Ernst M. Binder

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Ernst Marianne Binder (born January 5, 1953 in Mostar , Yugoslavia ; † January 28, 2017 in Graz , Styria ) was an Austrian poet and theater director . From 2015 until his death he was a senior lecturer at the Art University Graz .

Life

Since 1971 Ernst M. Binder has worked as a freelance writer, musician and director. a. Also hired out as stonemasons, window cleaners, newspaper deliverers, tomato pickers, olive growers, waiters, disc jockey, circus lighting technicians.

From 1987 to 2003 he headed the forum stadtpark theater. Since 2003 he has been the artistic director of dramagraz . With over 70 world premieres by authors such as Einar Schleef , Elfriede Jelinek , Peter Handke , RP Gruber , Werner Schwab , Herbert Achternbusch and Bodo Hell , Binder focused on contemporary German-language drama.

Binder was invited to international theater festivals around a dozen times ( Mülheimer Theatertage , Heidelberger Stückemarkt , IMPULSE, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and others). His productions of Das Fest (premiere: 1994; author: Klaus Rohleder), Totetrompeten (premiere: 1995; author: Einar Schleef ) and Die Bauern (1999; author: Heiner Müller ) were nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen .

Binder's interest in the theater as well as in his literary work was in the individual and his or her exposure to the world. Like death, art should “throw man back on himself”. The language - a stylized Eastern Styrian, quietly and precisely reduced to the essentials, "sounds sometimes earthy and harsh, sometimes high-pitched like the text of a chant" and often ends in silence. Because “the silence”, says Binder's play Kukuruz (2010), “is the only language by which we can be spoken. That can tell us. "

In addition to his plays, including (What hangs life deeply like fog overm) Kukuruz (premier: 2010), Beckett.Silence (premier: 2005) and Wedding Night (premier: 1983), the film version of which was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize , Binder also published cycles of poems, the novel Flucht (1973) and a number of short stories. Essays by the author can be found among others. a. in the specialist magazines Theater der Zeit and Theater heute as well as in publications of the Styrian Autumn Festival , the festival magazine of the Mülheimer Theatertage and national daily newspapers.

A few years before his death, Binder survived a serious illness.

By posting on his homepage he gave himself “2017 (the) self-granted approval to be tired”.

Binder died surprisingly the night before the premiere of his 99th production - Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" at the Graz University of Art (KUG). The production took place anyway. His 100th directorial work was Samuel Beckett's “The Last Tape”.

The Kunstuniversität Graz also praised Binder's work on the “Operas of the Future” project, with the staging he would have conveyed a clear socio-political message. Obituaries came from City Councilor for Culture Lisa Rücker (Greens) and KPÖ Deputy Mayor Elke Kahr .

Surname

After a fatal fall of his pregnant wife, Ernst Binder took her first name Marianne as a middle name , “to bury her in me”. Only later did he and his son visit her grave in the cemetery.

Awards

  • 1976 scholarship for literature from the state of Styria
  • 1993 Max-Ophüls Prize for the film adaptation of Wedding Night , directed by Pol Cruchten
  • 2003 State Art Prize of the State of Upper Austria
  • 2008 Awarded the professional title of Professor
  • 2009 Drama Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Art and Culture

Works

Literary works

  • 1973 Flowers that only bloom in prison (cycle of poems)
  • 1973 Escape (novel)
  • 1975 fragments (short stories)
  • 1977 cross-border commuters (short stories)
  • 1979 The smile at the foot of withdrawal (cycle of poems)
  • 1983 wedding night (play, world premiere at Schauspielhaus Graz )
  • 1999 Der Schatten der Palme (play, world premiere Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin )
  • 2005 Beckett.Silence (play, world premiere dramagraz)
  • 2010 What hangs life like fog over the Kukuruz (play, world premiere dramagraz)
  • 2011 DAS STUMME H or Why the earth is flat and the happiness of the parrot of the melancholic (texts, edition graz, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna)

Most important productions

  • 1992: My dog ​​mouth by Werner Schwab (premiere, Schauspielhaus Wien, invited to the theater festival AUA! WIR LEBEN, Bern)
  • 1993: The crane mask that shines at night by Yoko Tawada (WP, "steirischer herbst '93")
  • 1994: The festival of Klaus Rohleder (premiere, Bühnen der Stadt Gera, invited to the theater festival AUA! WIR LEBEN, Bern, nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen 1995)
  • 1995: Trumpets of the dead by Einar Schleef (premiere, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage '95, the Potsdamer Theatertage and the Heidelberger Stückemarkt, nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen 1995)
  • 1996: The hour when we didn't know about each other by Peter Handke (Slovene premiere, Slovene National Theater DRAMA, Ljubljana)
  • 1997: Three old people dance the tango by Einar Schleef (premiere, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, invited to the Mülheimer Theatertagen '97)
  • 1997: Nothing becomes nothing by Bertolt Brecht (premiere, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin)
  • 1998: The stones by Gert Jonke (premiere, Stadttheater Klagenfurt )
  • 1999: The farmers by Heiner Müller (Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen 1995)
  • 2002: Eulen.Spiegel by Werner Fritsch ( premier , Staatstheater Braunschweig )
  • 2002: body and wife of Elfriede Jelinek (premiere, forum stadtpark theater, Graz and schauspiel frankfurt)
  • 2003: An attempt on the successful day by Peter Handke (WP, forum stadtpark theater, Graz)
  • 2003: Black Jack by Franzobel (premiere, Festwochen Gmunden, invited to the IMPULSE 2004 theater meeting)
  • 2003: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (Slovenian National Theater DRAMA, Ljubljana)
  • 2005: Das Blaue vom Himmel by Ernst Marianne Binder (WP, dramagraz)
  • 2006 Beckett.Silence by Ernst Marianne Binder (WP, dramagraz)
  • 2007: Harmony by Herbert Achternbusch (premiere, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen )
  • 2010: What hangs life like fog over the Kukuruz by Ernst Marianne Binder (WP, dramagraz)
  • 2011: Have a good trip, goodbye by Einar Schleef (WP, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen)
  • 2012: God is a German by Fiston Mwanza (WP, La Strada, Graz)
  • 2012: Alice by Ernst Marianne Binder, Periklis Liakakis and Sophie Reyer , ( WP , Oberzeiring workshop)
  • 2013: No light by Elfriede Jelinek (ÖE, Dom im Berg, Graz)
  • 2014: So much more in life - operas of the future , 4 short operas by Wen-Cheh Lee , Zesses Seglias , Yukiko Watanabe and Lorenzo Romano (UA Oper Graz)
  • 2014: feminine / masculin by Bodo Hell , Periklis Liakakis and Ernst Marianne Binder ( WP , Literaturhaus Graz)
  • 2015: Greed by Sarah Kane (dramagraz)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Director and author Ernst M. Binder is dead . ORF Styria , January 28, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Sabine Leucht: Tenderness in the Dark . Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 13, 2010.
  3. biography . Ernst Marianne Binder's website, accessed January 31, 2017.
  4. Heinz Janisch: "We can do nothing but language" Menschenbilder, Radio Ö1, orf.at, May 1, 2011, repeated February 5, 2017, 2:05 pm (radio broadcast 50 min.) - 7 days to listen to. Downloadable for 30 days for a fee.