Matthias Buck

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Matthias Buck (* 1961 in Sigmaringen ) is a German playwright , art critic and curator .

Life

Buck spent his childhood in Upper Swabia amounts . After graduating from the St. Blasien college , he returned to his hometown. From 1983 he studied art history , philosophy and German at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and worked alongside at the Kunstraum Munich , an association for contemporary art. In 1987 he worked on the preparation of the exhibition “ Beuys in Honor” at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich and then took over the curatorial management of the Christoph Dürr gallery in the Villa Stuck in Munich together with the gallery owner Christian Nagel . The duo showed exhibitions by Martin Kippenberger , Günther Förg , Joseph Kosuth , Jeff Koons and Dan Graham , among others .

He then resumed his studies at the Philipps University in Marburg . At the Saarland University in Saarbrücken , he received his doctorate in 1997 on the complete works of Max Beckmann . During this time, the first theater plays, stage designs and productions were created, followed by an activity at the Thalia Theater in Halle (Saale) as dramaturge and artistic director. In 2002 Buck became a research assistant at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Works

Art and art history

  • (Ed.): The pure everyday life , Munich 1987
  • (Ed.): Günther Förg, catalog raisonné , Munich 1988
  • (Ed.): Thomas Locher, Das Eine - Das Selbe - Das Gleiche , Munich 1988
  • The renewed myth, on some of Max Beckmann's self-portraits , in: Max Beckmann, Self-portraits, catalog Staatsgalerie München and Kunsthalle Hamburg, Stuttgart 1993
  • On mythical narration, Max Beckmann's triptych Die Temptation , in: Festschrift for Lorenz Dittmann, St. Ingbert 1993
  • Max Beckmann and the Gothic negroes in the hell of abstraction , in: Max Beckmann, cat. Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Albstadt 1994
  • Max Beckmann - Weltenbilder (doctoral thesis), Höxter 1999

theatre

  • Frederick , dramatization based on Leo Leonni's picture book of the same name, premiered at the Junge Theater Überzwerg, Saarbrücken, 1994
  • Veranda , play, premiered at the Junge Theater Überzwerg, Saarbrücken, 1995
  • Odysseus , play, Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb, Berlin, 1997
  • Don Quixote among bearded people , contribution to an author's project, premiered at the Thalia Theater Halle, Halle, 1999
  • Till Eulenspiegel , dramatization based on the folk book by Hermann Bote, premiered at Thalia Theater Halle, Halle, 2001

Direction and set design

  • Frederick , first performance at the Junge Theater Überzwerg , Saarbrücken, 1993
  • Veranda , first performance at the Junge Theater Überzwerg, Saarbrücken, 1994
  • Algot Storm , Thalia Theater, Halle, 1996
  • PoetrYCafE , series of events on the topics: Brecht, Nietzsche, football, Thalia Theater Halle, 1997–1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Buck: Max Beckmann, Weltenbilder , Silke Rakel, Höxter, 1999, ISBN 978-3000051227
  2. ^ Biography of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Buck, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, art critic and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigmaringen