Thom Luz

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Thom Luz (in the middle), Łódź 2019

Thom Luz (born January 9, 1982 in Zurich ) is a Swiss director , musician and set designer .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Zurich, Thom Luz studied drama at the Zurich University of the Arts . He received his diploma as federal cultural worker in 2005. Thom Luz lives in Basel.

Since 2007 Thom Luz has been developing projects both in the independent scene and at city theaters in Switzerland, Germany and France. Since 2015, Luz has been in- house director at Theater Basel under Andreas Beck and since 2019 in the same position at the Residenztheater Munich .

In 2019 he was awarded the Swiss Theater Prize.

The ghost music evening WHEN I DIE, which was created at Luz's headquarters in Gessnerallee Zurich , has been touring the world since its premiere at the Spielart Festival Munich in 2013. a. Berlin, Reykjavík, Buenos Aires, Marseille, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Nanterre, Lausanne, Zurich.

In the magazine for the Berlin Theatertreffen 2017, juror Till Briegleb described Luz'Theater as follows: “(...) Thom Luz is a master of subtle differences. That's why his foggy evenings are something like musical airmail. Somehow they send their beautiful messages with nothing, through nothing, on nothing. At least with nothing tangible. Thom Luz doesn't want to make a false impression. He wants to impress fine. This is his pending redefinition of comedy. Luz's experts on the peculiar are resistors to fixations, dissidents of reason and its value machine of goods and numbers. Their role model is the fog machine, because it creates images, atmosphere, magic through which the sound of the music penetrates without hindrance »

Cornelia Fiedler wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about “Archive of the Incomplete”, a piece creation with the author Laura de Weck : “The senseless, busy atmosphere is reminiscent of former director Christoph Marthaler, but the young team is unconventionally creating something new. The precisely composed, provocatively calm 'speech music evening' is a moment of unusual theater happiness. "

Thom Luz was the singer and guitarist of the band My Heart Belongs to Cecilia Winter .

Productions

  • 2007: Patience Camp. Fuel Festival Basel, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Theaterformen Festival Hannover.
  • 2008: The lost art of keeping a secret. Rote Fabrik, Roxy Birsfelden, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Schwere Reiter Munich
  • 2009: Protection and rescue. Freischwimmer Festival
  • 2010: Bright Future Day. Gessnerallee, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, far Festival Nyon
  • 2011: I'm a catastrophe for two. State Theater Oldenburg, Drama Bochum
  • 2012: There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here. Gessnerallee, Basel barracks, Lucerne south pole
  • 2012: The sufferings of young Werther. Theater Basel
  • 2013: When I Die. Spielart Festival Munich, Gessnerallee, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, Theater Chur, Vidy Lausanne, Nanterre-Amandiers Paris
  • 2014: Archive of the Incomplete. State Theater Oldenburg, Recklinghausen Festival, Mülheim Theatertage, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, Autorentheatertage Berlin
  • 2014: Atlas of the remote islands. Hanover Theater. Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2015: The Magic Mountain. Theater Basel
  • 2015: LSD My problem child. Theater Basel, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, Autorentheatertage Berlin
  • 2016: Unusual Weather Phenomena Project. Gessnerallee, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, Vidy Lausanne, Nanterre-Amandiers Paris, NET Festival Moscow, Münchner Kammerspiele, Festspielhaus Hellerau.
  • 2016: Man appears in the Holocene. Deutsches Theater Berlin, Theater Basel
  • 2016: Sad wizards. State Theater Mainz. Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen
  • 2017: Inferno. Theater Basel
  • 2017: Paradiso. Theater Basel
  • 2018: Leonce and Lena. Theater Basel, Contact Festival Toruń, Nanterre-Amandiers Paris, Residenztheater Munich
  • 2018: Girl from the fog machine factory. Gessnerallee, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, Theater Chur, Vidy Lausanne, Summer Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, Epidaouros Festival Athens, Printemps des Comediens Montpellier, Münchner Kammerspiele, De Singel Antwerp, Theater Festival Prague invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2019.
  • 2018: Old Masters. Deutsches Theater Berlin, International Festival of pleasant and unpleasant arts, Lodz, Poland.
  • 2019: Radio Requiem. Theater Basel
  • 2019: Olympic Park in the dark. Residenztheater Munich
  • 2020: Le vin herbé. Opera by Frank Martin. Theater Basel
  • 2020: Werckmeister harmonies. State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin, Gessneralle Zurich

Awards

  • 2016: Prix Europa for the radio play "Atlas of the remote islands"
  • 2018: Operadagen Rotterdam Award in recognition of special achievements for contemporary music theater Retrospective of the Biennale Teatro Venice, with performances of "When I Die" and "Girl From The Fog Machine Factory".
  • 2019: Berliner Theatertreffen with GIRL FROM THE FOG MACHINE FACTORY
  • Audience award for OLD MASTERS at the Festival for pleasant and unpleasant arts, Lodz, Poland

Radio plays

  • 2015: Atlas of the remote islands. SRF / WDR in cooperation with the Hanover Theater
  • 2018: Man appears in the Holocene. SRF in cooperation with the Deutsches Theater Berlin

Exhibitions

  • 2016: UNUSUAL WEATHER PHENOMENA MACHINE, automatic stage design in the Tinguely Museum Basel
  • 2018: UNUSUAL WEATHER PHENOMENA MACHINE, automatic stage design at the CDN Orléans
  • 2019: UNUSUAL WEATHER PHENOMENA MACHINE, automatic stage design at the Quadriennale Prague
  • 2019: ZU FÜSSLI, video installation at the Kunstmuseum Basel
  • 2019: UNUSUAL WEATHER PHENOMENA MACHINE, automatic stage design at the Bauhaus Festival Weimar

Web links

literature

Theater of Time: Song Of Smoke. Song of Smoke. Portrait of the director and musician Thom Luzh

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/Leonce-und-Lena/oShCKRZv/Pv4Ya/
  2. https://blog.alternativestheatrales.be/lingenieux-ingenu-le-theatre-de-musique-de-thom-luz/
  3. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-residenztheater-nora-schlocker-thom-luz-regisseure-1.4646194
  4. http://www.theaterpreise.ch/de/schweizer-theaterpreis-2019/thom-luz
  5. Cornelia Fiedler: The offside researcher . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 5, 2015, accessed March 20, 2016.
  6. https://www.theaterformen.de/Theaterformen_2009/patience-camp/
  7. https://www.schwerereitermusik.de/Archiv/2009-10-29%20Die%20verlorene%20Kunst.html
  8. https://www.kampnagel.de/de/programm/archiv/?rubrik=archiv&detail=435
  9. http://theaterhaus.gessnerallee.ch/uploads/tx_templavoila/1010_Zukunft.pdf
  10. https://www.theaterkompass.de/beitraege/urauffuehrung-thom-luz-zu-zweit-bin-ich-eine-katastrophe-eine-szenische-komposition-mit-texten-von-horst-janssen-im-oldenburgischen -state-theater-36405 /
  11. http://theaterhaus.gessnerallee.ch/uploads/tx_templavoila/MM_ThereMustBe.pdf
  12. https://tageswoche.ch/kultur/leidenschaftlich-originell-und-rueckwaerts-erzaehlt/
  13. https://www.srf.ch/kultur/buehne/when-i-die-gelungenes-musiktheater-ueber-geister-kunst-und-tod
  14. https://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8164:archiv-des-unvollstaendigen-thom-luz-und-laura-de-weck-veranstalten-einen-sprachmusikabend-bei-den -ruhrfestspiele-in-recklingausen & catid = 38: die-Nachtkritik & Itemid = 40
  15. https://www.schauspielhannover.de/index.php?m=50&f=10_pressemmeldung&ID_Meldung=311
  16. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/LSD-Mein-Sorgenkind/o1hd4P6i/Pv4Ya/
  17. https://vidy.ch/en/unusual-weather-phenomena-project
  18. https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/archiv/ae/der_mensch_erscheint_im_holozaen/
  19. https://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12594:traurige-zauberer-der-schweizer-regisseur-und-autor-thom-luz-huldigt-in-mainz-der-illusionsmaschine -theater & catid = 38: die-Nachtkritik-k & Itemid = 40
  20. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/Inferno/oiFNqbRs/Pv4Ya/
  21. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Schedule/Paradiso/oWFu9qgn/Pv4Ya/?lang=de
  22. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/Leonce-und-Lena/oShCKRZv/Pv4Ya/
  23. https://bernetta.net/thomluz/fogmachine/
  24. https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/theatertreffen/programm/programm-2019/wahl-2019/wahl-2019.html
  25. https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/az/alte_meister/
  26. https://telebasel.ch/2019/05/25/starregisseur-inszeniert-totenmesse-im-basler-radio-studio/
  27. https://www.residenztheater2019-20.de/stuecke/detail/olympiapark-in-the-dark
  28. https://www.theater-basel.ch/Spielplan/Le-vin-herbe/oqGrGQ3Q/Pv4Ya
  29. https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/werckmeister-harmonien.7389
  30. The highlights of the year: Subtle differences. In: kultiversum. Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
  31. https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9048:nachtkritikde-theatertreffen-2013-das-result&catid=222:nachtkritik-theatertreffen&Itemid=60
  32. ^ Atlas of the remote islands at the 2015 Theatertreffen
  33. https://www.srf.ch/radio-srf-1/radio-srf-1/prix-europa-2016-zwei-auszüge-fuer-srf-hoerspiel
  34. https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/chronicle/archiv/production/traurige-zauberer-2017
  35. https://www.broadwayworld.com/netherlands/article/Operadagen-Rotterdam-Hands-Out-Awards-At-Second-GALA-20180507
  36. https://www.labiennale.org/en/theatre/2018/biennale-teatro-2018/thom-luz-when-i-die
  37. https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/theatertreffen/programm/programm-2019/wahl-2019/wahl-2019.html
  38. https://powszechny.pl/en/the-winners-of-the-audience-plebiscite-of-the-25th-edition-of-international-festival-of-plays-pleasant-and-unpleasant/
  39. http://www.theaterpreise.ch/de/schweizer-theaterpreis-2019/thom-luz
  40. https://www.srf.ch/sendung/hoerspiel/atlas-der-ablegeren-inseln-musikalisches-hoerstueck-von-thom-luz-nach-texten-von-judith-schalansky-2
  41. https://www.srf.ch/sendung/hoerspiel/premiere-der-mensch-erscheint-im-holozaen
  42. https://www.tinguely.ch/de/ausstellungen/ausstellungen/2016/musikmaschinen-maschinenmusik.html
  43. https://www.theatredorleans.fr/danse-cirque-performances/performances/saison/unusual-weather-phenomena-machine-314.html?article=1767&PHPSESSID=1f6e84676e635e4665f83d5ab5a2744e
  44. https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/de/ausstellungen/2018/fuessli
  45. https://veranstaltungen.bauhaus100.de/en/widget/calendar/2317
  46. https://www.theaterderzeit.de/suche/erweitert/?search=thom+luz&area%5Bmagazine%5D=magazine&area%5Bbook%5D=book&area%5Bblog%5D=blog&area%5Bperson%5D=person&area%5Bpremiere%5D= premiere & area% 5Bplace% 5D = place