Gin Müller
Gin Müller (* 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater scholar, performance artist and dramaturge.
Life
Müller studied theater studies , philosophy and musicology at the University of Vienna .
From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Wien . There he was involved in the staging of Mark Ravenhills Shoppen und Ficken , in which the actors acted in the middle of the audience, bedded on sofas and mats. As the dramaturge of the Schauspielhaus, he helped the Volxtheater Favoriten to realize the weekly performance series Theme Attack there. In 2000 he was dismissed for political reasons by the theater director Hans Gratzer and was banned from the theater .
From 2001 he was involved as a co-founder of the Volxtheaterkarawane , which he helped shape until 2005. Since 2002, Müller has also worked continuously with the Vienna Theater Combine . In 2003 he received a one-year teaching assignment for “Performative Practice” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the same year he founded the feminist performance band SV Damenkraft together with Sabine Marte , Katrina Daschner and Christina Nemec . In 2008, together with SV Damenkraft, he designed the burlesque performance Orlanding the Dominant in the basement theater of the Wiener Konzerthaus .
In October 2009 Müller directed the performance Transcatholische Vögel, based on texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Hermes Phettberg , in the Künstlerhaus -Theater. It was there that in 2010 he staged the performance Who shot the Princess , which is based on the telenovela genre and based on modified texts by Elfriede Jelinek .
From 2017 to 2019, Müller held a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Müller is a lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna .
Fonts
- Antics of the performative. Theater, activism and queer politics . Turia + Kant publishing house, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-496-9 .
Web links
- Gin Müller CV
- Gini Müller in the basic art archive
- Gini Müller in the course database of the University of Vienna
- Transversal or Terror? Moving images of the VolxTheaterKarawane Text by Gini Müller
- Gin Müller , transversal.at
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, gin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Regine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater scholar, artist, dramaturge, assistant director and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |