Luis Zagler

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Luis Zagler (2014)

Luis Zagler (born February 5, 1954 in Tyrol ) is a German-speaking playwright and author of stories , poems and children's musicals . He is the founder of the SchlossFestSpiele Dorf Tirol and the MeranerFestSpiele.

life and work

Luis Zagler was born the eldest son of a merchant family, grew up with four siblings in a middle-class family and received a university education. His literary and musical talent showed up early on. His first play was created at the age of 17. This first part of the mountain farmer trilogy was premiered in the Bolzano Waltherhaus as part of the “South Tyrolean Initiative”, recorded by RAI in a production by Peter Mitterrutzner , produced as a radio play and filmed by Bavarian television. In the book Wegweiser zur Literatur Tirol since 1945 , Paul Wimmer wrote about this first work: "Such an outcry from the creature has not been heard since Gerhart Hauptmann's play Die Weber ."

Following these initial successes, Luis Zagler began studying comparative literature at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck with Zoran Konstantinovic and, at the same time, studying composition with Robert Nessler at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and worked as an assistant director at the Tyrolean State Theater. He then attended a stage design course with Günther Schneider-Siemssen in Salzburg and made contacts with the theaters there. The meetings with the directors Klaus Rohrmoser, Claus Homschak, Franz Kainrath, Rudolf Strobl and Andreas Lippl are also important for his further work. Stays in Munich, Vienna and Salzburg follow.

After completing his studies in comparative literature with distinction in 1985 - with a dissertation on Shakespeare at the theater in Innsbruck - he met Felix Mitterer and Hans Brenner in 1986 . The friendships led to the fact that in 1988 his play Bread was premiered at the Tyrolean Volksschauspiele . The play was a success with the public and the press. "As if Samuel Beckett had arrived at the Volkstheater," wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The Kurier read: “A frenzied, painful manifesto about isolation in poverty, loneliness that changes people, and an overall artistic event of socio-political explosiveness and rare beauty as an example of modern folk theater.” In the same year, Zagler received the Austrian state scholarship for playwrights. At the same time, the second part of the mountain farmer trilogy was premiered.

At the Innsbruck Summer Games initiated by Ekkehard Schönwiese in cooperation with the Brixenthaler Volkstheater, the drama Either - Or was performed in the Theater im Turm in 1989 . In the Kitzbüheler Nachrichten , Winfried Werner Linde wrote: "The actors (...) succeeded in a dense, dramatic performance that is not only worth seeing, but also points far beyond the normal folk theater into the future." In 1990, Brot am Small theater in Salzburg recognized by the Austrian Federal Ministry as one of the most valuable performances of the year.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Tyrolean folk drama, Vogelfrei premiered in 1991 with Hans Brenner and Julia Gschnitzer in the leading roles. The historical play is about the people of the Karrner who roamed the country with their carts until the beginning of the 20th century. The ORF theater magazine speaks of “juicy folk plays” and “audience hits”. In the same year, Luis Zagler received the Austrian State Scholarship for Dramatists for the second time.

In the following years a number of instrumental compositions for flute and orchestra, some children's musicals and several choral songs as well as stories and poems were written.

In 2017 the theater play The Persecuted was premiered . The piece is based on a true story from the Vinschgau in the 19th century, which Zagler was entrusted by an 80-year-old woman as her grandfather's notes. The promise that the woman had to make to her grandfather led to the foundation of the Castle Festival in 2016, which was initiated by Luis Zagler. The first performance of the drama in the outer bailey of Schoss Tirol is a success.

In 2018, Zagler founded the MeranerFestSpiele, which premiered in the same year with the first performance of his play The Heirs . The first performance of the play The Presidents took place in 2019 as part of the MeranerFestSpiele on the occasion of the commemorative year "100 Years of the Paris Peace Treaty ", "100 Years of the Partition of Tyrol " . The performances on the new festival area above the gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle developed into a crowd puller.

