2005)
Scientific publications
  • Repetitive music. History and aesthetics of minimal music since 1960, in: ÖMZ 9/1989
  • Fritz Heinrich Klein. The mother chord in the work of Alban Berg, in: ÖMZ 12/1989
  • The visual sound. The film music composer Edmund Meisel, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz, June 1995
  • The sentence structure of Babel. On the linguistic self-standardization of music in the 20th century, in: ton. IGNM magazine , October 1997, Vienna 1997
  • Contact with the rest of the world. On the problem of attitude in the works of Louis Andriessen and Frederic Rzewski, in: Programmheft, Hörgangs 97, Wr. Konzerthaus, Vienna 1997
  • Process and concept. Minimalism and its reception in Europe, in: Almanach Wiener Musikgalerie, Festival “Icebreaker”, Vienna 1999
  • Dialogue with the cosmos. Prelude and three case studies, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 6/2000, Mainz 2000
  • Release the modern from responsibility. On the state of musical modernity in difficult times, in: Kunstpunkt. Journal of the Vienna University of Music, Vienna 2001
  • Endemic modernity. The modern in the phase of the socio-political reorientation, in: ÖMZ 6/01
  • Arnold Schönberg: Serenade op. 24 (analysis), in: Gerold Gruber (Ed.), Arnold Schönberg. Interpretations of his works, Laaber-Verlag 2002
  • The microcosm of meanness. On the linguistic in Helmut Qualtinger's Chansons, in: Helmut Qualtinger, ed. by Günter Krenn, Austrian Film Archive, Vienna 2003
  • Silence in exile. On Eric Zeisl, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 5/2005, Mainz 2005
  • The drama of asking. On Richard Wagner's “Siegfried”, in: Program booklet “Siegfried”, Dortmund 2006
  • Daughters and sons. Inter-familial continuation of tradition as fate in “Götterdämmerung”, in: Program “Götterdämmerung”, Dortmund 2007
  • The Rigoletto Effect. About fate and fatality in “Rigoletto”, in the “Rigoletto” program, Dortmund 2007
  • Between Muspelheim and Nibelheim. On the definition of chaos and pedantry, in Batya Horn, Christian Baier (Ed.), Pedanten und Chaoten, Vienna 2007
  • Biography and fate. Delirious life in Georg Friedrich Händel, in the program “Delirio amoroso”, Dortmund 2008
  • Appropriation. Property crimes in a socio-cultural context, in Batya Horn, Christian Baier (Ed.), Stehlen und Rauben, Vienna 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Baier, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, playwright, librettist, music theater dramaturge and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna