Margita Haberland

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Margita Haberland (* 1944 in Berlin ) is a German actress , musician and performance artist .

Life

Margita Haberland spent her childhood in Berlin, fled to West Germany with her mother and sister in the 1950s and then lived in Austria, where she gained acting experience at the Salzburg Youth Theater in 1963 . She attended the Zinner School in Munich for three years , which she graduated as a state-certified actress in 1967 after passing the stage maturity test.

Haberland then moved back to Berlin, where she lived in a shared apartment with Gudrun Ensslin , but quickly distanced herself from their radical political course. "I was rather one of those who implemented their political anger in the form of street theater or happenings," says Haberland in an interview in Jürgen Teipel's book Verschwende Deine Jugend . In 1968 Margita Haberland played the electric violin in the free jazz group XY , was a member of the ensemble at the German premiere of Hair at the Theater an der Brienner Straße and in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's production of Chung as a street theater in Munich in May 1968.

From 1974 Margita Haberland lived in Hamburg and worked on building up the music theater and jazz rock group Release Music Orchestra , on whose publications she can also be heard as a violinist. In 1979 she met Axel Dill , who initially took her with him to the Bremen punk band Die Blender , where she played the electric violin. Shortly afterwards, Dill and Haberland, along with Frank Z. and FM Einheit , were founding members of the band Abwärts . Margita Haberland stayed with Abwärts until 1981 , during which time she developed her personal way of playing the singing saw . After the break with the band and a lengthy stay in hospital, Margita Haberland moved to the United States, where she trained as an actor at the Naropa Institute in Boulder . In 1983 she recorded her first solo record, the EP Dolly Jones Engtanz, under the name Ma Gita .

Living in Berlin again since 1986, Margita Haberland worked on various film and television productions. She played in the film The next morning the minister did not return to his place of work by Monika Funke-Stern , next to Udo Kier the female lead; In 1987 she played a supporting role in Wim Wenders ' Der Himmel über Berlin . In 1988 she starred in the film Parfait d'amour , which was awarded the Critics Prize of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival . In 1993 she played the leading role in the television film Bild Leipzig . Haberland also worked as a voice actress in various productions and has been involved in the educational film work of Kinderfilm Berlin eV and Spatzenkino of the JugendKulturService Berlin since 1994 .

In 2003 she took on the role of mother in Fassbinder's Bremer Freiheit as part of the theater project Poesie Syndikat Berlin . In 2004 she played in the play Die Midaq-Gasse by Nagib Machfus in the Sophiensaele in Berlin and took part in a panel discussion entitled Why is evil beautiful next to Udo Kier, Christoph Schlingensief and Monika Funke-Stern. In the same year she was on stage as the “Diva” in the play Die Küche in the Theaterwerkstatt Berlin .

In recent years, Margita Haberland has focused her artistic work on media art and performance . In her action art work The Swing - Music of Balance , she hung herself playing the violin in a freely rotating swing made of pipes under the large barn roof of Hof Lühnsdorf for the 685th anniversary year of Baitz in 1998. A series of installations and videos were created in which she played a major role was involved: 2004 The Cubes-Project , 2006 Small People Calming and Hut Hilton , 2007 Real Time , 2008 Between Fiction and Fact and Utopia as part of the summer workshop Endmoräne in the Commandery Lietzen .

Discography

Solo:

  • 1977: Maja Goldberg (single), on Phonogram
  • 1983: Ma Gita Dolly Jones Engtanz , ZickZack Records
  • 2001: The Beat Goes On - All Jelly , Interdependence Productions

With Release Musik Orchestra:

  • 1975: Garuda , Brain
  • 1976: Get the Ball , Brain

With downwards: (all with zigzag plates )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b media art from Berlin
  2. ↑ Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 . P. 13
  3. ^ Biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the Deutsches Filmhaus
  4. ↑ Release Music Orchestra at krautrock-musik Zirkus.de
  5. ↑ Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 . P. 61.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 . P. 170.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 . P. 286.
  8. ↑ Bild Leipzig to the content. zzzfilm, October 22, 2004, archived from the original on September 10, 2005 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  9. ^ Aerobatics Brandenburg e. V. ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstpflug.de
  10. ↑ GDK Berlin
  11. ↑ End moraine project , Lietzen
personal data
SURNAME Haberland, Margita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ma Gita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, musician and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin