Nikolaus Habjan

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Nikolaus Habjan, director, puppeteer and puppet maker
Nikolaus Habjan at the awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2013 with his Elfriede Jelinek hand puppet from shadows (Eurydice says)

Nikolaus Habjan (born September 24, 1987 in Graz ) is an Austrian director , puppeteer and art piper .

Live and act

Nikolaus Habjan grew up in Graz and attended the BRG Carneri here . From 2006 to 2010 he studied music theater directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

In 2003, he learned at a puppet workshop by Neville Tranter dealing with moving mouth puppets , which he often used in his plays. His career began in 2008 as an assistant director and evening director at the Schubert Theater in Vienna - Alsergrund . In collaboration with its director Simon Meusburger , Schlag sie tot was created , a figure piece for which he both built the puppets and played on the stage. This was followed by other pieces at the Schubert Theater and guest appearances, including at the Theater am Lend in Graz. From 2009 to 2016 Habjan was co-director of the Schubert Theater.

In May 2010 Habjan worked at the Mainz State Theater as a puppet trainer for the production The Bartered Bride by director Tatjana Gürbaca . His debut as a puppeteer at the Burgtheater Vienna took place in February 2012 in Fool of Love , directed by Matthias Hartmann and Michael Schachermaier.

The production of the Schubert Theater F. Zawrel - hereditary and socially inferior by Nikolaus Habjan and Simon Meusburger received the Nestroy Theater Prize 2012 in the category Best Off-Production. In the same theater Habjan organized art pipe evenings under the title “I don't give a damn about the opera”.

On June 29, 2014, Nikolaus Habjan and Simon Meusburger received the Aargauer Förderpreis for young puppet theater greenhorns . Around 24 groups from seven European nations, Israel, Chile and the United States have chosen to Newbie advertised, 2014.

The production of the Schauspielhaus Graz Das Misunderstanding by Albert Camus was nominated for the best federal state production at the 2015 Nestroy Theater Prize.

With the play Böhm written by Paulus Hochgatterer , Habjan was nominated in 2018 (also for a production by the Schauspielhaus Graz ) in the category best federal state production . This production was a guest performance among others to the Residenz Theater in Munich , 4 and 5 February 2019 to the scene euro Leipzig, November 7, 2018 to the TAK Liechtenstein , 5 and 6 October 2019 and at the Burgtheater in Vienna , the first time on October 12, 2019.

Pieces

  • 2008: Beat Them Dead - Bitter Bad Puppet Theater , Schubert Theater Vienna
  • 2008: Beat them to death - Deluxe , Schubert Theater Vienna
  • 2010: Mr. Berni is on vacation , Schubert Theater Vienna
  • 2010: Becoming Peter Pan - An Epilogue to Michael Jackson , Schubert Theater Vienna
  • 2011: Freaks , performance for puppets and actors based on the film Freaks , Schubert Theater Vienna
  • 2012: F. Zawrel - hereditary biological and socially inferior , puppet show, world premiere on March 23, 2012 in the Schubert Theater, director: Simon Meusburger, book, puppet making and playing: Nikolaus Habjan
  • 2012: Fool of Love , Shakespeare sonnets, set to music by Karsten Riedel and Franui , directed by Matthias Hartmann , Burgtheater Vienna , premiere on April 15, 2012
  • 2012: Fly Ganymed by Paulus Hochgatterer , director: Jacqueline Kornmüller , world premiere on September 6, 2012 at Theseus Temple / KHM Vienna
  • 2013: Schatten (Eurydike says) by Elfriede Jelinek , director: Matthias Hartmann , world premiere of the theater version on January 17, 2013 in the Akademietheater / Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2013: Max'n Morizz feat. Text freely based on Wilhelm Busch , concept and staging: Dominik Günther , Landestheater Linz , puppet show: Nikolaus Habjan and Manuela Linshalm
  • 2014: 6 Austrians among the first 5th puppet theater based on the book of the same name by Dirk Stermann , text version and staging: Simon Meusburger , Rabenhof Theater Vienna, puppet show: Nikolaus Habjan and Manuela Linshalm
  • 2016: I don't give a damn about the opera. A musical foray through opera history, with art piper Nikolaus Habjan, on the piano: Daniel Nguyen, Schauspielhaus Graz , works by Mozart, Rossini, Delibes, Puccini, etc. a.
  • 2016–2017: Kottan determined - The Puppet Musical. Based on an idea by Helmut Zenker, staging: Jan and Tibor Zenker, Rabenhof Theater Vienna, with Christian Dolezal as Major Kottan, puppet show: Nikolaus Habjan and Manuela Linshalm

Productions

Prices

  • Best Off Styria Audience Award for Der Herr Karl , September 2010.
  • Prize of the Foundation of the Grazer Theatergemeinschaft, January 2011.
  • Nestroy Prize 2012 "Best Off-Production" for F. Zawrel - hereditary and socially inferior with Simon Meusburger (director)
  • Aargauer Förderpreis Grünschnabel 2014 for F. Zawrel - hereditary biological and socially inferior with Simon Meusburger (director)
  • Wolfgang Swoboda Prize for Humanity in Criminal Proceedings 2016
  • Dorothea Neff Prize 2016 (audience award) for Carnival , The Misunderstanding , The Changeling
  • Nestroy Theater Prize 2016 - Audience Prize
  • Awarding of the Festival Prize of the Society for the Promotion of the Munich Opera Festival, July 2017
  • Nestroy Theater Prize 2018 - Audience Prize
  • Josef Krainer Home Prize 2018

literature

  • Florian Klenk: The complaint of the snap-mouth dolls . In: Falter , 15/2012
  • Frido Hütter: This trip is no fun . In: Kleine Zeitung Graz , September 8, 2012
  • Margarete Affenzeller: Blunt words for pointed clubs . In: derstandard.at , November 6, 2012
  • Michaela Reichart: Gloomy look into the abyss . In: Kronen Zeitung Steiermark , October 19, 2014
  • Elisabeth Willgruber-Spitz: Cabinet of horrors of bestiality . In: Kleine Zeitung, Graz ", October 19, 2014
  • Thomas Miessgang: The master of the dolls . In: Die Zeit , October 22, 2015
  • Christiane Lutz: Mr. Berni and the truth . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 3, 2016
  • Daniele Muscionico: An Austrian puppeteer: Main job: Maulheld . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 11, 2016
  • Manuel Brug: The puppeteer who made the Nazis dance . In: Die Welt , published on February 7, 2017
  • Christoph Hartner: "King of the Dolls" as a great stage star . In Kronen Zeitung Steiermark, 23 November 2018
  • Norbert Mayer: "Destruction of the people" as a bitter puppet show . In Die Presse, November 30, 2018
  • Werner Krause: The grotesque horror crypt in the doll's house . In Kleine Zeitung, December 1, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage to "Beat them dead" ; Retrieved October 30, 2010
  2. ↑ Fool of Love ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 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. Burgtheater; Retrieved February 21, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgtheater.at
  3. ^ Bavarian State Opera: Oberon , accessed on July 27, 2017
  4. ^ Volkstheater Wien: Vienna without Viennese , accessed on November 6, 2017
  5. ↑ Schauspielhaus Graz: Böhm , accessed on April 13, 2018
  6. ↑ / Schauspielhaus Zürich: Only residents , accessed on July 31, 2018
  7. ↑ Burgtheater: Volksvernichtung , accessed on December 8, 2018
  8. ^ State Theater of Lower Austria: Am Königsweg , accessed on May 3, 2019
  9. ↑ Acceptance speech by Nikolaus Habjan on the occasion of the awarding of the Wolfgang Swoboda Prize 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2016
  10. ↑ Nominees and winners of the Dorothea Neff Prizes 2015/16 ; accessed on June 27, 2016
  11. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Graz artists clear away at the Nestroy Gala . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.
  12. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Josef Krainer Home Prize 2018 presented . Article dated November 29, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Habjan, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian puppeteer, cabaret artist and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz