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Lutz Gallmeister is a sound artist, musician and composer living in Berlin. He designs and realises sound installations and composes sound pieces for theatre, performances, dance and film. His works focus on socially relevant and critical questions.

Theatre

Macbeth

by Shakespeare in the version by Heiner Müller

Premiere: 30.01. 2026 Theater Konstanz

Infos: Macbeth
 

Director: Abdullah Maria Karaca
Stage & Costumes: Elena Scheicher
Music: Lutz Gallmeister
Dramaturgy: Hauke Pockrandt

With: 

Patrick O. Beck, Zoubeida Ben Salah, Jasper Diedrichsen, Thomas Fritz Jung, Sylvana Schneider

Milk And Coal by Ralf Rothmann

in the version by Till Beckmann and Maike Bouschen
Photo: ©Birgit Hupfeld

Premiere: 20.09. 2024 Oberhausen Theatre

Trailer: Video
Info: Milk and coal

Director: Maike Bouschen
Stage & Costumes: Franziska Isensee
Music: Lutz Gallmeister
Dramaturgy: Laura Mangels

With: With: Tim Weckenbrock, Susanne Burkhard, Jens Schnarre, Daniel Rothaug, Philipp Quest, David Lau, Klaus Zwick, Torsten Bauer

Choir: Gizem Aliusta, Hürrem Balaban, Frieda Becker, Sevda Beser Cidal, Lisa Brandenberg, Jorid Disteldorf, Manuela Dost, Sarah Grebe, Sophie Köller, Andrea Wilming

The Night of Wishes
by Michael Ende

Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische WUNSCHPUNSCH
Photo by Jochen Quast (c)

Press commentary: ‘At the Großes Haus in Oberhausen, Michael Ende’s witchy villains are hilariously funny and the two animal heroes are cuddly
likeable.
This ensemble at the Oberhausen theatre must even be
of an ingenious punch (without the other evil prefixes)
themselves: So lively, sparkling with ideas and animalistic joy of playing
Ingrid Gündisch’s production based on Michael Ende’s ‘The
Satanarchaeolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch’. The sold-out
thunderous applause in the sold-out theatre – as if Puss and Raven had
had actually just saved the world[…]’

Ralph Wilms, WAZ

Premiere: 18.11. 2023 Oberhausen Theatre

Trailer: Video

Info: The Night of Wishes

Director: Ingrid Gündisch
Stage & Costumes: Franziska Isensee
Music: Lutz Gallmeister
Dramaturgy: Jascha Fendel
Theatre pedagogy: Anke Weingarte

With:
Anke Fonferek,
David Lau,
Philipp Quest,
Simin Soraya,
Klaus Zwick

and

Nadja Bruder,
Regina Leenders,
Maria Lehberg,
Daniel Rothaug,
Jens Schnarre

two gentlemen from real madrid
by Leo Meier

Photo: Axel J. Scherer (c)

World Premiere: 15 January 2023 at Theater Oberhausen, Germany
Trailer: Video
Info: two gentelman from real madrid

Director: Maike Bouschen

Stage & Costumes: Franziska Isensee

Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Dramaturgy: Jascha Fendel

with: Tim Weckenbrock, Khalil Aassy, Samia Dauenhauer, Franziska Roth, Elias Baumann

Press commentary: The World Cup is over, but the best match has only just kicked off. In Leo Meier’s successful grass sports romance, the storm asks the midfield: “May I kiss you?” Coach and pastor also play fair play, and world premiere director Maike Bouschen finds the appropriate images. […] They are classily complemented with very lively, funny light and sound effects that pop and squeak, in the sound of a 1960s TV quiz show. This goes well with the candy-coloured costumes (with “men’s” logo, like the whole design in general) and thus comments whimsically on the often burlesque action. […]

Karin Yeşilada, nachtkritik.de

PICTURES OF YOUR GREAT LOVE
by Wolfgang Herrndorf

Stage adaptation by Robert Koal

Director: Maike Bouschen
Set design: Franziska Isensee
Music: Lutz Gallmeister
Dramaturgy: Claudia Hoyer
Acting: Franziska Roth

Premiere: 24 October 2020

Online stream in Lockdown 2021

Reinstatement in the playbill 21/22

Youth without God - Ödön von Horváth  

in a version by von Kristo Šagor

Director: Maike Bouschen
Set design: Valentina Pino Reyes
Sound design: Lutz Gallmeister
Dramaturgy: Carola von Gradulewski

Acting: Benjamin Hübner, Lean Fargel, Frederik Leberle, Konstantin Rommelfangen, Eva Marianne Berger

Landestheater Coburg
12/2019 – 03/2020

2020: Invitation to the Bavarian Theatre Days in the section KLASSIKER FÜR HEUTE with “Jugend ohne Gott” (cancelled due to pandemic)
 

Press comment:
“[…] soundscapes and offstage texts (sound design: Lutz Gallmeister) conjure up a ghostly atmosphere in which the epic-surreal production thrives with suspense.”

Neue Presse Coburg / Dieter Ungelenk / 09.12. 2019

he inner conformity and moral cowardice corresponds to the ritualised theatre of movement with which the director exaggerates many scenes, condenses them (with the choreographic participation of Lean Fargel). The almost dance-like impetus exposes the mental attitudes in the physical postures. Aesthetically and intellectually reflective, this is extremely gripping, and is further atmospherically driven by oppressive sound (sound design by Lutz Gallmeister).

Coburger Tageblatt / Dr. Carolin Herrmann / 09.12.2019

WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE

Direction: Gabriela Mellão
Sound Design: Lutz Gallmeister

Sergio Cardoso Theatre – São Paulo – Brazil
05/2018 – 07/2018

JIHAD BABY!

Play based on: Daniel Ratthei
Director: Maike Bouschen
Sound Design: Lutz Gallmeister

Landestheater Coburg
02/2017 – 10/2017

Depois do Nada (After the Nothing)

Play based on: Gabriela Mellão
Direction: Gabriela Mellão

Sound Design: Lutz Gallmeister
 

Virada Cultural Paulista: Lorena, Caraguatatuba, Ilhabela, Pindamonhangaba, Guaratinguetá 10/2016 – 11/2016

Estudos Sobre o Masculino: Primeiro Movimento

Studies on the masculine: First movement

Direction: Antonio Duran
Sound Design/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Residency at: Teatro da Vertigem
07/2016 – 08/2016

Os Fins do Sono

The ends of sleep

Direction: Francisco Turbiani
Sound Design/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Residenz bei: Teatro da Vertigem 09/2016

Szenen aus „Das Leben auf der Praça Roosevelt“

Play based on: Dea Loher
Direction: Maike Bouschen
Sound Design: Lutz Gallmeister

Theaterakademie August Everding München
04/2016

As Relações Naturais

The natural relationships

Play based on: Qorpo Santo
Direction: Paula Klein
Sound Design: Lutz Gallmeister

São Paulo – Brazil
01/2014 – 11/2014

Film

THE FOG

Filmdirector: Dina Veryutina
cinematographer: Maxim Volkov
composer: Lutz Gallmeister
production designer: Katerina Andreeva
costume designer: Irina Kudrina

casts:
Igor Ustinovich
Katerina Shikhova

He and she are waiting for the fog.
To wrap on fog like in a blanket and let everything fade away!
But both believe that when the fog comes down, everything will change!

(Russia) 18’45 – 2022

 

Tempos de Cão - Trailer

Tempos de Cão (full movie)

Direction: Ronaldo Dimer and Victor Amaro

Sound/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

São Paulo – 2017

The lost father

Direction: Thomas Martius
Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Babylon Kino, Berlin – 2019

casa.corpo // t.ecendo

Por: youyouyou
Formado por:
Carolina Figueiredo
Fernanda Aloi
Lutz Gallmeister

Ausência - Abwesenheit

Regie: Isadora Kohatsu & Lutz Gallmeister
Video: Isadora Kohatsu Vimeo.com/isadorakohatsu
Sound & lyrics: Lutz Gallmeister

Berlin 2020

Was bleibt, ist ein Gegenstand, der eine Geschichte erzählt.

