TTT08 “Engineer of the Imagination “
| HEINER GOEBBELS, born on August 17, 1952 in Neustadt/Weinstrasse,
lives since 1972 in Frankfurt/Main. He studied sociology and
music.
While doing several record productions and many concerts with the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester (76-81), the Goebbels/Harth-Duo (76-88) and the art-rock-trio Cassiber (82-92), he wrote at the same time theatre music (for Hans Neuenfels, Claus Peymann, Matthias Langhoff, Ruth Berghaus and others), film music (for Helke Sander, Dubini, and others) and ballet music (for the Ballet Frankfurt). In the middle of the 80s he began composing and directing audio plays of his own, most of them based on texts by Heiner Mueller Verkommenes Ufer (Waste Shore), Die Befreiung des Prometheus (The liberation of Prometheus), Wolokolamsker Chaussee (Volokolamsk Highway), Schliemanns Radio, Der Horatier/Roman Dogs/Chiens Romains and others). After the staged concerts Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (Man in the Elevator) 1987, Die Befreiung des Prometheus (The liberation of Prometheus), 1991 and on and the concert for dancer Thraenen des Vaterlands (Tears of the fatherland), together with Christoph Nel/Ballet Frankfurt, 1986, he created together with Michael Simon the music theatre pieces Newton's Casino in 1990 and Roemische Hunde (Roman Dogs) in 1991 at the TAT in Frankfurt. Since 1988 Heiner Goebbels composes chamber music for the Ensemble Modern (Red Run, Befreiung, La Jalousie) and the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Herakles 2). In 1994 followed Surrogate Cities, a 90 minutes composition for big orchestra commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and performed of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel. 1996, as a commision for Donaueschingen, he composed Industry & Idleness (premiere by Radiokamerorkest Hilversum, conductor: Peter Eotvos). Walden for extended orchestra was created in 1998 for the first tour of the newly founded Ensemble Modern Orchestra (conductor: Peter Eotvos). Invitations to nearly all major theatre, new music, jazz and performing arts festivals and tours with all his ensembles, the productions for stage and the portrait concerts of the Ensemble Modern got him to more than 30 countries in the last 15 years. Lately about 10 CD productions were published. In 1993 the music theatre piece Ou bien la débarquement désastreux (Or the hapless landing) was directed by him in Paris. In 1995 his music theatre piece Die Wiederholung (The Repetition, La Reprise - based upon motifs by Kierkegaard, Robbe-Grillet and Prince) was created in Frankfurt (Theater am Turm). His music theatre piece Schwarz auf Weiss (Black on White) was created at the TAT Frankfurt in 1996 for 18 musicians of the Ensemble Modern. It was filmed for Arte, recorded for BMG and the SWF and is still being shown in Europe and overseas. In 1997 he participated in the Documenta X in Kassel with his
musical theatre sketch
Landscape with man being killed by a snake (September 97)
and he created the music theatre piece
Schliemann's Scaffolding in Athens and Volos
(September/October 97). His music theatre piece
Max Black with Andre Wilms premiered in April 1998 in
Lausanne, and together with the Ensemble Modern he created a
tribute to Hanns Eislers' 100th anniversary called
Eislermaterial - a staged concert which was first
shown in Munich in May 1998. Nearly all of his music theatre works have been performed more than 50 times on the major music and theatre festivals in europe as well as in the USA, Japan, Australia and Singapur. 1994/95 guest professor at "Institut für Angewandte
Theaterwissenschaft" University Giessen. From April 1999 on, Heiner Goebbels works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies which is situated in the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany). He will be in charge of several seminars and artistic projects. The institute inhabits a professional rehearsal stage and is well equipped with a brand-new audio and video studio. The institute is as well dedicated to scientific research as to artistic practice (contemporary theatre and performance) and especially to the possibilities of linking both. (For further information please visit its homepage.) In 2002 Heiner Goebbels premiered his first opera Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten / Paysage avec parents éloignés / Landscape with distant relatives. In the context of his 50th birthday Heiner Goebbels released his first book "Komposition als Inszenierung". Also ECM released a CD of Eislermaterial. In 2003 Heiner Goebbels premiered his orchestra piece From A Diary as a comission of the Berlin Philharmonics / conductor Sir Simon Rattle.The Berlin Philharmonics performed ten concerts with the music of Heiner Goebbels: two performances of Surrogate Cities in Lausanne and Berlin and many following concerts of From A Diary in Salzburg, London, New York, San Francisco and others. In 2004 he premiered his latest music theatre piece called Eraritjaritjaka - museé des phrases after words by Elias Canetti with the actor André Wilms and the Mondriaan String Quartett at the theatre vidy in lausanne. AWARDS
member of the "Akademie der darstellenden Kuenste" (academy
of the performing arts) in Frankfurt awarded in 1999 "in recognition to his outstanding
contribution to the arts" with the fellowship honoris causa
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