Uwe Scholz
Uwe Scholz (born December 31, 1958 in Jugenheim , Hesse ; † November 21, 2004 near Berlin ) was a German choreographer and ballet director .
Life
Scholz was from 1973 to 1979 in Stuttgart in John Cranko and Marcia Haydée trained and got there in 1980 and his first solid choreography Treaty. Two years later, after the death of John Cranko, he was appointed the first "permanent choreographer" at the Stuttgart Ballet .
At the Zurich Opera House Scholz was engaged from 1985 to 1991. When he took office, at the age of 26, he was the youngest head of a European dance ensemble.
From 1991 until his death he was chief choreographer at the Leipzig Opera . Uwe Scholz created ballets of international standing, including Haydn's Creation , Mozart's Great Mass , Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann , Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique , Rot und Schwarz after Stendhal as well as interpretations of Bach works and symphonies by Bruckner , Beethoven , Schumann and Prokofiev . In 1993 he was appointed professor at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater . He was also one of the founding members of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig .
Scholz is best known for his symphonic ballets. Since 1977 he had choreographed over 100 ballets to music from classical to modern. His high musicality, his artistic sensitivity and warmth, as well as elegant and stringent lines, even when working with large ensembles, made him famous far beyond the borders of Germany. Among other things, he choreographed ballets for La Scala in Milan , the Vienna State Opera , the Ballets de Monte Carlo and repeatedly for the Stuttgart Ballet . His last great choreography were Le sacre du printemps in a spectacular Leipzig double version and Scholz notes I . Further evenings under the title Notes II and Notes III as well as choreographies for Wagner's Ring were planned.
In the summer of 2004 there were differences of opinion between Scholz, the City of Leipzig and the Leipzig Opera due to budget cuts, a downsizing of his company and the threatened closure of the Leipzig Opera Ballet School . It was then decided that Scholz would remain chief choreographer until the end of the 2005/06 season, but would take a one-year break.
Shortly afterwards, Uwe Scholz announced his retirement from professional life for health reasons - he had been struggling with psychological problems and the resulting alcoholic illness for years . Scholz had been suffering from a life-threatening disease of the pancreas for weeks when he died of acute pneumonia on November 21, 2004 in a clinic near Berlin . His grave is in Lützelbach in the Odenwald . The Canadian Paul Chalmer succeeded Uwe Scholz as artistic director of the Leipzig Ballet in the 2005/06 season.
Movies
In 2007, the documentary film Seelenlandschaften, The Choreographer Uwe Scholz was shot about Scholz ; this film has been shown at film festivals in Prague, Milan and Biarritz. Scholz also appeared in the ZDF documentary West-Eastern Dance Theater - From New and "Old" Choreographers in New and Old Federal States (1992).
His Leipzig choreography of Le sacre du printemps was released on DVD in 2008 and was broadcast on international TV channels.
Awards
- Omaggio Alla Danza (1987)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1996)
- Theater Prize of the Bavarian State Government in the category dance (1998)
- German Dance Prize (1999)
literature
- Nadja Kadel, Kati Burchart (eds.): Time leaps. Leaps in Time. Uwe Scholz . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-037260-5
- Marie-Luise Lehmann: lighting design . Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01252-8 (specialist book with numerous pictures of choreographies by Uwe Scholz in Leipzig).
- Ursula Pellaton: Uwe Scholz . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1629 f.
- Lothar Wittke (text), Andreas Birkigt (photos): Leipzig Ballet. 10 years of Uwe Scholz . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-926318-90-2
Web links
- The official website of the choreographer , with many photos, a list of works and current information on worldwide performances
- Literature by and about Uwe Scholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Uwe Scholz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Scholzballets.com with many photos, biography, catalog raisonné and current performances worldwide
- Website of the Leipzig Ballet
- Website of the choreologist by Uwe Scholz with photos, current information on worldwide performances and continuations of the work
Individual evidence
- ^ Soulscapes: The Choreographer Uwe Scholz. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ 44 th International Television Festival - Golden Prague
- ↑ Milano Doc Festival 2007
- ↑ Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8MB)
- ↑ Rene Drommert: Zeitgeist ballet . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/1992
- ↑ Le sacre du printemps. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scholz, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choreographer and ballet director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Youth home , Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2004 |
| Place of death | Berlin |