Martin Sperr

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Martin Sperr (born September 14, 1944 in Steinberg near Marklkofen , Lower Bavaria , † April 6, 2002 in Landshut ) was a German playwright and actor . In his plays he strongly denounced social grievances in the Bavarian dialect .

Life

Martin Sperr was born in Steinberg , the son of a teacher couple . According to his birth certificate, his name was Helmuth Martin Sperr and was called Helmuth as a child. However, he later decided to use the nickname Martin.

At the end of the 1940s his father was a senior teacher in Wendelskirchen , where Sperr grew up. He attended the 1st – 4th Class at the Wendelskirchen elementary school (1950–1954). He graduated from primary school at the Algasing boarding school in Dorfen, Upper Bavaria (1954–1958). After attending the Sabel commercial school in Munich (1958/59), he graduated from the Trausnitz commercial school in Landshut (until 1961) with a secondary school leaving certificate.

On September 1, 1961, he began an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Siemens in Munich , which he broke off at the end of February 1962. From 1961 he took lessons at the M. Nachbaur drama school in Munich and made his debut at Theater 44 in 1962 as Lennie Klein in Von Mäusen und Menschen . From 1962 to 1964 he attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, which, as he himself said, he had to leave “for lack of talent”. The first versions of the hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria were made. He attended the Genzmer drama school in Wiesbaden in 1964/65 and passed the final examination for drama on May 4, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main. In cooperation with Karlheinz Braun from Suhrkamp Verlag , the hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria were finally completed. Sperr financed his training as an actor with activities as an accountant, unskilled worker and night porter.

During the 1965/66 season he worked as an assistant director and actor at the Bremen City Theater . There his hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria were premiered in May 1966 (directed by Rolf Becker / Wilfried Minks ). The breakthrough of the play brought the performance in the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin, in which he played the Rovo (production: Hagen Mueller-Stahl ). The edits Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and Saved by Edward Bond began .

In 1968 Peter Fleischmann used the material about a homosexual outsider and the violence in the village to make a film with Sperr in the main role of Abram. This won the Federal Film Prize and impressed at the Berlinale and at the Locarno Film Festival . In 1971 the material appeared as a short story entitled Hunt for Outsiders . In 1984, Sperr was seen as a pastor at a performance at the Munich Volkstheater .

In 1966 he successfully translated Edward Bond's piece Gerettet into Bavarian. In 1967 he himself took part in the premiere in the production of Peter Stein at the Münchner Kammerspiele and accepted an engagement at the Münchner Kammerspiele as a resident author and actor.

After that, his Bavarian trilogy on post-war society took shape. The hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria take place in 1948, the Landshut stories , which appeared in 1967 and depict a competition between two building contractors, a decade later. The Münchner Freiheit (1971) was a contemporary satire on property speculation and letting.

Martin Sperr was by no means nostalgic with historical fabrics. In 1970 Peter Palitzsch premiered his play Koralle Meier with Ruth Drexel . It is about an aging prostitute in a small town in Lower Bavaria during the Nazi era. In 1971 he and Reinhard Hauff wrote the screenplay for the television film Der Räuber Mathias Kneißl , in which Mathias Kneißl became a social rebel. He held up a mirror to civil greed and stupidity with his tragic comedy about the life of Adele Spitzeder in the film of the same name. It was premiered in 1977 on the stages of the city of Bonn .

In 1969/70, Sperr was again engaged in Bremen. In 1972 he was in a coma for a long time after a brain haemorrhage , which resulted in amnesia and loss of motivation. He has since suffered from epileptic seizures. In 1974 he returned to the stage at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he played Borstal Boy in the German premiere of Brendan Behans . This was followed by appearances in small private theaters in Munich with readings of his own nonsense poems (1976) or in 1978 in his play Adele Spitzeder at the Munich studio theater . In 1982 he was seen as Hamlet at the Freiburg Theater .

In 1983 he joined the ensemble of the Münchner Volkstheater . He translated German theater texts into Bavarian, which were performed at the Volkstheater, including Otto Muehl's Rheinpromenade and Fitzgerald Kusz ' Schweig, Bub! He also appeared at the Volkstheater and at the Tyrolean Volksschauspiele in Telfs .

In 1968 he married Monika Sperr , from whom he was divorced in 1969. His second marriage was to the actress Katja Barwich. His daughter Felicitas Sperr-Burger dedicated a personal letter to her father twelve years after his death.

meaning

The title of his first play Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria became a popular phrase. It is synonymous with a smear campaign and slander.

Martin Sperr is in the same line as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz and may be considered the literary child of Marieluise Fleißer . He is considered a innovator in the genre of popular critical plays . His fate was filmed on television under the title The Second Life of Martin Sperr .

Awards and honors

On November 27, 1965, he was awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize in Berlin as a sponsorship award from the Freie Volksbühne Berlin for the hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria . In 1967 he received the “ Theater heute ” award for young theater people for stories from Landshut and on November 9, 1968, the sponsorship award of the Schiller Memorial Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. On April 29, 1969, he was awarded the State Capital of Munich's Literature Promotion Prize. In September 1972, Martin Sperr and Peer Raben received two stars for the television film Adele Spitzeder as part of the Star of the Week (Abendzeitung München). In 1973 he was awarded the Bavarian Radio Prize and on December 16, 1977 the Ernst Hoferichter Prize , Munich. On May 26, 1978 he received the Mülheim Dramatist Prize , an award for Die Spitzeder as play of the year and in November 1978 the star of the week (Abendzeitung Munich) and tz- Rose for the portrayal of his Adele Spitzeder in the studio theater, Munich. With the tz-Rose, another award followed in November 1984 for Martin Sperr (text editing), director Ulrich Heising and the ensemble of A Rua is Bua! in the Volkstheater Munich.

In 2014 the 17th Literature Days in Landshut were dedicated to him.

Works

  • Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria , UA Theater Bremen , director: Rolf Becker / Wilfried Minks , May 1966 (filmed in 1968)
  • Landshuter Erzählungen , premiere Münchner Kammerspiele 1968, directed by August Everding
  • Koralle Meier , WP Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart 1970, directed by Peter Palitzsch
  • Hunt for outsiders , prose version of the play Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria 1971, Weismann Verlag Munich
  • Mr. Bertolt Brecht says. Read at Brecht and selected for children and other people , 1970 (together with Monika Sperr )
  • Münchner Freiheit , premiered in Düsseldorf 1971, directed by Michael Kehlmann
  • Anthology Niederbayrische Trilogie , Suhrkamp, ​​1972 (contains the pieces hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria , Landshut stories , Münchner Freiheit )
  • Screenplay for the television film Adele Spitzeder , 1972
  • Screenplay for the television film Der Räuber Mathias Kneißl , approx. 1971
  • Die Spitzeder , premier at Werkstattbühne Bonn 1977, directed by Wolfgang Quetes
  • If you want to slap giraffes, you have to have their level , 1979 (prose, poems and drawings)
  • Play Räuber Kneißl , 1998

Edits and translations

Transfers into Bavarian

  • Lemsomd as a radio play around 1972
  • Schdeamsweaddal as a radio play around 1972
  • Rhine promenade from Karl Otto Mühl to Isar promenade
  • De Hotzeblitz by Karl Wittinger for Der Floriansblitz , premiere Münchner Volkstheater 1984, production: Franz Geiger
  • Keep quiet, boy! by Fitzgerald Kusz on A Rua is Bua! , Premiere Münchner Volkstheater 1984, production: Ulrich Heising
  • Happy reunion
  • The avaricious from Molière to Da avarice is da envy
  • Lotto luck from Sabine Thiesler zu Loddoglügg

The actor

Sperr played in roles such as:

  • 1962 in Von Mäusen und Menschen by John Steinbeck as Lennie Klein, Theater 44 , Munich
  • 1964 in Christmas night by Ludwig Thoma as shepherd, staged by Georg Lhotzky , Schönbrunner Schloßtheater , Vienna
  • 1964 in Two Flies on a Track by Wolfgang Bauer , production: Wolfgang Bauer, Grazer Kellertheater
  • c. 1965 in Marat , production: Heym, Stadttheater Wiesbaden
  • c. 1965 in The Rebel Who Wasn't , production: Heym, Stadttheater Wiesbaden
  • 1966 in The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller , Theater Bremen , production: Peter Zadek (premiere: March 5th, 1966)
  • Sept. 1966 in his hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria as Rovo, Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , staging: Hagen Mueller-Stahl
  • 1968 in Saved by Edward Bond in a Bavarian adaptation by Martin Sperr as Helmut (Barry), in the Werkraumtheater in Munich, production: Peter Stein (premiere: April 15, 1967)
  • 1967 in The Anabaptists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Münchner Kammerspiele , staging: Hans Schweikart (premiere: November 23, 1967)
  • 1968 in Der Schuhu and the Flying Princess by Peter Hacks as Grand Duke Friedrich von Coburg-Gotha, Münchner Kammerspiele, staging: Gerd Brüdern (premiere: January 14, 1968)
  • 1968 in In the Thicket of Cities by Bertolt Brecht as a clergyman of the Salvation Army and Der Grüne, Münchner Kammerspiele, staging: Peter Stein (premiere: March 9, 1968)
  • 1969 in Narrow Path in the Deep North by Edward Bond as a priest / Tola, Münchner Kammerspiele, production by Peter Zadek (premiere: October 19, 1969)
  • 1969 in Sturm (Tempest) by William Shakespeare as Caliban, Theater Bremen, staging: Klaus Michael Grüber (premiere: November 19, 1969)
  • 1974 in Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan as Behan, Schauspielhaus Bochum , production: Hartmut Gehrke (premiere: May 12, 1974)
  • Nov. 1974 in What you want by William Shakespeare as Junker Tobias von Rülp, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, production: Wilfried Minks
  • 1974/75 in measure for measure according to Shakespeare, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Wilfried Minks
  • 1975 in Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare as Ajax, Greek military leader, Theater der Stadt Bonn , staging: Hans-Joachim Heyse (premiere: November 15, 1975)
  • circa 1977 in The Mayor
  • 1978 in his play Die Spitzeder as Adele Spitzeder, Studio Theater Munich, director: Jutta Wachsmann
  • 1979 in Kater Lampe by Emil Rosenow as Mayor Gletzenbichler, Freie Volksbühne Berlin , director: Ulrich Heising (premiere: September 11, 1979)
  • 1979 in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Skarabäus Theater Company, tour Paris and Marseille (premiere: March 6, 1979)
  • Jan. 1981 in Bertolt Brecht's petty bourgeois wedding as the bride's father, hurdy-gurdy, Munich, production: Jutta Wachsmann
  • 1982 in Hamlet by William Shakespeare as Hamlet, Theater in Freiburg, production: Valentin Jeker (premiere: January 27, 1982)
  • 1982 in As soon as five years pass by Federico García Lorca as The Child, The Father and Bajazzo, Modernes Theater Munich, staging: Gert Pfafferodt (premiere: December 31, 1982)
  • 1983 in Sladek , Hamburg
  • 1983 in the faith and home of Karl Schönherr as Bader, Munich Volkstheater (reopening), production: Ruth Drexel (premiere: November 24, 1983)
  • 1984 in his play Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria as a pastor, Münchner Volkstheater, production: Harald Clemen (premiere: March 23, 1984)
  • 1984 in his Bavarian adaptation A Rua is Bua! ( Schweig, Bub! was edited by Fitzgerald Kusz ), Münchner Volkstheater, staging: Ulrich Heising (premiere: November 8, 1984)
  • 1984/85 in The Job and Peace by Dietmar Schönherr, Tiroler Volksschauspiele Telfs, director: Ruth Drexel
  • 1985 in his play Koralle Meier as Isidor, Münchner Volkstheater, production: Wolfgang Gropper (premiere: February 14, 1985)
  • 1985 in Schweyk during the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht as Die dicke Frau und Der Dicke, Münchner Volkstheater, staging: Ruth Drexel (premiere: June 15, 1985)
  • 1986 in Who trusted us ... by Sarah Camp based on Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo as a medic / Dr. Schlumpf, Münchner Volkstheater, production: Sarah Camp (premiere: May 15, 1986)
  • 1987 in former circumstances - Chief Abendwind by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy as the ghost of Josephine's father and Ho-Gu, Münchner Volkstheater, staging: Ruth Drexel (premiere: January 22, 1987)
  • 1987 in Yvonne - Princess of Burgundy by Witold Gombrowicz as Yvonne, studio theater on the Alabama, Munich, director: Gunnar Petersen (premiere: July 10, 1987)
  • 1987 in Liliom by Ferenc Molnár as The Foreign Police Officer, Münchner Volkstheater, director: Rolf Stahl (premiere: October 29, 1987)
  • 1988 in The Last Volume by Samuel Beckett as Krapp, Studiotheater im PEP, Munich, directed by Guido Moser (Premiere: June 29, 1988)
  • 1988 in Korbes by Tankred Dorst as Schindhelm, Prinzregententheater Munich, production: Jaroslav Chundela (premiere: December 17, 1988)
  • April 1989 in The Suicide by Nikolai Erdmann as Niki Arsentjewitsch, Münchner Volkstheater, staging: Vladimir Danowsky
  • 1989 in Phaleska by Gerlinde Eger as Shenja, Hungry Hearts, Munich, director: Gerlinde Eger
  • 1990 in Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner as Mr. Peter Popo, studio theater in the PEP in the theater tent Roncalli Platz, Munich, director: Michael Tiemann (premiere: June 13, 1990)
  • 1990 in Ich, Feuerbach by Tankred Dorst as Feuerbach, Gasteig and Theater EX libris Munich, directed by HP Trauschke
  • 1990/91 in The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt as an insane doctor, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, director: Gunnar Petersen
  • 1991 in The Philosopher's Stone by Franz Helm as King of Hearts and The Poet, Münchner Volkstheater, production: Ruth Drexel (premiere: May 11, 1991)
  • 1991 in For true everyone is a horror, the Sündflutgrund at all times by Anton von Buchner as pallier, four winds and galley slave, Tiroler Volksschauspiele Telfs, director: Ruth Drexel (premiere: 14 August 1991)
  • 1992 mouth II vin Felix Mitterer , Tyrolean folk plays Telfs
  • 1992 in The wonderful fate - From the life of the farm tyrolean Peter Prosch by Felix Mitterer as Prince-Bishop Ignaz Friedrich, Tiroler Volksschauspiele Telfs and Münchner Volkstheater, director: Ruth Drexel (premiere: August 13, 1992)
  • 1992 in Pelleas and Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck as Golaud, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, production: Frank Albrecht (premiere: October 21, 1992)
  • 1992 in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens as a businessman and rector, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, director: Alexander Duda (premiere: December 2, 1992)
  • 1993 in Ein Jedermann by Felix Mitterer as Dicker Vetter (Cardinal), Haimhauser Kulturkreis eV, director: Tristan Berger (premiere: July 16, 1993)
  • 1993 in his play Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria as Knocherl (grave digger), theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, director: Jutta Wachsmann (premiere: July 30, 1993)
  • 1993 in Rameau's nephew of Denis Diderot as ER, Pasinger Fabrik , Munich, director: Peter Glockner (premiere: November 4, 1993)
  • 1993 in God by Woody Allen as Bob Schicksal, Theaterzelt Das Schloss, Munich, directed by Alexander Duda (Premiere: December 31, 1993)
  • 1994 in Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Alfons, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, production: Gunnar Petersen (premiere: May 2, 1994)
  • 1994 in Der Harte Handel based on the novel by Oskar Maria Graf as Der Engel Xaver, the Sepp his brother, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, director: Eos Schopohl (premiere: October 7, 1994)
  • 1994 in Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Zeus, theater tent Das Schloss, Munich, production: Hermann Rueth
  • 1995 in Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas as Brassett, Theaterzelt Das Schloss, Munich, director: Michael Tiemann (premiere: June 15, 1995)
  • 1997 in The Blind or Die Unreasonable Die aus by Maurice Maeterlinck and Peter Handke as a priest, Theater Fisch & Plastik , in the Wamslerhallen, Munich, director: Eos Schopohl (premiere: September 18, 1997)
  • 1998 in Aias von Sophokles as Menelaos, theater plays in the courtyard of the Glyptothek, Munich, director: Michael Tiemann (premiere: July 16, 1998)
  • 1998 in his play Münchner Freiheit as Christoph Ederer, Theater Fisch & Plastik, in the Kunstpark Ost, director: Eos Schopohl
  • 1999 in Sonntagskinder - Spring Festival by Gerlind Reinshagen , Theater Fisch & Plastik, in the bunker hall Luisenstr. 37a, Munich, directed by Eos Schopohl (Premiere: December 16, 1999)
  • 2001 in Heimat member , texts by Ludwig Ganghofer in a stage collage based on an idea by Martin Sperr, Teamtheater Comedy, Munich, director: Hans Melzer (premiere: March 29, 2001)

Also:

The film actor

Sperr starred in films such as:

  • Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria 1968/69 (written and directed by Peter Fleischmann , Martin Sperr as Abram)
  • The robber Mathias Kneißl around 1971 (book: Martin Sperr) Martin Sperr as shepherd Meier
  • Strange City by Rudolf Thome 1971/72
  • The second life of Martin Sperr approx. 1974
  • The tunnel , short film 1976 (based on a story by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - director: Stephan Kayser )
  • The representative , short film 1977 (written and directed by Stephan Kayser)
  • The Knapp family , ARD television series around 1981, as master butcher Bernd
  • Project Rudolfo 1987, when Ernstl
  • The Chinese come around 1988 as Raith
  • Inshallah 1989, directed by Michael Holzinger
  • The grapefruit moon 1989 by Joachim Masannek
  • After the hunt. Scenes from Martin Sperr heute 2001 by Christoph Nussbaumeder
  • Sheep's head race , television series
  • Monaco Franze , TV series, as a hairdresser or waiter
  • The back door to paradise by Reinhard Donga, as Grabner
  • Eiger , TV movie
  • Luna from Yellow Garden Movies
  • Shot by Martin Pfeil
  • Hitler, a film from Germany by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
  • Let's do it like heroes of Kabel Cain
  • Stars (Script and Direction: Kabel Kain)
  • German night by Martin Klett

The director

  • Solo for Carlos and Sigmund by Marco Antonio de la Parra, Theater EX libris, Munich 1991
  • Büchner goes Blues after Georg Büchner, edited by Ludo Vici , Theater EX libris, Munich 1991
  • Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria jointly directed with Hans Melzer, Stadttheater Bremerhaven (premiere: March 23, 1996)

Radio plays

  • 1969 Landshut stories , edited by Valerie Stiegele, Martin Sperr speaks the Sorm
  • 1970 Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria , edited by Valerie Stiegele, Mila Kopp , Rainer Werner Fassbinder ,
  • 1971 Brother of Olsen's bride , editing Martin Sperr, Martin Sperr also speaks
  • 1971 Heimlich Essen by Peter Melzer, directed by Martin Sperr
  • 1972 Josef Filser by Ludwig Thoma , director and speaker: Martin Sperr
  • 1972 Bairische version Lemsomd (bairisch for retirement ). Martin Sperr edited and directed the radio play Op de Parkbank by Dieter Kühn . The actress Therese Giehse spoke the monologue of an old woman in the park of an old people's home . Production: BR 1973. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • 1972 Bavarian version Schdeamsweaddal
  • 1979: Adele Spitzeder . With Ruth Kappelsberger (Adele Spitzeder), Heidi Ackermann (Emmi), Walter Sedlmayr (Wastl, the landlord), Toni Berger (Wucherer Dirschl), Maria Singer (Frau Fleck), Katharina de Bruyn (Patricia Quirin), Friedrich von Thun (von Mengershausen jun.), Hans Baur (von Mengershausen sen.), Fritz Straßner (police chief), Hans Stadtmüller (Anton Hirler) a. a. Hansé Scheuerer (morality singer). Director: Wolf Euba . BR 1979.
  • 1983 Hias as speaker
  • Defeat of a disobedient by Angelika Mechtel , Martin Sperr speaks Wolfgang Mattner

Web links

swell

  • Gong radio newspaper, Sept. 2004, on the broadcast of Bayern2 on the occasion of Sperr's 60th birthday

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Landshuter Zeitung: Martin Sperrs Leben, November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Landshuter Zeitung: Ein Bulky Artist, November 7, 2014.
  3. ^ BR radio play Pool - Kühn / Sperr, Lemsomd
personal data
SURNAME Sperr, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Bavarian playwright and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinberg near Marklkofen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2002
Place of death Landshut