Götz Loepelmann

Götz Loepelmann on April 10, 2017 in his studio

Götz Loepelmann (born December 24, 1930 in Berlin ; † August 31, 2017 in Tenerife ) was a German painter , set designer , director , author , draftsman , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Götz Loepelmann was born in 1930 in Berlin-Mitte and lived in Berlin-Frohnau until 1960 . Originally his last name was Löpelmann (with umlaut), but he wanted to differentiate himself from his father Martin Löpelmann . Loepelmann studied from 1950 to 1954 at the master school for arts and crafts (today the University of Fine Arts ) in Berlin. From 1955 he worked as a freelance painter and designer.

As a painter, graphic artist and draftsman, Götz Loepelmann has created an extensive work of pictures and sculptures since the 1950s, which shows an artist with profundity through craftsmanship and the choice of his mythical motifs (often underworld). Many pictures are marked by a compassionate empathy for the battered and abused. But political motives from all phases that Germany has experienced can also be seen again and again.

In 1961 he moved to Hamburg . Several children's books were created here. He worked as an advertising and exhibition designer a. a. for Volkswagen AG . In 1969 Loepelmann began accepting commissions as a sculptor for the city of Hamburg.

Götz Loepelmann taught as a guest lecturer at San Francisco State University in 1969/1970 .

His first marriage was to Rita Herms, with whom he had two children. Götz Loepelmann was married to actress Grischa Huber since 1999 .

In 1990 he built himself a studio on the island of Tenerife - "because of the light," as he said. In 1991 Götz Loepelmann finally emigrated to the Canary Island , where he lived and worked. For larger paintings he often used the very resilient hardboard instead of canvases . Most recently he worked on completing his catalog raisonné . In the summer of 2017 Götz Loepelmann was accepted into the archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Götz Loepelmann died on August 31, 2017 at the age of 86 in Tenerife.

Cooperation with Peter Zadek

Calle Corta

In 1972 he began his career in the theater and he became friends with Peter Zadek . First he worked as a commercial artist for the production of Little Man, now what? worked by Peter Zadek. As early as 1973 he developed the set and the equipment for The Seagull , in 1974 also the set and equipment for Tankred Dorst's Ice Age . In 1977 Götz Loepelmann was responsible for the set-up for Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler , in 1983 set design and set-up for master builder Solness , also by Ibsen, and in 1991 finally the stage for When we dead awaken by Ibsen.

Stage sets

• 1976: Set design for The Great Zenobia by Pedro Calderón de la Barca , director: Augusto Fernandes ; Schauspielhaus Bochum .
• 1979: Die Perle , Theater am Goetheplatz, Bremen .
• 1988: Don Giovanni , Het Muziektheater Amsterdam.
• 1994: How Dilldapp went after the giant by Tankred Dorst , Deutsches Schauspielhaus , Hamburg.
• 1997: Urfaust by JW von Goethe, in the translation by Miguel Saenz at the Teatro de la Abadia Madrid.
• 1998: Emil and the detectives by Erich Kästner , Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg.
• 2002: The Threepenny Opera by Bert Brecht , directed by Uli Waller, St. Pauli Theater Hamburg.
• 2004: Idylls by Ernst Jandl with the theater troupe “Ladies and Gentlemen”, directed by Adelheid Müther, Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg.
• 2005: Peterchens Mondfahrt by Gerdt von Bassewitz , St. Pauli Theater Hamburg.
• 2006: Süßer Vogel Jugend directed by Adelheid Müther, Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg.

Director

"Burst stairs"

• 1973: Darwin's journey, Schauspielhaus Bochum (direction, text, set design).
• 1979: Die Perle , Theater am Goetheplatz, Bremen.
• 1985: Pünktchen and Anton , Schauspielhaus Bochum.
• 1994: How Dilldapp went after the giant by Tankred Dorst , Deutsches Schauspielhaus , Hamburg.
• 1997: Urfaust after JW von Goethe, in the translation by Miguel Saenz at the Teatro de la Abadia Madrid.
• 1998: Emil and the detectives by Erich Kästner , Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
• 2001: The sounding house , Dorothea Renckhoff, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg.
• 2005: Peterchens Mondfahrt by Gerdt von Bassewitz , St. Pauli Theater Hamburg.

Books and plays

• Tatü Tata , children's book. Stalling Verlag, 1960.
• The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth: a melodramatic picture sheet by Karl May. Edited by Götz Loepelmann u. Astrid Fischer-Windorf. With figurines by Erika Landertinger. Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1977.
• The pearl - a piece based on a Chinese fairy tale for children. Bauer, Berlin 1982.
• May 35th or Konrad rides in the South Seas / Erich Kästner. Arranged by Götz Loepelmann and Dagmar Leding. Verlag für Kindertheater, Hamburg, 1990.
• Darwin's journey: a picture sheet for young and old . Bauer, Berlin 1994.
• Bladder, the naked dog, Skeleton Barbie and the Poet (dt. Bladder, naked dog ), play / children's book; German / English, text and illustrations Götz Loepelmann, 1995.
• Pajaro de Verano - Summer bird, the story of a butterfly , children's book, Spanish, text and illustrations Götz Loepelmann. Ayuntamiento de San Miguel 1997.
• The fat little prince or how to breed machos . Illustrated children's book, German / Spanish, in collaboration with Elvira Holguin, 2006.
• On road. Paths to Santiago, Paths to Happiness with 80 B / W photographs / Katharina John. hey! publishing Verlag, Munich 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Götz Loepelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Götz Loepelmann retrospective . Art and Culture Association Dissen e. V.
• Info page: Götz Loepelmann, Tenerife
• Catalog raisonné / catalog raisonné: Götz Loepelmann, so far unfinished

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elisabeth Plessen (ed.): Peter Zadek and his set designers: Wilfried Minks, Götz Loepelmann, Daniel Spoerri… Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88331-191-3 , p. 216 .
2. ↑ Teatro de la Abadia Madrid .