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Workshop instead of a stage: an actor from Gauting with many talents

2020-10-25T17:08:57.737Z


Being creative is hot in these Corona times: Sebastian Hofmüller from Gauting is a good example of this. He swaps workshop with stage and nature with culture.


Being creative is hot in these Corona times: Sebastian Hofmüller from Gauting is a good example of this.

He swaps workshop with stage and nature with culture.

Gauting

- The creative industry is going through hard times, as are freelance artists like the actor Sebastian Hofmüller.

Gautinger is married and the father of four boys.

Instead of on stage, he is currently in the workshop and, as a trained carpenter, lets his creativity run free.

And he used his large garden to allow at least a little culture in the Würmtal as an organizer.

He calls the workshop in the basement of his parents' house "HolzSpiel".

There the actor and trained carpenter creates imaginatively designed works from waste wood, such as lights or cloakrooms made from roof beams.

That goes down well: Two lavishly designed rocking horses were sold immediately.

The Klinge Culture Prize winner is known for his successful live radio play tours with Felix Closet and Erich Kästner's “Emil and the Detectives” or “Pünktchen and Anton”.

Due to the corona, the guest performances of the "Greumüller radio play manufacture" at schools are completely canceled.

That is why Gautinger is far from throwing the gun in the grain.

On the contrary: “I'm lucky,” says the actor.

Hofmüller lives with his extended family and his mother in their great-grandfather's country house, built in 1903, in the middle of the Gauting villa colony.

The original house has been preserved in an original garden with old trees.

As the organizer, due to the corona, he could not invite you to the May Festival in the old Gautinger Bahnhofs-Pizzeria, the gate to this garden opened twice this year and invited to open-air events there (we reported).

“That was a complete success,” he says happily.

The last time the “Lemon Püppies” were guests a week ago.

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A preference for old wood: Sebastian Hofmüller transforms old things into art in his parents' house and garden.

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The effort involved in these guest performances is enormous.

Hofmüller doesn't just have to hope for good weather.

Every event is also associated with approval by the authorities and the construction of the stage.

"And because the number of infections is rising again, we had seats two meters apart".

In addition, everyone wore masks outside in the garden, “so that nothing happens”.

Thanks to generous donations from Gautinger, Hofmüller came out from scratch with the “Lemon Püppies”.

The next day a Gautinger even anonymously put an envelope with a donation in the mailbox.

Hofmüller could use the money, because 18,000 programs for the May Festival had already been printed and had to be paid for.

"I had to crush them."

Incidentally, he has returned to the trade he has learned.

“I collect old wood from demolished houses,” says the Gautinger.

In his garden there is an impressive pile of thick beams.

“History repeats itself,” says the actor, who can do a carpenter's job.

Because his grandfather Rudolf Hofmüller, dramaturge and theater critic, had his “furniture clinic” in the same basement.

As if to prove it, Hofmüller holds up the original metal shield.

After the Second World War, however, the grandfather no longer had any jobs, according to the grandson.

Hofmüller, on the other hand, a graduate of the renowned Otto Falckenberg Drama School, learned the carpentry trade from scratch - including in the theater and joinery of the Münchner Kammerspiele.

“I like to work with old roof beams,” the artist confesses.

Hofmüller has just created a large wooden garden sculpture with the letter V for a customer.

But there are no limits to the imagination.

The wood artist also designs LED lamps from old rafters that have been oiled and polished smoothly.

"When I have problems, the master electrician and fire department commander Stefan Klaußner helps me," he says happily.

The “HolzSpiel” cellar, in which Hofmüller is currently working on the big old table top from the Gautinger Hubertus hut of the parent-child program, is small.

At the EKP, he and his son discovered the piece of wood with an impressive trace of the bark beetle.

“My youngest son brought this with him from kindergarten,” says the artist.

He found it perfectly suited for an LED light.

Playing with light fascinates him anyway.

Above the dining table at home, for example, he designed a beam lamp with a large light bulb floating on chains: “My first piece”, the creative founder of “HolzSpiel” says proudly.

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Source: merkur

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