Samuel Schwarz (theater director)

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Samuel Schwarz (born August 27, 1971 ) is a Swiss film and theater director . He became known for his theater productions and films with the 400asa theater group and his world premieres of plays by playwrights such as Lukas Bärfuss , Raphael Urweider and Tim Zulauf and Sabine Wen-Ching Wang . Since 2010, Samuel Schwarz has been directing an increasing number of films and concentrating with his group 400asa on projects with transmedia exploitation.

Life

After high school in Bern, Schwarz staged Christmas fairy tales with punks in the Reithalle cultural center , before training as a director at the Zurich Drama Academy (now the Zurich University of Music and Theater ) from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, together with Lukas Bärfuss , Samuel Schwarz founded the independent theater group 400asa, which made a name for itself as an important Swiss theater export with various productions. In 1998 and 1999 Schwarz played with Benno Besson and Peter Palitzsch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . This work with these directors, who had learned their trade with Bertolt Brecht , shaped Samuel Schwarz's approach to staging, especially the political orientation of his directorial work.

In 2000, Schwarz staged his first play at a subsidized theater at the Bochum theater . With the free group 400asa aroused u. a. the so-called monkey theater at the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 , but also the sports play B. - a play about sport and disability that addressed the fate of the paraplegic ski racer Silvano Beltrametti , caused a sensation. Since 2000 Samuel Schwarz has been working regularly with Ted Gaier from the band Die Goldenen Zitronen .

As a director in the play contract , Schwarz a. a. under Michael Schindhelm at the Theater Basel, under Volker Hesse at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, under Matthias Hartmann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, under Tom Stromberg at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , under Christoph Nix at the Theater Konstanz and under Andreas Beck at the Schauspielhaus Wien . In 2006 he staged the Slovenian premiere of Lukas Bärfuss' award-winning play Der Bus at the Maribor State Theater , as a preliminary study for a 400asa production of the same play in the forests of Graubünden in autumn 2007. In September 2006, the Swiss press reacted violently to the Schwarz production by Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell at the Theater St. Gallen , because Samuel Schwarz compared the national hero Wilhelm Tell with the gunman Friedrich Leibacher and the 9/11 assassin Mohamed Atta .

Samuel Schwarz also works as an actor. Most recently in 2007 he played the role of Elisabeth I at the Theater am Neumarkt in Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller . His Chur production of Lukas Bärfuss' Der Bus - in which the audience is driven into autumn forests - was invited to various festivals after the premiere in 2007 in Chur , u. a. to the Politics in the Free Theater Festival in Cologne in autumn 2008, as well as to the Akko Festival in Israel in autumn 2009. In January 2010, Samuel Schwarz performed the radio version of Bertolt Brecht's play Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe from 1932 in Constance , which was also shown as a reduced version - in Chinese translation and as a Chinese premiere - in June 2010 at the Penghao Theater in Beijing.

In 2007, Samuel Schwarz and Meret Hottinger founded Kamm (m) acher GmbH, which focuses on the development of new formats for theater, film, TV and radio. Among other things, Samuel Schwarz developed the film musical Seldwyla at the Andrzej Wajda School on the ERKAN Master's program under the direction of Andrzej Wajda, based loosely on Gottfried Keller's cycle of novels The People of Seldwyla . In June 2010 Samuel Schwarz staged an adaptation of Claude Chabrol's film Biester in Beijing , a performance that was also shown in September 2010 as part of the Zurich Theater Spectacle (under the title La Cérémonie ). The text for this was written by the Swiss-Taiwanese author Sabine Wen-Ching Wang .

In 2011, Samuel Schwarz filmed Ödön von Horváth's folk play Kasimir und Karoline with Julian M. Grünthal under the title Mary & Johnny .

In 2012, Samuel Schwarz founded the new theater stadttheater.tv together with 400asa , which produces urban theater art as a mobile city theater, but apart from the rigid arrangement of hall and stage. As part of stadttheater.tv, the tri-media theater play Der Polder is created based on the film of the same name, which also includes hidden campaigns under other names. For example, Samuel Schwarz and Julian M. Grünthal staged an augmented reality walk based on Friedrich Nietzsche's work Also sprach Zarathustra , in collaboration with the Chur Theater .

Preparations for the movie Polder - Tokyo Heidi , which was made with SWR and in collaboration with Niama Film, began in 2011. In the run-up to the shooting, the first Alternate Reality Games for Der Polder took place in Bern and Zurich in summer and autumn 2013 . In September 2013 the SRF broadcast the radio play “Der neue Meienberg” by Samuel Schwarz on the 20th anniversary of Niklaus Meienberg's death .

Awards

  • 1998 Radio Prize of the Zurich Radio Foundation for the radio play RöstiBlitz (together with Udo Israel)
  • 2000 ZKB sponsorship award at the Zurich Theater Spektakel for the production "Medeää"
  • 2011 award for music / dance / theater of the Canton of Zurich for working with 400asa
  • 2012 Special mention by the jury at the Max Ophüls Film Festival for the feature film Mary & Johnny
  • 2012 Bern Film Prize for the feature film Mary & Johnny

Productions (selection)

  • 1999 Italian Night, by Horváth, Zürcher Theater Spektakel
  • 2000 Klaus and Edith's journey through the shaft to the center of the earth, by Lukas Bärfuss, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2000 "Medeää" based on Lars von Trier / Euripides, Wiener Festwochen , (winner of the ZKB sponsorship award of the Theaterspektakel Zurich)
  • 2001 Neue Mitte by Raphael Urweider / Samuel Schwarz, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
  • 2001 Meienberg's death, by Lukas Bärfuss, Theater Basel
  • 2001 Othello, by Lukas Bärfuss / William Shakespeare, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • 2002 Miss Sarah Sampson, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Theater Basel
  • 2003 Clavigo, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2003 Zombies, by Raphael Urweider, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 400asa
  • 2004 Heinrich IV, by Shakespeare / Bärfuss, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2005 Andorra, by Max Frisch, Theater Basel
  • 2005 Zurich 1917, after Meinrad Inglin, Theater am Neumarkt
  • 2006 Wilhelm Tell , by Friedrich Schiller, Theater St. Gallen
  • 2006 Der Bus, by Lukas Bärfuss State Theater Maribor , Slovenia
  • 2007 Der Bus, by Lukas Bärfuss Theater Chur , outdoor production in the forests of Graubünden
  • In 2008 she gave the answer he breathes, by Simon Froehling , diploma staging at Bern University of the Arts
  • 2009 Jenatsch , based on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , 400asa, Theater Chur
  • 2009 Der Sumpf, by Ted Gaier , Claudia Basrawi, Sophiensäle Berlin
  • 2010 Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses, by Bertolt Brecht, Stadttheater Konstanz
  • 2011 Ulrike Maria Stuart, by Elfriede Jelinek , Stadttheater Konstanz
  • 2011 removal, according to Marlene Streeruwitz , Schauspielhaus Wien
  • 2012 Flow / Water by Claudia Basrawi , Sophiensäle Berlin
  • 2012/2013 Der Polder , transmedia project - together with Julian M. Grünthal
  • 2013/2014 Zarathustra , Sils Maria, Zurich, Chur - together with Julian M. Grünthal

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personal data
SURNAME Black, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunk, Heiko (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1971