Thomas Goerge

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Thomas Goerge (* 1973 in Freising ) is a German artist , set designer and costume designer .

Life

Thomas Goerge was born in 1973 in Freising in Upper Bavaria. From 1997 to 2001 he studied stage and film design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Prof. Bernhard Kleber's master class . After completing his studies, he was a permanent house assistant at the Schauspiel Frankfurt from 2001 to 2003 under the direction of Elisabeth Schweeger .

Working at the theater

Thomas Goerge designed equipment for directors such as Christof Nel , Dimiter Gotscheff , Jan Neumann, Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer and Christoph Schlingensief at the Thalia Theater Hamburg / Bregenz Festival , the Schauspiel Köln , Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Ulm , Essen , Bochum and the Staatstheater Stuttgart as well as music theater at the Vienna Chamber Opera , at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich and the Deutsche Oper Berlin . From 2004 to 2007 he worked with Daniel Angermayr on the set for » Parsifal « (musical director: Pierre Boulez , director: Christoph Schlingensief) at the Bayreuth Festival . In 2005 he staged “Venus and Adonis” by John Blow together with Daniel Angermayr at the Vienna Chamber Opera. Together with Thekla von Mühlheim he developed the stage installation for » A Church of Fear of the Stranger in Me « ( Ruhrtriennale 2008, Holland Festival Amsterdam 2009, Theatertreffen Berlin 2009). In October 2010 he set up the set for the world premiere of "Metanoia Beyond Thinking" (musical director: Daniel Barenboim ) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin . In spring 2014 Thomas Goerge staged "The Blind / The Metamorphosis" based on Maurice Maeterlinck and Franz Kafka by Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Berlin State Opera .

Installations

His installations appeared in 2001 in Vienna at the Karajan Center with the exhibition “Everything else is gas light” with Dieter-Christoph Wilhelm and together with Daniel Angermayr with the exhibition “moving out” in the Museum of Modern Art Vienna . In addition, Thomas Goerge was the artistic collaborator of Christoph Schlingensief and Francis Kéré on the project » Opera Village Africa « in Burkina Faso . As part of the European Capital of Culture project “Odyssey Europe” at RUHR.2010 , Thomas Goerges's installation “Trojan Horse” traveled through the Ruhr region . Thomas Goerge and Gerhard Schebler founded the entanglement aid organization caprificus.org in 2001. Together with Korbinian Goerge and Gerhard Schebler, he developed the machine opera “Caprificus II” for the Herrenhausen Art Festival in Hanover in 2010 . At the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, his stage installation “A Church of Fear of the Stranger in Me” was on view in the German Pavilion.

Teaching

His teaching activities include courses and lectures at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, at the Bavarian Theater Academy "August Everding" and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

publication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dissolute homecoming drama by Esther Boldt, nachtkritik.de of March 24, 2007
  2. We're all looking for redemption, criticism by Reinhard J. Brembeck, Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 26, 2004
  3. Alienated People, review by Stefan Amzoll Neues Deutschland from April 2, 2014