Clara Luisa Demar

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Clara Luisa Demar in her house at the Three Firs , 2016
Clara Luisa Demar, 2017
Clara Luisa Demar in the music theater Grieg and the life path of Peer Gynt , 2019
Clara Luisa Demar in the Animal Opera House in the Bernhard Theater in Zurich, 2010

Clara Luisa Demar (* in Zurich as Luisa Hösli ) is a Swiss artist who appears as a pianist , singer, actress and ventriloquist and organizes exhibitions and music theater .

Life

Demar was born in Zurich as the daughter of the police commissioner Alwin Hösli and the doctor Luisa Hösli-Kohberg. She studied music, was a student of the French pianist Alfred Cortot in Paris and was trained as a singer in Milan , Munich and Berlin . She taught herself ventriloquism and singing in self-study. Demar gave her first piano concerts when she was ten. She performs in concerts at home and abroad.

As part of the celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss federal state in 1998, she designed an exhibition on the liberal Swiss painter and political cartoonist Martin Disteli in the main hall of the ETH Zurich . In the 2001 exhibition In Search of Meaning at the University of Zurich , she juxtaposed today's ideas of how the universe came into being with those of ancient peoples. Together with this exhibition she performed her music theater piece Die Ewige Melodie , in which the beginning of the universe is portrayed like a picture book in the form of an imaginative journey through time.

One focus of her work is composers ' images of life , which she creates with music, texts and images in order to lead the audience to an understanding of the composers and their works. In Ludwig van Beethoven: his music - the fruit of his life , it combines the music of the 5th piano concerto with images of nature by the photographer Ernst von Känel , which are projected onto a large screen during the performance. Grieg and the life path of Peer Gynt is a scenic arrangement with piano, song, dance, narration and recitation with paintings and drawings from Gynt's Nordic homeland. Using a variety of artistic forms of expression, she traces the relationship between Edvard Grieg and Henrik Ibsen . In the production Women in the World of Music , she deals with the life paths of female composers and a composer's companion with music and texts.

Demar is also dedicated to projects that combine science and art. The poetic performance Unter dem Gesang der Sonne is a sound collage made from the tones of stars and own piano compositions and improvisations, supplemented with own texts. Mélodies Célestes is a fantasy with music and narration that was performed at the Observatoire de Genève in 2003 . The Geneva astrophysicist François Bouchy contributed the scientific synopsis.

Demar had to repeat her reading with music The Odeon and its famous guests in the years after the end of the Second World War in the Café Odeon in Zurich in 2015 because of the great public interest. At Schriftgut Dresden 2012 she designed a poetry reading with music and pictures by the poets Oda Schaefer and Horst Lange , with whom she was personally friends. The Animal Opera House is a music theater in which Demar appears with animals as ventriloquist puppets, telling fables and singing opera arias. It was performed in the Bernhard Theater and other theaters in Zurich in 2009/2010 .

Demar lives in Zurich in the house to the three fir trees , the oldest house in Enge , where she also holds public performances and events. She is the great-granddaughter of the penitentiary reformer Johann Rudolf Müller and great-niece and heiress of the painter Clara Müller . In 2019 she donated their estate to the Museum Burghalde Lenzburg .

Exhibitions, concerts, performances, musical theater (selection)

