Martin Heckmanns

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Martin Heckmanns reads in the palace in the Great Garden .

Martin Heckmanns (born October 19, 1971 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German writer and playwright .

Life

Heckmanns is the son of the artist and educator couple Jutta and Jürgen Heckmanns. He grew up in Herford , where he passed his Abitur at Friedrichs-Gymnasium in 1990 . He lives in Berlin (as of 2020) and studied philosophy, history and comparative literature and completed his studies with a thesis on jokes in early romanticism . He has published short prose in magazines and anthologies , and has written plays that have been performed in more than ten countries. He has received numerous prizes and grants, most recently in 2008 with the Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld and the Margarete Schrader Prize of the University of Paderborn in 2012. In 2002, he was voted young dramatist of the year in the critics' survey conducted by theater heute magazine . In 2003 and 2004 he received the audience award at the Mülheim Theater Days . He taught scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts , the Wolfenbüttel Federal Academy and “New Plays from Europe” at the Wiesbaden Biennale, at the workshop days at the Vienna Burgtheater and at the Swiss Drama Processor. Between 2009 and 2012, Heckmanns was dramaturge and in-house author at the Dresden State Theater . In 2012, Heckmanns was awarded the Margarete Schrader Prize .

Plays

  • Finnish or I might want to touch you. World premiere on October 22, 1999 at the Herford City Theater , directed by Zeno Stanek. Cultural promotion award of the Herford district in 1998. Produced as a radio play by Swiss radio DRS 2 (director: Stefan Heilmann).
  • Disco. World premiere on December 15, 2001 at the Dresden State Theater, director: KD Schmidt. Jürgen Ponto Award 2000.
  • Shoot it, department store! World premiere on May 9, 2002 at the TiF / Staatsschauspiel Dresden as a co-production with Theaterhaus Jena , Sophiensaele Berlin and Thalia Theater Hamburg , director: Simone Blattner. Published in: Spectaculum 74 , Suhrkamp 2003. Audience award at the Mülheimer Theatertagen 2003.
  • Sick. World premiere on March 11, 2004 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , director: Simone Blattner. Published in Edition Suhrkamp, ​​2003 (together with Finnish). Audience award at the Mülheim Theater Days 2004.
  • Invocation of the Lord. World premiere on May 13, 2004 at the TiF / Staatsschauspiel Dresden, director: Patrick Wengenroth. Published in: Theater heute 2004/7.
  • 4 million doors (together with Thomas Melle ). World premiere on October 1, 2004 in the Werkraum at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , director: Eike Hannemann. Produced as a radio play by Swiss Radio DRS 2 (Director: Stefan Heilmann).
  • The wonderful in-between thing. World premiere on February 10, 2005 at the Schauspiel Hannover , director: Charlotte Roos. Published: in Spectaculum 76 , Suhrkamp 2005.
  • The love of emptiness. World premiere on January 26, 2006 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , directed by Simone Blattner. Published in: Frankfurt Positions. What is good is what you like , Verlag der Autor 2006.
  • Words and bodies. World premiere on February 10, 2007 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , director: Hasko Weber . Published in: Theater der Zeit 2007/2. Invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage 2007, the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Autorentheatertage at the Thaliatheater Hamburg.
  • A man is born. First performance on March 24, 2007 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Director: Rafael Sanchez . Invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Author Theater Days at the Thalia Theater Hamburg. Produced as a radio play by SWR (Director: Iris Droegekamp ).
  • Part of the goose. World premiere on October 10, 2007 at the Kammerspiele at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Director: Philipp Preuss .
  • We're not getting out of here alive. Attempt by a heroine , premiere: April 25, 2010 in the small house of the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, director: Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer
  • Future forever. World premiere on September 12, 2009 at the Dresden State Theater. Director: Simone Blattner.
  • Father mother ghost train. World premiere on May 6, 2011 at the Dresden State Theater. Director: Kristof Frick. Printed in theater heute 2011/8. Invited to the Mülheim Theater Days, the Heidelberg Play Market and the Wiesbaden Theater Biennale New plays from Europe .
  • We are many and ride without a horse. World premiere on May 20, 2012 at the Stuttgart State Theater. Director: Marc Lunghuss. Printed in theater heute , 2012/8.
  • One and one. World premiere on November 15, 2012 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . Director: Dominic Friedel.
  • It will be once. World premiere on December 14, 2013 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Director: Anselm Weber . Printed in theater heute , 2014/2.
  • The audience. World premiere on September 19, 2015 at the Dresden State Theater. Director: Roger Vontobel .
  • My heart is pure . World premiere on September 11, 2016 at the Dresden State Theater. Director: Evgeny Titov
  • The vertigo and its opposite. World premiere on June 6, 2018 at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich as part of the Zurich Festival on the subject of "Beauty and Madness". Director: Simone Blattner.
  • My father and his shadows . World premiere on February 21, 2020 at the Münster Theater. Director: Frank Behnke.

Edits

  • Carlo Goldoni, the servant of two masters . Premiere at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden on November 21, 2013. Director: Bettina Bruinier.
  • Moliere, the conceited sick man . Premiere at Theater Bonn on December 6, 2019. Director: Simone Blattner.

literature

  • Marcus Twellmann: Contrary to the rule . In: Martin Heckmanns: Finnish. Sick. Pieces and materials . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2003
  • What does the theater do with these texts? Discussion based on the example of Martin Heckmanns' “Shooting, department store!” And Sarah Kane's “4.48 Psychosis” . In: Dramaturgie, Zeitschrift der Dramaturgische Gesellschaft , Issue 1/2003, pp. 19–24
  • Natalie Bloch: Pop aesthetic procedures in theater texts by René Pollesch and Martin Heckmanns . In: German lessons. Theaterdidaktik , 2004, no. 2, pp. 57–70
  • Jerome Carroll: Indeterminacy as a Method. The endless pieces by Martin Heckmanns . In: David Barnett, Moray McGowan, Karen Jürs-Munby (eds.): The analog is reluctant to the digital? Materialities of German theater in a world of the virtual . Publisher Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2005
  • Katrin Bettina Müller: I have an image disorder . In: Spectaculum 76 . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2005
  • Simone Kaempf: Martin Heckmanns - Who am I, and if so, how many? In: Barbara Engelhardt, Andrea Zagorski (Hrsg.): Piece-Werk 5, German-language drama . Publisher Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008
  • Sandra Berchtel, The Art of Reduction: Minimalism in Literature and Film (About Kaurismäki, Jarmusch, Fosse and Heckmanns). vdm-Verlag 2008
  • Gerhard Jörder: Sleep with me, you haven't got anything planned anyway . In: Die Zeit , No. 43/2007; portrait
  • Dirk Pilz: We are made of language . Portrait. In: Zitty ; http://www.zitty.de/wir-sind-aus-sprache-machen/ , accessed on October 16, 2016
  • Katrin Bettina Müller The joke of the desperate . In: taz

Standalone publications

  • Finnish / sick. Pieces and materials . Edition Suhrkamp Theater, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-13435-1 .
  • Father Mother Ghost Train / We can't get out of here alive / Part of the goose . Suhrkamp Spectaculum, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42379-0 .
  • Constantine in the forest of words . mixtvision-verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944572-11-6 . (World premiere of the stage version at the Kresch-Theater Krefeld on February 28, 2020, version and direction: Franz Mestre.)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Bittner: A literature course makes theater , in: Neue Westfälische , October 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Martin Heckmanns. www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de, accessed on August 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Press release of the University of Paderborn: “Margarete Schrader Prize” of the University of Paderborn awarded to Martin Heckmanns ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Uwe Wittstock: Martin Heckmanns. Change the world to fit dreams. Martin Heckmann's linguistic and revolutionary drama "Kränk" premiered in Frankfurt. ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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. In: Uwe-Wittstock.de . March 16, 2004. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uwe-wittstock.de
  5. ↑ Gerhard Stadelmaier: Love is just a sport . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 36 , February 12, 2005, p. 35 ( online [accessed January 1, 2014]).
  6. ↑ Dirk Pilz: In the intermediate space of language In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 13, 2007.
  7. ↑ Andreas Rossmann: I have to get out of here . FAZ.net , April 26, 2010
  8. ↑ Irene Bazinger: We're playing so beautifully the Dresden opening with “Future Forever” . In: FAZ.net , September 15, 2009.
  9. ^ Anke Dürr: Educational drama in Dresden . Spiegel Online , May 4, 2011.
  10. ↑ Dennis Baranski: nachtkritik.de In: Nachtkritik.de, November 15, 2012
  11. ^ Cornelia Fiedler: Small attempt at world theater. Martin Heckmanns' play "Es wird geht once" in Bochum . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 20, 2013.
  12. ^ Daniele Muscionico: Zurich Festival with critical analysis: Ene, mene, muh, and you're out | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 8, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Heckmanns, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 19th October 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach