Kristine Tornquist

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Kristine Tornquist

Kristine Tornquist (* 1965 in Graz ) is an Austrian artist, author, librettist and director. She is the founder of the artist group May 31 (1988), the Theater am Sofa (1997) and the Sirene Opera Theater (2001). Kristine Tornquist lives in Vienna and is married to Jury Everhartz .

education

After graduating from high school in Linz , she completed a degree in metal design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with distinction. In 1989 she completed her apprenticeship as a gold and silversmith .

plant

Although trained as a visual artist, Kristine Tornquist is best known for a certain format of musical theater that she herself has described as operelle, short or chamber opera. This format is ostensibly aimed at simplicity, efficiency and series production, but on closer inspection it turns out to be an ironic commentary on this zeitgeist. The minimalist simplicity of the pieces is juxtaposed with an ambiguous, indissoluble moral message.

Most of Tornquist's short operas were shown in the siren opera theater , which she co-founded , with Tornquist almost always responsible for both the libretto and the direction. While Tornquist initially often produced several independent short operas per year, more recently she has performed series of thematically related pieces that are shown on one evening or on several consecutive evenings. Among the composers involved are the most well-known representatives of Austrian and German avant-garde music, from sirene co-founder Jury Everhartz to Kurt Schwertsik , René Clemencic and many others. The productions are usually located in the off-theater area and make use of unusual production facilities such as the Viennese Narrenturm , the Art Nouveau theater (Vienna, Baumgartnerhöhe psychiatric hospital) or the so-called expedition hall of a former bread factory (Ankerbrot, Vienna Favoriten). The most elaborate productions to date include Nachts (2009), consisting of nine individual operas based on Leo Perutz , and alf laila wa laila (2011), eleven chamber operas based on the Arabian Nights .

In addition, Tornquist published prose texts in the literary magazine Manuskripte , worked as a journalist, made short films (in collaboration with Cornelius Burkert), built sound installations and performed performative work .

Novels

  • Zuper Billu (1998), a picaresque novel that was only published on the Internet and is still available at archive.org.

Texts set to music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sireneOperntheater, direction (accessed October 6, 2011)
  2. ↑ sireneOperntheater, What Happened So Far (accessed October 6, 2011)
  3. ↑ https://www.sirene.at/archiv/2009-nachts/ accessed on February 19, 2020
  4. ↑ sirene.at , accessed on February 19, 2020
  5. ^ Zuper Billu ( Memento from April 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ 9 Wunderkammer operas based on the novel Nachts unter der Steinernen Brücke by Leo Perutz on sirene.at, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ 11 chamber operas on sirene.at, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  8. ^ Siren Opera Theater: 2016 Hospital. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tornquist, Kristine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist, writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz