Robert Woelfl

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Robert Woelfl (born April 29, 1965 in Villach ) is an Austrian writer and playwright.

Life

Woelfl grew up partly with his parents and partly with his maternal grandmother. His father, who came from Stanisic in Vojvodina and fled to Austria at the end of the Second World War, taught as a piano teacher and later became director of the music school in Villach , his mother worked as a secretary in the Chamber of Agriculture. The paternal grandfather had a jazz band in the 1950s, and the maternal grandfather from Styria built cable cars. The grandmothers were kindergarten teachers and on their father's side a seamstress.

Woelfl attended the so-called peace school in Villach and then the Peraugymnasium . After graduating from high school, he studied history and philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt for two semesters , before going to Salzburg in autumn 1984 to study sculpture with the Swiss sculptor Ruedi Arnold at the Mozarteum , although he worked more often in the drama department than in the Sculpture class was.

A year later he moved to Vienna to study at the University of Applied Arts in the master class for free graphics with Oswald Oberhuber and Ernst Caramelle . At the same time he attended the chair for communication theory with Roy Ascott and Zelko Wiener, where artistic projects were being developed for a new medium that was still in its infancy - the Internet. In 1991 Woelfl received the Austrian Promotion Prize for Video Art for the video essays created during his time at the Angewandte . As a diploma thesis, Woelfl presented a video installation about the Gladbeck hostage drama ( Everything and nothing else , 1991).

After studying Woelfl worked with various groups of artists together (u. A. With the group You Never Know) and in media arts projects from Robert Adrian X (u. A. At Art & Politics for the Ars Electronica 1996) and, together with Bernhard Loiben to Kunstradio projects radio station ORF .

From 1995 onwards Woelfl concentrated entirely on writing. From this point on, the first theater pieces were created, for which he received numerous prizes in the following years. For example, he received the Jakob-Michael-Reinhold-Lenz-Prize for Drama (2000) for The Heart, Work for the Hands and the Author's Prize of the German-language theater publishers for Communication of Pigs (2001). In 2010 he was awarded the Dramatist Prize of the Klagenfurt City Theater for the financial advisor piece We always sell .

Some of the plays were created in close cooperation with a theater / festival or a directing team (e.g. Jekyll and Hyde at the Wiener Festwochen 1999, or man and woman in dog position for the Vienna Burgtheater in 2003, or the Yamo Yamo project together with Claudia Bosse for the Festival Steirischer Herbst 2006). In the 2000/2001 season, Woelfl was an in-house author at the Stuttgart State Theater as part of the “Dichter ans Theater” project .

Since 2011 Woelfl has been teaching scenic writing at the Institute for Linguistic Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has been head of the Austrian Radio Play Days since 2012 .

Robert Woelfl has a son and lives in Vienna.

Works

Plays

  • Jekyll and Hyde . First performance in 1999 as part of the " Wiener Festwochen " festival at the Schauspielhaus (Vienna) , director: Jan Bosse .
  • Once full, once dead, once sociable . World premiere on April 8, 2000 as part of the "Neue Szene" festival at the Stadttheater Konstanz , director: Wolfram Apprich. Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 9 , S. Fischer Verlag 1999.
  • Work for the heart, love for the hands . World premiere January 12, 2001 at the Schauspiel Leipzig , director: Claudia Bauer .
  • Communication of the pigs . World premiere on March 23, 2002 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven , directed by Alexander Seer. Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 11 , S. Fischer Verlag 2001.
  • Truth . World premiere on January 17, 2003 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, director: Elias Perrig . Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 13 , S. Fischer Verlag 2003.
  • Man and woman in dog position . World premiere on December 20, 2003 as part of the project "Hommage an Werner Schwab " at the Burgtheater Vienna (casino), director: Stephan Rottkamp . Printed in: kolik 25 , magazine for literature.
  • Wilderness and casinos . World premiere on April 22nd, 2006 at TAG Wien, director: Gernot Plass. Printed in: kolik 34 , magazine for literature.
  • save - destroy . First performance June 15, 2006 at Theater Halle 7 Munich, director: Claus Peter Seifert .
  • Resource love . World premiere on December 14, 2006 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, director: Sebastian Röhrle. Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 17 , S. Fischer Verlag 2007
  • Family entrepreneur ghosts . World premiere on March 25, 2011 at Theater Augsburg , directed by Ramin Anaraki.
  • We always sell . World premiere on September 20, 2013 at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg , director: Stephan Suschke . Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 21 , S. Fischer Verlag 2010
  • Greed for feelings.
  • No time for class struggle . Short piece. World premiere on October 17, 2014 during the opening of the Werk X theater , director: Christine Eder . Printed in: kolik 64, magazine for literature.
  • New life in the wrong one. Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 27, S. Fischer Verlag 2016
  • Abundance of desert. World premiere ETA Hoffmann Theater , Bamberg, October 11, 2018; Director: Daniel Kunze. Published in: Theater Theater Current Pieces 29, S. Fischer Verlag 2018
  • Tiger.

Audio pieces

  • Burnout (together with Bernhard Loibner ). First broadcast in 1994, ORF / Ö1 , series: Kunstradio - Radio Art.
  • Sudden hearing loss (together with Bernhard Loibner). First broadcast in 1996, ORF / Ö1, series: Kunstradio - Radiokunst. Released as a CD. With booklet.
  • Purchasing power (together with Bernhard Loibner). First broadcast 2001, ORF / Ö1, series: Kunstradio - Radio Art. Released as a CD. Printed in: kolik 12, magazine for literature.
  • Resource love . First broadcast on October 28, 2008, ORF / Ö1, series: radio play studio, director: Götz Fritsch .
  • We always sell . First broadcast on November 23, 2010, ORF / Ö1, series: radio play studio, director: Götz Fritsch.
  • Family entrepreneur ghosts . First broadcast on May 24, 2011, ORF / Ö1, series: radio play studio, director: Götz Fritsch.
  • Dark secrets buy art . First broadcast on June 17, 2015, SRF, director: Susanne Heisig.
  • New life in the wrong one . First broadcast on December 19, 2015, ORF / Ö1, director: Götz Fritsch.
  • Abundance of desert . First broadcast on April 29, 2019, WDR 3 , director: Jörg Schlüter.

Video essays

  • Production (together with Lydia Lindner). First performance 1987, Locarno Video Festival.
  • Zeit, young man, taught us both a lesson (together with Klaus Schuster and Wolfgang Scherz). First performance in 1988.
  • The list of easy things . First performance in 1988, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.
  • Seductions . First performance in 1988, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.
  • The messenger (together with Klaus Schuster). First performance in 1989.
  • The snow of the moon . First performance in 1990.
  • Everything and nothing else . First performance in 1991.

Meta

  • Only all together are an individual fate , in: Birgit Haas (ed.): Dramenpoetik 2007, Insights into the production of the theater text , Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim Zurich New York 2009

Prizes and awards

  • 1991 Austrian advancement award for video art
  • 1998 Literature grant from the city of Villach
  • 1999 federal drama scholarship
  • 2000 2nd prize in the drama competition of the Graz Academy
  • 2000 Reinhold Lenz Prize for new drama
  • 2001 Promotion Prize of the Province of Carinthia for Literature
  • 2001 author award of the German-language theater publishers
  • 2003 drama scholarship from the city of Vienna
  • 2005 Federal Drama Scholarship
  • 2007 drama scholarship from the city of Vienna
  • 2008 Vienna writer grant
  • 2010 Dramatist Prize of the Klagenfurt City Theater
  • 2011 Elias Canetti Scholarship

literature

  • Klaus Gehre : One to two undecided , in: Christel Weiler and Harald Müller (eds.): Piece-Werk 3, New German-speaking Dramatic , Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2001
  • Peter Klein: In the emotional balance. The writer Robert Woelfl shows people under the dictates of the economy , in: belongs 01/2012, Das Ö1 Club-Magazin No. 193 , Vienna 2012

Web links

  • [1] Robert Woelfl's website
  • [2] The author's page at S. Fischer Verlag
  • [3] Austrian Society for Literature
  • [4] Ursula Blickle video archive
  • [5] Media workshop Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patricia Kurucz: Another world is possible. Robert Woelfl on love as a raw material, language as utopia and literature as a drug. In: http://www.wolfgangroessler.com/robertwoelfl , accessed on September 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Georg Mair: The color of money. In: ff Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin 01/2010 p. 46
  3. ↑ Isabella Straub: Word bearer at the dump. In: Die Brücke 19 - June 2001, p. 24ff
  4. ↑ Knut Lennartz: From hearts and hands. In: Die Deutsche Bühne 3/2001 p. 36ff
  5. ↑ Lothar Lohs: In the thicket of life. An approach to the new playwright Robert Woelfl. In: Die Bühne 4/2001 p. 70
  6. ↑ Lichtungen, magazine for literature, art and criticism of the times 86 / XXII.Jg. / 2001 p. 20ff
  7. ^ Lichtungen, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Zeitkritik 111 / XXVIII.Jg. / 2007 p. 95ff, Claudia Bosse and Robert Woelfl in conversation with Peter Stamer
  8. ↑ Otto Paul Burkhardt , Michael Propfe, Ingrid Trobitz, Hans Tränkle: 12 years of the red corner. The book of the seasons 1993-2005 Schauspiel Staatstheater Stuttgart. The directorship of Friedrich Schirmer
  9. ↑ Parnass issue 4/2003 p. 176
  10. ↑ Schauspiel Stuttgart Dramaturgie-Journal November 2005
  11. ↑ Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff: Tu felix Austria. A remarkable radio play conference. In: Funkkorrespondenz 24/2012 June 20, 2012
  12. ↑ Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff: On course for renewal. In: https://www.medienkorrespondenz.de/leitartikel/artikel/auf-erneuerungskurs.html , accessed on June 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Woelfl, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach