Sebastian brain

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Sebastian Hirn (* 1975 in Munich ) is a German theater and opera director and set designer .

Life

Sebastian Hirn comes from a family of sculptors in Munich. He completed a degree in history, literature and theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , trained as a director at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna with Luc Bondy , who were accompanied by internships and assistants with Luc Bondy, Achim Freyer and Christian Stückl , among others , and studied stage design at the Zurich University of the Arts .

After completing his studies, she worked in the field of drama and music theater as well as numerous interdisciplinary projects. His productions are characterized by an intensive examination of the space. He also deals with the visual arts , in particular with happenings and performance . Hirn works closely with the Munich composer Helga Pogatschar . In 2006 he initiated a re-instrumented version of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with folk musical instruments for the Tollwood Festival in Munich , which was developed by Helga Pogatschar. He moved the plot with Bernhard Hammer (set designer) in a huge, monumental mountain landscape the size of a football field, which was concreted on the Theresienwiese in Munich for the series of performances .

In 2008 Sebastian Hirn created a new version of the recitatives of Mozart's Così fan tutte for the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival , which were newly composed in cooperation with the composition classes of Sidney Corbett in Mannheim and Jörn Arnecke in Hamburg. As part of the Rodeo Festival of the City of Munich, Sebastian Hirn installed accidents in four different locations in the city. A truck tipped on its side could be seen at Max-Joseph-Platz - the belly of the truck trailer was torn open and the contents, art transport boxes, were spread across the square. The installation, not further declared, caused great irritation. The installation was featured on the front page of several Munich daily newspapers. In 2015/16 Sebastian Hirn organized a music / dance / performance series in the former swimming pool of the Kuszner textile factory, which is now the Kunstwohnwerke in Munich. For the purpose of filming, in 2014 he uncovered the swimming pool, which for years had been converted into a warehouse and completely overbuilt. A full-size shrimp cutter was built in the former basin. The space-consuming installation was played in various actions by musicians and dancers. The accordionist Krassimir Sterev , the formation Frachter from Zurich and the composer and jazz musician Franz Koglmann could be heard there.

Productions / works (selection)

Installations / exhibitions

  • ESCAPE . MaximiliansForum Munich, 2012.
  • Transitory spaces . A measurement of the Swiss Alps. Over a period of one month, all road tunnels in Switzerland over 2 km in length were recorded using a special recording technique. The recordings became part of a multi-channel video installation consisting of 12 video projectors projected onto a huge steel surface from the ceiling. Zurich 2013.
  • near-far . Installation in the counter hall in Starnberg, 2013.
  • Trojan horse . Truck accident scenarios were installed at four different locations in the Munich area. At Max-Joseph-Platz , in Entenbachstrasse at the height of I-camp / Neues Theater München , at the Gasteig / Zellstrasse embankment, and Dachauerstrasse at the height of the entrance to the '' Schwere Reiter '' hall . 2014
  • outposts of resistance . Video installation about peace activists who acted as human shields to protect civilian facilities in Iraq from bombing during the Second Iraq War. As part of Art in Resistance at the Spielart theater festival , Munich, 2015.
  • outposts of resistance . Documentary of the same name, Werkstattkino Munich, 2016.
  • abandoned positions . Continuation of research work with Lisa Hörstmann on the Iraq war, based on interviews with activists, Iraqis in exile, NGOs and American soldiers. Recorded 6-channel video installation in Studio 1 in the Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 2020.
  • abandoned positions . Exhibition with Lisa Hörstmann on the Iraq war, based on interviews with activists, Iraqis in exile, NGOs and American soldiers, in the Kunstraum Munich, 2020.

Stage design / costume

  • la Petite Mort Room installation, lighting concept and costumes for a production by Nele Jahnke. A video procession through 13 rooms for the 20th anniversary of the Theater HORA Züriwerk at the Festival Okkupation! International Theater Festival, Zurich, Rote Fabrik , May 29, 2013
  • The perfect disaster. A home scenario room installation, lighting concept and costumes. Concert Theater Bern, 2015.
  • Dr eint het angscht . Room installation, lighting concept and costumes. Concert Theater Bern, 2016.

Video / film

  • Invoices (Der Würgeengel) by Elfriede Jelinek. Video design for a production by Michael Simon . Austrian premiere, Schauspielhaus Graz, March 17, 2012
  • Cage stage . A musical theater by and after John Cage . In cooperation with the Brucknerfest Linz. Video design for a production by Achim Freyer. Musical composition and direction Dennis Russell Davies . Landestheater Linz, September 20, 2013.
  • Snow White by Heinz Holliger . Video design for a production by Achim Freyer . Basel Opera House, February 20, 2014.
  • outposts of resistance . Documentary of the same name, Werkstattkino Munich, 2016.

Speaker, actor

Scholarships / Residencies

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personal data
SURNAME Brain, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and opera director and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich