Christoph Theussl

Christoph Theussl (2010)

Christoph Theussl (born August 3, 1976 in Eibiswald , Styria) is an Austrian actor , performance artist and songwriter living in Munich . In 2014 he was awarded the best song list for his musical work .

Life

Christoph Theussl (also Theußl) studied drama from 1994 to 1998 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. There he met his future performance colleagues Marianne Ramsey-Sonneck and Georg Reinhardt . In 1997 he got his first engagement as an actor at the Theater an der Parkaue (at that time Carrouseltheater ) in Berlin.

Between 1997 and 1999 Theussl worked twice with the theater director Einar Schleef . Theussl lived in Berlin from 2000 to 2011 , from 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the artist group Club Real , which he founded together with his former drama school colleagues Ramsey-Sonneck and Reinhardt as well as the landscape architect Thomas Hauck and with whom he continued until he left realized thirty projects nationally and internationally.

In 2001 Theussl gave his first concert with exclusively self-written songs and texts and since then he has appeared regularly as a singer-songwriter in clubs, pubs, at festivals, cabaret events and reading stages . Theussl has been in constant artistic contact with the Club of Polish Failures since 2008 . As an actor, Theussl was often a member of the ensemble around director Angela Richter between 2004 and 2010 , and since 2005 he has also been realizing art projects with the project maker and film producer Juliane Beer and her label Kunst im Getriebe . In 2011 his CD antilogie 1 was released by Periplaneta . Since moving to Munich , Theussl has been working closely with the Pathos Theater and the performance collective Die Bairishe Geisha , consisting of Judith Huber and Eva Löbau . Theussl has been a regular member of the weekly Munich reading stage Die Schwabinger Schaumschläger since autumn 2012 and has mainly worked as a musician, songwriter and cabaret artist since then.

style

Theussl describes himself as a "satirist" and "classical songwriter" and appears live almost exclusively with a six-string steel-string guitar. Although he has lived in Germany for many years and mainly performs his music in this country, Theussl has kept the Austrian dialect in his songs so far. According to his own statements, this is more suitable to better express the special humor that is a central component of his texts. Theussl deliberately does not belong to any collecting society à la GEMA. In the late summer of 2014, his second album Endlich was released with black humor songs about death.

Awards

In 1997 Christoph Theussl was awarded the Max Reinhardt Prize . In 2014 he received the advancement award of the song best list . In 2015, he received the Hanns Seidel Foundation's sponsorship award for young song poets as part of the songs on a summer evening .

Artistic creation (excerpt)

• 1997 - Engagement at the Burgtheater Vienna for Elfriede Jelinek's " Ein Sportstück " (D: Einar Schleef )
• 1999 - Engagement at the Landestheater Coburg & premiere of the program "Vom Fressn, Saufn, Sterbn & other horrors"
• 2000 - Engagement at the Deutsches Theater Berlin for "Betrayed People" (D: Einar Schleef)
• 2001 to 2008 - Mainly for Club Real
• 2001 - Engagement at the Thalia Theater Halle for "The terrible five (D: Isabella Fischer)
• 2002 - CD "as far as so good - theußl live" (self-published)
• 2003 - CD "gschichtn aus da koltn" (self-published)
• 2004 - Leading role in Helmut Köpping's film Kotsch
• 2005 - Engagement at Kampnagel Hamburg for " Magic Afternoon " (D: Angela Richter)
• 2006 - Moderation of the "CAMPSHOW Steiermark" at the Festival Steirischer Herbst
• 2006 - Engagement at the Sophiensaele Berlin for "Conspiracy against you" (D: Angela Richter)
• 2007 - Performance: "The Hubertus-Lehm-Gedenkwanderweg" (Theaterzentrum Deutschlandsberg)
• 2007 - CD "eternity" (self-published)
• 2007 - Engagement at Kampnagel Hamburg for "Der Kirschgarten" (D: Angela Richter)
• 2008 - Actor in the short film "Rocketman" (D: Jakob Ballinger)
• 2008 - First musical releases on Youtube and Myspace with the songs "pleite bealin" and "da Geist"
• 2008 - Engagement at Hebbel am Ufer Berlin for "Jeff Koons" (D: Angela Richter)
• 2009 - Appearance as a singer-songwriter at the Festival for Music and Politics , Berlin
• 2009 - "The home earth is easy for you" - Performative reading from expressions of condolence on the death of Jörg Haider . Brut Wien , Stadttheater Gera , Theaterdiscounter Berlin , Posthof Linz , Fleetstreet Hamburg
• 2009 - Engagement at Kampnagel Hamburg for "Der Fall Esra" (D: Angela Richter)
• 2010 - Performance: "The Schizonationale" - satire show in the Club of Polish Failures, Berlin
• 2010 - Moderator of the radio programs "Dipolantenne" and "Funkhaus Cordoba" at the free radio station Pi Radio in Berlin
• 2010 - "Friedwitz am Ufer" - (short film with Club Real, Britt Dunse and Juliane Beer)
• 2010 - "The Boxer's Belly" - Performative installation together with Club Real for X Apartments Warsaw
• 2010 - Engagement at the Salzburg Festival for "Death in Thebes" (D: Angela Richter)
• 2011 - Planned engagement at the Centraltheater Leipzig for "The Oedipus-Antigone Complex" (D: Angela Richter), but was removed from the program shortly before the first performance
• 2011 - Engagement with the Bavarian Geisha Munich for "PS: and I cry when I want"
• 2011 - Performer and musician at "Reevolution - Crisis doesn't have to be sad" (Cologne)
• 2011 - Moderator at the Festival for Music and Politics, Berlin
• 2011 - CD: "Antilogie 1" Periplaneta
• 2011 - Engagements as a performer at the Transport Festival Munich, the Rüsselsheim Theater Festival and the Pathos Transport Theater Munich
• 2012 - Performer at "Schedule Germany", a theater series by the theater discounter Berlin . (D: Georg Scharegg )
• 2012 - "UNTN - a musical underground lot". Premiere. Live audio performance in the Munich subway. Together with Katrin Dollinger, Club Real , Marcus Widmann and others
• 2013 - "The dream machine". Play for children and parents. Together with Judith Huber and Charlotte Pfeifer. World premiere: Uebel And Hazardous / Hamburg.
• 2013 - Performer at "Atlantropa", a scenic piece development by ausbau.sechs (concept: Sebastian Linz ). World premiere: Schauburg Munich.
• 2013 - Performer at "I see what you don't see" - performance in public space by Philine Velhagen and Jörg Witte . World premiere: Rotkreuzplatz Munich.
• 2014 - Double CD "Finally" Periplaneta
• 2015 - Concept & Performance - WORLD MACHINE ON THE ROAD, travel and performance installation as a homage to the builder of the world machine Franz Gsellmann. Together with Georg Reinhardt, Mathias Lenz, Matthias Leitner and Katrin Dollinger. 2016 invited to the RODEO dance and theater festival of the state capital Munich. Book published by Periplaneta.
• 2016 - Concept & Performance - "The catastrophic Johanna - A theater roadshow on the banks of the Isar". Together with Judith Huber and Charlotte Pfeifer.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Theußl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Christoph Theußl
• Portrait of Christoph Theußl , Querkariert (online edition), accessed on August 28, 2011
• Homepage of "Club Real"
• Homepage of the "Club of Polish Failures"
• Reason for the award of the song best list
• Christoph Theußl in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WELTMASCHINE on the move. In: WELTMASCHINE on the move. Retrieved on November 3, 2016 (German). 
2. ↑ WORLD MACHINE ON THE ROAD: Rodeo Munich. (No longer available online.) In: rodeomuenchen.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 3, 2016 . 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.  
3. ↑ The catastrophic Johanna. Theater Roadshow DREAM MACHINE Inc . In: Rat & Tat - Kulturbüro . ( ratundtat-kulturbuero.de [accessed on November 3, 2016]).