Ferdinand Schmalz

Ferdinand Schmalz in front of the ORF Theater 2017

Ferdinand Schmalz (* 1985 in Graz as Matthias Schweiger ) is an Austrian playwright , prose writer and theater scholar.

Life

Ferdinand Schmalz grew up in Admont in Upper Styria. He studied theater studies and philosophy in Vienna. Schmalz was assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Wien and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. He is a member of the free collective “mulde_17” and is a co-founder of the “Suddenness” festival, which took place for the first time in June 2012 in the Theater im Bahnhof Graz. Commissioned works were created for the Schauspielhaus Graz , Schauspiel Leipzig and the Schauspielhaus Zürich . Ferdinand Schmalz lives in Vienna.

In 2017 he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with my favorite animal is winter .

Awards

• 2013: Retzhofer Dramapreis for the example of butter
• 2013: 2nd place at the MDR literature prize for the short prose schlammland. violence
• 2013: Participation in the authors' lounge at the Kaltstart Festival Hamburg
• 2014: Invitation to the pieces. Mülheimer Theatertagen NRW with the example of butter
• 2014: Young dramatists 2014 in the critics survey of the yearbook of Theater heute
• 2015: Opening of the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in a production by the Vienna Burgtheater with canned meat .
• 2017: Prize for the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor
• 2017: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize of the 41st Days of German-Language Literature
• 2018: Ludwig Mülheims Theater Prize
• 2018: Nestroy Theater Prize in the Best Play category - Author's Prize for Everyone (dies) at the Burgtheater
• 2020: Peter Rosegger Literature Prize

Works

Pieces

• using the example of butter . World premiere (premiere) March 2, 2014, Schauspiel Leipzig (discotheque)
• on the machine . Premiere September 12, 2015, Schauspielhaus Graz
• canned meat . Premiere June 13, 2015, Deutsches Theater Berlin in a production of the Burgtheater Wien (Casino) as part of the Author Theater Days of the German Theater
• the heart eater . Premiere November 20, 2015, Schauspiel Leipzig (discotheque)
• The thermal resistance . Premiere September 17, 2016, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• everyone (dies) , UA February 23, 2018, Burgtheater
• Der Tempelherr , WP March 3, 2019, Deutsches Theater Berlin

Radio plays

• the heart eater . Director: Hannah Georgi . RBB . 2016. 45 min.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Schmalz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ferdinand Schmalz at S. Fischer Theater & Medien
• Own website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mariella Moshammer: “I am not interested in a 'everyone' parody”. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . September 16, 2019, archived from the original on September 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ferdinand Schmalz: my favorite animal is called winter (full text). ORF, July 9, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
4. ↑ orf.at: Schmalz wins Bachmann Prize . Article dated July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.
5. ↑ diepresse.com: Peter Handke receives Nestroy for his life's work . Article dated October 10, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018.
6. ↑ Styrian Peter Rosegger Prize goes to Ferdinand Schmalz. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . May 8, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. The theater's schedule, accessed December 16, 2015.  
8. ^ Website of the Schauspielhaus Zürich ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
9. ↑ https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/az/der_tempelherr/ accessed on February 19, 2019