Till Nikolaus von Heiseler

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Till Nikolaus von Heiseler (2007)

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler (born April 18, 1962 in Braunschweig ) is a German author , director and performer .

Life

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler was born in 1962 as the first son of the private scholar , poet and translator Johannes Henrich von Heiseler and his wife Ingrid. He is the grandson of the writer Bernt von Heiseler and great-grandson of the writer Henry von Heiseler . Shortly before starting school, the family moved to Wolfsburg . He published his first text at the age of eight in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

From 1990 he developed free productions both in Basel and in Berlin (Tacheles). Between 1991 and 1993 he staged his own plays at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) , but also radio plays on Saarland radio and Deutschlandradio. Important partners were the composers Conrado del Rosario, Helmut Oehring and the actress and performer Michaela Caspar . In 1994 he suddenly broke with the theater and ended his work as a playwright and theater director in order to deal with more open artistic forms and above all with performance and “invisible literature”.

From the mid-1990s he became part of a literary group that represents an "invisible literature". This particularly follows on from Moscow Conceptualism , the Invisible Theater by Augusto Boal and the "Literature of the Back Room". Literary works are deliberately only read, passed on and discussed in a small group. In addition, literary forms are chosen that are not immediately recognizable as literature (letters to authorities, toilet sayings, performances).

Together with Michaela Caspar , Heiseler developed the performances A very short piece for bank directors , August 21, 1997 and the project New Lands - New Identities (a fictional information box of the federal government). From 2001 he began to deal with video and developed new methods for the production and distribution of moving image media (video) in the collective of the Neue Methodiker eV. These methods are techniques dedicated to the invisible theater and performance and usually work with a mixture of fiction and reality. Often a reality is created using performative methods, which is then documented with handheld cameras.

Heiseler is self-taught and taught at the following universities: Free University of Berlin , Technical University of Berlin , Humboldt University of Berlin , University of Art and Design Zurich , University of Fine Arts Braunschweig . His methods of staging knowledge and moderating knowledge for research and teaching are based on media-theoretical considerations and on staging and theatrical practical knowledge.

In 2007, he and Jan-Peter ER Sonntag started a series of salons on the subject of “Narrations in the Electronic Age” at Tesla Berlin, which he is now continuing with transmediale. His book Medientheater , Kadmos Berlin (with Wolfgang Ernst , Dirk Baecker and others), published in 2008, addresses the development of new theoretical formats and is at the same time an experiment in itself. In 2014 there was a long conversation with the media philosopher Friedrich Kittler , which von Heiseler had a few months before Kittler's death and which represents a kind of legacy.

Heiseler is the founder of the NEW METHODIKER eV collective (2001) and co-founder of Possible World eV (together with Michaela Caspar ). In addition to his artistic projects, he is currently primarily concerned with media theory , knowledge staging and developed a theory on the development of language skills.

He is the father of twins (* 1994) and lives as the artistic director of the Formatlabor in Berlin.

Works (selection)

Plays

  • 1990 The day with the woman with the flowers - play (premier piece dyeing Basel, Switzerland), director: Dorothea Koelbing.
  • 1992 Die Bauchschläferin - an opera fragment in 7 attempts (premiered at the Kleist Theater Frankfurt / Oder, composition: Conrado del Rosario), directed by the author.
  • The voice of a woman - radio play with music (Saarländischer Rundfunk, composition: Conrado del Rosario), director: the author. Premiere as a performance 1994, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, financed by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture, director: Der Autor. Finnish translation: Yleisradio, YLE, Helsinki, Finland, 1994.
  • The day with the woman with the flowers (DE Kleist-Theater Frankfurt / Oder), director: Peter Zimmermann.
  • 1993 Nada's dream - play with music / drama opera (premiered at the Kleist Theater Frankfurt / Oder, composition: Helmut Oehring), director: Der Autor.
  • 1994 Der Gedichtemacher - Drama Opera (premiered in Tacheles, Berlin and Staatstheater Cottbus, Brandenburg, composition: Sibylle Pomorin, financed by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture, the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs and the Fonds Darstellende Künste eV), director: Der Author.
  • 1996 Gladiators / Lovers (play and radio play, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, music: Conrado del Rosario), director: Der Autor.
  • 1997 A very short piece for bank directors (premiere, unannounced performance in banks during regular opening hours, Berlin, Potsdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, composition: Achim Kubinski / Michaela Caspar, financed by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture), director : The author.
  • Iris and Ida - A play in five acts. (WP, walk-in installation with two actresses and a bass player in the Potsdam pedestrian zone, with Michaela Caspar, Sanja Spengler and Matthias Bauer, financed by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture), directed by the author.
  • Anecdotes from me (action in the shop window in the Potsdam pedestrian zone, financed by the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg), directed by: Der Autor.
  • 2006 Untitled [23], theory performance with Michaela Caspar and Séan DC Marquardt, Tesla Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Berlin a. a.
  • 2009 Re: play Haydn - concept performance, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, with the Kammersymphonie Berlin, concept and artistic direction.
  • 2011 Medea! The truth! Me Dea F! (Play for the hearing and deaf), UA: Director: Michaela Caspar, Ballhaus Ost.
  • 2014 Die Taube Zeitmaschine (play based on improvisations and historical materials), premiere: director: Michaela Casper, stage: Jan-Peter ER Sonntag , Ballhaus Ost Berlin.

Other publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No. 45, Friday, November 6, 1970, p. 70, section "Until 20"
  2. ↑ The modern man - alone among women , BZ June 30, 1994, p. 46 (full page)
  3. ↑ Die Bauchschläferin , Rhein-Zeitung (DPA), May 13, 1992, p. 12
  4. ↑ Theater is everywhere , the daily newspaper , April 10, 1997, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Art in the money room New Germany , April 10, 1997
  6. ↑ The head full of birdsong , Potsdamer Stadtkurier, December 30, 1997
  7. ↑ Kneeling in front of an ATM undesirable , the daily newspaper , Hamburg
  8. ^ Police operation ends performance , Die Welt , August 19, 1997
  9. ^ Provocative art experience as a social criticism in downtown Potsdam , Der Potsdamer, January 7, 1998
  10. ↑ http://www.tesla-berlin.de/page316.html
  11. ↑ Friday: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/flaschenpostbote
  12. ↑ World: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article117042492/Die-gluecklichsten-Momente-sind-alle-Orgasmen.html
  13. ↑ [1]
  14. ^ Syntax of Testimony
  15. ↑ http://www.ballhausost.de/produktionen/die-taube-zeitmaschine/
  16. ↑ https://www.ernst-deutsch-theater.de/spielplan/extra/451-die-taube-zeitmaschineeine-reise-durch-zwei-galaxien/
personal data
SURNAME Heiseler, Till Nikolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, performer and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig