Martin Zehetgruber

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Martin Zehetgruber ( Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY 2009 )

Martin Zehetgruber (* 1961 in Styria ) is an Austrian set designer .

Life

Martin Zehetgruber completed his stage design studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . In 1989 he founded the production group "MY FRIEND MARTIN" together with Martin Kušej . This was followed by work at theaters such as the Stuttgart State Theater , Thalia Theater Hamburg , Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Volksbühne Berlin , Kammerspiele Munich , Residenztheater Munich and the Burgtheater in Vienna .

In the field of opera, he is working on international houses such as the Opera Bastille , the Liceu in Barcelona , Opera La Monnaie in Brussels , De Nationale Opera Amsterdam , Zurich Opera , Munich State Opera , Berlin State Opera , the Salzburg Festival and the Madrid opera house Teatro Real , among others with Conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Mariss Jansons and Kent Nagano .

The most important working partners among the directors were / include Hans Kresnik , Stephan Kimmig , Jossi Wieler , Guy Joosten and, in the longer term, Andrea Breth and Martin Kusej - with whom he has worked closely since the beginning. In 2001, Martin Zehetgruber was appointed professor of the stage design department at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and designed the theater tower for the Baden-Württemberg Academy of Performing Arts, which was newly founded in Ludwigsburg in 2008 .

Productions

Awards

  • 1998 set designer of the year in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater heute
  • 2000 set designer of the year in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater heute
  • 2000 nomination for the Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the category best equipment for woe to those who lie!
  • 2001 Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the category Best Equipment for Faith and Home
  • 2002 Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the category Best Equipment for the last call
  • 2004 Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the Best Equipment category for Don Carlos
  • 2006 Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the category Best Equipment for Hell Fear
  • 2009 Vienna Theater Prize NESTROY in the Best Equipment category for Der Weibsteufel
  • 2010 Rolf Mares Prize for Master Builder Solness
  • 2011 set designer of the year in Opernwelt magazine's critics survey
  • 2015 Jakob Lenz from 2014 as performance of the year in the critics' survey of Opernwelt magazine

Zehetgruber is the first artist to be nominated six times for the NESTROY theater prize in Vienna and to have been awarded five times.

literature

Works

  • Theater construction from the point of view of a set designer , in: Stage constructions. Manual and planning aid , ed. by Birgit Schmolke (January 2011), DOM publishers, pp. 230–241 (over 450 images)
  • Abundance. How are the exterior and interior of a theater related? - On architecture and stage space , in: Theater heute (June 2011), Friedrich Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2011, pp. 4–15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also premiere casts of the Bavarian State Opera from 2014
personal data
SURNAME Zehetgruber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Styria