Dance

[a] An exploration of human rights in transboundary languages

The project [a] critically examines the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In a dialogue that transcends languages, countries, and artistic disciplines, the international team examines both the unifying aspects of human rights and the problems they pose.

The project [a] takes the Human Rights Day as an opportunity for its artistic and multi-perspective reconsideration.
Artists from different countries – from both the global south and the global north – create a cross-border dialogue with the artistic media of sound, video, and dance. The sound and video installation uses the UDHR as its text and language material.

The 30 articles of the Declaration were recorded in 30 different languages and served as the sole source material for short compositions by various sound artists. Small teams of dancers and video artists developed video commentaries on the individual articles of the UDHR. These diverse components flow together in the sound and video installation connected by live performances.
 
More info:

www.a-transboundary-language.com

 

Artistic direction: Lutz Gallmeister

Choreography (in Berlin): Ricardo de Paula

Performers (in Berlin)
Evgenia Chetvertkova/ Felix Dompreh/ Kalil Joigny/ Riko Sugama

Performers / Choreography (in São Paulo – Brazil)
Nyek Freitas/ Potira Marinho/ Reinaldo Soares/ Thairlla Sousa

Performances

03.12.-10.12.2021
Project Space Kroneboden – Berlin

05.03. – 04.04.2022
at the Museum of Resistance Memorial da Resistência – São Paulo; Brazil

PAPIEЯ working in progress

CREATOR AND PERFORMER: Carolina Figueiredo
SOUND ARTIST: Lutz Gallmeister

 

PAPIEЯ is a multi-disciplinary work from the brazilian artist Carolina Figueiredo and the german musician Lutz Gallmeister, which delves into the investigation of paper as an excuse to question current progress, its consequences on Latin American culture and where we are headed as humanity. A body that can be many, between folds and shadows, plays with the limits of reality and the memory of a poetic dream. In a constant movement backwards where the sound waves generate chaos in a paper installation that multiplies and disappears, between indefinite flashes of a reality that almost is. The error appears as an inaccuracy crack, as a slip of the trade bringing us back to a reality dominated by icons and digital presence. Until the borders of the media disappear and the body plays at being manifest with words. And the purity of a translucent image reveals a body that can be seen in a carousel of memories and memories that walk towards a now.

A pendulum where art travels between the lyrical and the mundane – speaking of its own mistake – as an excuse to bring us back to the present, more awake and more aware. The work will combine movement, music, performative writing, live music, video projection and an installation with papers that serve as visual art element.

t.ejer

CREATOR AND PERFORMER: Carolina Figueiredo
SOUND ARTIST: Lutz Gallmeister

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL PRISMA – March 2021

Teatro Nacional de Panamá – July 2021

Festival La Machine – Costa Rica – March 2023

A conversation between video art, dance, music and architecture
t hat questions the current idea of progress.
t.ejer is a verb in lowercase, like a subtle look at our living spaces,
made of concrete and at the same time in constant deconstruction -
both external and internal – that offers a look at the constant
construction of ruins, through a dialogue with the female body.

A dance-performance: "Selva - in the state of nature"

Direction/ Concept: Fernanda Aloi

Performer/ Dancer: Carolina Figueiredo

Sound/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Berlin – 08/2019

you you you

Direction/ Concept: Fernanda Aloi

Performer/ Dancer: Carolina Figueiredo

Sound/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Berlin – 08/2019

GRAy

This video was recorded at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport – after almost 15 years of planning, construction began in 2006. Originally planned to open in October 2011, the airport has experienced a series of delays and cost overruns. This was due to poor planning of construction, execution, administration and corruption. The space is currently intact and abandoned. Performance by: Carolina Figueiredo, Video by: Fernanda Aloi, Music by: Lutz Gallmeister

Dance-performance: "GENTRy"

Performer/ Dancer: Carolina Figueiredo
Sound/Music: Lutz Gallmeister

Video: Fernanda Aloi
Berlin – 08/2019

Light Department

Direction: Andreina Vieira and Mahsa Asgari
Sounddesign: Lutz Gallmeister

Group Global 3000 – Berlin
03/2017