Herbert Gantschacher

Herbert Gantschacher was born on the 2^nd December 1956, at Waiern in Feldkirchen in Karnten, Carinthia, Austria. He is an Austrian director, a producer and a writer.

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Herbert Gantschacher graduated on the second school in Klagenfurt from the year 1977 to the year 1980; he studied at the academy for Music and Performing Art at the city of Graz. He graduated with honors in the year 1980 and in the year 1988, Herbert Gantschacher got his M.A.

Awards

Ø  Musictheatreperformance of the year 1993 in the Czech Republic for procuction of the opera The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death by Viktor Ullmann

Ø  Maecenas-Price 1994 for the project Kar, music theatre in the mountains in cooperation with the Verbund-Company

Ø  Maecenas-Price 2002 für the project Theatretraps in the Underground of Vienna

Ø  European Label 2002 for innovative language projects

Ø  Maecenas-Price 2003 für the project Dada in Tramline 1 & Tramline 2

Ø  Nomination for the Bank Austria Art Prize 2012

Ø  Award by the Federal Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek for the theatre project Sense of Touch - Sense of Smell - Sense of Taste about the culture and communication techniques of the deaf-blind with deaf-blind students and five sensed students in 2014

Ø  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)

Ø  Cerec-Award of the Financial Times

Works

Publications

Essays about theatre

Ø  Signer and Rossini - two brothers in spirit? – 1992.

Ø  Crossing Boarders - 1993

Ø  The new music theatre project KAR – a ooperation between industry and art – 1994.

Ø  Music Theatre at the concentration camp of Terezín by the example of the composer Viktor Ullmann and its significance for our time – 1994.

Ø  The Emperor of Atlantis - Lecture for CINARS 1994 in Montreal – 1994.

Ø  About the Open Form of Theatrical Art of Theatre - Lecture about the new opera house in Linz – 1996.

Ø  Memories and present, music and language, original and draft – 1996.

Ø  Music, Theatre, Dance in Austria - Lecture for CINARS 1996 in Montreal – 1996.

Ø  Art crossing Boarders 1997.

Ø  For years, the mirror is imposed! About the correspondences of cultural behavior – 1998.

Ø  The Art of Dialogue – 1998.

Ø  Memory as a mirror of ideology – 2000.

Ø  WorldWideWeb - Reality - Tool - Interaction – 2000.

Ø  That there is this attempt of political change in the world definitely – 2004.

Ø  Victim myth Austria – 2005.

Ø  The Rescue of to be forgotten! - The correspondence between the Austrian-Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem and the American deafblind author Helen Keller – 2009.

Books

Ø  Crossing the Boarders - Das Zeichen 22- 1992

Ø  Plurality instead of Uniformity (Klagenfurt on other tracks) – 1996.

Ø  Tracks to Victor Ullmann with essays written by Viktor Ullmann, Herbert Thomas Mandl, Dževad Karahasan, Ingo Schultz and Herbert Gantschacher, 1998

Ø  Forms of life 1999

Ø  The Mirror of History - The Past as Ideology – 2000.

Ø  Co-Editor of The Unifying Aspects of Cultures – 2004.

Ø  I Carry the Flag or War = daDa – 2006

Ø  Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse 2007/2008

Ø  From the Austrian-Hungarian Wehrmacht to the German Wehrmacht – 2009.

Ø  Forward, Don`t Forget! in Dirty Bucket K...2013

Translations

Ø  Disconnected - Kein Anschluß by Willy Conley. 2000

Ø  On the edge of the desert by Dževad Karahasan. 2003

Ø  Banquet by Dževad Karahasan. 2005

Ø  The Universal Drum - Trommeln allerorts by Willy Conley. 2011

Ø  Strike Against The War! by Helen Keller. 2013-2014

Theatreplays

Ø  Agnus Dei draft of a libretto based on a story by Francisco Tanzer, 1987

Ø  The Couple (in cooperation with Francisco Tanzer) 1987/1988

Ø  Late Afternoon in Paradise- 1992.

Ø  The Language in Space – 1994.

Ø  Rehearsals on Dialogues – 1996.

Ø  19182338 - The number You have called is disconnected – 1998.

Ø  I Can See Something You Cannot See – 2000.

Ø  Chronicle 1933-1945 – 2000.

Ø  Snow and Death. Dramatization of the novel The Ring of Shahrijar by Dževad Karahasan - 2002

Ø  The Death of Empedocles. Dramatization of the Fragments written by Friedrich Hölderlin - 2005

Ø  Banquet. Transmission of the Librettos of Dževad Karahasan from the Bosnian Language – 2005.

Ø  A First Step – 2008.

Ø  Wilhelm Jerusalem – Helen Keller – Letters - 2008

Ø  Heaven on Earth - 2012

Ø  *Pig Alm - 2013

Films

Ø  Viktor Ullmann - Way to the Front 1917.

Ø  Spuren nach Theresiestadt - Tracks to Terezín.

Ø  The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death

Literature

Ø  Christian Martin Fuchs: The Trip into the Dream – 1992.

Ø  Burgis Paier: Love is no Tomato Juice! – 1993.

Ø  Dževad Karahasan: About the Exile in an Open Society – 1994.

Ø  Dževad Karahasan: Speech for the award of the Bruno Kreisky Award – 1995.

Ø  Alfred Goubran: Music for eyes and ears – 1995.

Ø  Dominik Maringer: Music in Tanzenberg - 1996.

Ø  Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer: The Emperor of Atlantis – 1996.

Ø  Theatre Crossin Borders: 'The Emperor of Atlantis'. First production of the CD and Premiere at Terezín – 1996.

Ø  Johannes Birringer: Media & performance: along the border – 1998.

Ø  Michael Ausserwinkler: Speech for the Culture Awards 1998

Ø  Beate Scholz: Delicatessen! – 1999.

Ø  Carolin Walker The Project Kar in: Thomas Heinze Arts Funding: Sponsoring - Fundraising - Public-Private-Partnership - 1999.

Ø  Gerhard Ruiss: Spent commitments – 1999.

Ø  Guido Fackler: Voice of the camp - Music in Concentration Camps – 2000.

Ø  Hans-Günter Klein: Live in the moment, live in eternity. The lectures of the symposium of the 100th Birthday of Viktor Ullmann - 2000.

Ø  Alf Krauliz, Marion Mauthe, Lukas Beck: Rooms on the move – 10 years Donaufestival. 2002. Herbert Arlt: Trans: documentation of a cultural polylog test in the WWW – 2002.

Ø  Michal Caban, Šimon Caban, Jan Dvořák: Baletní jednotka Křeč – 2003.

Ø  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.

Ø  Jan Vičar: IMPRINTS Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics – 2005.

Ø  Eva Zwick: Hearing. 'Hearing Rooms' in Deaf Theatre - 2007

Ø  Dario Oliveri Musica e cultura nel ghetto di Theresienstadt – 2008.

Ø  Jana Unuk: The Vilenica 2010 Prize Winner Dževad Karahasan, pages 9, 13, 17, 2010