Dramas

  • 1988: Bread , world premiere of Tyrolean folk plays
  • 1989: Either - Or , premiere Innsbruck Summer Games
  • 1991: Vogelfrei , world premiere
  • 1997: The Karrner , Goldrain Castle
  • 2000: The Liars , premiere still pending
  • 2017: The Persecuted , World premiere at SchlossFestSpiele
  • 2018: The Heiresses, first performance MeranerFestSpiele
  • 2019: The Presidents , premiere of the MeranerFestSpiele
  • 2020: The Shrewd - New creation of the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare , premiere still pending

TV recordings, films, radio plays

  • 1976: 1st part of the mountain farmer trilogy , TV recording RAI
  • 1978: 1st part of the mountain farmer trilogy , TV film by Bavarian TV
  • 1979: 1st part of the mountain farmer trilogy , radio play production by RAI
  • 1986: Bread , radio play production by ORF
  • 1991: Vogelfrei , TV recording by ORF in coproduction with RAI
  • 2001: A day can often be long , TV film by RAI, Luis Walter film studio
  • 2005: The beggar without luck , TV film by RAI
  • 2017: The Persecuted , TV recording by RAI
  • 2019: The Presidents , TV recording by RAI

Books

  • 1989: bread. A play and nine stories. With an afterword by Prof. Walter Methlagl. Innsbruck, Haymon.
  • 1993: The cross-border commuters. A play. Bozen, Edition Raetia.
  • 1995: The Korrner. Crossing the border between freedom and misery. With contributions by Paul Rösch, Reinhard Johler, Luis Stefan Stecher, Josef Feichtinger, Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Bozen, Edition Raetia.
  • 2003: Forest life. Picture book based on the song-audio-game story of the same name. Meran, Südartverlag.
  • 2015: Stories de vita. German / Ladin stories. Translation into Ladin by Genny Ploner. Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü
  • 2017: The persecuted. Edition Landesmuseum für Kultur- und Landesgeschichte Schloss Tirol / Südartverlag
  • 2019: The Presidents, play in three pictures. Süd-Art-Verlag

music

  • 1987: The beggar Ohneglück - children's musical , first performance
  • 1996: All children can sing. CD, music book. Meran, Rekonverlag
  • 1999: Spiegelspiel - children's musical , world premiere
  • 2003: Hits for Kids & Teens - choir songs, with piano accompaniment . Vienna, Doblinger Musikverlag
  • 2003: All children can sing - children's choir songs with piano accompaniment . Vienna, Doblinger Musikverlag
  • 2003: Waldleben - children's musical . CD, song book, score for small orchestra. Südartverlag
  • 2005: The beggar Ohneglück - children's musical . CD, song book, score for small orchestra. Südartverlag
  • 2014: Best of flute music, instrumental. CD from Michaela and Elisa. Südartverlag / Kawohl

Contributions (selection)

  • The discharge prolog. In: Inn. Journal of Literature. Innsbruck Jg./Nr. 11, 1987, pp. 8-10.
  • The accident. In: Valentin von Braitenberg (ed.): Das Unterdach des Abendlandes. A reader. Schlanders 1988 (Arunda 23), pp. 189-196.
  • The accident. In: Word in the mountains. Jg./Nr. 18, 1989, pp. 102-108 (with short biography, pp. 118-119).
  • Kafka. In: Ingeborg Teuffenbach (Ed.): Intersection Innsbruck. 15 years of Innsbruck weekend talks. An anthology. Hand-Presse, Innsbruck 1990, p. 45.
  • The professor. In: Kurt Gamper (Ed.): Erlesene Zeit. A selection of Tyrolean literature. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 1990, pp. 235-239.
  • The law. In: Alfred Gruber (Ed.): News from South Tyrol. German-language literature in Italy (= Alexander Ritter [Hrsg.]: Foreign literature of the present. 4). Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1990, pp. 271–275.
  • Kafka. In: Rudolf Dressler (Ed.): Tyrolean presence. New Tyrolean unpublished texts; Anthology, poetry, prose (= contemporary history with a difference. 6). Self-published, Oberlangkampfen 1990, pp. 28-29.
  • Worth experiencing. Report. Because of an encounter and its consequences. In: Student collective of comparative literary studies Innsbruck (ed.): Writers and their interpreters. Texts by Austrian authors on literary studies. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 1993, pp. 90-97.

Recognitions and Awards

  • 1987: Working grant from the Dramatic Center Vienna
  • 1987: A case for itself , 3rd prize South Tyrolean Artists Association
  • 1988: Drama scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry
  • 1989: Project grant from the South Tyrolean provincial government
  • 1989: Special funding from the Literar-Mechana, Vienna
  • 1990: Award of the Salzburg bread production by the Austrian Federal Ministry
  • 1991: Drama scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry
  • 1992: Working grant from the South Tyrolean provincial government
  • 1995: Working grant from the Südtiroler Sparkasse
  • 2000: Project grant from the South Tyrolean provincial government
  • 2005: Project grant from the South Tyrolean provincial government

Literature (selection)

  • In: Paul Wimmer: Guide through the literature of Tyrol since 1945 (= Hermann Kuprian [Hrsg.]: Brennpunkte. 15). Bläschke, Darmstadt 1978, pp. 200-202
  • Luis Zagler. Biobibliographical reference. In: Book Landscape South Tyrol. Guide to the literary book 1970–1980 and more recent Tyrolean regions. (Ed.): State Assessorate for Education and Culture. Bozen 1981, p. 29.
  • New South Tyrolean drama: Albrecht Ebensperger, Josef Feichtinger, Armin Gatterer, Matthias Schönweger, Hans Schwärzer, Kuno Seyr, Ursula Telberg, Oswald Waldner, Luis Zagler. In: Wilhelm Bortenschlager: Tyrolean Drama and Dramatists in the 20th Century (= Hermann Kuprian [Hrsg.]: Brennpunkte. 17). Bläschke, St. Michael 1982, pp. 224-228.
  • Reading Luis Zagler and Oswald Waldner with the Österr. Student body. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. Jg./Nr. 68, 1987, p. 12.
  • Ferruccio Delle Cave: Luis Zagler. In: Buchland Tirol 1980–1990. South Tyrol, North Tyrol, East Tyrol. Literature manual and directory of Tyrol. (Ed.): Office of the South Tyrolean provincial government u. the Tyrolean provincial government. Edited by Ferruccio Delle Cave, Kurt Habitzel, Anton Sitzmann, Toni Unterkircher. Bozen, Innsbruck 1991, p. 79.
  • In: Hans-Georg Grüning: The contemporary literature of South Tyrol. Problems, profiles, texts. Edizioni Nuove Ricerche, Ancona 1992, pp. 131, 143-144.
  • A voice for the persecuted. Love in stormy times - for the premiere of the play “The Persecuted” by Luis Zagler. In: Dolomites. May 18, 2017, p. 8.

Web links

Commons : Luis Zagler  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lightning and thunder in the orchard, Tyrolean folk theater in Telfs. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 20./21. August 1988
  2. ^ Tyrolean folk plays. In: Tirol Kurier of August 9, 1988
  3. ↑ orawww.uibk.ac.at
  4. ↑ rettensteintheater.at
  5. ↑ Either-Or premiere in Brixen. In: Kitzbüheler Nachrichten , No. 28, from July 15, 1989
  6. ↑ haben.at
  7. ↑ A love in stormy times. (PDF) Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ A voice for the persecuted. (PDF) Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  9. Jump up ↑ Big crowd for the premiere of “The Persecuted” . In: Südtirol News . ( archive.org [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  10. ↑ stol.it Südtirol Online, Italy: Audience thrilled the play “The Heiresses” by Luis Zagler . ( stol.it [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  11. ↑ "The Presidents" by Luis Zagler. Memorable premiere to mark the commemorative year - VOX NEWS South Tyrol. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ You are Tyrol Cooperative: 100 Years of South Tyrol: “The Presidents” in Merano. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Big rush from politics at the sold out premiere of the Merano Festival. In: Südtirol News. Retrieved on February 28, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ - A successful premiere for the commemorative year - courageous and full of meaningful pictures. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ A day can often be long. Luis Walter Film, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Presentaziun dles “Stories de vita” - La Usc di Ladins. lausc.it, accessed December 9, 2018 (it-IT).
  17. ↑ Best of Flute Music - Michaela and Elisa - sendbuch.de. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zagler, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyrol