Christoph Marthaler

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Christoph Marthaler (born October 17, 1951 in Erlenbach , Canton of Zurich ) is a Swiss director and musician .

Theater music

Marthaler first studied music in Zurich ( recorder and oboe ). In the late 1960s he attended Jacques Lecoq's theater school in Paris. Back in Switzerland he worked as a theater musician and composer at the Zürcher Theater am Neumarkt . This was followed by compositions for numerous productions on German-speaking stages. With Dodo Hug and Pepe Solbach he founded the experimental theater group «Tarot». Marthaler established himself in the off-theater scene with various projects. From 1988 to 1993 he worked continuously at the Theater Basel , where he developed several scenic recitals. Since his time in Basel, the stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock and the dramaturge Stefanie Carp have been part of Marthaler's permanent team. From 1990 he composed film music for Der Tod zu Basel (directed by Urs Odermatt ) and for Hinterland - a father-son story by Dieter Gränicher.

Theater direction

In 1991 he staged his first play. In 1993 he moved to the theater director Frank Baum Bauer to the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . The production called Murx the European! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! (1993) made him known to a wide audience. The play was on the program of the Berliner Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz until 2007 . Many of his productions were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen . In 1994 he staged his first opera with the musical director Sylvain Cambreling . In 2000 Marthaler took over the management of the Zürcher Schauspielhaus as artistic director , which was voted Theater of the Year by Theater heute in 2000 and 2001 . Stefanie Carp and Anna Viebrock were part of his management team. In 2004 Marthaler and his team left the theater. Since then he has been working as a freelance director in Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Employee

Strongly shaped by the aesthetics of the stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock, his stagings move between musical, collage-like evenings and idiosyncratic interpretations of classics. His characters on stage - often in old-fashioned, idiosyncratic costumes - usually remain isolated, wait, stare and sometimes join together with others to form a small group. What they have in common is a peculiar comedy that manifests itself in the fact that they seem to have fallen out of time.

The actors he often works with are known as the "Marthaler family". These include Graham F. Valentine, whom he already met as a student in Zurich, Ueli Jäggi , Jürg Kienberger, Olivia Grigolli , Josef Ostendorf , Robert Hunger-Bühler , Bettina Stucky , Michael von der Heide , Katja Kolm , Matthias Matschke and Clemens Servant.

Private life

Christoph Marthaler is married to the actress Sasha Rau. In 2007 the couple had twins.

Productions

  • 1980: Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Rote Fabrik : Christoph Marthaler - Indeed. An interior
  • 1983: Zurich: Christoph Marthaler after Erik Satie - Blanc et immobile
  • 1985: Minimal Festival Zurich: Christoph Marthaler based on Erik Satie - Vexations
  • 1985: Zurich: Christoph Marthaler - Great words hymn. An impromptu for choir, orchestra, six important men and a stowaway
  • 1988: Schauspielhaus Zürich : Kurt Schwitters - Ribble Bobble Pimlico
  • 1988: Theater Basel : Christoph Marthaler / Barbara Mundel - arrival at Badischer Bahnhof
  • 1989: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler - When the alpine brain turns red, kills, free Swiss, kills
  • 1990: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler - Stägeli uf, Stägeli off, juhee!
  • 1991: Theater Basel: Eugène Labiche - The Rue de Lourcine affair
  • 1992: Schlotterbeckgarage Basel: - Amora
  • 1992: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler based on Fernando Pessoa - Faust. A subjective tragedy
  • 1992: Theater Basel: Samuel Beckett - A piece monologue / Still not anymore
  • 1993: Volksbühne Berlin : Christoph Marthaler - Murx the European! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! (Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1993: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler - Prohelvetia
  • 1993: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg : Christoph Marthaler based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Goethe's Faust Wurzel 1 + 2 (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1994: Frankfurt Opera : Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
  • 1994: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler based on William Shakespeare - Storm before Shakespeare - le petit Rien
  • 1994: Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler - Addiction / Lust
  • 1994: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler based on Karl Valentin and Maurice Maeterlinck - The Intruder - An anniversary concert in two acts
  • 1995: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler / Stefanie Carp - The zero hour or the art of serving (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1995: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Elias Canetti - wedding
  • 1996: Salzburg Festival : Arnold Schönberg / Olivier Messiaen - Pierrot Lunaire / Quatuor pour la fin du temps
  • 1996: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Ödön von Horváth - Kasimir and Karoline (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1996: Welt in Basel and Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler - Lina Böglis Reise (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1996: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler - Street of the Best. A tour
  • 1996: Frankfurt Opera: Giuseppe Verdi - Luisa Miller
  • 1996: Opéra la Monnaie, Brussels: Klaas de Vries after Virginia Woolf and Fernando Pessoa - A King, Riding
  • 1996: Lucerne International Music Festival: Michael Jarrell based on Christa Wolf - Kassandra Direction: Christoph Marthaler and Anne Bennent
  • 1997: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler / Jürg Henneberger - The Unanswered Question (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 1997: Volksbühne Berlin: Anton Chekhov - Three Sisters
  • 1997: Frankfurt Opera: Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio
  • 1998: Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Joseph Kesselring - arsenic and lace cap
  • 1998: Volksbühne Berlin: Jacques Offenbach - La Vie Parisienne
  • 1998: Salzburg Festival: Leoš Janáček - Katja Kabanowa
  • 1999: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler - The specialists. A survival tea
  • 1999: Salzburg Festival: Ödön von Horváth - To the beautiful view
  • 2000: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler / Anna Viebrock / Jürg Henneberger - 20th Century Blues
  • 2000: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - Hotel Angst
  • 2001: Schauspielhaus Zürich: William Shakespeare - What you want (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2001: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler based on Franz Schubert - The beautiful miller (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2001: Salzburg Festival: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro
  • 2001: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler based on Raffaele Viviani - The Ten Commandments
  • 2002: Schauspielhaus Zurich: Thomas Hürlimann - Synchron
  • 2002: Münchner Kammerspiele: Elfriede Jelinek - In the Alps
  • 2003: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - Groundings (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2003: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Georg Büchner - Danton's death (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2003: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler after Herman Melville - Better not. A thinning
  • 2003: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler after Ovid - The Golden Age , with Stefan Pucher and Meg Stuart
  • 2003: Zurich Opera / Zurich Theater: Beat Furrer - Invocation
  • 2004: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - OT A substitute passion (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2004: Dutch Toneel (NT) Ghent: Christoph Marthaler after Herman Heijermans - Shanties
  • 2005: Wiener Festwochen: Christoph Marthaler / Stefanie Carp - Protection from the future (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen, Nestroy Theater Prize for Best Director)
  • 2005: Donaueschinger Musiktage : Beat Furrer - FAMA. Audio theater for large ensemble, eight voices, actress and sound building
  • 2005: Bayreuth Festival : Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde
  • 2005: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler - The fruit fly
  • 2006: KunstenFESTIVALdesArts Brussels: Christoph Marthaler - Winch only (Premio Ubu, Italy)
  • 2006: Volksbühne Berlin: Ödön von Horváth - Stories from the Vienna Woods
  • 2007: Nederlands Theater (NT) Gent / Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Christoph Marthaler - Maeterlinck
  • 2007: Opéra national de Paris: Giuseppe Verdi - La traviata
  • 2007: Salzburg Festival / RuhrTriennale: Christoph Marthaler - Sauser from Italy. A copyright
  • 2007: Rote Fabrik Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - Platz Mangel (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2008: Opéra national de Paris: Alban Berg - Wozzeck
  • 2008: Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria : Christoph Marthaler - The theater with the Waldhaus (invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2008: Center culturel suisse de Paris: Christoph Marthaler - Lorem Ipsum Dolor: carte blanche à Christoph Marthaler
  • 2009: Wiener Festwochen: Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock - Riesenbutzbach. A permanent colony. (Invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen)
  • 2009: Theater Basel: Jacques Offenbach - La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
  • 2010: Theater Basel: Beat Furrer - Wüstenbuch
  • 2010: Festival d'Avignon: Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock - Papperlapapp
  • 2010: Theater Basel: My fair lady - a language laboratory
  • 2011: Katuaq Nuuk / Wiener Festwochen. + - 0 A sub-polar base camp , Musical Greenland project; WP: May 12, 2011
  • 2011: Salzburg Festival : Leoš Janáček - The Makropulos Affair
  • 2011: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler, Malte Ubenauf, Bendix Dethleffsen - Lo stimolatore cardiaco
  • 2012: Volksbühne Berlin / Wiener Festwochen: Ödön von Horváth - Faith, Love, Hope
  • 2012: Zurich Opera House: Christoph Marthaler, Anna Viebrock, Laurence Cummings, Malte Ubenauf - Sale
  • 2013: Schauspiel Köln: Sasha Rau - Oh it's like home
  • 2013: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler, Malte Ubenauf, Bendix Dethleffsen - King Size. An enharmonic mix-up
  • 2013: Wiener Festwochen : Christoph Marthaler, Uli Fussenegger - Last Days. An eve
  • 2013: Theater Basel: Christoph Marthaler / Eugene Labuche - Das Weisse vom Ei (Une ile flottante)
  • 2014: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler, Anna Viebrock, Malte Ubenauf - Homesickness & Crime
  • 2014: Teatro Real Madrid: Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
  • 2014: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler, Anna Viebrock, Malte Ubenauf - Tessa Blomstedt does not give up
  • 2015: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: John Osborne - The Entertainer
  • 2015: Theater Basel / Hamburg State Opera: Christoph Marthaler - Isoldes Abendbrot
  • 2015: Zurich Opera House: G. Rossini - Il viaggio a Reims
  • 2016: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler - Hallelujah (A Reserve)
  • 2016: Volksbühne Berlin: Christoph Marthaler - Familiar feelings, mixed faces
  • 2016: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler - Die Wehleider
  • 2017: Hamburg State Opera: Alban Berg - Lulu
  • 2017: Münchner Kammerspiele: Christoph Marthaler - Tiefer Schweb (A catch basin)
  • 2017: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - Mir Nämeds uf öis
  • 2018: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Christoph Marthaler / Alfred Jarry - Übermann or Love comes to visit
  • 2018: Ruhrtriennale: Charles Ives / Christoph Marthaler / Titus Engel - Universe, incomplete
  • 2018: Schauspielhaus Zürich: Christoph Marthaler - 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776
  • 2019: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy - Chief Abendwind
  • 2019: Ruhrtriennale: Christoph Marthaler / Uli Fussenegger / Stefanie Carp / Duri Bischoff / Sarah Schittek / Phoenix (Andreas Hofer) - After the last few days. A late evening

Honourings and prices

  • 1992: Culture Prize of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
  • 1994: Director of the Year, Theater heute
  • 1996: Main Prize of the VI. International Festival of Toruń, Poland
  • 1996: Konrad Wolf Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
  • 1997: Fritz Kortner Prize
  • 1997: Director of the Year, Theater heute
  • 1998: European Theater Prize for New Theatrical Realities
  • 1998: Friedrich Luft Prize for Parisian Life at the Volksbühne Berlin
  • 1999: Premio Ubu, Italy
  • 2004: Theater Prize Berlin together with the set designer Anna Viebrock
  • 2004: Medal of recognition from the City of Zurich for special cultural achievements
  • 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize for Protection from the Future
  • 2006: Premio Ubu, Italy
  • 2007: International Stanislavsky Award 2007
  • 2008: Politika Award of the Festival BITEF , Belgrade
  • 2009: Culture Prize of the Canton of Zurich
  • 2011: Hans Reinhart-Ring
  • 2015: Golden Lion of the Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Teatro)
  • 2015: Premio Ubu, Italy
  • 2017 Friedrich-Luft-Prize for familiar feelings, mixed faces at the Volksbühne Berlin
  • 2017 Zurich Art Prize
  • 2017 German Theater Prize Der Faust in the category Best Director in Music Theater for Lulu at the Hamburg State Opera
  • 2018 International Ibsen Prize

literature

documentary

  • The strange son of chaos. Christoph Marthaler. Documentary by Rainer C. Ecke, Switzerland and Germany. Production by ZDF, broadcast on ARTE in 1996
  • Frenzied standstill - Christoph Marthaler's theater. Documentary, Germany, 2001, 59 min., Written and directed by Heinz Peter Schwerfel , produced by Artcore, WDR .
    Documentation about Marthaler's work at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus in autumn 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle of the Berlin Theatertreffen 1964 to 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  2. Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh: Berliner Theatertreffen: "The jury has a bang." In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 1, 2009.
  3. a b c Chronicle of the Berlin Theatertreffen 2000 to 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlinerfestspiele.de  
  4. Schlager and be beaten. In: FAZ . October 17, 2014, p. 11.
  5. ^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2017: The winners . Press release of November 3, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017.