Reinhard Palm

Reinhard Palm (born April 30, 1957 in Vöcklabruck , Upper Austria ; † January 15, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author , translator and dramaturge .

education

Palm grew up in Timelkam, Upper Austria , and attended the Bischöfliche music-pedagogical secondary school in Linz , where he graduated in 1975 . From 1975 to 1978 he studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Salzburg , and from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Vienna ethnology, Arabic and Hebrew. A research stay took him to Jerusalem in 1981 . In 1982 he received his doctorate. phil. with a thesis on pilgrimage and experience of the Orient in the late Middle Ages at the University of Salzburg. Between 1983 and 1988 he lived, translated and researched in Lyon, Arles and Paris. From 2003 to 2007 he studied Sanskrit and Indology at the University of Zurich and from 2005 to 2009 he attended the Yoga University in Villeret, from which he graduated with a diploma from the Swiss Yoga Association (SYV).

Theater work

Palm began his theater work as a dramaturge for his brother, the director and writer Kurt Palm , in Salzburg. In 1984 and 1985 he was dramaturge at the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1986 to 1987 he worked as a dramaturge at the Burgtheater Vienna, from 1988 and 1989 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , from 1989 to 1999 chief dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , initially with Achim Benning , then from 1992 as deputy to the artistic director Gerd Leo Kuck . In 1999/2000 Palm was interim artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. As a dramaturge, Palm worked with the directors Barbara Basel , Achim Benning, Jürgen Bosse , Andrea Breth , Henning Brockhaus , Harald Clemen , Werner Düggelin , Matthias Fontheim , Götz Fritsch , Dieter Giesing , Terry Hands , Matthias Hartmann , Alois-Michael Heigl , Uwe Eric Laufenberg , Barbara Liebster , Oswald Lipfert , Lioudmila Meier-Babkina , David Mouchtar-Samorai , Hans Neuenfels , Kurt Palm, Niels-Peter Rudolph , Volker Schmalöer , Peter N. Steiner , George Tabori , Klaus Weise , Peter Wood , Karst Woudstra .

From 2000 onwards, Palm devoted himself increasingly to the processing and translation of material for the theater.

Teaching

In 1983, Palm gave lectures at the Faculté catholique in Lyon on Elias Canetti and Johann Gottfried Herder . Further teaching activities at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur (2001), at the University of Music and Theater Zurich (2001 to 2002), at the Swiss make-up school (2008 to 2010), at the University of Vienna (German studies) (2010 to 2014) and at the Conservatory Vienna private university (drama department) (2010 to 2014).

Fonts

Own work

• A Talk With Johnny Shines , in: Blues Notes 3 & 4. 1975, pp. 20-24
• A Strange And Bitter Cry , in: Blues Notes 1 & 2. 1977, pp. 53-61 and pp. 60-73, respectively
• The mentality of the gatekeeper , in: Salt 16. 1979
• Conversation between Franz Innerhofer and Georg Schmid in: Manuscripts 64. Introduced and edited by R. Palm, 1979, pp. 28–43
• A lucky one. On the 100th birthday of Georges Duhamel , in: Die Presse, June 23, 1984
• Igteris , in: SALZ 39 (1985)
• To be aware of many forms . Supplement to the “Park” program ( Botho Strauss ) of the Burgtheater, also published in: Read Strauss, ed. by M. Radix, Hanser, Munich 1987
• Truth as a disaster. On Canetti's “Wedding” , in: Burgtheater's program for “Wedding” by Elias Canetti , also published in: Die Presse, September 21, 1985
• Nerval in Vienna , in: Die Presse, July 26, 1986
• Federfuchs , in: Landmassaker, Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1986
• From the laughter of God. Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel , in: Die Presse, March 21, 1987
• "So many I's, so many characters". Conversation with George Tabori , in: Burgtheater's program book on “Mein Kampf” by George Tabori, also in: Spectaculum 46, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1988; also in: The playmaker. Conversations with George Tabori, ed. by Wend Kässens, Berlin 2004
• Zipf. A monologue , Sessler, Vienna 1987, also published in: Neue Rundschau 3, Fischer, 1988
• Note on “Professor Bernhardi”. The censorship and the dramaturgy , in: Program of the Schauspielhaus Zürich on "Professor Bernhardi" by Arthur Schnitzler , 1989
• Gorkis Schmutz , in: Program of the Schauspielhaus Zürich on " Children of the Sun " by Maxim Gorki , 1990
• The luck in making money. Eugène Scribe und das Theater , in: Eugène Scribe: The first love or memories of childhood, edited, translated and with an afterword by R. Palm, Insel, Frankfurt / Main 1991
• “O human stupidity, should I know you?” On “The weak sex” , in: The only fun in town, ed. by Wolfgang Kralicek and Kurt Palm, Vienna 1994
• Conversation with Yasmina Reza , in: Program of the Schauspielhaus Zürich on “Art” by Yasmina Reza, 1996; also in: Spectaculum 64, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1996
• A woman's brutality. Collage about Marina Zwetajewa , in: Spectaculum 65, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1997
• Karst. From conversations with Karst Woudstra . Supplement to the program of the world premiere of “The Death of Heracles” by Karst Woudstra at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zürich 1998
• Figures of dissolution. On “The kiss of forgetting” by Botho Strauss , in: Akzente 3, Hanser, 1999
• Le duc du charme. On Werner Düggelin's 70th birthday , in: BLICK, December 7, 1999
• See Zurich and ... , speech on the occasion of the new citizens' celebration of the city of Zurich on February 28, 2000
• war makes state . preface to “traces of blood. shakespeare's royal dramas at the zürich theater 99/00 ”, Zurich 2000
• Dracula . After Bram Stoker , Sessler, Vienna 2002
• Albis . Scenes from the 4th century , Sessler, Vienna 2004
• The horse trading musical by Kurt Weill . Libretto by Robert Vambery in an arrangement by Reinhard Palm, Sessler, Vienna 2004
• Signs and Miracles , in: Program of the Heddy Maria Wettstein Theater for the premiere of “Tomorrow five years ago” by Herbert Meier , Zurich 2005
• Metropolis . Libretto (based on the novel of the same name by Thea von Harbou and the film by Fritz Lang ), Sessler, Vienna 2005
• Canetti in progress . Lecture at the Canetti Symposium in Graz, June 23, 2005 (abbreviated in: Die Presse, May 8, 2011)
• How the theater works , in: Theater - From craft to work of art, Zurich 2007, pp. 33–51
• The beginnings of yoga in Switzerland , in: Yoga Journal No. 27, Villeret 2008, pp. 43–55
• History of the Yogini , in: Yoga Journal No. 28, Villeret 2009, pp. 6-18
• The innocent lambs. Six scenes , Thomas Sessler Verlag, Vienna 2010.
• The Yoga Guide of Patanjali . Sanskrit / German. Translated and edited by Reinhard Palm, Reclam, Stuttgart 2010
• Camilo Chamäleon Oper by Max Nagl , libretto Reinhard Palm, book and idea Katia Guedes , Sessler, Vienna 2011
• Art and love. Elias Canetti and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky , in: Literature and Criticism, Salzburg 2011
• Solaris opera by Detlev Glanert , libretto Reinhard Palm based on the novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem , Boosey & Hawkes, Berlin 2012

