Oliver Proske

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Oliver Proske (born September 21, 1971 in Johannesburg ) is a German set designer, industrial designer, exhibition designer, producer and managing director. In 1998, together with his partner Nicola Hümpel , he founded the free Berlin theater company Nico and the Navigators .

Life

Oliver Proske, studied industrial design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in Dieter Rams' class and then at the Berlin University of the Arts . As part of his theoretical diploma thesis at the HFBK Hamburg, a free-form atlas was created in 2000 , which tests mathematical considerations for free-form dimensions, which make it possible to compare shapes with computer-aided styling .

Together with Nicola Hümpel , he founded the theater ensemble Nico and the Navigators at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1998 , for which he has designed all 25 stage sets since then. The company's headquarters have been in Berlin since 1999. Oliver Proske is also managing director of the company, which has been institutionally funded by the Berlin Senate since 2007, and has taken on the technical management of over 200 guest performances in more than 50 cities worldwide.

As artists in residence at the Sophiensælen in Berlin , he developed the cycle of images of man with the company from 1999 to 2005 . The production Eggs on Earth, which was nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Friedrich Luft Prize in 2000, gave the troupe its international breakthrough. The piece Where You Are Not , with compositions by Franz Schubert , marked the entry into music theater in 2006. Together with European co-producers, a number of other music theater productions were then created - including Anesthesia with music by Georg Friedrich Händel (2009) and Petite messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini (2011). These alternated with collaborations between Nico and the Navigators with the Halle Opera and the  Handel Festival for Orlando (2010), the Deutsche Oper Berlin for Mahlermania (2012) and the Munich Biennale in collaboration with the Residenztheater for Die Befristeten (2014). The hour when we knew too much about each other was premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg 2015. In spring 2016 he developed the set for Philippe Boesman's Reigen in the new production by Nicola Hümpel at the Stuttgart Opera and in 2017 for the production Silent Songs into the wild at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He has made guest appearances with Nico and the Navigators at the Wiener Festwochen , the Bregenz Festival , the Kunstfest Weimar , the Moscow Dom Muzyki, the Korean UIMT Festival, the Paris Opéra-Comique , the Festival Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon, the Opéra de Dijon , the Opéra de Rouen and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg .

In addition to working with his company, he developed a. a. Stage design for the production Der Protagonist - Bajazzo 2011 at the Anhaltisches Theater , and for the concert for a deaf soul 2012 at the Puppentheater Halle. Furthermore, he designed various exhibitions - among other things, Things of the World (2008) in the Francke Foundations in Halle : A media installation based on the 300-year-old Wunderkammer as part of Theater der Welt and in 2012 the exhibition architecture for the sound art installation Cicadas in Hall. He communicates his design approaches in lectures and workshops at home and abroad.

Oliver Proskes most famous industrial design is the Melampos lamp. It was produced by the ClassiCon company from 2001 to 2007.

In 2013, about his work with the company, the photo book An der Erde der Mensch und auf him der Himmel was published by Theater der Zeit . In 2011 Oliver Proske received the George Tabori Prize together with Nicola Hümpel .

Stage sets

  • 1998 I've been to America before
  • 1999 Lucky Days, Stranger!
  • 2000 Eggs on Earth
  • 2001 Lilli in Putgarden
  • 2002 The Fammileinrat
  • 2003 Cain, If & But
  • 2004 HELden & KleinMUT
  • 2006 Where you are not
  • 2007 Niels Arms and Songs
  • 2008 even though I know you
  • 2009 Anæsthesia
  • 2009 Ombra & Luce
  • 2010 Orlando
  • 2011 Cantata dance
  • 2011 Petite messe solennelle
  • 2012 Angels' Share
  • 2012 Mahlermania
  • 2013 Shakespeare's Sonnets - Hate me when thou wilt
  • 2014 The fixed-term
  • 2015 The hour when we knew too much about each other
  • 2016 round dance
  • 2017 Silent Songs into the wild

Exhibitions

  • 2008 things in the world
  • 2012 Cicadas

Product design

  • 2001 Melampos lamp at ClassiCon

literature

  • Laura Berman, Madlene Therese Feyrer: Klang zu Gang - Thoughts on music in today's theater forms. Theater der Zeit Verlag, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940737-65-6 .
  • Nico and the Navigators: Man depends on earth and heaven on him. Theater der Zeit Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943881-60-8 .
  • Babette Kraus: The Berlin performance / theater group Nico and The Navigators: Work cycle 'Menschenbilder' - In search of the lost identity. GRIN Verlag, Munich, 2002, ISBN 978-3-656-76010-8
  • Torsten Maß, Christoph Werner: Theater of the World: Come! In the open. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2008, ISBN 978-3-898125-67-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Montag: Full of love for Ravel. Review of Concert for a Deaf Soul. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 19, 2012.
  2. ^ Jean-Louis Perrier: The Berliners of Nico, acidified navigators. Review of Eggs on Earth. In: El Mundo, January 27, 2003.
  3. ↑ Egbert Tholl: Explorations in Schubert's body. Review of Where You Are Not. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 7, 2006.
  4. ↑ Eleonore Büning: This portrait is enchanting. Review of Anæsthesia. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, November 22, 2009.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Schreiber: The whole body poets. Review of Petite messe solennelle. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 3, 2011.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Schreiber: Joke included. Review of Petite messe solennelle. In: Opernwelt, November 1, 2011.
  7. ^ Clemens Haustein: Chocolate and self-mortification. Review of Petite messe solennelle. ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau, November 18, 2011.
  8. ^ Alain Cochard: Rossini selon Nico. Review of Petite messe solennelle. In: Concert Classic Paris, April 21, 2012.
  9. ↑ Patrick Wildermann: Love in the times of the selfie stick. Review of the hour when we knew too much about each other. In: Tagesspiegel, June 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Marco Frei: intercourse with humor. Review of Reigen In: NZZ, April 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ Mirko Weber: You can catch people with thirds. Review of Reigen In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ Judith von Sternburg: You kill this mosquito! Review of Reigen In: Frankfurter Rundschau, April 26, 2016.
  13. ^ Tomasz Kurianowicz: Heimatsucher . Review of Silent Songs into the wild. In: Tagesspiegel, September 27, 2017.
  14. ^ Andreas Hillger: Festival "Theater of the World" in the house of a thousand things. Review of Things of the World In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 1, 2008.
  15. ^ Andreas Montag: Art project call of the cicadas in Halle . Review of Cicadas In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 2012.
  16. ↑ Jana Haase: When the cicadas make a noise . Review of Cicadas In: Potsdamer Latest News, September 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Proske, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, industrial designer, exhibition designer, producer and managing director
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg