Sandy Lopicic

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Sandy Lopicic at a benefit concert in Graz 2013

Sandy Lopicic (original Lopičić ; born May 5, 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a Bosnian - Austrian theater director , musician , actor and film composer . He is the founder and director of the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar.

Life

Lopicic spent the first 14 years of his life in the Swabian town of Esslingen am Neckar . His parents come from Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ). He moved there in 1987 and attended music secondary school for four years, in Neda Stanković's piano class. In 1991 he came to Graz to study piano (classical) in the class of Moscow's Alexander Satz . There he lives with the actress Susanne Konstanze Weber and his three children.

Artistic activity

As a young piano student, Sandy Lopicic played three times a week as a solo entertainer in the Graz Theatercafé to finance his studies. During the day he worked as a ballet répétiteur in the ballet school of the Graz Opera House . In 1992 he worked as an extra in Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's opera America .

Shortly thereafter (1995) Lopicic got his first engagement as musical director and composer in the United Stages Graz, including the incidental music for the premiere of where he director Marc Günther Wolfgang Bauer People Factory wrote and 1998 on the side of the director Ernst M. Binder the Black Rider arranged by Tom Waits on a wild Balkan sound for a 15-piece band. A year later, this band formed the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar , which was signed to the world music label Network Medien for two albums ( Border Confusion and Balkea ) in 2000 and toured Europe until it was dissolved in 2006.

In 2007 he founded his 12-member formation Sandy Lopicic Superstvar (in Bosnian as much as "super thing").

In 2000, Sandy Lopicic and the Bulgarian director Dimiter Gotscheff met for the first time to rehearse Dejan Dukovski's powder keg for the Styrian autumn . Lopicic also got to know the actress Susanne Konstanze Weber. Today the couple have two children together. Sandy Lopicic has a daughter from his first marriage to the Bosnian pianist Lejla Fitozovic.

Lopicic saw Gotscheff as his great role model and began to be interested in directing. His first independent production ( one flew over the cuckoo's nest , 2003) at the Schauspielhaus Graz was a great success. This was followed by works in the directing duo Pan Danubia (2004–2007) with Cornelia Crombholz at the Volkstheater Wien , Staatstheater Nürnberg and Graz. Above all, Lorca's blood wedding bore Lopicic's musical signature. His staging of the original version of the White Horse Inn for the Linz State Theater in January 2008 , based on historical recordings and an original piano reduction from 1930, also caused a sensation .

After Lieutenant von Inishmore ( Burgtheater Vienna 2002), Gotscheff and Lopicic did not get together again until 2008 in Berlin to rehearse the powder keg at the Deutsches Theater / Berliner Festspiele. Since 2005, Sandy Lopicic has increasingly used the accordion instead of the piano in his stage music . In 2011, Lopicic set Gotscheff's production of the world premiere of Peter Handke's Immer noch Sturm ( Thalia Theater Hamburg and Salzburg Festival ) to music in a duo (accordion and hurdy-gurdy ) with Matthias Loibner .

Sandy Lopicic was also responsible for the music in the last work by Grand Master Dimiter Gotscheff , Heiner Müller's Zement ( Residenztheater Munich , 2013).

Known for the unbridled appearances with his Balkan Orkestar, Lopicic tries to bring the same temperament to the theater stage, and staged far from psychological theater.

Sandy Lopicic's production of Franz Kafka's Castle premiered in February 2013 at the Salzburg State Theater. The performance was musically accompanied by Matthias Loibner and the Viennese duo Die Strottern .

Teaching

Sandy Lopicic has been working as a senior lecturer (lecturer) for theater music at the Graz University of Art since 2011 .

Musical influences

Sandy Lopicic studied and graduated in concert piano (classical). During the war years in the former Yugoslavia , however, his interest in the folk music of his home region grew. This was also the time when Lopicic began composing music for theater productions. More and more often he used both Roma songs, South Slavic folk tunes , as well as Balkan and circus music motifs and arranged them for various line-ups. Sandy Lopicic allowed improvisational jazz influences from his musicians and created a new, own sound from it, apart from the traditional way of playing Balkan folklore or Serbian brass music . Lopicic mostly uses old melodies (or texts) from the Balkans (Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Russia etc.) and processes them with "his own means". But there are also original compositions in Sandy Lopicic's repertoire.

Work overview (selection)

Theater (direction)

Pan Danubia Productions:

  • 2004: Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2005: Faith, Love, Hope by Ödön von Horváth, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2006: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Staatstheater Nürnberg
  • 2006: Federico García Lorca's blood wedding, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2006: Yvonne, the Burgundy princess by Witold Gombrowicz, Volkstheater Vienna
  • 2007: Platonow by Anton Chekhov, Schauspielhaus Graz

Theater (music, composition)

  • 1995: The people factory by Wolfgang Bauer, Steirischer Herbst Graz (Director: Thomas Thieme)
  • 1999: Manhattan Medea by Dea Loher, Steirischer Herbst / Staatstheater Schwerin (Director: Ernst M. Binder)
  • 2000: The Powder Keg by Dejan Dukovski, Steirischer Herbst, Schauspielhaus Graz (director: Dimiter Gotscheff )
  • 2001: Once again for Yugoslavia by Peter Handke, Thalia Theater Hamburg (Direction: Hartmut Wickert)
  • 2002: Der Leutnant von Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Burgtheater Vienna (Director: Dimiter Gotscheff)
  • 2004: Lulu by Frank Wedekind, Schauspielhaus Graz (director: Mathias Fontheim)
  • 2008: The Powder Keg by Dejan Dukovski, Deutsches Theater Berlin (Director: Dimiter Gotscheff)
  • 2011: Immer noch Sturm World premiere by Peter Handke, Salzburg Festival / Thalia Theater Hamburg (director: Dimiter Gotscheff)
  • 2013: cement by Heiner Müller, Residenztheater Munich (director: Dimiter Gotscheff)

Theater (musical director)

  • 1996: Sugar - Some Like It Hot by Peter Stone and Jule Styne, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 1998: The Black Rider by Tom Waits / Robert Wilson / William Boroughs, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2000: The 7 Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Songspiel by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Schauspielhaus Wien (with Helen Schneider and Markus Schirmer)
  • 2002: Janis Joplin by Thomas Guglielmetti, Schauspielhaus Graz (director: M. Fontheim)
  • 2002: Shockheaded Peter (Struwwelpeter) from the Tiger Lillies, Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 2004: Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and AL Webber, Graz Opera House
  • 2009: Lullabies , Duisburg Philharmonic
  • 2015: Balkan Fever , concert under Dirk Kaftan with Sandy Lopicic Superstvar and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra , Graz Opera House
  • 2016: Humonica - the human organ by and with Sandy Lopicic as a live composer and musical puppeteer, Art University Graz (Mumuth)

Film (acting)

Sandy Lopicic and Miloš Biković in a scene from the film Great by Andreas Henn (Dogearfilms 2013)

Film (music)

  • 2004: Dr. Tatiana's Sexguide to All Creation by Martin Durkin (Wag-tv, Channel 4 London)
  • 2005: Your Song by Natasha Shah
  • 2008: One of 8 by Sabine Derflinger
  • 2010: Making of - The fatherless by Marie Kreutzer
  • 2012: Great by Andreas Henn

Discography

  • 2001: Album Border Confusion - Sandy Lopicic Orkestar (Network Media)
  • 2004: Album Balkea - Sandy Lopicic Orkestar (Network Medien, with Bojan Petrović, Imre Lichtenberger Bozoki , Irina Karamarković , Janez Vouk, Jörg Mikula, Kurt Bauer, Lothar Lässer, Martin Harms, Martin Lubenov, Matthias Loibner , Michael Bergbauer, Nataša Mirković , Richard Winkler , Sandy Lopicic, Sašenko Prolić, Vesna Petković)
  • 2010: Album Soundtrack without a Movie - Sandy Lopicic (Superlala)
  • 2014: Album Bye Bye Balkan - Sandy Lopicic Superstvar (Lopi Music)

Samplers and Remixes

  • 2003: Absolutely Live (Sampler by B. Seliger)
  • 2005: Shantel - Bucovina Club 2 (Essay Recordings)

Participation (songwriter / arranger / producer)

  • 1996: Album S tobom dijelim sve - Indexi i Davorin Popovic (Croatia Records)
  • 2010: Album Docutainment (Universal Music Group)
  • 2013: Album Tango - Sevval Sam (Kalan Music)

Foundation of the label

In September 2013 Sandy Lopicic founded his own record label called Lopi Music, based in Graz.

Awards

On May 18, 2018, Sandy Lopicic was awarded the "Great Interpretation Prize of the State of Styria" (former Karl Böhm Interpretation Prize ).

Audience award for the bombastic mood of the rubble women , as “best performance of the 2016/2017 season” in the theaters of Bolzano and Merano.

Four prizes for Večno mladi (Slovenian National Theater Maribor) in the categories of “best production”, “best director”, “best actress” (Mateja Pucko) and the audience award at the 25th Dnevi Komedije theater festival in Celje (Slovenia).

Ensemble award for Večno mladi (Slovenian National Theater Maribor) at the Days of Satire ( 40th Dani satire ) on June 19, 2016 in Zagreb (Croatia).

literature

Sandy Lopicic translated Dejan Dukovski's play Hunt for Butterflies from Macedonian into German for the publishing house of the authors .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Sandy Lopicic Orkestar on Youtube
  2. ^ [2] Sandy Lopicic Superstvar on Youtube
  3. ^ [3] Schauspielhaus Graz
  4. ^ [4] Program of the Berlin Festival
  5. ↑ [5]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview with Sandy Lopicic in the Salzburger Nachrichten@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / search.salzburg.com  
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 20, 2013 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. Criticism in the Salzburger Nachrichten @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / search.salzburg.com
  7. ^ [6] Criticism at Nachtkritik.de
  8. ↑ [7] Trümmerfrauen premiere at the Schauspielhaus Graz
  9. ↑ [8] Interview on Sandy Lopicic's human organ (Humonica)
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 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. Great trailer at Dogearfilms (Music: Sandy Lopicic) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dogearfilms.com
  11. ↑ [9] Remix by DJ Shantel
  12. ^ [10] Kleine Zeitung Graz
  13. ^ [11] Province of Styria
  14. ↑ [12]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Administration of Styria@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.verwaltung.steiermark.at  
  15. ↑ [13] Theater of Time
  16. ↑ The Finstral Audience Award ( Memento from November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on: Südtiroler Kulturinstitut
  17. ↑ [14] Prize at the 25th Dnevi Komedije Festival
  18. ^ [15] Association of German Theaters and Media Publishers
personal data
SURNAME Lopicic, Sandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lopičić, Sandy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Austrian musician, theater director, film composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart