Wolfgang Utzt

Wolfgang Utzt (born October 1, 1941 in Senftenberg ; † April 25, 2020 in Frankfurt an der Oder ) was a German make- up artist . Already at the age of 19 he worked as a trainee at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , and his professional career was closely connected to this stage.

After training as a make-up artist with Herbert Zensch (1960-63) and a diploma in make-up design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (1973), he became head make-up artist at the German Theater in 1979, where he managed the workshops with 14 make-up artists and trainees and worked with the directors Heiner Müller , Thomas Langhoff , Jürgen Gosch , Frank Castorf , Alexander Lang , Friedo Solter , Hans Neuenfels , Robert Wilson and many others.

More than 100 pieces were supervised by Utzt from the concept to the staging. He also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television and at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art . An extensive collection of his masks and figurines is in the possession of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation .

Productions (selection)

1972 Amphitryon ( Peter Hacks ). Director: Friedo Solter
1974 splendor and death of Joaquin Murieta ( Pablo Neruda ). Director: Klaus Erforth, Alexander Stillmark
1977 The Beast of Monsieur Racine (after Tomi Ungerer ). Director: Alexander Lang
1980 Elektra ( Sophocles ). Director: Friedo Solter
1981 Danton's death ( Georg Büchner ). Director: Alexander Lang
1985 The Merchant of Venice ( William Shakespeare ). Director: Thomas Langhoff
1988 The wage press (Heiner Müller). Director: Heiner Müller
1989 The theater maker ( Thomas Bernhard ). Director: Peter Schroth, Peter Kleinert
1990 Hamlet machine (Heiner Müller). Director: Heiner Müller
1991 Peer Gynt ( Henrik Ibsen ). Director: Friedo Solter
1991 Mauser (Heiner Müller). Director: Heiner Müller
1992 The Tower ( Hugo von Hofmannsthal ). Director: Thomas Langhoff
1994 The Cyclops ( Euripides ). Director: Friedo Solter
1997 Ithaka ( Botho Strauss ). Director: Thomas Langhoff
1999 The Trachinierinnen des Sophocles ( Thomas Brasch after Ezra Pound ). Director: Matthias Langhoff
2001 Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare). Director: Hans Neuenfels
2002 Dr. Caligari (Robert Wilson). Director: Robert Wilson

1987 theater masks . Helsinki Theater Museum
1989 exhibition center at the television tower in Berlin
1991 Schauspielhaus Zurich
1993 Deutsches Theater Berlin
1993 American Institute for Theater Technology (USITT), Wichita, USA
1996 theater masks . Tokyo, Japan
2000 Masks: Faces of Culture . Saint Luis Art Museum (St. Louis, Missouri); The Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas)
2008 Ephraim-Palais Berlin
2011 Museum for Arts & Crafts, Hamburg
2017 Schloss Neuhardenberg The armadillo came at four at night

1977 Golden Laurel for the television puppet show "Unterwassergeschichten" ( TV of the GDR )
2004 Golden Mask "In recognition of the services in the makeup artist profession" ( Kryolan GmbH)
2018 Brandenburg Art Prize for his life's work

Gunnar Decker : The Lord of the Masks. A visit to the head make-up artist of the Deutsches Theater Berlin (article). The magazine (02/2003).

John Nunley, Cara McCarty: Masks. Faces of Culture. Catalog with 200 color and 172 b / w illustrations. St. Louis Art Museum, Houston 1999.

Claudia Petzold: The Lord of the Masks (article). In: Die Deutsche Bühne (Theatermagazin), No. 4, April 1993.

Claudia Petzold: Time goes by in masks (article). Der Tagesspiegel, September 1, 1991, special supplement.

Wolfgang Utzt: Theater masks (catalog). 1993 Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Frank Hörnigk : Time goes by in masks. The work of the make-up artist Wolfgang Utzt , Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940737-80-9 .

Wolfgang Utzt: The armadillo came at four at night , Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-68-8 .