  • 1997: Mosaic of Voices . Stadttheater Olten , concert by the municipal music school.
  • 1998: The drawing rebel - Martin Disteli and the emergence of New Switzerland . Exhibition in 1998 in the main hall of the ETH Zurich as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Swiss federal state.
  • 2001a: In search of meaning - man in the universe . Exhibition at the University of Zurich.
  • 2001b: The Eternal Melody . Music theater, atrium of the University of Zurich-Irchel.
  • 2002a: The Song of the Stars. Poetic performance, University Hospital Zurich.
  • 2002b: The search for the harmony of the world. Exhibition, foyer of the Helferei Grossmünster , Zurich.
  • 2003: Mélodies Célestes, astrophysique et art, deux cheminements de la pensée humaine. Music theater with François Buchy, astronomer and Chantal Pannatier, narrator. Observatoire de Genève.
  • 2006/2007: Grieg and the life path of Peer Gynt . Performance with music, narration, dance and painting., Munich (Kulturzentrum Gasteig ), Hamburg, Berlin, Bad Kreuznach, Leipzig (at the Grieg Festival 2007 in cooperation with the Gewandhaus).
  • 2009/2010: Opera House of the Animals . Music theater with ventriloquist puppets, Zurich (Bernhard Theater, Theater Stok ).
  • 2012a: Oda Schaefer and Horst Lange - The poetic double star . Poetry reading with piano music and picture presentation at the Dresden exhibition .
  • 2012b: Women in the world of music. Three female composers and a composer's companion, their lives and their music. Music with texts, Uri Music Academy.
  • 2013: Ludwig van Beethoven: his music - the fruit of his life, with images of nature by Ernst von Känel . Zurich (Jecklin-Forum) and Wädenswil.
  • 2015: The Odeon and its famous guests in the years after the end of World War II . Reading and music, Café Odeon in Zurich.
  • 2019: Discover Goethe's “Faust” . Goethe Festival 2019 in the house to the three fir trees .

literature

  • Heike Gerling: To the three fir trees. In: ensuite , No. 152, August 2015 ( PDF file; 0.3 MB , accessed on February 10, 2020).
  • Karen Meffert: House to the Three Firs. The artist Clara Luisa Demar-Hösli has transformed the old "House of the 3 Firs" into an original cultural site. Film by DRS , broadcast on May 15, 1986.

Web links

Commons : Clara Luisa Demar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heike Gerling: To the three fir trees. In: ensuite , No. 152, August 2015.
  2. ↑ Karen Meffert: House to the Three Firs. The artist Clara Luisa Demar-Hösli has transformed the old "House of the 3 Firs" into an original cultural site. Film by DRS , broadcast on May 15, 1986.
  3. ↑ a b ETH Zurich: 1848/1998 - 150 years of the Swiss federal state , accessed on February 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c d unijournal, Die Zeitung der Universität Zürich, No. 1/2001 ( PDF file; 0.7 MB , accessed on February 20, 2020)
  5. ↑ a b Renato Rosic: «I'm trying to build a bridge». In: Zürichsee-Zeitung district of Horgen, January 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b Pascal Wiederkehr: In district 2 the trolls are loose . In: Zurich 2, May 9, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Grieg Meeting Place Leipzig Press Review Grieg 2007 in Leipzig - Concerts on the 100th anniversary of the death of the Norwegian national composer , accessed on February 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b Bauen Uri , accessed on February 19, 2020.
  9. ↑ a b c Hans Uli von Erlach: Music from the other star . In: Blick, January 30, 2002
  10. ↑ a b werliestwo.ch: Clara Luisa Demar reading, music: The Odeon and its famous guests , Café Odeon ZH.
  11. ↑ a b Oda Schaefer - On the hope of building a new world. In: Literatwo January 15, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b Oda Schaefer on the written material in Dresden . In: Literatwo, August 3, 2012.
  13. ↑ a b agenda (ZH). ensuite - culture magazine No. 73, January 09, p. 47 ( PDF file; 0.6 MB , accessed February 19, 2020)
  14. ↑ a b The Animal Opera House / "Christmas Magic". Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  15. ↑ The House of the Three Firs opens . Zurich 2, October 22, 2015.
  16. ↑ Lorenz Steinmann: The guardian of the oldest Engemer house. In: Zurich 2, October 16, 2014.
  17. ↑ Big donation for the Burghalde Museum. In: Lenzburger Nachrichten, November 27, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2020.
  18. ↑ Oltner Neujahrsblätter , Volume 56 (1998).
  19. ↑ News archive 2007 (Bad Kreuznach) ( PDF file; 0.8 MB , accessed on February 8, 2020.)
  20. ↑ Goethe comes as a surprise guest. In: Lokalinfo, August 26, 2018, accessed February 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Demar, Clara Luisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hösli, Luisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich