Robert Hunger-Bühler

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Robert Hunger-Bühler

Robert Hunger-Bühler (born May 7, 1953 in Sommeri- Hefenhofen , Thurgau ) is a Swiss actor , director and author .

Life

Robert Hunger-Bühler, son of a carpenter and a typist, grew up in Sommeri, Bottighofen and Winterthur before the family, which had now grown to six children (four girls, two boys), moved to Aarau . There he attended schools and then completed an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman. He played many kinds of sports, such as gymnastics, athletics, cross country running, and boxing; he also played the trombone. In football he made it to the Inter-Juniors at FC Aarau as a left wing.

In 1971 he staged the wedding for the school theater meeting with class 4C of the Aarau Tchechov teacher training college . After he finished the recruiting school as a cyclist and recited Cechov's monologue on the harmfulness of tobacco at a wedding , he decided to become an actor. After attending drama school in Zurich and studying theater and philosophy in Vienna, Hunger-Bühler initially worked as an actor and director in Vienna, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Freiburg. Further stations were the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz , the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz , the Berliner Ensemble , the German Theater , the Burgtheater Vienna and the Kammerspiele Munich.

He worked with directors Dieter Haspel , Hans Gratzer, Karl Welunschek, Paul Burian, Christoph Nel, Ulrich Heising, Jossi Wieler , David Mouchtar Samorai, Jürgen Kruse , Frank Castorf , Andrea Breth , Claus Peymann , Luc Bondy , Barbara Frey , Stefan Pucher , Johan Simons, Matthias Hartmann Klaus Michael Grüber , Peter Zadek Christoph Marthaler , Milo Rau . Robert Hunger-Bühler played Mephisto in Peter Stein's legendary Faust production .

In 1974 he founded the theater group 85 in the International Student House in Vienna, staging in Vienna, Berlin, Bonn, Potsdam, Freiburg i. Br., Bern, Basel and Zurich: Woyzeck , Büchner (Vienna), produced with Anne Tismer Presence of Memory , Jonke (world premiere, Bonn, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach), Ubu Roi , Jarry; Automat , Julian Green, The exit of the poet R. Walser from the Lit. Verein , Gert Hofmann, Theater Freiburg; Maria Stuart , Schiller (Theater Potsdam); The gang , Einar Schleef (Volksbühne Berlin); The Bachus Festival , Arthur Schnitzler (Theater Kiel); The piggy bank , Labiche (Theater Basel); Everything can be endured, just not overjoyed , Robert Walser, Christoph Storz stage (Bern, Aarau, Zurich); Oblomov , Gontscharov, (Peter Zumthor stage, Schauspielhaus Zurich). Local report Hermann Burger, (world premiere) Theater Tuchlaube Aarau, Kurtheater Baden, Concert Theater Bern, Sternensaal Wohlen, TaB Reinach, Reithalle Aarau, Theater Festival Lenzburg. In 2019 he directed "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss, a co-production with "argovia philharmonic" and the Kurtheater Baden of the "Alten Schmiede" Baden.

Robert Hunger-Bühler has been a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zurich since the 2002/2003 season . His roles include a .: Büchner; Danton, (Dantons Tod) , Richard III, Michel (Elementary Particles) , Astel (After Love begins its story) , Shylock (The Merchant of Venice) , Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman) , EA Poe (A Dream within a Dream) , Builder Solness (Ibsen), stoker (America) , Kafka; Doctor (Woyzeck) , Büchner; Pantalone ( servant of two masters ) , Goldoni; Hamm ( final ) , Beckett; Hoederer (dirty hands) , Sartre; Nathan (Nathan the Wise) , Lessing; Duke of Blangis (120 days from Sodom) , De Sade / Pasolini; Puntila (Puntila and his servant Matti) , Brecht. Creature, "Frankenstein", Shelley / Dath; Dr Isaac Kohler, "Justice" Dürrenmatt.

He is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts . and the European Film Academy

Hunger-Bühler received numerous invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen and international festivals and was honored as Best Actor for portraying Casanova at the Varna Film Festival in 2004. The Federal Office of Culture awarded Robert Hunger-Bühler the 2015 Theater Prize for Outstanding Actor . The Aargauer Kuratorium honored Hunger-Bühler in 2016 for his artistic work with a work contribution. Robert Hunger-Bühler was married to Anne Tismer for the first time and has the daughter Okka Hungerbühler with her. With Sarah Bellin he has the son Wyatt Cy.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1982: Krücken (short film) - Director: Dusty Sprengnagel

watch TV

Own productions

  • 1979: I dreamed I woke up - Vienna, with Haralampii Oroschakoff (video)
  • 1981: The Fool's Mask - Vienna, (Video)
  • 1984: All the glories of this earth, live performance with Haralampii Oroschakoff, Vienna
  • 1985: Festival event The Presence of Memory with Gert Jonke, Galerie Raum 41, Bonn
  • 1985: With that serenity that the soul knows how to preserve in dreams - Bonn (Video)
  • 1986: We want God ... - Bonn, by and with Bazon Brock (video)
  • 1986: The blind singer - Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, with trombone in front of the pictures by Sigmar Polke (Live)
  • 1987: Company ( Beckett ) - Galerie Klein Bonn, with Wolf Aniol (Live)
  • 1988: Cantos ( Pound ) - Galerie Klein, Bonn (Live)
  • 1997: And it does move, Ilja Ehrenburg- Potsdamer Platz Berlin- Live performance to a light installation by Gerhard Merz
  • 1998: Everything can be endured, just not overjoyed, Robert Walser - arr .: Robert Hunger-Bühler u. Michael Birkner - Director: Robert Hunger-Bühler, Schlachthaus Bern
  • 2001: Without light, without noise, text collage by Robert Hunger-Bühler and Michael Birkner, collaboration: Stefanie Carp - SHZ, monologue, director: Klaus Michael Grüber
  • 2011: Love Minus Zero / No Limit - homage for the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan with Sarah Bellin, Schiffbau Zürich
  • 2014: Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche - Integral recitation of the work on 10 days in 10 locations. SHZ and Zurich Festival

Recitation / music

  • 1986: Memorial day for Martin Heidegger (Der Feldweg) -Hückeswagen, with Gero Steinbach, Stefanie Hierholzer and Ulrich Klaus
  • 2003: Hugo Wolf / JWV Goethe - Weimar, Festival Melos - Logos
  • 2003: Invocation / Beat Furrer, Christoph Marthaler, Zürcher Festspiele, role: Chauvin, premiere
  • 2005: Années de pèlerinage (Liszt) - Zurich, Bayreuth, Sils Maria, Davos, with Seung-Yeun Huh, piano
  • 2006: Experimentum Mundi ( Giorgio Battistelli ) - Lucerne Festival KKL , directed by Daniele Abbado, directed by Claudio Abbado
  • 2007: Dreams of a lonely walker ( Rousseau ) - Kilchberg, Zurich, Petersinsel, Sils Maria, with Simone Keller , piano
  • 2006: Ekklesiastische Aktion (Bernd Alois Zimmermann) WDR, Philharmonie Köln, conductor: Heinz Holliger (CD, ECM Records "Canto die speranza", with Andreas Schmidt and Gerd Böckmann) CD ECM 2074
  • 2009: Beautiful stories (Stefan Wolpe), Collegium Novum, Schiffbau-Halle Zurich
  • 2011: Petrarca-Canzoniere - Hamburg, Gerd Bucerius Foundation , with Karlheinz Stierle
  • 2011: Four Seasons (Tschaikowski / Marais) - Tonhalle Zurich , with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , conducted by Michael Sanderling
  • 2013: How I became a world / Hans Neuenfels, Zürcher Festspiele / SHZ, role: Wagner; UA
  • 2014: "Academy of Reading Arts", ways through the country, Holzhausen, "Brod and Wine" Hölderlin with Uwe Kolbe, Mike Swoboda
  • 2014: "The crack through the day", Johannes Maria Staud / Durs Grünbein, conductor: Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris, Lucerne Festival
  • 2015: "Well, I was defiant", reading of the letters for the Otto Meyer-Amden exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur
  • 2015: "Merzluft" A film by Heinz Bütler, PiXiU Films, Zurich
  • 2016: "Zwischenentöne" Chamber Music Festival Engelberg, Merel Quartet, reading: Kafka Milton, Bierce, Dante, Bulgakov
  • 2016: "Dada-Soirée Festival Zurich with Peter von Matt
  • 2016: "Basta" Robert Walser recitation in the Kunstmuseum Chur in the exhibition "Solo-Walks" (Zweifel / Steiner)
  • 2017: "Time canceled" poems by Urs Martin Strub, Theater am Neumarkt
  • 2018: "Moravagine Idiot" Scary Stories, Blaise Cendrars, Theater am Rigiblick, with Martin Schütz
  • 2018/2019: "Egmont" recitation: Beethoven / Goethe / Mosengeil, Barockorchester Helsinki, conductor Aapo Häkkinen CD
  • 2019: "Iliad" recitation with Julian Sartorius (drums), translation by Kurt Steinmann, Schauspielhaus Zuerich
  • 2019: "Reading by the lake" Workers' beach Tennwil "Playing with people"
  • 2019: "Memories of Igor Stravinsky" by CF Ramuz, Kilchberg Reading Association with Marina Stauffer (dance)
  • 2019: "Röbeli will Robert" Recitation and conversation with Stefan Stirnemann and Annette Stirnemann in Seeburg, Uttwil 
am Bodensee.
  • 2020: "Literary insight into the Werner Coninx Collection". Aargauer Kunsthaus

Radio plays

Publications

  • Robert Hunger-Bühler, Jo Schultheis (Hrsg.): Presence of memory. Reader for the art project of the same name based on the novel by Gert Jonke with Jo Schultheis and Anne Tismer , Verlag Lothar Weber, Bonn 1988
  • Robert Hunger-Bühler, Roland Koberg (ed.): Mephisto - Without light, without noise. Henschel-Verlag , Berlin 2001.
  • Robert Hunger-Bühler: Heartbeat Time - Haiku. Edition Howeg, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85736-288-0 .
  • Francesco Petrarca , René Char : Upstream-downstream . Audiobook read by Robert Hunger-Bühler. Transfers by Karlheinz Stierle and Peter Handke. Speech theater publishing house Zurich, double CD, 2004
  • A dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe, CD SRF 2013, directed by Barbara Frey, music by Fritz Hauser
  • Merzluft. Film by Heinz Bütler, DVD and audio book, PiXiU Films, Zuerich 2015.
  • Last things. Horst Lohse, Hieronymus Bosch Triptychon, Michael Herrschel, Christoph Maria Moosmann CD NEOS Music 2016, DNB 1130725596 .
  • Klaus Dermutz (Ed.): Robert Hunger-Bühler. Playing people , Limmat Verlag, Zuerich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85791-847-6 .

literature

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Voir le jour (2019) , unifrance.org, accessed April 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hunger-Bühler, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hefenhofen , Thurgau