Leopold Huber

Leopold Huber (born October 20, 1955 in Harrau ) is an Austrian author, theater and film director .

Life

Huber was born in the Upper Austrian Mühlviertel as the son of a large farming family. He has seven siblings. At a young age he went to Vienna. After graduating from the higher technical federal teaching and research institute Vienna 5 Spengergasse , he studied psychology and psychiatry for three semesters at the University of Vienna . This was followed by studying directing and acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar at the University of Music and Performing Arts, as well as a music-dramatic seminar with Marcel Prawy and Lothar Knessl from 1976 to 1979.

From 1979 to 1981 he worked as an assistant director at the St. Gallen Theater. Since 1981 he has worked as a freelance writer, theater and film director. Together with his wife, the actress Astrid Keller , he has been running the See-Burgtheater in Kreuzlingen since 1994 .

He lives with her and their three children in Altnau today .

Works

Theater productions

In addition to many productions at Kreuzlinger See-Burgtheater, Huber has so far also staged several classical stage plays at other well-known theaters in German-speaking countries, including:

• Woyzeck (Theater St. Gallen)
• Robinson learns to dance, ( Stadttheater Konstanz )
• Recordings of a madman (Stadttheater Konstanz)
• Visiting time ( Landestheater Linz )
• Heim (world premiere at the Landestheater Linz)
• Moldaublick (world premiere at the Landestheater Linz)
• He wants to make a joke Johann ( Salzburger Landestheater )
• The girl from the suburbs (Salzburg State Theater)
• The servant of two masters ( Theater Ulm )
• The Threepenny Opera ( United Stages Bozen )
• Romeo and Juliet ( Vorarlberger Landestheater )
• Servant of two masters (Vorarlberger Landestheater)
• Abduction from the Seraglio ( Heidenheim Opera Festival )

Filmography

• 1982: Brainburn (also production)
• 1985: 24 hours Ulysses (assistant director to Douglas Wolfsperger )
• 1991: Mirakel (awarded at the Biberach Film Festival 1990)
• 1993: father, dear father
• 1995: Every 3rd Sunday

Books

• 1989: Zug to the south (short story; Lenos Verlag, Basel) ISBN 978-3-85787-188-7
• 1993: Visitation (dramatic poem; Edition Thanhäuser , Linz) ISBN 978-3-900986-09-4
• 2001: Pleasure and frustration in the provinces. 11 years of free theater work (theater book; Neptun Verlag, Kreuzlingen) ISBN 978-3-85820-151-5

Audio books

• 1985: Aschenregen (with Andre Jung and Charlotte Schwab )
• 1986: Visitation (with Mathias Habich )

Awards

book

• Literature Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
• 1988: Authors' award from the Federation of Migros Cooperatives

Movie

• 1983: Award of the Concorde Filmverleihs , Munich
• Sponsorship award at the Max Ophül Film Festival , Saarbrücken
• 1st Prize Art Cinema Award CICAE Prize
• Golden unicorn at the Alpinale
• Grand Prize at the Ragazzi Film Festival, Bellinzona
• EDI study award
• 1991: Festival-Award in the category "Artistic Excellence" at the Chicago International Film Festival for Miracles as well as various other awards in Europe

theatre

• 2013: Thurgau Culture Prize

literature

• Simone Gojan: Leopold Huber . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 881 f.

Web links

• Leopold Huber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Leopold Huber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leopold Huber on "Heimat & Theater" ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 83 kB), interview by Johannes Fröhlich. 
2. ^ Leopold Huber , See-Burgtheater, Kreuzlingen, accessed on October 25, 2013.
3. ↑ Leopold Huber: Author, director and producer , Nachrichten.at, July 30, 2013.