Max Gad

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Max Gad is the stage name of Mathias Grilj (also: Matjaž Grilj ; * 1954 in Kamnik , Yugoslavia). Mathias Grilj is a journalist, director, curator and writer. He was a founding member of the Lord Jim Lodge and lives in Graz .

Life

Mathias Grilj, who comes from Slovenia, is a freelance journalist, lecturer at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences and a writer in Graz. He worked as a dramaturge and coordinator for Styrian Autumn , was public relations officer for the office for social research, as well as for the European Capital of Culture 2003 and is curator of the Galerie Kunst Werden . In addition to daily journalism (head of the culture department of a Graz daily newspaper), he published numerous conceptual works for cultural institutions as well as publications on art, psychology and alternative energy. For his journalistic activities he was awarded one state and several state awards.

Under the pseudonym “Max Gad” he published twelve plays, some of which he also staged himself - including at the Styrian Autumn and the Intro-Graz-Spection. Translations of his plays have been performed in New York, Luxembourg and Ljubljana. His prose, poetry and essays have appeared in countless art books, literary magazines (such as the Manuscripts , Sterz (magazine) , Lichtungen, etc.) and anthologies.

Plays

  • "Son of Man or Monkey Maria - From the Bestial Boulevard"
  • "The wrong story", Kunstverein Medienturm Graz
  • “Trilemma” Steirischer Herbst , Graz
  • “The sun goes away” Styrian autumn , Graz
  • “The raised heart”, Intro-Graz-Spection, Graz
  • "No & But, a heart-chamber game"
  • "Farcetten, 69 games for two"
  • "We three, the only two"
  • "Happy baby, we just play it doesn't hurt", Steirischer Herbst , Graz
  • "Owi laughs"

Books

  • The knowledge that knowledge doesn't help
  • Happy baby
  • Do you know Den
  • That's life
  • First nothing and then everything
  • 40 days of pathos, exercises in mindfulness
  • 40 dni patosa: Vaje v pozornosti
  • None

Movie

  • 2003 “From 100 black eyes”, production for European Capital of Culture, Graz

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personal data
SURNAME Gad, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grilj, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian-Austrian director and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamnik , Yugoslavia