berliner künstlerprogramm

Group : Literature

Name : Alvaro García de Zúñiga

Nationality : Portuguese (Uruguayan born)

Geburtstag : 17 - Jan - 1958

Familienstand : Married

Zahl der Kinder : 1

Im fall der Stiependienzusage komme ich in begleitung von : my wife, Teresa Albuquerque

Brief list of artistic and professional background:

I have a background in which litterature and music fuse together. Thus I write words for the ears and sounds for the mind. Next spring my work will be opening the first Sound Poetry Festival that the Maison de la Poésie in Paris organises.

I have directed my first self written play in 1998. Since then I have written and directed 7 other plays that have been brought to stage and 3 acoustic plays that have been broadcasted. I have also directed 6 short feature films and 1 documentary.

Before 1998 I was a professional musician.

List of plays (where and when they were first played):

Théâtre Impossible (Gulbenkian Foundation 1998)

Le Théâtre n'est que du Cinéma (Lisbon National Theater 1999)

Sur Scène et Marne (Marathon des mots, Toulouse 1999)

Exercices de Frustration (Neumarkt Theater, Zurich 2006)

Lecture d’un texte pour le théâtre (Gulbenkian Cultural Center, Paris 2007)

Conférence de Presse / in English (Oporto National Theater 2007)

radiOthello / auf deutsch (Neumarkt Theater, Zurich 2008)

Manuel sur Scène (Le Prato Theater, Lille 2008)

List of acoustic plays :

Manuel (WDR3 - Studio Akustische Kunst 2003/2004)

Pièce à Conviction / Corpus Delicti (Woche des Hoerspiels, Berlin 2007)

Logicus et Philosophicus (Portugal National Radio, Cultural Antena 2007)

more information about all these productions at http://blablalab.net

Work-projects planned for Berlin

To write...

To work on a litterary version of Manuel (half men-half handbuch), originally created for a triptic at the Studio Akustische Kunst (WDR. Köln) in 2003/2004.

...and to rebuild de wall...

Contacts in Berlin

Leopold von Verschuer, Kathryn Röggla, Dr. Maria Sommer, Dr. Bernd Schmidt, Kurt Scharf, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, Bo Wiget, Miguel Azguime, Gabriela Albergaria, Oliver Grajewski, Silke Buchholz ...

Major prizes and grants

Grant to direct "Un jour dans la vie" (Ministery of Culture, Cinema Institut Portugal) (1998)

Grant to write the script "Gambit" (Ministery of Culture, Cinema Institut Portugal) (1999)

Grant to direct "Batailles" (Ministery of Culture, Cinema Institut Portugal) (2001)

Prize for Théâtre Impossible Dortmund Festival. (2002)

Artist Residency in CCMIX, to compose Pièce à Conviction. (2007)

Grant to write "radiOthello, Bourse Odyssée, ACCR, Paris and Artist Residency in the Chartreuse de Villeuneuve lez Avignons. (2007)

Artist Residency in Récollets, Paris (2009)

Longer stays abroad

Difficult to define "abroad": Montevideo was my home town for more then 10 years, I lived in Buenos Aires 10 years, 2 years in Santiago de Chile, 10 years in Paris, 12 years in Lisbon and spent periods of several months in towns like Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Köln, Oporto, Zurich...

Knowledge of languages

Fluent Spanish, French and Portuguese, some (bad) English and worst German (for now...) Italian from time to time...

learned of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme through:

Antonio Tabucchi