Martin Gruber

Martin Gruber’s impact on contemporary European actor training is important: In 1985 he introduced Aikido into actor training at the Otto Falckenberg School (Munich), in 1986 Suzuki-Training, and in 1993 August Everding invited him to develop the movement training for the then newly founded Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (Munich). Since then quite a number of his students have become teachers themselves and teach his methods both in universities in Germany and further afield. Many of his former students work successfully on stage, in film and on TV.

Martin Gruber has given trainings at many international institutions e.g. Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique du Théatre Nationale de Strasbourg (Frankreich), Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, and Shanghai Theatre Academy (People's Republic of China), workshops for example at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Oslo (Norway), National School of Drama, Delhi (India), Mozarteum, Salzburg (Austria), Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Mime Centrum Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival (Austria)

In 1986 Martin Gruber opened a training place for professional theatre groups and performing artists in a converted farm in Birach, Bavaria. The ZeltEnsembleTheatre directed by Otto Kukla and Crescentia Duensser was the resident company until 1992. Premiering Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier (Hans Henny Jahnn); Figaro and Co; Ulenspiegel. Since 1995 there have been premiers in the Bavarian dialect for example Wir sind Gefangene (Oskar Maria Graf), Lena Christ, Die heilige Nacht by Joern van Dyck and Bettina Mittendorfer. Teachers at Birach include Rena Mirecka (Jerzy Grotowski's Theaterlaboratory, Polen), Paco Gonzales (Familie Flöz); Marita Günher (Roy Hart Theatre, London), Prof. Alon Talmi (Israel), William Dub Leigh (USA), Nobuyuki Watanabe (Japan).

Martin Gruber (born 1957) is a German director, choreographer and movement teacher for performing artists.