Ludwig Skumautz

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Ludwig Skumautz (born June 17, 1929 in Maria Gail near Villach , † April 2, 1987 in St. Veit an der Glan ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Skumautz completed training as a primary school teacher. He then went to the Mozarteum in Salzburg to study . His fellow students included a. Klaus Gmeiner , Thomas Bernhard and the later musicologist Sibylle Dahms . Skumautz also had closer friendly contacts with Gmeiner and Bernhard. In June 1957 he passed the stage maturity test at the Mozarteum. This was followed by engagements as an actor in Germany, in Heilbronn and Karlsruhe. When he returned to his homeland, he first worked as a teacher; later he was hired as a dramaturge and actor at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt .

Skumautz was very interested in the topic of popular education , especially in the non-professional theater. As a director and actor he was active in both amateur and professional acting. As early as 1944 he led various amateur theater groups, was a consultant and game director for youth organizations. In 1950 he took over the national amateur play group of the Carinthian educational institution. In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the theater makers who had a decisive influence on the Carinthian theater scene. In 1976 he began to set up the South Carinthian Summer Games in the Eberndorf monastery . He directed the Eberndorf Summer Games until 1985. He was director of the Friesacher Burghofspiele . In 1981 and 1982 he directed there, a. a. with August von Kotzebues The German small townspeople .

Skumautz - who sometimes wrote himself “Skumauz” - also worked as an author. He developed radio plays (including the tattered hummingbird ), wrote plays, a. a. Folk plays, spiritual games, one-act plays and contemporary comedies, but also prose and lyric texts.

In the early 1950s he wrote the well-known, popular Carinthian folk play Die Wolscharträuber , about Simon Kramer , a Carinthian Robin Hood figure at the beginning of the 19th century. Skumautz's play Der Fall Irene Heyn - a woman's fate in the post-war period attracted particular attention through performances by the St. Donat theater group .

In May 2009, Skumautz's 1968 theater fragment Totentanz 2009 was premiered as part of the “Theaterwerkstatt Innichen” in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Außenerkirchl) in Innichen in Alta Pusteria, South Tyrol .

Skumautz received several literary prizes and awards for his work, including the Max Mell Medal.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g World premiere: TOTENTANZ 2009 . Leaflet with a short vita. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Manfred Mittermayer: Thomas Bernhard: A biography . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-70173-364-4 . Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Friesacher Burghofspiele . Timeline. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Tattered Hummingbird . ORF.at. Retrieved March 7, 2017
  5. ↑ The robber from Wolschartwald . In: Public Safety . Issue 9-10. 2009., pages 30 to 33. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ St. Donat theater group. . Timeline. Retrieved March 7, 2017
  7. ↑ Peter Kowal / Adi Peich: Alles Theater: a cross-section through the Carinthian theater scene . Context Verlag 2003. Accessed March 7, 2017
  8. ↑ death is no longer a punishment . Retrieved March 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Skumautz, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Maria Gail near Villach
DATE OF DEATH April 2nd 1987
Place of death St. Veit an der Glan