Sylvia Wanke

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Sylvia Wanke (born September 10, 1952 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German sculptor , scenographer and lecturer in the puppet theater course at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . She is best known for exhibitions of her sculptures , the so-called KunstSpielZeug , as well as for scenographies for theater, dance theater and opera performances.

life and work

Sylvia Wanke was born in Bad Mergentheim in 1952. Since elementary school she received dance lessons; dance should become an important inspiration for her artistic work. After attending grammar school, she studied German at the University of Stuttgart from 1971 to 1977 as well as fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts ; She completed her basic studies in sculpture in the classes of Professors Daudert and Hrdlicka .

Christoff Schellenberger's work class was particularly formative for Wanke , in which she not only received a solid basic technical training, but also aroused her special interest in puppet and puppet theater . She was able to deepen this interest during a study visit with the Viennese theater maker Erwin Piplits . A scholarship from the DAAD also enabled Wanke to study puppet theater scenography at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in 1975/1976 .

Between 1978 and 1982 Wanke completed her studies with the first and second state exams in art education and German for teaching at grammar schools and taught as an assessor . In 1982, however, she left her teaching post and has since worked as a freelance artist. Numerous exhibitions in public and private museums and galleries followed. Wanke received, among other things, the price of the professional association of visual artists (BDK) in Baden-Württemberg and the price of the city of Neustadt bei Coburg for contemporary puppet art. Since 1988 she has shared a studio in the west of Stuttgart with her former teacher Christoff Schellenberger.

Her movable objects and figurative small sculptures became known, which often deliberately defy the boundaries between artistic toys and playful art, which is why Wanke coined the new term KunstSpielZeug for them . The spectrum of her work ranges from artistic adaptations of traditional toy shapes such as standing dolls, "changeable bellows" and climbing dolls to solitary standing figures (so-called figurines ), which, however, are mostly made of the same delicate paper mache shells as the little dolls and sometimes even share their mobility . Wanke's objects were purchased, for example, by the Württemberg State Museum , the Museum of Puppet Theater Culture in Bad Kreuznach and the Tokyo National Museum .

Since 1994, Wanke has been teaching visual design in the puppet theater course at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . In 2005 she took on a guest teaching position for figure design at the Burg Giebichenstein art college near Halle (Saale) .

Since 1998 the artist has increasingly turned to scenography for theater productions. She initially took on the equipment for and with students at the Stuttgart Drama School, later for free and professional ensembles - from masks, costumes and props to stage sets and complete scenographic implementations. In connection with Oskar Schlemmer's stage work , she tried “to give the visual on the stage - whether opera, dance theater, drama, musical or puppet theater - a meaning that is equivalent to direction and music.” In particular, a production of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (2004 ) was very successful. Wanke also designed installations, scenarios and street theater for city festivals and other public events.

Since 2007 Wanke has been running her own wanke.ensemble , a team of puppeteers that changes depending on the project. In 2007, they staged the specially written play romanzero.disparates about Heinrich Heine's last years and poems . The next year the play Carambolage followed in cooperation with the Tübingen Figures Theater . An Oscar for gourmets! about the life of Oskar Schlemmer, who received the Audience Award of the Stuttgart Theater Prize in 2008 and made a guest appearance on the Dessau Bauhaus stage in 2009 . In recent years, Wanke has also directed and set productions for permanent ensembles, for example in February 2011 at the premiere of Nosferatu. A night play in the Naumburg Theater.

Exhibitions

  • 1984–1994 participation in the national exhibitions of the BDK and VBKW with special shows in Moscow, New York and Tokyo
  • 1988 - Solo exhibition at Galerie Cipolla Lugano / Gandria (Switzerland; also 1990, 1998)
  • 1991 - Solo exhibition at Galerie Wameling-Richon, Baden (Switzerland; also 1996, 2004)
  • 1992 - Solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart (also 1998 and later)
  • 1994 - Participation in the exhibition "From dolls to art objects" in the Museum of the German Toy Industry, Neustadt near Coburg
  • 1995 - Solo exhibition Galerie desinfarkt, Bern (Switzerland)
  • 1995 - Solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Schönberg
  • 1996 - Solo exhibition at Städtische Galerie am Laien, Ditzingen
  • 1997 - Solo exhibition Galerie Form und Wesen, Ulm
  • 1999 - Solo exhibition at the Löwenberg House Museum, Gengenbach
  • 2000 - Participation in an exhibition at The figurative Gallery M. Hinkle, Los Angeles (USA)
  • 2000 - Participation in the exhibition "Poetry of Changes - Scenographers of the 90s" on the occasion of the UNIMA World Festival, Magdeburg
  • 2001 - Solo exhibition Museum Paul Gugelmann, Schönenwerd (Switzerland)
  • 2002 - “Werkschau Sylvia Wanke” in the Städtische Galerie, Jena
  • 2003 - Participation in exhibitions in the National Museums of Tokyo and Kyoto
  • 2003 - Participation in an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Württemberg , Stuttgart
  • 2005 - Solo exhibition gallery Wendelinskapelle, Weil der Stadt
  • 2008 - Dottenwil Castle, Wittenbach in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland 2012 VBKW exhibition “precious” in the Stuttgart art space
  • 2008 - Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 2012 - VBKW exhibition "precious" in the Stuttgart art space
  • 2013 - "Kunstbrief-Briefkunst" in the Kunstverein Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Burgenland Center
  • 2013 - "Moving", Gallery OPUSzwei St. Gallen
  • 2014 - Kunstforum Weil der Stadt "Castles in the Air and Sandcastles"
  • 2015 - Kulturforum Bad Mergentheim “KunstSpielZeug” figurines, play objects and miniatures
  • 2017 - Sun sail gallery, City of Brandenburg: "KunstSpielZeug"
  • 2017 - Gallery of the City of Sindelfingen "Oberlichtsaal": "Art makes theater"
  • 2017 - Special exhibition "Puppen.Kunst", Museum of the German Toy Industry, Neustadt Coburg, also participation in 2018, 2019
  • 2018 - Städtische Galerie Am Laien Ditzingen "Fantasies and headbirths"
  • 2019 - Aalen City Gallery, "Art Figure-Figure Art" (October)

Scenographies

  • 1999 - Shakespeare's Witches, Air and Earth Spirits , street theater in Weimar with students from the Stuttgart drama school
  • 1999 -  Peregrina , scenic arrangement of sculpture, writing and language based on the cycle by Eduard Mörike
  • 2000 - Stilt walkers, city flags, stage and costumes etc. for the Gengenbach cultural summer
  • 2001 - Orpheus and Eurydice , large figures, costumes and full body masks for a large project; City theater and dance theater labyrinth, Ludwigsburg
  • 2002 - The Little Prince , university production based on Saint-Exupéry : costumes and decorations; Wilhelmatheater Stuttgart
  • 2003 - The Snob , comedy by Carl Sternheim ; Dark bread and dead flowers by Henning Mankell : stage and costumes; Theater tri-bühne , Stuttgart
  • 2004 - The Magic Flute , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : conception, scenography and allegorical figures; Tour production
  • 2005 - Around the world in 80 days , musical by Phil Willmot based on Jules Verne : figures, costumes, objects, projections; Tour production Konzertdirektion Landgraf
  • 2005 - fairy tales out of a suitcase , theater tour based on Hans Christian Andersen : stage and equipment; Theater house Stuttgart
  • 2007 - Oskar and the Lady in Pink by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt : stage and equipment; Tour production Konzertdirektion Landgraf
  • 2007 - romanzero.disparates : scenography; wanke.ensemble, Center for Puppet Theater Stuttgart
  • 2007 - carom. An Oscar for gourmets! : Figures, objects, masks; wanke.ensemble and Figures Theater Tübingen, Center for Puppet Theater Stuttgart
  • 2011 - Nosferatu. A night piece : direction and scenography; Theater Naumburg
  • 2011 - "Josa with the magic fiddle" by Janosch. Waidspeicher Theater in Erfurt.
  • 2011 - "The Magic Flute or the Hunt for the High C" - a suburban opera based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Sylvia Wanke and Helmut Landwehr. Theater Naumburg.
  • 2012 - “A Midsummer Night's Dream” by William Shakespeare. Marientor Naumburg.
  • 2013 - Figures / scenography for the Thuringian State Ballet Gera: "Joker".
  • 2014 - Puppet cabaret "The youngest Geri (ü) cht" (SWR, Christoph Sonntag), 5 political star puppets; continued in the following years (most recently in 2019).
  • 2014 - Figures / stage / scenography for the stages of the city of Gera: “Kleists Kohlhaas” by Helmut Landwehr
  • 2015 - Figure parade / mask procession “Court of the Black Queen” - a surreal street spectacle
  • 2016 - "The adventurous journey of the good Mr. Klück" Schattenspiel, Mannheim, Rosengarten Congress Center
  • 2016 - Figures, costumes, video for "Silk" by Alessandro Baricco, stages of the city of Gera
  • 2016 - Figures, costumes for “At the Ark at Eight” by Ulrich Hub, stages of the city of Gera

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Helmut Landwehr, KunstSpielZeug (see literature ), p. 96. The following information on biography and work in the field of visual arts is also based on Landwehr's book.
  2. ^ [Helmut Landwehr,] Short biography of Sylvia Wanke on the website of the Naumburg Theater ( Memento from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ See the excerpts from reviews under press comments on conception and scenography ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Das wanke.ensemble , information on the website of the city of Stuttgart.
  5. ↑ romanzero.disparates , article on the website of the Center for Puppet Theater (Stuttgart), with pictures and press reviews.
  6. ↑ carom. An Oskar for Schlemmer , article on the website of the Center for Puppet Theater (Stuttgart), with pictures and press reviews.
  7. ^ Stuttgart Theater Prize 2008 - Prize Winner , press release on the website of the City of Stuttgart.
  8. ↑ Dance and Performance Festival from November 20. until December 5 , 2009 , program on the Bauhaus Dessau website.
  9. ↑ Helga Heilig: “Nosferatu” teaches the creeps . In: Naumburger Tagblatt. February 10, 2011, accessed January 9, 2020 .

literature

  • Marion Forek-Schmahl: Border area - The Transition. Dolls and figurative sculptures. Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen 1996. ISBN 3-932005-01-5 . Pp. 26–27 and 106
  • Helmut Landwehr: Sylvia Wanke - KunstSpielZeug. About the art of playing, about playing with art, about the stuff that becomes art and remains a game. Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen 1998. ISBN 3-932005-07-4

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personal data
SURNAME Wanke, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and scenographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim