Tomma Galonska

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Tomma Galonska (* 21st November 1960 as Tomma Elisabeth Wember in Krefeld ) is a German actress , director , performance artist and lecturer in rhetorical practice .

Early years

Tomma Galonska came into contact with the avant-garde art of the 1960s and 1970s through her father, the art historian Paul Wember , and her mother, the artist Tomma Wember . She moved to Vienna in 1979 , where she initially studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and worked as an actress (under the name Tomma Wember) for several years. After her first engagement as an apprentice at the Burgtheater in Vienna, she was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Bonn from 1981 to 1984 and then played a. a. at the Volkstheater in Vienna , at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna and at the Volksbühne Berlin . She has also been a guest actress at touring theaters and starred in television films and series. In 1990 she played Charlotte in the ARD four-parter Rote Erde . 1991 to 1993 she completed a second degree in acting and directing with the Russian theater teacher George Shdanoff in Los Angeles .

Career

During her years as an actress, Galonska was already interested in “the relationship between conventional and individual speech”. In the 2000s she began to work on her own concepts. From 2006 to 2009 she headed the drama cell she founded in Munich as a laboratory for applied aesthetic research at the interface between theatrical speech technology and cultural-scientific speech act theory . Since then, Galonska has made a name for herself as “a theater woman who likes to experiment”. In numerous projects she has developed an academic and practical theater approach that focuses on the speaking subject.

The spectrum of topics that Tomma Galonska works on in her productions encompasses many aspects of language use. In 2008 she presented a work on the language of pharmacy , in 2009 she showed a music theater production on the language of memory, and in 2011 she dealt with the vocabulary of consumption in the project physically: GELD . Always thinking about intercultural aspects as well , many of her works were directed at poets from non-European cultural areas. Her work News 13:13 (2012), a long-term performance in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, which was dedicated to the poetry of the Afro-Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire , deserves special mention . The Romanist Ernstpeter Ruhe wrote: “Tomma Galonska [creates] a performance that allows poetry to move through time and space. This is a new way of getting closer to the place of which the poet speaks: 'I inhabit the unexploited space.' ”Where Galonska turns to the great European canonical works ( Aeschylus , Dante , Shakespeare ), she confronts her audience with it the linguistically handed down collective memory .

Galonska has been a lecturer at the University of Salzburg in the field of classical rhetoric since 2017 and is committed to teaching and learning arrangements for speaking skills in the digital age.

Theater and film works

Theater and performance (selection)

  • About soles of Yoko Tawada . Together with the pianist Masako Ohta (Meta Theater Munich; Residenz Eichstätt ; Seidlvilla Munich etc., 2007)
  • Farewell to Jürg Laederach . Music theater production on the language of fantasy (Festival of New Drama Munich, 2008)
  • before disappearing from Andrea Heuser . Song compositions: Sidney Corbett ( Schwere Reiter Theater Munich , 2009-2016)
  • Language & Violence - Room installation for expressing subjects (Schwere Reiter Theater Munich, 2009)
  • physical: money - a show about the myth of money and identity (Schwere Reiter Theater Munich, 2011)
  • NEWS 13:13 . Long-term performance on texts by Aimé Césaire ( Haus der Kunst Munich, 2012)
  • performance_recycled . Five-day intervention with audience participation (Schauing / Schaustelle Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, 2013)
  • Wanting territory, wanting subversion, wanting love, wanting revenge. Adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical drama Henry VI. (Leonrod House Munich, 2014)
  • All this is true . A work on Aeschylus' Die Perser for an actress with audience participation (Klangraum Düsseldorf et al., 2016-2017)
  • Echoraum: Hungary ( Festival European Weeks Passau , 2019)
  • Dante's Divina Commedia and the contemplation of the world. Speech composition (Klangraum Düsseldorf, 2019)

Filmography

Lectures and Lecture Performances (selection)

  • Rhetoric in the Resistance - Or: Freely reflecting on the staging of language in war pieces (Salzburg-Tübinger Rhetoric Talks, 2016)
  • The theater text from the perspective of its embodiment ( Ludwig Maximilians University Munich , 2017)
  • Speech and its somatic experience (Salzburg-Tübingen Rhetoric Talks, 2017)
  • The visual work and its voices - On the vision of visible speech in Dante Alighieri's 'Commedia' (Salzburg-Tübinger Rhetoric Talks 2018)
  • Articulation as a mental-phonetic event ( University of Regensburg , Center for Language and Communication, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch / Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (eds.), Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographical and bibliographical manual . Volume 6: Weisbrod-Wolansky. Zurich / Munich 2008, p. 3208.
  2. ↑ Püttoreske Types , Der Spiegel, February 26, 1990.
  3. ↑ Die Welt Kompakt , April 3, 2006.
  4. ↑ a b Dresdner Latest News , March 30, 2009.
  5. ^ Ernstpeter Ruhe, Performances poétiques: Tomma Galonska . In: Ernstpeter Ruhe, Une œuvre mobile. Aimé Césaire dans les pays germanophones (1950–2015) . Würzburg 2015, pp. 259–261.
  6. ↑ Classical Rhetoric , uni-salzburg.at (accessed on May 8, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Galonska, Tomma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wember, Tomma; Galonska, Tomma Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, director, performance artist and lecturer in rhetorical practice
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld