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:
- Musictheatreperformance of the year 1993 in the Czech Republic for procuction of the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobidience of Death" by Viktor Ullmann
- Maecenas-Price 1994 for the project "Kar", music theatre in the mountains in cooperation with the Verbund-Company
- Maecenas-Price 2002 für the project "Theatretraps in the Underground of Vienna"
- European Label 2002 for innovative language projects
- Maecenas-Price 2003 für the project "Dada in Tramline 1 & Tramline 2"
- Nomination for the Bank Austria Art Prize 2011[1]
- Arteco-Price the project "Different Trains" (three operas on a moving train through Europe on stations in Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria dealing with the theme of deportation and death during the Holocaust)
- "Cerec-Award" of the Financial Times
Publications
- Essays about theatre
- "Signer and Rossini - two brothers in spirit?" - 1992
- "Crossing Boarders" - 1993
- "The new music theatre project KAR – a ooperation between industry and art" - 1994
- "Music Theatre at the concentration camp of Terezín by the example of the composer Viktor Ullmann and its significance for our time" - 1994
- "The Emperor of Atlantis - Lecture for CINARS 1994 in Montreal" - 1994
- "About the Open Form of Theatrical Art of Theatre - Lecture about the new opera house in Linz" - 1996
- "Memories and present, music and language, original and draft" - 1996
- "Music, Theatre, Dance in Austria - Lecture for CINARS 1996 in Montreal" - 1996
- "Art crossing Boarders" 1997
- "For years, the mirror is imposed! About the correspondences of cultural behavior" - 1998
- "The Art of Dialogue" - 1998
- "Memory as a mirror of ideology" - 2000
- "WorldWideWeb - Reality - Tool - Interaction" - [2] in: TRANS - Internetmagazine for Cultural Studies Nr.9 - 2000
- "That there is this attempt of political change in the world definitely" - 2004
- "Victim myth Austria" - 2005
- "The Rescue of to be forgotten! - The correspondence between the Austrian-Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem and the American deafblind author Helen Keller" - 2009
- Books
- "Crossing the Boarders" - Das Zeichen 22/1992 - ISSN 0932-4747
- "Plurality instead of Uniformity (Klagenfurt on other tracks)" - Kärntner Druck und Verlagsgesellschaft 1996 - ISBN 3-85391-138-2
- "Tracks to Victor Ullmann" with essays written by Viktor Ullmann, Herbert Thomas Mandl, Dževad Karahasan, Ingo Schultz and Herbert Gantschacher published by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre / (Vienna: edition selene 1998), ISBN 3852660939
- "Forms of life" (a theatre book written by Herbert Gantschacher and Dževad Karahasan) – edition selene 1999 - ISBN 3-85266-041-6
- "The Mirror of History - The Past as Ideology" (3rd Prora Conference) - Stiftung Neue Kultur Berlin 2000
- Co-Editor of "The Unifying Aspects of Cultures" – LIT 2004 - ISBN 3-8258-7616-0
- "I Carry the Flag or War = daDa" – Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften 2006 - ISSN 0941-1488, ISBN 3-631-55038-3
- "Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse" (Book for the exhibition about the composer 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
- "From the Austrian-Hungarian Wehrmacht to the German Wehrmacht" - ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein 2009
- Translations
- "Disconnected - Kein Anschluß" by Willy Conley. 2000
- "On the edge of the desert" by Dževad Karahasan. 2003
- "Banquet" by Dževad Karahasan. 2005
- "The Universal Drum - Trommeln allerorts" by Willy Conley. 2011
- Theatreplays
- "Agnus Dei" draft of a libretto based on a story by Francisco Tanzer, 1987 in: Austrian National Library - Austrian Literature Archive.[3]
- "The Couple" (in cooperation with Francisco Tanzer) 1987/1988 in: Austrian National Library - Austrian Literature Archive. Tanzer[4]
- "Late Afternoon in Paradise". Chamberopera (together with Walter Müller). Music: Stefan Signer - 1992
- "The Language in Space" - 1994
- "Rehearsals on Dialogues" - 1996
- "19182338 - The number You have called is disconnected". Music theatre. Music: Werner Raditschnig - 1998
- "I Can See Something You Cannot See" - 2000
- "Chronicle 1933-1945". Dokumentary Theatre about the biographies of Robert Ley and Victor Klemperer (together with Katharina and Jürgen Rostock) - 2000
- "Snow and Death". Dramatization of the novel "The Ring of Shahrijar" by Dževad Karahasan - 2002
- "The Death of Empedocles". Dramatization of the Fragments written by Friedrich Hölderlin (in cooperation with Dževad Karahasan) - 2005
- "Banquet". Transmission of the Librettos of Dževad Karahasan from the Bosnian Language. Music: Herbert Grassl, Bruno Strobl and Hossam Mahmoud - 2005
- "Wilhelm Jerusalem – Helen Keller – Letters" - 2008
- "A First Step" - 2008
Films
- "Viktor Ullmann - Way to the Front 1917" Documentary Film, Book and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Editor: Erich Heyduck; ARBOS-DVD Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein 2007.
- "Spuren nach Theresiestadt - Tracks to Terezín" Documentary Film about the survivor of the Holocaust Herbert Thomas Mandl, Interview and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Camera: Robert Schabus, Editor: Erich Heyduck/DVD in German and English; ARBOS, Wien-Salzburg-Klagenfurt, 2007.
- "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" Documentary Music Theatre about the opera of Viktor Ullmann, Book and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Sound-engineering: Roumen Dimitrov, Editor: Erich Heyduck; ARBOS-DVD Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt in German 2009, in English 2010, in Italian 2010.
Literature
- Christian Martin Fuchs: "The Trip into the Dream" - 1992
- Burgis Paier: "Love is no Tomato Juice!" - 1993
- Dževad Karahasan: "About the Exile in an Open Society" - 1994
- Dževad Karahasan: "Speech for the award of the Bruno Kreisky Award" - 1995
- Alfred Goubran: "Music for eyes and ears" - 1995
- Dominik Maringer: "Music in Tanzenberg" - 1996. ISBN 3-85378-459-3
- Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer: "The Emperor of Atlantis" - 1996
- "Theatre Crossin Borders: 'The Emperor of Atlantis'. First production of the CD and Premiere at Terezín" - 1996
- Johannes Birringer: Media & performance: along the border - 1998. ISBN 0-8018-5852-6
- Michael Ausserwinkler: "Speech for the Culture Awards 1998"
- Beate Scholz: "Delicatessen!" - 1999
- Carolin Walker "The Project Kar" in: Thomas Heinze "Arts Funding: Sponsoring - Fundraising - Public-Private-Partnership" - 1999. ISBN 3-8258-4344-0
- Gerhard Ruiss: "Spent commitments" - 1999
- Guido Fackler: "Voice of the camp - Music in Concentration Camps" - 2000
- Hans-Günter Klein: "Live in the moment, live in eternity. The lectures of the symposium of the 100th Birthday of Viktor Ullmann" - 2000. ISBN 3-89727-099-4
- Alf Krauliz, Marion Mauthe, Lukas Beck: Rooms on the move – 10 years Donaufestival. 2002. ISBN 3-211-83864-3
- Herbert Arlt: "Trans: documentation of a cultural polylog test in the WWW" - 2002. ISBN 3-86110-324-9
- Michal Caban, Šimon Caban, Jan Dvořák: "Baletní jednotka Křeč" - 2003. ISBN 8086102106
- Elena Makarova, Sergei Makarov, Victor Kuperman: "University Over the Abyss, The story behind 520 lecturers and 2,430 lectures in KZ Theresienstadt 1942-1944" - 2004. ISBN 965-424-049-1
- Eva Zwick: "Hearing. 'Hearing Rooms' in Deaf Theatre" - 2007
- Jana Unuk: "The Vilenica 2010 Prize Winner Dževad Karahasan", pages 9, 13, 17[5] - 2010. ISBN 978-961-6547-50-5
See also
References
- ^ Jury of the Bank Austria Art Prize November 2011
- ^ http://www.inst.at/trans/9Nr/gantschacher9.htm
- ^ http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestand/sg/nl/tanzer.htm
- ^ http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestand/sg/sys/tanzer.htm
- ^ http://www.vilenica.si/press/Almanac_vilenica_2010-web.pdf
External links
Herbert Gantschacher in the German National Library catalogue (German)
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