Herbert Gantschacher

Herbert Gantschacher (born December 2, 1956, at Waiern in Feldkirchen in Kärnten, Carinthia, Austria) is an Austrian director and producer and writer.

Education

1976 Gantschacher graduated on the second school in Klagenfurt. From 1977 to 1980 he studied at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts at Graz (now University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz). He graduated with honors in 1980 and in 1988 he got the M.A. Master of Arts.

Works

Artistic Activities

Gantschacher worked for the Schauspielhaus in Graz, the Salzburg State Theatre, the Tyrolian State Theatre Innsbruck, the Danubefestival in Krems, the Chamberopera in Vienna, the "Theater an der Winkelwiese" in Zürich, the festival "Musica Iudaica" in Prague, the "Kulturbrauerei" in Berlin, the Polish festival "Theatre without Borders" in Szczecin, the National Theatre of Kosovo in Priština, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Concordia-University in Montreal, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., dem Museum of The Holocaust in Los Angeles and the Singapore Arts Festival.

In Dresden Gantschacher worked for the "Staatsschauspiel", the "kleine Szene" of the Semperoper, the "Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik" and the "Festspielhaus Hellerau".

Also in Stockholm he worked for some institutions as the Kulturhuset and the Royal Swedish Opera (Kungliga Operan).

Gantschacher worked also in cities Erfurt, Odessa, Sankt Petersburg, Helsinki and Bergen, there he worked as a lecturer at the university.

Now Gantschacher is the artistic director of the "European and International Deaf Theatre Festival" in Vienna. He is also the artistic director of the theatre- and research-project "War is daDa". For that project he created two exhibitions "Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse" (Exhibition and book about Viktor Ullmann in World War I and the influence of the experiences of war to his music especially to the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobidience of Death" ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein-Prora 2007/2008) and "From the Austrian-Hungarian Wehrmacht to the German Wehrmacht" (ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein-Prora 2009/2010).

Other Activities

From 1994 to 1999 Gantschacher was a member of the Arts Council of the Government of Carinthia. 1999 Gantschacher was a lecturer at the "Theatre-Institute" of the University in Bergen in Norway. Gantschacher worked on a lot of conferences as lecturer and director in Vienna at the International Conference "The Unifying Aspects of Culture"(2003), in Villach "On the Eve of the Apocalypse"(2004), in Nötsch "Art and War"(2005), in Villach "The Great War - The Forgotten War"(2005), "The Great War - The Great Dying"(2006), "The Great War - The Last Victory"(2007), "The Great War - Long Live the Republic!"(2008) and in Nötsch and Arnoldstein "Art.War.Music" about music and the Great War. For the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF Gantschacher worked as a director for radio drama.

Awards

For his theatre works Gantschacher got some important awards:

Publications

Essays about theatre
Books
Translations
Theatreplays

Films

Literature

See also

References

  1. ^ Jury of the Bank Austria Art Prize November 2011
  2. ^ http://www.inst.at/trans/9Nr/gantschacher9.htm
  3. ^ http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestand/sg/nl/tanzer.htm
  4. ^ http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestand/sg/sys/tanzer.htm
  5. ^ http://www.vilenica.si/press/Almanac_vilenica_2010-web.pdf

External links

Herbert Gantschacher in the German National Library catalogue (German)