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 directed my first self written play in 1998 : "Théâtre Impossible". 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.

Latest activities:

Jan. "Lecture d’un texte pour le théâtre, Première, Paris, Centre Culturel Gulbenkian.

Feb/March. Resident in the Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis, Paris, 2 months, for the creation of an accoustic play Pièce à Conviction / Corpus Delicti

Apr. Presentation of Pièce à Conviction / Corpus Delicti in the Akademie der Künst/Woche des Hörspiels representing Portugal.

Mai/Jun. Writes Conférence de Presse.

Jul. Resident in the Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignons Reading of Lecture d’un texte pour le théâtre / Festival d'Avignon.

Aug. Writes and directs Logicus et Philosophicus for the Portugues Public Radio. Selected to represent Portugal in the first European Radio Art Online Festival.

Oct/Nov. Resident in Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignons to write radiOthello. Reading of Lecture d’un texte pour le théâtre and Conférence de Presse.

Dec. Première of Conférence de Presse produced by Oporto National Theater.

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

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

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

Prize for Théâtre Impossible Dortmund Festival.

Artist Residency in CCMIX, to compose Pièce à Conviction.

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

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