Matthias von Hartz
Matthias von Hartz (* 1970 in Augsburg ) is a German director, curator and festival director.
Life
Growing up in Augsburg and Lindau , he studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Nuremberg , then directing at the Hamburg Theater Academy . He has staged at Kampnagel, at the Wiener Festwochen and at various city and state theaters. In 2001 he developed the political-artistic series go create resistance for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg and subsequently curated projects for large theaters and museums.
Together with Tom Stromberg , he directed the Impulse theater festival in North Rhine-Westphalia (2006 to 2011) and relaunched and was responsible for the Hamburg International Summer Festival at Kampnagel (2007 to 2012). For the Berliner Festspiele he curated the now closed international festival Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016 . From 2016 to 2018 von Hartz was co-curator for international productions of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and Artistic Advisor of the Manchester International Festival .
Since 2018, von Hartz has been the artistic director of the international performing arts festival Zürcher Theater Spektakel, founded in 1980 . He added various offers to the festival.
Bodies
Matthias von Hartz was a member of the advisory board of the Goethe Institute for the Performing Arts and juror of the Elbkulturfonds for several periods
Publications
- There is another way , Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-43-4
- It would be better if there really was something to celebrate , Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943881-18-9
- How to frame - on the Thresholds of Performing and Visual Arts , Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95679-247-2
- Matthias von Hartz is the author of various cultural-political essays on the structure of the German-language theater system a. a. in “Heart of the City Theater der Zeit Arbeitsbuch 20” and as the initiator of the multi-year debate on the future of city theater on nachtkritik.de .
Web links
- Matthias von Hartz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Interview on the Theaterspektakel 2018 republik.ch , August 16, 2018
- Katja Kullmann : Blurred sharpness. August 2012, accessed June 6, 2019 .
- Text brochure Athens & Epidaurus Festivals ( Memento from November 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Greek)
Individual evidence
- ↑ New artistic director for the Theater Spektakel from 2018. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. March 6, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2017 (media release by the City of Zurich ).
- ↑ An act of intercultural learning. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. June 22, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartz, Matthias von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, curator and festival director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |