Lukas Holliger
Lukas Holliger (born August 21, 1971 in Basel ) is a Swiss playwright , dramaturge and editor .
Life
Holliger grew up in Basel , where he sang at the Knabenkantorei Basel in his youth . After graduation in 1991 he studied at the University of Basel German , History of Art and History .
From 1993 to 1995 he made internships as a director at the Basel Theater . From 1999 to 2003 he was co-director of “raum33” in Basel, co-founded by director Werner Düggelin , and there, together with directors Monika Neun and Ursina Greuel, co-founder and director of the award-winning world premiere series “Anti-Drawer”. From 1999 to 2008 he was co-director of the authors' workshop at Theater Basel. 2000/2001 scholarship at the drama processor of the Theater an der Winkelwiese , Zurich. 2003 scholarship holder of the Masterclass 6 under the direction of the Austrian author Marlene Streeruwitz . From 2000 to 2005 he was cultural editor at the Swiss television DRS , where he worked with Luc Bondy , Iso Camartin and Michael Schindhelm . From 2004–2012 he was part of the Theatertage Basel “TREIBSTOFF” selection group. Holliger has been editor of the radio play and satire department at Swiss radio and television SRF since 2006 . His plays are published by the Munich theater publisher Korn-Wimmer.
Awards / nominations
- Premio - Swiss Prize for Young Theater (2000)
- Prize for Literature of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft (2003)
- Nomination as best young author in the Theater heute yearbook (2003)
- Heidelberger Stückemarkt (nomination; 2005)
- Kleist Prize (nomination; 2005)
- Play on !, Drama Essen . Audience Award and Youth Jury Award (2013)
- Nominated for the 2013 war blind radio play award
- Silver at the International Radio Play Prize "Grand Prix Nova", Budapest 2017
- Nominated for the Swiss Book Prize 2017 for The Shorter Life of Klaus Halm
- ARD-Online-Award 2017 for the radio play Verfluchtes Licht
Works
Plays (selection)
- Silver wedding (premiered 2001 Raum33, Basel, German premier Bremer Theater 2003)
- Toter Pullover (premiered in 2002 Theater St. Gallen )
- Dear mi! (first performed in 2002, junges theater basel , director: Sebastian Nübling )
- Last words of a Swiss with a cross (premiered in 2003 at the Lucerne Theater )
- Exploding sperm whales (premiered in 2007 at the Schauspiel Leipzig , director: Wulf Twiehaus )
- Fear prohibited (premiered in 2007 at the Bremen Theater )
- Human failure (world premiere 2009 at Theater Konstanz , director: Wulf Twiehaus )
- Monsters trample skyscrapers (world premiere 2015 ARGEkultur Salzburg , director: Michael Kolnberger )
- Am Feuer (premiere 2016: Stückbox, Basel, director: Ursina Greuel )
Libretti
- The false death (premiered 2001, European Music Month Basel)
- The Black Mozart (premiered 2006, Kaserne Basel )
- Zaide , melologist (premiered in 2008 State Opera Stuttgart , young opera)
Radio plays
- 2004 Silver Wedding , Director: Stephan Heilmann , Music: Martin Schütz , Production: DRS.
- 2004 Last words from a Swiss with a cross , director: Stephan Heilmann, music: Martin Schütz, production: DRS.
- 2007 Fear prohibited , director: Stephan Heilmann, music: Martin Schütz, production: DRS.
- 2007 Clara flies to Mars , director: Stephan Heilmann, music: Philipp Schaufelberger , production: DRS.
- 2010 Soul Relationship ( Schreckmümpfeli series ), director: Isabel Schaerer , production: DRS.
- 2012 Human Failure , radio play about the plane crash in Überlingen , director: Stephan Heilmann, music: Jens Kocher , production: SRF / SWR.
- 2016 False alarm - radio feature for the 30th anniversary of the chemical fire at Schweizerhalle , director: Lukas Holliger, original music & sound design: Martin Bezzola, production SRF.
- 2017 Verfluchtes Licht , director: Mark Ginzler , composition: Andreas Bernhard , length: 56'50, production SRF.
- 2018 Verfluchte Wärme , director: Mark Ginzler, composition: Andreas Bernhard, length: 56'32, production SRF. With Martin Engler, Holger Kunkel, Tanja Schleiff, Thomas Sarbacher, Robert Dölle.
- 2019 Verfluchtes Poison , director: Mark Ginzler, composition: Andreas Bernhard, SRF production, first broadcast: 23 June 2019.
prose
- 2015 Glass in the stomach - reflections through swallowed glasses , prose miniatures, Edition Meerauge, Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-7084-0552-0 .
- 2017 The shorter life of Klaus Halm , Roman, Zytglogge Verlag , Basel, ISBN 978-3-7296-0949-5 .
Web links
- Entry about Lukas Holliger in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Website from Lukas Holliger
- Theater play publisher Munich
supporting documents
- ↑ Kriminalhörspiel Cursed Light : An acoustical film noir in the Basel tri-border region , Germany radio culture, published and accessed April 8, 2019
- ↑ SWR2 crime thriller Verfluchte Wärme, radio play by Lukas Holliger , SWR2 , accessed June 9, 2019
- ↑ "Verfluchtes Poison" detective radio play by Lukas Holliger, SRF 2019 , hoerspieleipps.net, accessed June 9, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holliger, Lukas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss author, writer, dramaturge and editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |