Martin Gruber (director)

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Martin Gruber

Martin Gruber (* 1967 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian - Italian theater director and artistic director of the independent theater group Aktionstheater Ensemble, which he founded .

Life

Martin Gruber was born in Bregenz in 1967 and grew up in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . He studied acting and founded the theater formation Aktionstheater Ensemble in 1989 , with which he made guest appearances at numerous theaters in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and took part in various international festivals such as the Bregenz Festival , Kurt Weill Festival, Impulse Festival, Bregenz Spring and the Wiener Festwochen .

Gruber began directing in 1998 with multimedia classic adaptations of Antigone and Elektra and became known in 1993/1994 with his adaptation of the Büchner trilogy ( Woyzeck , Leonce and Lena , Dantons Tod ).

After a period of collaboration with dancers and choreographers, Gruber changed his way of working and worked with writers such as Franzobel (Schwalbenkönig 2006), Gert Jonke (Platzen Sudden, 2008), Christian Uetz (Ulysses Roadmovie 2010), Andreas Staudinger (Paradiesseits 2009), Wolfgang Mörth (What Crisis 2009, Working Pure 2011), Claudia Tondl (We are founding a party in 2012, weekday revolution 2013) new theater material and own projects.

Since then, Martin Gruber has worked regularly with composers, musicians and visual artists. So with the bassist Peter Herbert (Nathan the Wise, Peachum's dream), the composer Gerald Futscher (Miluj Ma, Paradiesseits), the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the rock bands 78plus , Morbidelli Brothers (Which Crisis, Ulysses Roadmovie, Weekday Revolution ) or the visual artist were created Tone Fink (operetta. Apocalypse, Revue, Revue. Art is pointless) or music projects with the composers Gerald Futscher (Paradiesseits-Sprachoper) and Gerold Amann (Opera: der Fundevogel, language-independent vocal piece: the little nightmare man).

Since breaking with the classics, Gruber has been known for reflecting on the present particularly quickly. His theatrical works basically take up topics that have connections with contemporary people.

In 2008, together with his long-time dramaturge Martin Ojster , Gruber invented the “Salon d'amour” art lounge, which has become a fixture in Magazin 4 and where numerous Austrian artists have been meeting since then. Among others: Wolfgang Hermann, Daniela Egger, Wolfgang Mörth, Rainer Nikowitz, Andrea Maria Dusl, Monika Helfer, Stephan Eibel, 78plus , Tini Trampler and the dirty combo, Zeebee, Morbidelli Brothers, Kmet, Propella and many others were guests.

Productions (selection)

  • 1997: “Cain” by George Gordon Lord Byron, Bregenz Festival
  • 1999: "The entire Shakespeare, slightly shortened", Städtische Bühnen Augsburg
  • 2003: “je veux je veux” based on Jean Genet - the balcony (choreography: Liz King), Volksoper Vienna
  • 2003: “Perser” by Aeschylus (new translation by Durs Grünbein), Austrian premiere
  • 2004: "Sinfonie der Stadt" - "Mahagonny Songspiel" by Kurt Weill, "City Life" by Steve Reich, "Quiet City" by Aaron Copland, with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Weill Festival, Dessau
  • 2005: “Slaughter Festival” by Andreas Staudinger, world premiere
  • 2008: “Sudden burst” by Gert Jonke, world premiere, Theater am Kornmarkt / Bregenz Spring
  • 2010: “Ulysses Roadmovie” by Christian Uetz, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2011: “Working Pure” by Aktionstheater Ensemble and Wolfgang Mörth , world premiere
  • 2011: “Future Machine” by aktionstheater ensemble and Andreas Staudinger, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2012: “Salz Burg” by aktionstheater ensemble and Wolfgang Mörth, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2012: “We are founding a party” by the action theater ensemble and Claudia Tondl, world premiere
  • 2013: “Weekday Revolution” by aktionstheater ensemble and Claudia Tondl, world premiere
  • 2013: "Three seconds" by the action theater ensemble and Wolfgang Mörth, world premiere
  • 2014: “Pension Europa” by aktionstheater ensemble and Claudia Tondl, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2014: “Angry Young Men” by aktionstheater ensemble and Wolfgang Mörth, world premiere, Hamakom / Nestroyhof
  • 2015: “Riot Dancer” by aktionstheater ensemble and Claudia Tondl and Wolfgang Mörth, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2015: “No play about Syria” by aktionstheater ensemble, world premiere
  • 2016: "Everyone Against Everyone" by action theater ensemble, world premiere, Festspielhaus Bregenz
  • 2016: “Immersion. We disappear ”by action theater ensemble, world premiere
  • 2017: “I Believe” by aktionstheater ensemble, world premiere
  • 2017: "Swing: dance to the right" by aktionstheater ensemble, world premiere, text by Martin Gruber and Elias Hirschl

Film projects

  • 2012: “Romanistan” short film project about Roma and Sinti

Awards

  • Gustav Klimt Prize
  • Joseph Binder Award
  • 2014: Heidelberg Theater Prize
  • 2016: Nestroy Theater Prize
  • 2017: Vorarlberger of the year in Vienna

Web links

  • action theater ensemble [1]
  • Playground Dornbirn [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lisa Kammann: Intimacy, honesty and authenticity. In: Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung (NEUE.at). September 30, 2017, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Vita of Martin Gruber at the action theater
  3. ↑ Ensemble 2015/2016/2017 | action theater ensemble. Retrieved November 18, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ "action theater ensemble"
  5. ↑ "Theater Schedule"
  6. ↑ "aktionstheater ensemble und Claudia Tondl" ( Memento of the original from December 10, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tondlschritten.at
  7. ↑ Annina Weiss: The Political and Post-Postdramatic of the Tetralogy Riot Dancer of the action theater ensemble . University of Vienna, Vienna 2017, p. 8-9 .
  8. ↑ "We are founding a party"
  9. ↑ “Weekday Revolution” ( memento of the original from December 11, 2015 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.tondlschritten.at
  10. ↑ "three seconds"
  11. ↑ "Pension Europa" ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2014 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.tondlschritten.at
  12. ↑ "Angry Young Men"
  13. ↑ RIOT DANCER (2015) | action theater ensemble. Retrieved on October 13, 2017 (German).
  14. ↑ NOT A PIECE ABOUT SYRIA (2016) | action theater ensemble. Retrieved on October 13, 2017 (German).
  15. ↑ EVERYONE AGAINST EVERYONE (2016) | action theater ensemble. Retrieved on October 13, 2017 (German).
  16. ↑ Immersion We're disappearing (2016) | action theater ensemble. Retrieved on October 13, 2017 (German).
  17. ↑ I believe. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  18. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Theater criticism: A little something naughty . Article from January 12, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2018.
  19. ↑ action theater ensemble - swing: dance to the right - Spielboden. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Vorarlberg Action Theater Ensemble awarded the Heidelberg Theater Prize . In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten | VN.AT . ( vn.at [accessed on November 18, 2017]).
  21. ↑ orf.at: Gruber is Vorarlberger of the year in Vienna . Article dated September 27, 2017, accessed September 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz