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Gotthart Kuppel (* 1946 in Bremen ), after initially being a judo athlete and doctor, has become an actor, slack rope artist, performer, theater director, playwright, librettist and finally object artist.

biography

In 1965 Kuppel graduated from high school in Bremen. From 1960 to 1972 he was active in judo; In 1968 he was third in the student world championship, then, after six months of training in Japan, he was a member of the Olympic squad for 1972. In 1965 and 1966, Kuppel did his military service; In 1983 he refused.

In 1966 he began studying medicine at the University of Munich , and in 1973 he passed the state examination there. 1986 dome at the University of Bochum for "Dr. med. ”is doing his doctorate with the dissertation on the health behavior of actors .

He got his first theatrical work through judo: in 1970 he arranged a brawl. After acting as an actor in Munich and Bremen, he worked for Peter Zadek at the Schauspielhaus Bochum from 1975 to 1979 as an actor, assistant director, dramaturge, acrobat, musician and body trainer. He then worked as an actor and artist at various German theaters.

Since 1970 he has also appeared as a soloist; as a slacker, cabaret artist, joker and performer, he gave himself the name "Doctor Kuppels Combination Art". He played in Germany, Japan, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic.

From 1982 he also worked as a director, especially at the theater for children. Through directorial work and his own directorial versions, he came to intensified literary work. In addition to short prose, Kuppel wrote plays, librettos and numerous arrangements for the theater. In 1991 he received the Bremen Literature Grant.

From 1998 he exhibited his objects as a visual artist in various galleries. In 2010 he became a member of the BBK (Professional Association of Visual Artists) Bremen. He lives and works in Bremen and Tenerife .

Productions (selection)

• 1987 Schumann's Children's Scenes, GK (Munich)
• 1989 The Bizarre Game Something, Albert Drach (Esslingen)
• 1990 O how beautiful is Panama, GK to Janosch (Braunschweig)
• 1990 The evening crane, Junji Kinoshita (Esslingen)
• 1991 O how beautiful is Panama, GK to Janosch (Münster)
• 1991 Schumann's Children's Scenes, GK (Gelsenkirchen)
• 1991 Shots in the theater, GK (Bremen)
• 1992 Report on the death of the musician Jack Tiergarten, opera by Johannes Kalitzke based on Thomas Brasch (Wiesbaden)
• 1994 Report on the death of the musician Jack Tiergarten, opera by Johannes Kalitzke based on Thomas Brasch (Gelsenkirchen, coproduction with the Bavarian State Opera , Munich Biennale )
• 1994 America does not exist, GK after Peter Bichsel (Neuss)
• 1995 The trip to Brazil, Daniil Charms (Gelsenkirchen)
• 1995 Pompinien, Ingeborg von Zadow (Konstanz)
• 1996 Sonata in Urlauten, Kurt Schwitters (Freiburg)
• 1996 From the Notebook of the Evening King, GK after Günter Bruno Fuchs (Constance)
• 1997 América no existe, GK after Peter Bichsel (Quito, Ecuador)
• 1997 Schmackel Bunz or The Yellow Dog, GK after Ernst Jandl (Halle)
• 1998 Schmackel Bunz or The Yellow Dog, GK after Ernst Jandl (Freiburg)
• 1998 jacket like pants, Manfred Karge (Halle)
• 1998 Atlantis Spinner, GK (Heidelberg)
• 1999 The lesson, Eugène Ionesco (Neuss)
• 2000 XYZ, Friedrich Karl Waechter (Constance)
• 2001 Lenz, Georg Büchner (Freiburg)
• 2004 The mussel meal, Birgit Vanderbeke (Freiburg)

Theater performances (selection)

• 1979 The first crossing of Niagara Falls on the slack rope (Bochum)
• 1979 The Mehrschein (Bochum)
• 1981 Freedom has two eggs (Bremen)
• 1981 It dies beautifully: Types of death in German (Bremen)
• 1987 Manhood (with Malte Jaspersen; Wrocław)
• 1988 Tea for Two (with Malte Jaspersen; Bremen)
• 1994 The high rope or the hunt for happiness (based on Emanuel von Bodman; director: Werner Eggenhofer; Meersburg)
• 1995 To Tenerife and back (Tenerife)
• 1999 Flying (Tenerife)
• 2005 Flying with Music ((with Ingo Ahmels ) on the small piano; Bremen)
• 2016 I broke my leg once, it was the best experience of my life, Kafka and sounds, with Ingo Ahmels , wing sounds

Performances on fine arts (selection)

• 1989 The self-conscious look
• 1992 Risor mortis
• 1992 On the need for imbalance
• 1995 Naturaleza viva
• 1998 Atlas
• 2002 Globalizing still life
• (all in the Sala Conca, La Laguna, Tenerife)
• 2003 In physical terms, Producciones Gráficas, Los Majuelos (Tenerife)
• 2004 Friendship between humans and animals, Sala Conca
• 2005 About Volcanoes Flying (with various employees), Prod. Gráf., Los Majuelos
• 2005 Death in search of his image, Sala Conca.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1998 Sala Conca with Eve-Maria Zimmermann (EMZ)
• 1998 Atelier Am Schwarzen Meer, Bremen
• 1999, 2000, 2002 Ostertor bookshop, Bremen
• 2003 Hanging studio at the Black Sea
• 2003 Terzo Gallery, Berlin
• 2004 Sala Conca (with EMZ)
• 2004 meeting in the European House, Städtische Galerie Trebon, Czech Republic (with Tilman Rothermel) and (with Wolfgang Schmitz )
• 2004 Gallery Schraffur, Bremen (with EMZ)
• 2004, 2005, 2006 bookstore Ostertor
• 2007 hearing and seeing, Hofgalerie, Bremen (with Ingo Ahmels )
• 2008 Art sticks, Museo Casa de El Capitán, San Miguel de Abona, Tenerife
• 2008 TotenTanz 111, Sala Conca
• 2010 Al pied del objeto, Aljibe, San Miguel de Abona, Tenerife
• 2011 The Moral of Objects, KunstBox, Bremen
• 2013 Vértigo (with Patricia Delgado), Sala Conca, Tenerife

Group exhibitions since 1999

• La Laguna, Los Cristianos, San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife), Pilsen, Olomouc (Czech Republic), Berlin, Bremen
• 2008: Old Masters - New Spirits, Bremen / Ahrensburg
• 2013: There is talk of war, Bremen / Prague / Benešov / Vienna / Sarajevo / Berlin
• 2014: Reciclarte, Santiago de Cuba
• 2015: Figuras Negras, La Habana, Cuba

Works

• Plays:
• 1987 Schumann's Children's Scenes (Publishing House Authors Agency, Berlin)
• 1991 Shots in the theater (publishing house author agency, Berlin)
• 2000 Atlantisspinner, in: Theater of the Generations, ed. by Henning Fangauf, Wilhelmshaven
• 2004 The Autumn of the Patriarch, libretto for Giorgio Battistelli's opera based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez (Premiere Bremen)

• Arrangements for the theater:
• 1987: A mess in the suit , according to Christian Morgenstern
• 1990: O how beautiful is Panama , according to Janosch
• 1994: America does not exist , according to Peter Bichsel
• 1995: The trip to Brazil , to Daniil Charms
• 1996: From the Evening King's notebook , based on Günter Bruno Fuchs
• 1997: Schmackel Bunz or: The yellow dog , after Ernst Jandl
• 1992: 13 highly personal, incomplete and probably contradicting notes on theater for children , in: Contributions to children's theater, elementary school / practice elementary school
• 2003: Nature is funny / La naturaleza es chistosa (short prose in German and Spanish), Producciones Gráficas, Los Majuelos, Tenerife

literature

• Eugen Wohlhaupter: Dr. Dome combined . In: Kursbuch Bremen, 1982.
• Manfred Jahnke: Schumann's children's scenes . In: Reclams Kindertheaterführer, 100 pieces for a young stage, ed. from the Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany, Stuttgart 1994.
• Ulrike Schanko: 13 inevitably personal, definitely incomplete and probably contradicting notes on the theater of the Gotthart cupola . In: Piece-Werk 2 (workbook Theater der Zeit), ed. by Gerd Taube, Berlin / Frankfurt 1998.
• Elena Morales: Volando sobre Volcanes - Un performance para soñar (Flying over volcanoes - A performance to dream). In: Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna No. 20, La Laguna, Tenerife 2005.
• objetos - objects 1998–2006 (catalog), Prod. Gráf., Los Majuelos, Tenerife 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gotthart Kuppel in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.kafka-barrierefrei.de

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1. ↑ http://www.totentanz-online.de/kuenstler/zimmermann-kuppel.php