Matthias Lilienthal

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Matthias Lilienthal (born December 21, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German dramaturge and artistic director .

Matthias Lilienthal, 2018
Theater director Matthias Lilienthal (2014)

Live and work

Lilienthal grew up as the second of three children in Berlin-Neukölln . After graduating from high school at the Berlin Evangelical Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster (1978), he studied history , German and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin , but dropped out after ten years.

Mid 1980s - 2002

In the mid-1980s, Lilienthal worked as a freelance journalist for taz , zitty and Süddeutsche Zeitung ; then he was assistant director to Achim Freyer at the Vienna Burgtheater . From 1988 to 1991 he was the dramaturge at the Basel Theater under artistic director Frank Baumbauer , where he worked with the then unknown Christoph Marthaler and tried to convince Baumbauer to bring Frank Castorf to Basel. When Castorf made him an offer, Lilienthal moved to the Volksbühne Berlin under Castorf's directorship and was chief dramaturge and deputy director there until 1998. In 2002 he was program director of the Theater der Welt festival in the Rhineland . He is also the initiator of the now internationally listed X Apartments project .

2003–2014: Berlin, Beirut, Mannheim

In September 2003 Lilienthal became artistic director and managing director of Hebbel-Theater GmbH (HAU) in Berlin. In August 2010 he announced that he would not extend his contract beyond 2012. Instead, he has been working with young artists in Beirut for ten months since autumn 2012 . The jurors of the magazine Theater heute selected HAU 1 under Lilienthal's direction as Theater of the Year 2012. In 2014 he directed the international festival “ Theater der Welt ” in Mannheim.

From 2015/2016: Munich

Since the 2015/2016 season, Matthias Lilienthal has been the new director of the Münchner Kammerspiele and thus successor to Johan Simons . For his directorship he announced the inclusion of “free groups or certain aesthetics of the independent scene in the city theater” and the cooperation with theater collectives such as She She Pop , Rimini Protokoll and Gob Squad .

Before the start of the season, Lilienthal launched a global tender for the Shabbyshabby Apartments art campaign : In autumn 2015, 24 makeshift huts and houses stood for four weeks in central locations in the city, preferably in places with high rental prices such as Maximilianstrasse . These accommodations could be rented for 35 euros per person per night including breakfast in the 2015 theater canteen. The aim of the project was to draw attention to Munich's high rental prices. The action was organized by Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius and Axel Timm from raumlaborberlin . With Foerster-Baldenius, Lilienthal already carried out a very similar project in 2014 with the title Hotel Shabbyshabby at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .

In March 2018 it was announced that Lilienthal will not seek an extension for his contract at the Kammerspiele, which will last until 2020.

To mark the farewell to the management of Lilienthal, the Munich Olympic Stadium was used "because of Corona". The Japanese director Toshiki Okada staged the “Opening Ceremony”, a one-hour performance with the Kammerspiele ensemble. The premiere on July 11, 2020 is “a spooky, poetic piece” that alludes to the Olympic Games in Japan, which was canceled this summer due to Corona, which most of the theater critics from FAZ to Süddeutsche Zeitung to taz discussed mostly benevolently.

Influences and theater conception

Lilienthal described the staging of Winterreise in the Olympiastadion by Klaus Michael Grüber , which he saw in Berlin in 1977 , “300 spectators shivering at minus 20 degrees in the Olympiastadion” , Lilienthal described as his most impressive theater experience . When asked about important teachers, Lilienthal named Frank Castorf , Christoph Marthaler , Frank Baumbauer , Wilfried Schulz and the friendship with Christoph Schlingensief .

Lilienthal does not see theater as an elitist space, but as a place for reflection and encounter, which takes up the themes of a city and plays them back on the streets, as a “laboratory for trying out urban living space”.

membership

Lilienthal has been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 1999 .

literature

  • Dirk Baecker, Matthias Lilienthal, Tobi Müller: Hope for events in the expectation fulfillment institution. The sociologist Dirk Baecker, HAU boss Matthias Lilienthal and the journalist Tobi Müller on the performance as a magnifying glass for the nonsensical course of general meetings and the step from the Eastern polemics in the nineties to a rededication of the concept of globalization. In: Kirstin Hehmeyer, Matthias Pees (Eds.): Import Export. Workbook for the HAU Berlin. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-40-3 , pp. 11-19.
  • Gabriela Herpel: The man from row three. In autumn Matthias Lilienthal takes over as the new director of the Münchner Kammerspiele. Many believe he will really stir up the venerable theater. He's been doing it for a long time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. No. 9, February 27, 2015, pp. 12-19.
  • Matthias Lilienthal, Philippe Quesne, Guido Graf, Tobi Müller: Free coke for everyone. Matthias Lilienthal, Philippe Quesne and Guido Graf in conversation with Tobi Müller about the 24-hour marathon 'Infinite fun'. In: Kirstin Hehmeyer, Matthias Pees (Eds.): Import Export. Workbook for the HAU Berlin. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-40-3 , pp. 136-143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gabriela Herpel: The man from row three. In autumn Matthias Lilienthal takes over as the new director of the Münchner Kammerspiele. Many believe he will really stir up the venerable theater. He's been doing it for a long time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . No. 9, February 27, 2015, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Mapping Beirut - Tony Chakar and Matthias Lilienthal ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2011 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. at Ashkal Alwan - The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ashkalalwan.org
  3. ↑ a b Rüdiger Schaper : Matthias Lilienthal: "I don't like art poop." In: Der Tagesspiegel from September 6, 2012
  4. ↑ Matthias Lilienthal will be artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2015 Press release of the cultural department of the City of Munich from September 16, 2013
  5. ^ Egbert Tholl: Cake for everyone. Matthias Lilienthal loves the chamber plays. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 105, May 8, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. R18.
  6. ↑ Call for tenders for the Shabbyshabby Apartments project , accessed on February 25, 2015.
  7. ↑ Susanne Hermanski : Munich Chamber Games. The future director of the Schauspielhaus, Matthias Lilienthal, wants to confront the city with an unusual residential art project right at the beginning of his first season. Now he calls on architects and designers worldwide to collaborate. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 46, February 25, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. R1.
  8. ↑ Christiane Lutz: Better living in the bathtub. The Kammerspiele want to draw attention to the precarious housing situation with a spectacular campaign: In Munich's city center, they are setting up unusual dwellings that anyone can rent. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 85, April 14, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. R1.
  9. ↑ Christiane Lutz: Art project starts in the office jungle. For each individual location of the 25 “Shabbyshabby Apartments”, the organizers must apply for approval from the relevant authorities. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 86, April 15, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. R4.
  10. ↑ Information from the Nationaltheater Mannheim on the urban space project Hotel Shabbyshabby  ( 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. , accessed April 16, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de  
  11. ↑ Susanne Burkhardt: The experiment is over , DLF Kultur from March 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Opening Ceremony - Münchner Kammerspiele - Toshiki Okada will be playing at the Munich Olympic Stadium to mark Matthias Lilienthal's farewell , review review on nachtkritik.de on July 11, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020
  13. ↑ a b Matthias Lilienthal in an interview with Christine Dössel: Hello Hybrid. The city theater fright Matthias Lilienthaol takes over the Münchner Kammerspiele. And how! In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 105, May 8, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 21.
  14. ↑ Gabriela Herpel: The man from row three. In autumn Matthias Lilienthal takes over as the new director of the Münchner Kammerspiele. Many believe he will really stir up the venerable theater. He's been doing it for a long time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. No. 9, February 27, 2015, p. 15.
  15. ^ Matthias Lilienthal, in: Evelyn Vogel: Always in time. The designated director of the Münchner Kammerspiele, Matthias Lilienthal, and Abbot Johannes Eckert of St. Bonifaz Munich and Andechs Monastery talk about life in a complex time at the salon talk in the Bayerischer Hof. in: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 167, July 23, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. R22.
personal data
SURNAME Lilienthal, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin