Martin Gruber (choreographer)

Martin Gruber (born November 15, 1957 in Dorfen ) is a German director , choreographer and university professor.

Life

Martin Gruber is a director, choreographer and professor of movement at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . He developed his own methodology for acting training and founded the Talmi-Method® named after Alon Talmi . Martin Gruber's influence on contemporary acting training is great: as early as 1985 he introduced Aikido for actors at the Otto Falckenberg School . August Everding brought Gruber to the then newly founded Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich in 1993 to establish movement classes for actors. Many teachers who have completed training with him now teach at academies and universities for the performing arts. Many of his former students work successfully on stage, in film and television.

Basics of acting training

Martin Gruber developed from Asian and Western dance and martial arts training as well as various approaches from structural and functional body work a new methodology for comprehensive, interdisciplinary basic training in acting training.

The methodology is based on three pillars: individual work on one's own posture, dialogical work with a partner and collective, dynamic work in a group. The training combines neurophysiological knowledge and techniques (summarized in the Talmi-Methode®), the "Suzuki training" introduced and modified by Gruber in the mid-1980s from Japan and the Japanese martial art Aikido to form a comprehensive system.

In this way, she combines the requirements of a changing theater in search of new forms of expression, which are increasingly moving in the direction of physical theater , with the skills required by more traditional forms of theater. The actor receives the prerequisites to be able to master the entire spectrum from classical spoken theater to the musical, rhythmic, dance and vocal demands of today's performing arts .

Theater laboratory

In 1986 Martin Gruber opened his own production and training facility for professional theater groups and performing artists in Birach (Upper Bavaria). Until 1992 the tent ensemble theater resided here under the direction of Otto Kukla and Crescentia Dünßer . Performances including poverty, wealth, people and animals (Hans Henny Jahnn); Figaro & Co ; Ulenspiegel . Since 1995 there have also been performances in Bavarian dialect. B. We are prisoners ( Oskar Maria Graf ), Lena Christ , The Holy Night by Jörn van Dyck and Bettina Mittendorfer . Among others, Rena Mirecka ( Jerzy Grotowski's theater laboratory, Poland), Paco Gonzales ( Flöz family ) taught in Birach ; Marita Günher (Roy Hart Theater, London), Prof. Alon Talmi (Israel), William Dub Leigh (USA), Nobuyuki Watanabe (Japan).

Teaching

• 1993–1985: Movement teacher, Otto Falckenberg School , Kammerspiele Munich .
• 2005–1993: Lecturer for Movement and Role (Dept. Drama, Singing, Directing), Bavarian Theater Academy August-Everding, Munich.
• since 2010: Professorship for Movement, head of the specialist group for all Movement departments at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin .
• Teaching assignments at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Dramatique du Théatre Nationale de Strasbourg (France), Central Academy of Drama , Beijing, and Shanghai Theater Academy (PR China), workshops including Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology , Oslo (Norway ), National School of Drama , Delhi (India), Mozarteum , Salzburg (Austria), University of Music and Theater Munich , Mime Centrum Berlin , University of the Arts, Berlin, ImpulsTanz. Vienna International Dance Festival , Vienna (Austria)

education

Studied theater and music sciences at the LMU Munich. Training in body therapies such as Zenbodytherapy® and Triggerpoint Anatomy® with William Dub Leigh (USA), Functional Integration® with Alon Talmi (Israel), Suzuki training with director Tadashi Suzuki in Toga-Mura (Japan). Judo , Aikido , Iaido , Hojo in Japan and Germany, 6th Dan Aikido ( Aikikai Honbu Dōjō ). Lessons in Butoh dance with Kazuo Ono in Japan, acting with Yoshi Oida .

Directorial work

• 1993: Autism wedding (Alexander Wagner). World premiere: Gasteig Munich
• 1994: Sklavnaja Markta . Project with students from the Bavarian Theater Academy, Prinzregententheater Munich
• 1997: Beijing lan - Beijing is blue . International and interdisciplinary theater project with actors, dancers, musicians, singers from Germany and China. World premiere at the Yan Huang Art Gallery, Beijing (PR China).
• 1998: Festival for lovers in an unhappy constellation (Susanne Gße). Project with the graduating class of the Bavarian Theater Academy, world premiere: Akademietheater Munich.
• 1998: Instead of Rashomon (Susanne Gße). World premiere: Stadttheater Ulm, 1998.
• 2003: Monteverdi duels . Interdisciplinary music theater project, Munich Opera Festival .
• 2004: Dialogues about love. A street opera. International Festival Hue (Vietnam) 6/2004, Temple of Literature Hanoi (Vietnam) 10/2004, Munich Opera Festival 6/2004. Interdisciplinary music theater project with opera singers, musicians, dancers, Cheo opera singers from Germany and Vietnam.
• 2006: Director: Die Bacchen ( Euripides ). Director: Dieter Dorn , Residenztheater Munich .
• 2008: Sakkorausch ( Elisabeth Reichart ), world premiere, Schauspielhaus Salzburg, Austria.
• 2014: Collaboration at Lavapolis / Friday in Venice (Michael Schindhelm), Transmedia Storytelling Project for the Architecture Biennale of Venice , Video: Robert Schuster, Lavapolis / Friday in Venice , ed. v. Michael Schindhelm, ZHDK Zurich University of the Arts Center for Cultural Publishing Studies: Zurich / Switzerland, 2015.
• 2018: Director Parsifal. Stage dedication festival (Richard Wagner). Direction: Dieter Dorn, musical direction: Sir Simon Rattle. Baden-Baden Festival Hall.

Theater choreographies

• 1987: Man is man ( Bertolt Brecht ). Director: Günther Gerstner, Kammerspiele Munich
• 1993: The Tempest ( William Shakespeare ). Director: Dieter Dorn, Kammerspiele Munich. An integral part of the production was the work with specially made, life-size dolls ('ghosts').
• 1994: Elektra ( Richard Strauss ). Direction: Dieter Dorn, musical direction: Daniel Barenboim , Staatsoper Berlin.
• 1996: Ithaka ( Botho Strauss ). Director: Dieter Dorn, world premiere: Kammerspiele Munich
• 2000: Memory. A video opera . Director: Otto Kukla, world premiere: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich (Switzerland). Further performances: Munich, Sarajevo (Bosnia), Tehran (Iran)
• 2005: When will it finally be the way it never was? Director: Joachim Meyerhoff , world premiere: Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin.
• 2015: La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi). Direction: Dieter Dorn, musical direction: Daniel Barenboim , Staatsoper Berlin. Announcement on the website of the Berlin State Opera
• 2016: Kula - To Europe. Transnational theater project . Director: Robert Schuster . Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (DNT), Kunstfest Weimar, Theater Freiburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Kurtheater Baden, La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse (France), Theater Chur (Switzerland). Announcement on the Freiburg Theater website
• 2017/18: Malalai - Transnational Theater Project . Director: Robert Schuster. Information on the website of the State Opera Unter den Linden
• 2018: Wagner: Parsifal . Director: Dieter Dorn. Musical direction: Sir Simon Rattle . Baden-Baden Festival Hall. Announcement on the website of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Publications

• 2015 Tongguo chuangzao xingxingwei chaoyue chengshi dadao gexinghua bioada ( Ten days with Zhou Xinfang in Shanghai. Reflections ), in: Jihua jingju dashi Zhou Xinfang danchen 120 zhounian. Waiguo zhuanjia yanjiu wence (In Memory of the 120th Birthday of the Jingju Maestro Zhou Xinfang. A Collection of Research Papers by Foreign Experts), ed. v. Zhou Xinfang Arts Research Center: Shanghai 2015, pp. 10–15, with Susanne Göse.
• 2014 The body in the performing arts - the neutral body , in: Psychological Medicine. Austrian journal for medical psychology, psychotherapy and psychosomatics , Vienna 3/2014, SS 23–28.
• 2010 Forming forms, destroying forms. In: Bernd Stegemann (Ed.): Lessons 4: Acting training. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, pp. 169–188.
• 2002 Form and Change. Acting as a path using the example of Aikido and other types of body work. In: Peter Schettgen (Ed.): Healing instead of hewing. Aikido extensions in therapy and professional educational work. Augsburg 2002, pp. 117-134.
• 2001 Form forms, destroy forms. Comments on new paths in acting training. In: role lessons, speech training, voice training and body work in training to become an actor. Documentation of the working conference of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding 27. – 30. April 2000. Munich 2001, pp. 201-215.
• 1999 grammar of feet and voice. In: Integration of speech training, song design and physical training in training to become an actor. Documentation of the working conference of the Bavarian Theater Academy 26. – 29. March 1998. Munich 1999, pp. 96-100; with Uwe Hollmach.

Symposium contributions and articles as PDF

• Demigod or Servant - On the Vulnerability of the Actor. 2012 (contribution to the symposium ; PDF; 121 kB).
• Measure the spaces for action. First impressions after visiting the Bauhaus stage. Mapping the action spaces. First Impressions After the Visist to the Bauhaus Stage. In: Theater of Time. 6/2011. Supplement to the Prague Quadrennial 2011: The Stage as Space Apparatus / The Stage as Space Apparatus, pp. 2–3 ( online ).
• Form forms, destroy forms. In: Bernd Stegemann (Ed.): Lessons 4: Acting training. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, pp. 169–188. ( PDF ).
• Form and Change: Acting as Path - based on the Example of Aikido and Other Types of Body Work. 2010 ( PDF ).
• Go and wash your plate or how to teach Aikido to human resources. 2003 ( PDF ).

literature

• Susanne Gße: From China to Japan in two plays. In: Minima sinica. 1/2006, pp. 48-74.
• Wolfgang Lanzinger: Martin Gruber. A grand master of the theater with a penchant for the extravagant . In: Dorfener Heimatbuch. From the city elevation to the 3rd millennium. Volume 1. Dorfen 2006, pp. 460-462.

Web links

• Martin Gruber at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin
• Martin Gruber at Theater der Zeit
• Talmi-Methode Bad Gleichenberg Body or Life
• A doctor on the Talmi method
• Fulton-Smith on Martin Gruber
• Martin Gruber Video of an Aikido workshop in Stavropol 2011
• Impulse dance festival, description of a "grammar of the feet" workshop
• Body or life, description of a workshop "On dealing with myself and others: journeys of discovery"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ such as B. Vera Schlenker, Prof. Daniela Wicaz, Jutta Burger (Academy of Dramatic Arts Ernst Busch Berlin), Prof. Carola Grahl (University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart), Doris Dexel (Conservatory Vienna, Austria), Susanne Rebholz (Orff- Institute, University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria), Jannis Spengler (Bavarian Theater Academy Munich), Prof. Isabel Hindersin, Stefan Lenz (University of the Arts Berlin), Prof. Steffi Hofer (MUK Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna, Austria) https: / /www.steffihofer.at/to-get/ Prof. Doris Dexl (Theater Academy Cologne and State Conservatory Klagenfurt, Austria), Tuija Liikanen (Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden).
2. ↑ including Jens Harzer , Joachim Meyerhoff , Bettina Mittendorfer , Natali Seelig , Lisa Wagner , André Eisermann , Götz Otto , Birge Schade , Ina Weisse , Francis Fulton-Smith , George Lenz , Rainer Strecker , Oliver Wnuk and many more.
3. ↑ English Wikipedia article on director Tadashi Suzuki , Togamura, Japan.
4. ^ TV documentation of the project under the title Encounters in Beijing. An unusual theater project in China [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , broadcast by 3SAT and ARTE.  
5. ↑ http://parapluie.de/archiv/uebertragungen/uebertragbarkeit/
6. ↑ http://schiefer-ulm.de/ulmer_theater/spielzeit_98_99/schauspiel/rashomon.htm
7. ↑ http://www.carola-hoelting.de/portfolio/schauspiel/pf.schauspiel.020.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Television documentary of the Vietnam Television project broadcast on VTV3 under the title The Linking Between Asia and Europe .
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated April 2, 2007 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. 
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 25, 2013 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. 
11. ↑ https://www.theaterkompass.de/beitraege/sakkorausch-von-elisabeth-reichart-schauspielhaus-salzburg-29950
12. ↑ https://www.festspielhaus.de/veranstaltungen/wagner-parsifal
13. ↑ Review in the taz
14. ↑ Schedule and comments from Meyerhoff in the Berliner Zeitung
15. ↑ ufaFabrik Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.