Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny

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Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny (* 1957 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian choreographer, author, director and filmmaker living in Germany.

Life and education

Lerchenberg-Thöny completed her dance training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. When dance pedagogue Edith Frandsen left the Vienna University of Music, Lerchenberg-Thöny switched to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung , where she completed her studies with Michel de Lutry and Konstanze Vernon with the artistic state examination (the university degree) .

Dance and choreography

Her first engagement led her to the ballet company of the Bavarian State Opera, today's Bavarian State Ballet. She danced - soon also as a soloist - in ballets by choreographers such as John Cranko , George Balanchine , Peter Wright , John Neumeier and almost the entire classical repertoire.

Enthusiastic about working with contemporary choreographers such as Lar Lubovitch , Johann Kresnik or Jiří Kylián , she broke off her career as a classical dancer in order to study modern / contemporary dance techniques in London and Paris.

Back in Germany, she became a soloist in the dance theater Kristina Horvath , who directed one of the first dance theater companies in the German-speaking area at the Osnabrück City Theater. It was here that she met her future husband Michael Lerchenberg . She went back to Munich with her husband. In 1984 she gave birth to a son.

She discovered the then lively, new Munich dance scene in order to soon become active as a choreographer, author, director and soloist of her own works.

Munich

After several evenings, her choreography from Miss Julie to August Strindberg in the autumn of 1986 showed her future path: The dance-like theatrical implementation of literary material - as well as the almost always present strongly socially critical aspect. Her first full-length play was performed in the spring of 1987: Lamento - the lament of women against war , an anti-war play from the point of view of women based on motifs by the playwright Hermann Broch .

This was followed the following year by DH Lawrence's play once living after The Girl and the Gypsy . The main role of the gypsy at her side was played by Dinko Bogdanic.

For her choreography Closed Society after Jean-Paul Sartre , again with Dinko Bogdanic and the State Opera soloist Rosina Kovacs and herself in the role of "Ines", she received the Munich Art Prize in the dance category. At the International Theater Festival in Cairo, she represented Germany with the Closed Society and won the “Prize of the International Jury” as well as the “Grand Prize of International Criticism” and the “Prize for the best theatrical implementation”. Furthermore, closed society was seen at the German Evangelical Church Congress in 1990, guest performance tours took her and her troupe through Germany, Austria and Italy, and at the invitation of the Goethe Institute to the international theater festival in Tunisia. When the cities of Munich and Kiev established their new friendship with a culture week in Kiev in the autumn of 1990 , Lerchenberg-Thöny represented the Munich dance scene in Kiev with a private company . For the first time after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, a piece by Jean-Paul Sartre could be seen in Ukraine and a modern dance language could be experienced. In the following year she choreographed the Oresty after Aeschylus with the music of Peter Michael Hamel and herself in the role of Clytaimnestra .

Chief choreographer and dance theater director

Since 1986 Lerchenberg-Thöny has performed her choreographies in her hometown Innsbruck. With the guest performance "Orestie" she won over the Swiss Dominique Mentha , from 1992 the new artistic director at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck , so that he installed her as the director of a newly founded dance theater. For the first time in Austria, modern dance theater was firmly tied to a house.

As dance theater director and chief choreographer at the Tiroler Landestheater, she continued her exploration of literary subjects after a Sylphides production in which she dissolved this romantic ballet into a contemporary dance theater humoresque. This is how u. a. the pieces Der Weibsteufel after Karl Schönherr with the music by Werner Pirchner , Der Idiot after Dostojewski or Bluthochzeit and Yerma after Federico García Lorca .

At the time, critics spoke of a dramaturgy from Innsbruck, as the selection of pieces dealt with Austrian themes, authors and composers. But the socio-critical aspect always remained her concern. With Rosa Winter to the music of the Tyrolean composer Bert Breit , she choreographed and staged the story of a Sinti who was persecuted under National Socialism to this day, based on a true story . The dance theater production was recorded by ORF and broadcast on ORF and 3Sat. The company also impressed with this choreography in Vienna on the occasion of the minority year “Roma - Myth and Reality”. With the resumption of their Munich anti-war play Lamento , the young dance theater company of the Tiroler Landestheater gave a guest performance in Moscow and Novgorod . With her psycho-chair circle dance theater "And I love you so?", Which was stormed by the audience, she set a humorous conclusion and highlight of her Tyrolean dance theater management.

During her time as dance theater director in Innsbruck, Lerchenberg-Thöny was a member of the stage advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Art and Culture, responsible for theater and dance. She also founded and directed the Tanzsommer Innsbruck , a festival that is still going on. In the summer of 1995, she went back to Munich with her family at her own request.

Municipal theaters Augsburg

In the summer of 1997 she went to the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg as a dance theater director , where, among other things, her Medea to the music of G. Kancheli was premiered. Her production there, And I love you so , won the audience award at the Bavarian Theater Days in Würzburg in 1998. The solo evening Callas Maria was awarded the star of the week by the Munich evening newspaper . Her solo recital Callas had previously premiered at the International Theater Festival in Tunisia and, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute, also made guest appearances in Cairo, Belem and at the Bavarian Theater Days in Krakow . She then interrupted her theater work in order to work as an author, journalist and filmmaker after further training in journalism.

International

Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny also worked time and again as a freelance choreographer and director a. a. in Germany, Austria, Brazil, Egypt, Tunisia (often in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut). On multiple invitations from Egypt, the Austrian Embassy, ​​the EU and, above all, again from the Goethe Institute, she brought parts of the State Opera ensemble, as well as independent actors and dancers to the experimental stage of the Cairo State Opera, demonstratively cheered by critics and audience, despite difficulties with local politics Dance theater and drama version by Woyzeck . Further invitations followed.

For her successful choreographic work at home and abroad, Lerchenberg-Thöny was awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Art in 1996 in the dance division, the Bavarian State Prize.

Theater direction and choreography

Her husband Michael Lerchenberg became director of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel in the 2004 season . For its first summer festival, she wrote an open-air theater version of Astrid Lindgren's Ronja the robber's daughter . When the designated director was canceled at short notice, she stepped in and also staged the play.

In summer 2005 she staged her version of Robin Hood for the Luisenburg . In 2006, after a choreographic interlude in Brazil, director Dieter Gackstetter brought her to the Landestheater Coburg as a guest choreographer for her dance theater “Romeo and Juliet” .

State Theater Braunschweig

In 2007, Lerchenberg-Thöny accepted General Director Wolfgang Gropper's appointment as chief choreographer and dance theater director at the Braunschweig State Theater . In addition to her piece And I love you so , there were u. a. her dance theater productions Don Ouichote , Carmen and Macbeth as modern political drama and hunting scenes , her examination of the murder of an Algerian asylum seeker by neo-Nazis in Guben in Brandenburg in February 1999. With her Braunschweig dance theater company she made guest appearances in 2008 in Beijing , Canton and Shanghai and in In summer 2009 she was invited to a festival in South Africa with “Hunting Scenes”.

As before in Innsbruck, Lerchenberg-Thöny also founded an international festival in Braunschweig, the TanzWelten , which was to take place every spring during her Braunschweig years. She brought contemporary companies, a. a. from India, Togo, Egypt, Iceland, Denmark, Senegal, Austria and Norway, to Braunschweig and called all state and city theater companies to a “Long Night of Dance” as part of the last festival of their work there. During her time in Braunschweig, she was a member of the jury at the international choreography competition in Hanover.

When Groppers ended her directorship, she went back to Munich at her own request, first to work as a journalist again, but now also with the film camera.

Author, journalist, filmmaker

After training as a journalist and later training as a video journalist, Lerchenberg-Thöny first worked in the editorial offices of Münchner Merkur and then at the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

As a freelance journalist, social issues and issues related to children and young people were particularly close to her heart.

Her children's book series Frederico - the U-Bahnmaus , published in 2003 under the pseudonym Eva-Maria Thöny, is still read in Austrian elementary schools today. Children's plays such as Ronja the robber's daughter , Robin Hood , The Little Viking and the family musical Heidi under the pseudonym Eva Toffol followed.

In autumn 2013, ARD and ORF broadcast their report Strong Women of the Sinti and Roma .

Director

As part of the 2015 anniversary festival summer of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel , she was again active as a writer, director and choreographer for the family play The Little Viking .

For the 2016 season, she reworked her dance theater production Bluthochzeit and for the first time combined acting and dance theater scenes or added dancing actors and speaking dancers to form a homogeneous ensemble. For the 2017 season of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel, Lerchenberg-Thöny wrote, staged and choreographed the family musical Heidi with music by Hans-Jürgen Buchner and his group Haindling .

family

Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny has been married to Michael Lerchenberg since 1983 . Both have a son together.

Honourings and prices

  • Art Promotion Prize of the Free State of Bavaria (Bavarian State Prize)
  • Promotion award of the city of Munich for interpretive art
  • "Grand Prize of the International Jury" (Jury: Peter Brook, Martin Esslin, Eugene Ionesco)
  • “International Critique Prize” at the International Festival for Experimental Art in Cairo
  • The "Star of the Week" of the Munich evening newspaper for their solo evening "Callas Maria"
  • Audience award at the Bavarian Theater Days in Würzburg for their Augsburg dance theater production "And I love you so ...?"

Publications

Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny publishes her works under the name Eva-Maria Thöny .

literature

  • Austria dances by Andrea Amort, Boehlau Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99226-1 .
  • Ballet and dance theater by Dieter Gackstetter and Maria Pinzl, nymphenburger Munich 1990, ISBN 3-485-00623-8 .
  • Theater wonder Luisenburg various authors, book & art publisher Oberpfalz Amberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95587-018-8 .
  • Staatstheater Braunschweig 97-10 various authors, Appelhans Braunschweig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-23-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Free - and full of energy . In: Mercury . September 20, 2006 ( merkur.de [accessed August 15, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Innsbruck. (Not) a good dance floor? Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 2004 - Luisenburg Current. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ On the magic of a place: The Luisenburg and its festival . In: Mercury . July 20, 2005 ( merkur.de [accessed August 15, 2018]).
  5. ^ Artists 2010 - Pop meets Classic. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 2015 - Luisenburg News. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 2016 - Luisenburg News. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Musical: Heidi romps through the Luisenburg . In: Nordbayerischer Kurier . ( nordbayerischer-kurier.de [accessed on August 15, 2018]).
  9. ↑ 2017 - Luisenburg News. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Press release of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art No. 96/197. Retrieved on August 15, 2018 .
  11. ^ A b Andrea Amort, Mimi Wunderer-Gosch: Austria dances. Past and present . Böhlau, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99226-1 , p. 277 .
personal data
SURNAME Lerchenberg-Thöny, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choreographer, author, director and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck