Oskar Mahler

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Hansgeorg Eugen Oskar Mahler (born August 8, 1952 in Straubing ) is a German artist , actor , author and long-time director and puppet theater player , theater founder, urban developer and chronicler of the Frankfurt train station district .

Life

After graduating from the Main Taunus School in Hofheim am Taunus , Mahler studied pedagogy in Frankfurt, then training in Paris and San Francisco. Exhibition of first sculptural works in 1970. In 1975 he co-founded the Klappmaul Theater , a puppet theater with a focus on children's, family and music theater. Mahler worked for the theater as a director, puppeteer and sculptor for 30 years. He and his colleagues performed with the ensemble until May 2005 throughout the German-speaking region. Mahler is a co-founder of the Freie Theaterhaus Frankfurt.

In 2005 he finished his theatrical work and opened the Hammer Museum Frankfurt in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel , at the time the second largest hammer collection in Germany and the only tool museum in the world that used modern art to present itself. He closed his museum in March 2019.

In 2012 he played an old man in Iron Sky . In 2013, on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Frankfurt Central Station , he played the role of the visionary in the anniversary play.

Mahler has a son and lives in Frankfurt am Main . Oskar Mahler has been politically active in the SPD since 2016 .

Publications (selection)

  • Oskar Mahler and other authors: Get in, please !: A literary-photographic journey of discovery . Ed .: Ursula Zimmermann. Verlag VBN, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-941712-47-0 , Frankfurt Central Station and Happiness, p. 52-63 .
  • Oskar Mahler and other authors: Frankfurt Main Station: The traffic hub in the middle of Germany - 125 years . Verlag VBN, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941712-32-4 , Frankfurt Central Station creates a metropolis - a pas de deux, p. 100-105 .
  • Three giants on the move . Atlas Magazin, Frankfurt / M. 2014, DNB  1058647563 .
  • Atlas anniversary newspaper - 125 years of Frankfurt Central Station . Atlas newspaper, Frankfurt / M. 2013, DNB  1058767208 .
  • The elephant and Ferdinand . Dickworz Bladda Verlag, Mörfelden-Walldorf 1980, ISBN 3-922689-00-0 .

Web links

Commons : Oskar Mahler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Oskar Mahler and the gateway to the world. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Portrait: Mixing in in the Bahnhofsviertel ( Memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Out after 14 years: Hammer Museum must go. In: image . January 4, 2019, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Isabel Hempen: An institution closes: The Hammer Museum is looking for a new location. In: Journal Frankfurt . January 3, 2019, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Episode 77: Trade association boss Oskar Mahler: The common thread: The hammer man. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: SPD stops membership decline. The Frankfurt Social Democrats stabilize at 3700 members. Actor and director Oskar Mahler joins the SPD and becomes the representative for the station district. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 19, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mahler, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahler, Hansgeorg Eugen Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, puppeteer, actor, author
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing