Uwe Scholz
Uwe Scholz ( born December 31, 1958 in Jugenheim, Hesse, † November 21, 2004 in Berlin) was a German choreographer and ballet director.
Life
Scholz was trained from 1973 to 1979 in Stuttgart with John Cranko and Marcia Haydée and got there in 1980 and his first solid choreography Treaty. Two years later he was after the death of John Cranko for the first " Standing choreographers " called the Stuttgart Ballet.
At the Opera House Zurich Scholz was engaged from 1985 to 1991. At his office, he was the youngest head until then a European dance companies with 26 years.
From 1991 until his death he was the chief choreographer of the Leipzig Opera. Uwe Scholz created ballets of international stature, including, inter alia Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Great Mass, Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Red and Black by Stendhal and interpretations of Bach's works and symphonies of Bruckner, Beethoven, Schumann and Prokofiev. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He was also a founding member of the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig.
Scholz has become well known symphonic ballets especially. Since 1977 he had choreographed more than 100 ballets to music ranging from classical to modern. Its high musicality, his artistic sensitivity and warmth and an elegant and rigorous lines in working with large ensembles made him famous far beyond the borders of Germany. Among others, he has choreographed ballets for La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Ballets de Monte Carlo and over again for the Stuttgart Ballet. His last great choreographies were Le sacre du printemps in a spectacular Leipzig double version; Scholz notes I. Further evenings under the title Notes II and III as well as choreography notes to Wagner's Ring were planned.
In the summer of 2004, there were as a result of budget cuts, downsizing of his company and the impending closure of the members of the Leipzig Opera Ballet School disagreements between Scholz, the city of Leipzig and the Leipzig Opera. It was decided at that time that Scholz stay until the end of the 2005 /06 chief choreographer, but should take a year off.
Shortly after, Uwe Scholz was for health reasons - he struggled for years with mental health problems and a resulting alcohol disease - its withdrawal from the artistic career known. Scholz for weeks had been suffering from a life- threatening disease of the pancreas, as he died in a hospital near Berlin on 21 November 2004 from acute pneumonia. His grave is located in Lützelbach in the Odenwald. The Canadian Paul Chalmer joined with the 2005 /06 to Uwe Scholz's successor as artistic director of the Leipzig Ballet.
Movies
In 2007, the documentary about Scholz landscapes of the soul, the choreographer Uwe Scholz was shot; This film was shown at film festivals in Prague, Milan and Biarritz. Scholz also appeared in the ZDF documentary West - Eastern Dance Theatre - From new and "old" choreographers in new and old Länder ( 1992).
His Leipzig choreography of The Rite of Spring was published in 2008 as a DVD and aired on international television.
Awards
- Omaggio Alla Danza (1987 )
- Federal Cross of Merit (1996 )
- Theatre Prize of the Bavarian government -Dance (1998)
- German Dance Award (1999)