Maria Magdalena Ludewig

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Maria Magdalena Ludewig (Wiesbaden 2014)

Maria Magdalena Ludewig ( 1982 in Lübeck - December 31, 2018 in front of Fuerteventura , Spain ) was a German director and curator.

Life

Maria Magdalena Ludewig was born on March 26, 1982 as the third child of Pastor Dr. Hansgünter Ludewig and his wife Eva-Maria Ludewig, b. Nobiling born in Lübeck. She went through her primary school years in Lübeck Cathedral School, then attended the Christophorus School and the Burggymnasium in Braunschweig. She spent her 11th grade at Friendswood High School in Houston, Texas, where she discovered her love for the theater. Parallel to the 12th and 13th year she takes acting classes with Brigitte Jesiek in Braunschweig and undertakes an assistant director at Konierzny for Goethe's sorcerer's apprentice for Expo 2000. It takes over 2001, the design work for stage and costume design for the Grim Reaper after Grimm at the State Theater Braunschweig .

Ludewig studied philosophy, German language and literature and media culture in Hamburg (2002) and drama directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin (2003–2007). She staged her first own plays in 2003 while studying directing at the Ernst Busch School. In addition to the work within her studies ( Time to Love / Time to Die , Before / After , Cabal and Love , Hamlet , Fraulein Julie ), she realized her own projects such as EXIL / KONSUMMESSE (2004) in the atomic bunker under Hamburg's main train station and Pax de deux ( 2005) to Koltès in the theater discounter in Berlin. At the bat studio theater in berlin , she staged Der Niebelunge Nôt after Hebbel . The production was invited to the Young Actors Week in Bensheim and the Young Actors Project in Salzburg in 2006. In the summer of 2006 she staged the flood - a replacement requiem in the ruins of the monastery on Alexanderplatz in Berlin.

In her productions from 2003 to 2007 she worked with the set designer and visual artist Urs Amadeus Ulbricht. Together they developed the concept of a theater form that is geared towards working with documentary material and modern texts, as well as including actors and especially choirs, and which always seeks reference to a special place environment. Starting with the first productions at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , an ensemble of actors was formed with whom Maria Magdalena Ludewig worked for all independent projects. This ensemble included: Xenia Tiling, Judith Goldberg , Manja Kuhl , Niklas Kohrt , Yuri Englert, Michael Pietsch, Sebastian Haase and Alwara Höfels . The dramaturge Martin Hammer has also been part of this team since 2006.

She has been working regularly at Kampnagel since 2007 ; also u. a. at the Heilbronn Theater and Thalia Theater Halle . She staged her own projects, for which she also acted as an author, and worked with other artist groups on joint projects, such as Anschlaege.de (barmbek.tv, Kampnagel 2007). With her own productions she was invited to guest performances and festivals in Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Berlin and New York. In 2008 she founded the production team Union Universal, with whom she developed numerous projects between stage and urban space, mostly based on researched materials. In 2009/2010 she was a scholarship holder of Format-Neuewege in der Kultur of the Thalia Theater Halle and the Deutsche Bank Foundation .

Ludewig directed and curated the Wiesbaden Biennale of the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden together with Martin Hammer in 2016 and 2018 .

In addition to her work as a curator and director, she worked as a writer and as a freelancer for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and as a production manager and curator for interdisciplinary projects, among others. a. for the Prinzessinnengärten in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Ludewig had a fatal accident on New Year's Eve 2018 at around 4 p.m. while on vacation on the island of Fuerteventura, when she was pulled into the open sea by an Atlantic wave on Los Molinos Beach near Puerto del Rosario . She was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

Work overview (selection)

