Marianne Hollenstein

Marianne Hollenstein

Marianne Hollenstein (born November 9, 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss artist and set designer.

family

Marianne Hollenstein comes from a Basel family. She is the granddaughter of the Laufenburg journalist and writer Emil Hering, who observed the rise of National Socialism in the early 1930s and condemned it in his articles.

Working for the theater

After studying scenography at the Institut International de la Marionette in Charleville-Mézières , France , Marianne Hollenstein got to know the dance theater of the pioneers Reinhild Hoffmann and Susanne Linke as a stage design assistant at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . She worked with stage designer Johannes Schütz on Linkes Ruhr-Ort (1991), and as assistant to sculptor Robert Schad she was in charge of Hoffmann's Zeche Eins (1992) and Zeche Zwei (1993).

Since 1994 Marianne Hollenstein has worked as a set and costume designer for many theaters in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, such as the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Theater Basel , Tacheles Berlin , Schauspielhaus Graz , Theater Konstanz , Theater im Ballsaal Bonn, Theater Stadelhofen and the Schauspiel-Akademie Zürich, the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken , State Theater Wiesbaden , State Theater Karlsruhe , the Anhaltinische Theater Dessau, State Theater Nuremberg , State Theater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia , Gera, or for the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and finally for the State Theater Kassel .

In 2000 she became head of equipment at the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam (until 2004), where she worked closely with director Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz , for example on the opera productions Le nozze di Figaro (2002), Hercules (2003) and Don Giovanni (2004), as well as with Herbert Olschock and Philippe Besson . From 2006 to 2008 she was in the same position responsible for the equipment at the Ulm Theater , where she also designed the sets for several productions in each season until 2018, for example, each directed by Andreas von Studnitz, the Faust plays (2006 / 07), Orestie (2006/07),  Die Nibelungen (2007/08), Oedipus (2009/10), Witch Hunt (2010/11), Cabal and Love (2014/15), King Lear (2017). She has also set out many operas in Ulm, such as Macbeth (2007),  Tannhäuser (2008), Die Zauberflöte (2009), Das Rheingold (2011), Die Makropulos (2012), Dialogues des Carmélites (2013), Serse (2014) , Peter Grimes (2014), Don Giovanni (2016), Die Glückliche Hand , Carmina Burana , Floating (Schönberg, Orff, Stäbler; 2018) or the ballets Romeo and Juliet (2012), Le sacre du printemps (2012 ) choreographed by Roberto Scafati ) or Swan Lake (2016).

In 2011, Marianne Hollenstein was the art director of the Swiss production Glauser (director: Christoph Kühn ) presented at the Locarno International Film Festival .

In 2014 she was responsible for the stage design and costumes of the Turkish-Greek-German theater coproduction Die Frauen von Troja (Artistic Director: Bernhard Stengele ), which was sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and performed at Tiyatro ENKA Istanbul , Tiyatro Medresesi in Şirince and at the Samos Young Artists Festival at the theater of Pythagorion. In 2017, together with Bernhard Stengele, she developed a production at the Arab-Hebrew Jaffa Theater in Tel Aviv . 2018 equips the Tschaikowski -Ballett Sleeping Beauty ( Sleeping Beauty ) in the choreography of Radu Poklitaru at the National Ivan Franko playhouse in Kiev from.

Awards

• 1998 UNIMA audience award from Theater unterm Dach Berlin
• 1999 Award of the Academy of Arts , Berlin
• 2017 Federal Theater Prize for the production "Cohn Bucky Levy - The Loss" (author: Mona Becker, director: Bernhard Stengele, set design: Marianne Hollenstein) to Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia

free art

Marianne Hollenstein is considered a "wanderer between the worlds" of the performing and visual arts. In her free art projects she brings together architecture, sculpture, painting, movement and light. She maintains her atelier, which opened in Ulm in 2006 , as a central workplace.

Performances

Performances are a focus of Marianne Hollenstein's work in the field of fine art. The element that mediates between visual and performing arts is often found in connection with her installations.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1994 arrival , first art installation and performance, Galerie Rue 13, Basel
• 1995 Figure and Space , State Puppet Theater Dresden
• 2000 Medea , Performance, Kunsthalle Basel
• 2005 light projections, Marcelleria d'Arte, St. Gallen
• 2009 Room / Injuries , Dornach Monastery
• 2009 Theater work and painting, Smudajescheck Galerie Ulm
• 2010 Once upon a time ... , installation and performance, University of Music and Theater Munich
• 2011 Kreuzspuren , Rattenbach / Munich
• 2012 A portrait of thinking , installation, Smudajescheck Galerie Ulm
• 2012 reduced thoughts , old painting room, Gera
• 2013 Palimpsest dance tracks, painted over , performance with the entire ballet ensemble, Ulm Theater
• 2013 Relocating the Myth of Troy , Performance, Şirince
• 2014 Thought Structures , Galerie am Blauen Wunder, Dresden
• 2016 ORFEO, 1st act. Dance of the Blessed Spirit , installation and performance, BBK / Künstlerhaus Ulm
• 2016 ORFEO, 2nd act. At the Side of the Beloved , Stadthaus Ulm
• 2016 Letters in between. Letters to Hannah Arendt , Art Association Gera
• 2017 Old slaughterhouse, Basel
• 2017 Nothing for Eternity , installation, Almacén Jaffa Cultural Center, Tel Aviv
• 2017 la joie de vivre! , Centro d'Arte San Vidal, Scoletta San Zaccaria, Venice
• 2017 Homage to Edith Altmann , installation and performance, Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
• 2017 stages of success, installation in the exhibition Carl Laemmle reloaded , Museum for the History of Christians and Jews , Laupheim
• 2018 Letters in between , installation and performance, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris
• 2018 Nothing for Eternity , installation in the exhibition Achtung Menschenrechte , Museum for the History of Christians and Jews, Laupheim
• 2019 Human Condition , as part of Kyiv Art Week, Set, Independent Art Space, Kiev

Catalogs

• Marianne Hollenstein. Painting and installation 2009-2011 . With contributions by Marianne Hollenstein and Max Stemshorn. Ulm 2011.
• Marianne Hollenstein. Painting-Installation-Performance 2012-2015 . With contributions by Magdi Aboul-Kheir, Matthias Kaiser and Ulrich Sinn. Ulm 2015.
• Marianne Hollenstein. Installation and performance 2010-2018 . Texts by Marianne Hollenstein. Ulm 2019.

Teaching

In the 2018 summer semester, Marianne Hollenstein took on a teaching position for a master’s study project "Interior Development" at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment on the subject of staging in urban space - The Hegelplatz Stuttgart in cooperation with Professors Cornelia Bott, Siegfried Gaß and Henning Krug.

reception

The Ukrainian fashion designers Kateryna Biakova and Maksym Holub have implemented Hollenstein's Letters in Between with their label "Finch" , which they presented in December 2018 at the Etienne de Causans gallery in Paris and in February 2019 at the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev.

Web links

• Marianne Hollenstein - Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ The district of Laufenburg. In: Contributions to the history of the Aargau. 11 (2002) Retrieved March 17, 2017.
2. ↑ Ioco Culture on the Net: Orfeo ed Euridice at the Theater of Würzburg (with short biography Marianne Hollenstein) Retrieved on March 17, 2017th
3. ^ Staatstheater Kassel: Puss in Boots, Thomas Freyer | Kassel State Theater. Retrieved January 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Theater Ulm Marianne Hollenstein, stage designer ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Glauser website Swissfilms. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
6. ↑ Dagmar Hub: Pictures from the head of an outsider In: Augsburger Allgemeine , 23 August 2011. Retrieved on 16 March 2017.
7. ^ Federal Cultural Foundation, Programs & Projects The Women of Troy
8. ^ "Cohn Bucky Levy - The Loss" by Mona Becker, Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia. Accessed January 30, 2019 . 
9. ^ Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia among the winners of the Federal Theater Prize. Accessed January 30, 2019 . 
10. ^ Deutschland today , October 1, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
11. ↑ Gallery Smudajescheck (entry Marianne Hollenstein) Retrieved on March 17, 2017th
12. ↑ Magdi Aboul-Kheir: With paper against the force. Marianne Hollenstein's exhibition in the former "Führerbau" in Munich. In: Südwest Presse . Ulm, December 7, 2010.
13. ↑ ORFEO, 2nd act . Website town house Ulm. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
14. ↑ Biennale Austria: LA JOIE DE VIVRE! BA Contemporary 2017 Venezia . Retrieved July 8, 2017.
15. ^ Performance and soiree in the Lindenau Museum. Retrieved January 29, 2019 . 
16. ↑ OPENING. Marianne Hollenstein, Human Condition | International Contemporary Art Festival. Retrieved May 22, 2019 . 
17. ↑ FINCH SS19 - Ukrainian Fashion Week. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .