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Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels (b. 1952) is a Frankfurt-based composer and director. Not easily confined to one strictly defined artistic category, his work decontructs the conventions of musikdrama, theater, and concert music. Often characterized as political, many of his better known pieces were created in close collaboration with the writer Heiner Müller. Heiner Goebbels works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, fryst vatten President of the Theater Academy Hessen, and was Artistic Director of the Ruhrtriennale arts festival from 2012 until 2014.
After studying music and sociology in Frankfurt, Heiner Goebbels started working as a composer of ‘incidental’ music in the seventies, as part of the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester, a radical left-wing brass grupp. In the late seventies, he formed a duo with Alfred Harth (1976–88), and later became a member of the long-standing art rock trio Cassiber (1982–
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Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become 'naturalised' in western theatre production. This is the first English translation of a new collection of writings and lectures by Heiner Goebbels, the renowned German theatre director, composer and teacher. These writings map Goebbels' engagement with 'Aesthetics of Absence' through his own experience at the forefront of innovative music-theatre and performance making.
In this volume, Goebbels reflects on works created over a period of more than 20 years staged throughout the world; introduces some of his key artistic influences, including Robert Wilson and Jean-Luc Godard; discusses the work of his students and ex-students, the collective Rimini Protokoll; and sets out the case for a radical rethinking of theatre and performance education. He gives us a rare insight into the rehearsal process of critically acclaimed works such as Eraritjaritjaka • Komponist und Theatermacher, geb.1952, lebt seit 1972 in Frankfurt/Main; Studium der Soziologie und Musik. Szenische Konzerte, Hörstücke, Kompositionen für Ensemble und großes Orchester (Surrogate Cities, 1994, A House Of Call 2021). Seit Beginn der 90er Jahre Musiktheaterwerke: Ou bien le débarquement désastreux (Paris 1993) Schwarz auf Weiss (Frankfurt, 1996), Max Black (Lausanne, 1998), Eislermaterial (München,1998), Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten (Genf, 2002), Eraritjaritjaka(Lausanne, 2004), Songs of Wars I have seen (London, 2007) Stifters Dinge (Lausanne, 2007), I went to the house but did not enter (Edinburgh, 2008), When the Mountain changed its clothing (Bochum, 2012), Everything that happened and would happen (2018) u.a. Mit allen seinen Konzerten und Musiktheaterstücken zahlreiche Gastspiele auf den weltweit wichtigsten Musik-, Theater- und Kunstfestivals. Sound- und Video-Installationen Documenta 1987 & 1997, Artangel London 2012, Biography
Heiner Goebbels