Theater projects as a writer and director

  • 2002: Bittersweet - Hamburg, world premiere of a play from the writing workshop of the Hamburger Schauspielhaus
  • 2003: Non-swimmer at the edge of the pool - according to Jelinek - painter's hall of the German Theater in Hamburg
  • 2003: I love you 0'58 - Malersaal of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, world premiere, writing workshop of the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, sponsored by the Bucerius ZEIT Foundation Hamburg.
  • 2004: Exile Consumption Fair - nuclear bunker under Hamburg Central Station. Premiere.
  • 2005: Pas de deux " to Koltès Theaterdiscounter Berlin
  • 2006: The flood - a replacement requiem -, ruined monastery on Alexanderplatz. Premiere.
  • 2006: Der Nibelunge Nôt , based on Hebbel - Malersaal of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, world premiere. Invited to the Young Actors Week in Bensheim and the Young Actors Project in Salzburg
  • 2006: barmbek.tv - Kampnagel, world premiere. To mark the opening of the season, the “barmbek.tv” project, an Internet-based participatory district television for the former Hamburg workers' district of Barmbek, was created in cooperation with the anschlag.de group. (www.barmbek.tv).
  • 2007: Tonight: Lulu live , based on Wedekind– Berlin
  • 2008: We are the future! - Perspective Hamburg - Kampnagel, world premiere. Documentary project with 40 primary school children from different social backgrounds on future prospects. Diploma project, passed with distinction. Guest performances in Berlin, Frankfurt, Magdeburg, New York. Nominated for the Brothers Grimm Prize, Berlin.
  • 2009: Dreamdolls - Hamburg Bad & Dangerous, world premiere. Coproduction Kampnagel & Ballhaus Ost. Documentary project with young Berlin prostitutes with an intellectual background and actresses about everyday and theatrical female identities.
  • 2009: Stars United - Kampnagel Hamburg, world premiere. Documentary project with casting show applicants about the causes and effects of the big dream in everyday life and the magical shortcut to happiness.
  • 2010: Looking for the future - Theater Heilbronn, world premiere. Documentary application performance with a Heilbronn secondary school class
  • 2010: Mutterglück - Thalia Theater Halle, world premiere. Documentary-fictional theatrical music performance with actresses about teenage pregnancy, middle-class motherhood and motherhood as a biographical vanishing point.
  • 2011: Neither von Beckett / Feldman - Hellerau Dresden, Radialsystem V Berlin.
  • 2013: Towards the leaving - Kampnagel Hamburg, coproduction with Hellerau Dresden, Radialsystem V Berlin and Operdagen Rotterdam. New composition and world premiere of a production for a 60-strong amateur choir, string orchestra and eight solo voices in collaboration with the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop and the composer Manuela Kerer.
  • 2014: Hunger For Trade - Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • 2018: Exercise in mourning - Exercise in Mourning - Kampnagel Hamburg.

Curatorial work

  • Wiesbaden Biennale 2016
  • Wiesbaden Biennale 2018

The temporary installation of a larger than life golden statue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wiesbadener Platz of German Unity was controversial . As intended, it sparked diverse debates in the city and in the national media.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://www.mariamagdalenaludewig.de/vita_mml.html
  2. ↑ a b c Fatal accident in Fuerteventura .
  3. ↑ "We were hired for a breath of fresh air" , fr.de from August 15, 2016 (accessed on January 7, 2019)
  4. ↑ Maria Magdalena Ludewig. Curator of the Wiesbaden Biennale fatally injured , hessenschau.de from January 4, 2019 (accessed on January 7, 2019)
  5. ↑ "She brought so much sun into life": Moving and beautiful farewell to Maria Magdalena Ludewig in Berlin , Sensor Wiesbaden on January 22, 2019 (accessed January 3, 2020)
  6. ↑ EKM - Exil Konsum Messe , (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  7. ↑ Provocative excavations by Petra Schellen in the TAZ from August 28 , 2004 , (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  8. ↑ Die Flut Ein Ersatzrequiem , project website (accessed on January 7, 2020)
  9. ↑ Perspective Hamburg , Kampnagel (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  10. ↑ Dreamdolls Program , Kampnagel (accessed January 3, 2020)
  11. ↑ Traumpuppen Theater im Bunker , Hamburger Abendblatt, June 18, 2009 (accessed January 3, 2020)
  12. ↑ Everyday reports from the Berlin milieu , Tagesspiegel from June 14, 2009 (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  13. ↑ Stars United , Kampnagel project page (accessed January 7, 2020)
  14. ↑ Search for the future - Theather Heilbronn , project website (accessed on January 7, 2020)
  15. ↑ // Mutterglueck , Rosen Pictures project page (accessed January 7, 2020)
  16. ↑ Towards the Way Out , project website (accessed January 7, 2020)
  17. ↑ Hunger for Trade , Schauspielhaus Hamburg (accessed January 7, 2020)
  18. ↑ Great talent. Hamburg director of Atlantik-Welle torn to her death , Abendblatt.de from January 7, 2019 (accessed January 7, 2019)
  19. ↑ Season opening 2017/18: Openhaus. Maria Magdalena Ludewig & Guests: Exercise in Mourning - Exercise in Mourning , kampnagel.de (accessed on January 7, 2019)
  20. ↑ Wiesbaden Biennale 2016 Not Europe , Goethe Institute (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  21. ↑ BAD NEWS, Program of the Wiesbaden Biennale 2018 , Staatstheater Wiesbaden (accessed on January 3, 2020)
  22. ↑ Erdoğan statue: "It remains a strange feeling" , zeit.de from September 6, 2018 (accessed January 7, 2019)
  23. ↑ Golden Erdogan statue remains in the middle of the city center for the time being , Der Tagesspiegel from August 29, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ludewig, Maria Magdalena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2018
Place of death Puerto del Rosario