JÜRGEN MÜLLER was born in Weiterdingen, the south of Germany, in 1955. After finishing his studies in Germany, in 1979 he moves to Barcelona, Spain, to study mime and contemporary dance at the Instituto del Teatro de Barcelona, completing successfully his studies in 1982.
In autumn of the same year he meets up with a mixed group of artists: musicians, visual artists, theatre makers. They begin to work in the tradition of the “passacalles”, a kind of street performances. Very soon they revolutionize this format and bring into it an urban note with a strong punk attitude: the collective LA FURA DELS BAUS, Jürgen Müller being one of the founding members.

From the 80‘s until 1994 Müller and the other members of the group are developing and executing the FURA method of creating work collectively – the concepts of creator, director and performer are all one. They develop the Furan Language characterized by the use of non-conventional spaces; multidisciplinary scenic language based on predominance of the body and technology; invasion of the intimate space of the spectator - the audience becomes a fundamental part of the show, similar to the Greek choir; and a theme that focuses on the conflicts between the individual and the group. Müller participates in Accions (1984) the first show to use “Furan language” followed by Suz/O/Suz (1985), Tier Mon (1988), Noun (1990), MTM (1994) and ØBS (2000).

In the 90’s besides continuing the work with LA FURA DELS BAUS, Jürgen Müller experiments and reaches out to collaborate with artists working in different theatre fields and contexts. He started as well to appoint the position of director and co-director within FURA itself. He became interested in working with new media, which resulted in research and presentations of digital theatre projects. Some of these works are listed below.

In 2000 Jürgen Müller dives into the world and philosophy of Greek tragedies. He meets and works with Irene Pappas and challenges the old forms through his approach of FURAN LANGUAGE. This leads to a remarkable staging of “Las Baccantes”, with a choir of more than 100 performers in Bolzano, Italy.

The result of these vast experiences is shown in Jürgen Müller’s recent creation of FURAN LANGUAGE show “IMPERIUM” which premiered in 2007 in Beijing.


PRODUCTIONS

2007 IMPERIUM Premiere, 1st of May, Beijing, China. Toured in several cities around Spain, Saint Brieuc (France), Eindhoven (Holland) and Cagliari (Italy)

2006 Research and dramaturgy for IMPERIUM, premiered May 2007 in Beijing, China.

2005 YO TAMPOCO HE LEÍDO A DON QUIJOTE, co-directed with Carlos Padrissa (La Fura), for the inauguration of the first Festival de las Artes, Salamanca (Spain).

2005 Direction of the scenes of THE ORGY and THE DEATH OF THE
PROTAGONIST in the film THE PERFUM by Tom Tykwer.

2004 LA DIVINA COMEDIA, co-directed with Pera Tantiñá (La Fura), an open-air performance for a 25.000 people audience in Piazza Pitti, Florence (Italy).

2004 ECOS, an open-air performance based on “Las Bacantes” for a 30.000 people audience at Bilbao (Spain).

2004 FULGOR, co-directed with Michel Barette (ex Cirque du Soleil) an outdoor performance for the inauguration of the Festival Lumière, Montreal (Canada).

2003 LAS BACANTES by Euripides, direction Jürgen Müller, music direction by Wolfgang Mitterer, with 100 performers (actors, two choirs: one of children and one of men, and a village band), for Transart '03 Festival, Bolzano (Italy).

2003 ESPIRELIA, in Lorca (Murcia), an open-air performance for a 20.000 people audience.

2002 MADONA SICARDA, co-directed with Pera Tantiñà (La Fura). An open-air performance for the millennium celebration of the city of Lloret (Girona, Spain), for a 25.000 people audience.

2001 Premiere of THE TROJAN WOMEN, a version of Euripides’, co-directed by Irene Pappas and Jürgen Müller, with music by Vangelis and set design by Santiago Calatrava, at Sagunto (Valencia), presented in Rome (Italy) in 2003.

2000 WHITE FOAM, staging of a spectacle along the composition of Austrian contemporary composer Wolfgang Mitterer, for the inauguration of the Festival Steirischer Herbst in Graz (Austria).

1999 UN AUTO BRILLANTE, co-directed with Pep Gatell, an open-air performance for the presentation of Peugeot 206, with an audience of 20.000 people, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

1998 The scenes of LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA, co-directed with Pep Gatell (La Fura) in the film GOYA EN BURDEOS by Carlos Saura.

1994 Plays “Max”, a German militia in the film “Land and Freedom” directed by Ken Loach.

1992 Performance with Daniel Aschwanden/ Bilderwerfer and Omnibus in the Arena of Viena.

1992 Dance-theatre performance about Hervé Guibert at Mousoturm,
Frankfurt.


TEACHINGS

2003 Workshop of Furan Language in Bolzano (Italy). This workshop led to the creation of the show “Las Bacantes” by Euripides.

1997 Work in Progress of digital theatre together with Pep Gatell, creating simultaneous shows connected by video conference between two cities: Freiburg (Germany) and Tarrega (Spain), Salt (Spain) and Freiburg (Ger-many) and between three cities: Brussels, Freiburg and Salt.

1995 /1997 International workshops of Furan Language, together with
Pep Gatell, in Madrid, Sitges, Antwerp, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Guadalajara (Mexico), Lerida, Olot, Sao Paulo, Lisbon and Helsinki.