Martin Sperr
Martin Sperr ( born September 14, 1944 in Stone Mountain at Marklkofen, † April 6, 2002 in Landshut ) was a low- Bavarian playwright and actor. In his plays he denounces drastically and in the dialect of grievances.
Life
Martin Sperr was born the son of a teacher couple (father senior teacher, his mother a housewife ) in Steinberg. When he was about 5 years old, his father was employed as a senior teacher in spiral churches and Martin grew up in spiral churches. He attended the 1st - 4th grade of elementary school spiral Churches (1950 - 1954), in which his father was senior teacher. He then attended the boarding school Algasing the Upper Bavarian Villages (1954-1958) and was completed primary school. He attended a year Sabel business school in Munich (1958 /59) and after two years, the Trausnitz trade school in Landshut (up to 1961). which he completed in an intermediate certificate.
He began on September 1, 1961 at Siemens in Munich, first an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. He broke the doctrine as early as the end of February 1962. In 1961, he took acting lessons in Munich in drama school M. Nachbaur and debuted in 1962 at the theater 44 as Lennie Small in "Of Mice and Men". He attended from 1962 to 1964, the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, where he was, however, thrown out for lack of talent. The first versions of the Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria arise. 1964/65 he attended drama school Genzmer in Wiesbaden and was on May 4, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main the matriculation examination spectacle. In collaboration with Dr. Karl Heinz Braun of the Suhrkamp publishing the " Hunting Scenes from Bavaria " are finally completed. His training as an actor deserved lock up as an accountant, laborer and night porter.
During the season 1965/1966 barrier was as an assistant director and actor at the Bremen Town Theatre. There his hunting scenes were from Bavaria May, 1966 premiere (directed by Rolf Becker / Wilfried Minks ). The breakthrough for the piece brought the performance to the stage at the Hall Ufer, Berlin, in the Martin Sperr the Rovo played (director: Hagen Mueller-Stahl ). Beginning of edits " Measure for Measure " by Shakespeare and "Saved " by Edward Bond.
Peter Fleischmann 1968 used the fabric over a homosexual outsider and the violence in the village to a film with barrier in the lead role of Abram. The strip won the German Film Award, won at the Berlinale, and also at the Film Festival in Locarno. In 1971, the substance as a narrative under the title hunt for outsiders. 1984 was to be seen at a performance at the Munich National Theatre as pastor barrier.
His next success was in 1966 his translation of Edward Bond's play Saved in Bavarian. In 1967, he worked himself in the world premiere in a production by Peter Stein at the Munich Chamber games. In the same year lock participated in an engagement at the Munich Chamber matches, where he served as in-house writer and actor.
His Bavarian trilogy to the postwar reality then took shape. The Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria play anno 1948, a decade later in 1967 published Landshut stories with her portrayal of a competitive struggle between two contractors. The Münchner Freiheit (1971 ) was a satire on contemporary near real-estate speculation and housing destruction.
Even with historical material was Martin Sperr no means nostalgic. In 1970, his piece of coral Meier premiered in Stuttgart by Peter Palitzsch with Ruth Drexel. It's about an aging prostitute in a Lower Bavarian town during the Nazi era. In 1971 he wrote to Reinhard Hauff the screenplay for the television film The Robber Mathias Kneissl, where Mathias Kneissl became the social rebels. Real greed and stupidity he held with his tragi-comedy about the life of Adele 's Lace in the eponymous film the mirror before. In 1977 the premiere of the stages of the city of Bonn.
1969/70 barrier was again engaged in Bremen. In 1972, he was after a brain hemorrhage at changing a wheel in his car a long time in a coma, memory loss and loss of motivation meant. He suffered from epileptic seizures since then. In 1974, he returned at the Schauspielhaus Bochum to the stage and played here in the German premiere of Brendan Behan Borstal Boy, followed by appearances in small Munich private theaters, particularly in 1976 when reading their own nonsense poems and 1978 Adele in his piece Spitzeder at Studio Theatre in Munich. In 1982, he was seen at the Theater Freiburg as Hamlet.
In 1983, he joined the ensemble of the Munich People's Theatre. He wore German -speaking theater texts into Bavarian, which were then listed on the National Theatre, including Otto Muehl's Rhine promenade and Fitzgerald Kusz "Silence, boy! . Barrier appeared to continue on at the National Theatre and at the Tyrolean folk plays in Telfs.
He was married to his second marriage to actress Katja Barwich and one daughter.
Importance
The title of his first theater piece Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria became a household word. It is a synonym for agitation or defamation action.
Martin Sperr is to settle with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz in a line and may be considered as literary child of Marie Fleißer. He is considered an innovator in the genre of critical folk plays. Under the title The Second Life of Martin Sperr his fate was filmed by television.
Awards and honors
- November 27, 1965 ceremony desGerhart Hauptmann Prize in Berlin, Award of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin for the " Hunting Scenes from Bavaria "
- 1967 "Theater heute" Prize for young theater people for Landshut stories
- November 9, 1968 Award of the Schiller Memorial Prize of the State of Baden- Württemberg, Stuttgart
- April 29, 1969 Promotion Prize for Literature in the City of Munich
- Sept. 1972 Star of the Week ( Munich evening paper ) for Martin Sperr and Peer Raben, two stars for the TV movie " Adele Spitzeder "
- 1973 Bavarian Radio Price
- December 16, 1977 Ernst Hoferichter price, Munich
- May 26, 1978 in Mülheim Dramatist Prize, Award for " The Spitzeder " as a play of the year
- Nov. 1978 Star of the week ( evening paper Munich) and tz- Rose for the presentation of its Adele Spitzeder in the Studio Theater, Munich
- Nov. 1984 tz- Rose for Martin Sperr ( text editing ), director Ulrich Heising and the ensemble of "A Rua is Bua! " in the People's Theatre in Munich
Works
- Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria, Bremen UA, directed by Rolf Becker / Wilfried Minks May 1966 ( filmed 1968)
- Landshut stories, UA Munich Studio Theater in 1968, directed by August Everding
- Coral Meier, UA Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart in 1970, Director: Peter Palitzsch
- " Hunt for outsiders" prose version of the play " Hunting Scenes from Bavaria " in 1971, Weismann Verlag Munich
- Mr. Bertolt Brecht says. Read at Brecht and selected for children and other people, 1970 ( together with Monika lock )
- Münchner Freiheit, UA Dusseldorf in 1971, directed by Michael Kehl man
- Anthology Lower Bavarian trilogy, Suhrkamp, 1972 (contains the pieces Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria, Landshut stories, Münchner Freiheit )
- Screenplay for the television film " Adele Spitzeder ", 1972
- Screenplay for the television film " The Robber Mathias Kneissl " circa 1971
- The Spitzeder, UA Werkstattbühne Bonn in 1977, directed by Wolfgang Quetes
- Want to slap giraffes, you must have their level, 1979 ( prose, poems and drawings)
- Play " Bavarian Outlaw " in 1998
Adaptations and translations
- Bavarian processing of "Saved " by Edward Bond, UA Werkraumtheater Munich in 1967, directed by Peter Stein ( Martin Sperr as Helmut ( Barry )
- Processing of " Measure for Measure " by Shakespeare, UA Theatre of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1967
- Editing " The Taming of the Shrew " by Shakespeare to " The art of taming " UA Bremen in 1971, directed by Kurt Hübner
- Processing "Brother of the Bride" as a radio play for the Bay. Broadcasting 1971
- Transfer to the Bavarian of " Lemsomd " as a radio play about 1972
- Transfer to the Bavarian of " Schdeamsweaddal " as a radio play about 1972
- Transfer to the Bavarian of "Rhine Promenade " by Karl Otto Muehl to " Isar Promenade "
- Transfer to the Bavarian of " De Hotzenblitz " by Karl Wittinger to " The Florian Flash " UA Munich National Theatre, 1984 Director: Franz Geiger
- Transfer to the Bavarian of "Hush boy! " Fitzgerald Kusz to " A Rua is Bua ," UA Munich National Theatre, 1984 Director: Ulrich Heising
- Processing "If Malmström comes " by Kurt -Achim Köweker to " 8011 Aschheim - If Malmström coming," UA Munich National Theatre in 1988
- Transfer to the Bavarian of " Happy Reunion "
- Transfer to the Bavarian of " The Miser " by Moliere to "Da avarice is because of envy "
- Transfer to the Bavarian of "Lotto luck " by Sabine Thiessler to " Loddoglügg "
Martin Sperr as an actor
In addition:
- In " The Kreuzer Sonata " by Leo Tolstoy as a gentleman, theater tent CASTLE, Munich, directed by Niklas Alexander Nitschke
- In "The Little Prince " Studio Theater München
This list is not exhaustive.
Martin Sperr as a film actor
- " Hunting Scenes from Bavaria " in 1968/69 ( Written and directed by Peter Fleischmann, Martin Sperr as Abram )
- " The robber Mathias Kneissl " circa 1971 (Book: Martin Sperr ) Martin Sperr as Pastor Meier
- "Strange City " by Rudolf Thome 1971/72
- " The Second Life of Martin Sperr " circa 1974
- " The Tunnel", short fiction 1976 ( based on a story by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Directed by: Stephan Kayser )
- " The Representative", short fiction 1977 ( written and directed by Stephan Kayser )
- " The Knapp Family", ARD TV series about 1981, when butcher Bernd
- Project " Rudolfo " in 1987, when Ernstl
- " The Chinese are coming " about 1988, when Raith
- " Inshallah " 1989, directed by Michael Holzinger
- " Grapefruit Moon " in 1989 by Joachim Masannek
- " After the Hunt. Scenes of Martin Sperr today " in 2001 by Christoph Eder Walnut
- " Sheepshead races ", TV series
- " Monaco Franze " television series, as a hairdresser or waiter
- " The Hintertürl to Paradise " by Reinhard Donga, as Grabner
- " Eiger ", TV movie
- "Luna " by Yellow Garden Movies
- " Be Kind Rewind " by Martin Arrow
- " Hitler, a film from Germany " by Hans -Jürgen Syberberg
- "Let 's like heroes " of cable Cain
- "Stars " ( written and directed by cable Cain )
- " German Night " by Martin Klett
This list is not exhaustive.