Translations

• Germania, by Patrick Beurard, in: Cahiers de Leçons de choses, Lyon (1983)
• Othon, by Pierre Corneille , without publisher 1985
• The narrow waters, by Julien Gracq , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1985
• Shelley, (translated together with Alissa Walser ) by Joyce Carol Oates , in: Spectaculum, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1986
• Pandora, by Gérard de Nerval , in: Die Presse, July 26, 1986
• What you want or Twelfth Night , by William Shakespeare , Sessler, Vienna 1988
• The weaker sex, by Gustave Flaubert , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1990
• The jump over the ditch or the path to happiness, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , Sessler, Vienna 1990
• Children of the Sun , by Maxim Gorki (German version together with Niels-Peter Rudolph ), Sessler, Vienna 1990
• The first love or memories of childhood, by Eugène Scribe , Insel, Frankfurt / Main 1991
• Hotel Ultimus, by Georges Feydeau , Sessler, Vienna 1991
• Arden von Faversham, by an unknown author, Sessler, Vienna 1992
• A Midsummer Night's Dream , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 1992
• Rome. Around the Seven Hills, by Julien Gracq , Ammann, Zurich 1993
• The Lady from Maxim, by Georges Feydeau , Sessler, Vienna 1993
• Macbeth , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 1995
• The night in the Rue du Colisée, by Georges Feydeau, Sessler, Vienna 1996
• The false maid or the punished cheater, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, Sessler, Vienna 1996
• Hamlet , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 1997
• Im Lichtermeer, (translated together with Daniel Karasek ) by Howard Korder, Project Theater- und Medienverlag, Cologne 1997
• Passengers, by Véronique Olmi , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1997
• The Parisian, by Henri Becque , Desch, Munich 1997
• Measure for measure , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 1997
• The Gaspard Meyer case, by Jean-Yves Picq, Desch, Munich 1998
• Irish impressions, by Bernd Weisbrod , Edition Stemmle, Zurich 1999
• Exit Living Fashion, by Katrin Thomas , Edition Stemmle, Zurich 1999
• Andy Warhol . Photography, (chapter on the Polaroids) exhibition catalog of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edition Stemmle, Zurich 1999
• Another year for free, by Christophe Pellet, Projekt Theater- und Medienverlag, Cologne 2000
• The pain point, by Christophe Pellet, Project Theater- und Medienverlag, Cologne 2000
• The Giraffenkind, by Christophe Pellet, Project Theater- und Medienverlag, Cologne 2000
• Much Ado About Nothing , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 2000
• The Taming of the Shrewd , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 2000
• The Winter's Tale , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 2000
• Nude in Polaroids. The Nudes Collections, ed. by Barbara Hitchcock, Edition Stemmle, Zurich, New York 2000
• Don't move, by Emmanuel Darley, Projekt Theater- und Medienverlag, Cologne 2001
• The giraffe child. Trilogy, by Christophe Pellet, in: Scène 4. Five French theater pieces, ed. Barbara Engelhardt, Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt 2001, pp. 115–247
• Small talk. Good entertainment, by Dale Reynolds, Drei Masken, Munich 2002
• Don't move, by Emmanuel Darley, in: Scène 5. Five French plays, ed. Barbara Engelhardt, Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt 2002, pp. 67–100
• Delicately strung, by Christophe Pellet, Jussenhoven & Fischer, Cologne 2003
• King Lear , by William Shakespeare, Sessler, Vienna 2006
• The big bakery attack. Opera buffa by Misato Mochizuki. Libretto by Yohanan Kaldi based on Haruki Murakami , Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2008
• Youth without God, by Christopher Hampton , based on the novel “Youth without God” by Ödön von Horváth , Sessler, Vienna 2009

literature

• Peter Exinger: Reinhard Palm . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1368 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Palm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Reinhard Palm at Suhrkamp Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author Reinhard Palm (56) died nachrichten.at, January 17, 2014
2. ↑ We mourn Reinhard Palm ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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. Conservatory Vienna Private University, January 21, 2014 
3. ↑ Reinhard Palm (1957-2014) Thomas Sessler Verlag , accessed on January 23, 2014