Christoph Marthaler

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

Klaus Dermutz : Christoph Marthaler. The lonely people are the special people . Residenz, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7017-1212-3 .
David Roesner: Theater as Music. Method of musicalization in choral theater forms with Christoph Marthaler, Einar Schleef and Robert Wilson. Dissertation. University of Hildesheim 2002. Narr, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8233-6020-5 .
Dominique Spirgi: Christoph Marthaler . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1186 f.
Christoph Marthaler. Household ritual of self-forgetfulness. Arbeitsbuch 2014. Edited by Malte Ubenauf and Stefanie Carp. Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-94-3881-29-5 .

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

Literature by and about Christoph Marthaler in the catalog of the German National Library

Till Briegleb: 50 directors in German-speaking theater: Christoph Marthaler. In: goethe.de . Archived from the original on April 16, 2016 .

Christoph Marthaler at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Ekkehard Knörer: The Marthalertheater: Christoph Marthaler: Die Fruchtfliege (Volksbühne, 5.1.2007). In: jump-cut.de .

Review and video of "Die Fruchtfliege". (No longer available online.) In: volksbuehne-berlin.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 22, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2

Gerhard Stadelmaier : Christoph Marthaler on his sixtieth: The night porter at the Hotel Angst. In: FAZ.net . October 16, 2011 .

Individual evidence

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↑ Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh: Berliner Theatertreffen: "The jury has a bang." In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 1, 2009.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Chronicle of the Berlin Theatertreffen 2000 to 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ Schlager and be beaten. In: FAZ . October 17, 2014, p. 11.
^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2017: The winners . Press release of November 3, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Marthaler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss director
DATE OF BIRTH	17th October 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erlenbach ZH

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[2] Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh: Berliner Theatertreffen: "The jury has a bang." In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 1, 2009.

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[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.