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Lecture by Heiner Goebbels
When: 19 September, 2005
Where: Fabrica
What: Lecture
Heiner Goebbels
Composer, director Heiner Goebbels was born in 1952, lives in Frankfurt/Main since 1972 and belongs to the most important exponents of the international contemporary music and theatre scene.
His compositions are performed by various orchestras and ensembles, and his concerts and music theatre works have been showed and are to be seen on many major international music and theatre festivals, such as Festival d’Automne Paris, Roma Europa Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Lincoln Centre Festival New York and many others.
In this fall there is a number of performances and concerts in Italy specially dedicated to his work:
the Italian premiere of his new, celebrated music theatre piece „Eraritjaritjaka“ in Rome followed by the opening of the Venice Biennal of Music with his large scale orchestra work „Surrogate Cities“ in La Fenice, both in September; a number of concerts will be performed in Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia in Octobre and the theatre work „Max Black“ in teatro Due in Parma in Decembre.
After studies of music and sociology Heiner Goebbels worked on compositions for theatre, film, ballett; as well as performances with several improvisation groups (Duo „Goebbels/Harth“, „Cassiber“ a.o.)
For his radio-works - often inspired by texts of Heiner Müller - he received numerous international prizes (prix italia 1986, 1992, 1995, a.o.). Since the end of the 80ties he composed ensemble compositions („Herakles 2“ 1991, „La Jalousie“ 1992, a.o.), orchestra compositions („Surrogate Cities“ 1994, „Industry and Idleness“ 1996, a.o.), staged concerts („Man in the Elevator“ 1987, „The Liberation of Prometheus“ 1993, „Eislermaterial“ 1998, a.o.) sound installations („timaios“ 2000, a.o. ) and musictheatre („The Repetition“ 1995, „Black on White“ 1996, „Max Black“ 1998, „Hashirigaki“ 2000, „Landscape with distant relatives“ 2002, „Eraritjaritjaka“ 2004 a.o.)
Heiner Goebbels is member of the German Academy of Performing Arts, Frankfurt, and Academy of Arts in Berlin, awarded with the honorary fellowship by the Dartington Arts College in 1999, and ‚The European Theatre Prize – New theatrical Realities‘ in Taormina 2001. Since April 1999 Heiner Goebbels works as a professor in the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen and is its managing director since 2003.
http://www.heinergoebbels.com
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