Alfred Kirchner (director)
Alfred Kirchner (born May 22, 1937 in Göppingen ) is a German freelance opera director and theater director in Berlin.
Life
Alfred Kirchner was born the son of an editor.
Kirchner received his training at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin . He began as an actor and assistant director in Kiel . From 1964 to 1971 he worked at Kurt Hübner's Theater in Bremen , initially as assistant director to Peter Zadek and Peter Palitzsch .
Alfred Kirchner is married and has two daughters. He lives in Berlin and Stuttgart .
Services
From 1965 Kirchner appeared with his own productions, for example at the Schauspielhaus Bochum with Hans Schalla . From 1972 to 1979 he was senior director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and from 1974 a member of the board of directors under Claus Peymann . In addition, he gave guest productions at other theaters and festivals, such as in New York, at the Theater of Nations, at the Wiener Festwochen , at the Holland Festival Amsterdam and at the Mülheimer Theatertage . In 1979 he followed with part of the Stuttgart Ensemble Peymann to the Schauspielhaus Bochum, where he was co-director until 1986. In 1986 he followed Peymann to the Burgtheater in Vienna , where the long-term collaboration ended after a short time. 1989 / 90-1993 he took over the management of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin with three other directors ("Gang of Four") until it was closed .
Afterwards Kirchner worked as a freelance opera director a. a. at the Frankfurt Opera , the Leipzig Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Hamburg State Opera . Several times he took part in the Berlin Theatertreffen . He focused on music theater at national and international opera houses, for example in Zurich , Barcelona , Oslo , Moscow , Strasbourg, Montpellier , Toulouse , Oviedo , Dallas , Santiago de Chile and often in Santa Fe . He was represented at the Bayreuth Festival from 1994 to 1998 with the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen .
He collaborates with the conductors Michael Gielen , Claudio Abbado , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , James Levine , Gerd Albrecht , Paulo Carignani, Graeme Jenkins, Dennis Russell Davis and De Billy. In addition to the classics of drama and music theater, Alfred Kirchner is particularly committed to world premieres by Martin Walser , Peter Turrini , Heiner Müller , Herbert Achternbusch , Dario Fo and Maxim Gorki , Gerlind Reinshagen, Hans Zender and Udo Zimmermann. Kirchner taught at the University of Athens, Georgia, at the Musikhochschule and Universität Hamburg as well as at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .
Productions
- A children's game by Martin Walser (Stuttgart 1971), world premiere
- What you want (Bremen 1972)
- Romeo and Juliet (Stuttgart 1972)
- Spring Awakening (Stuttgart 1974)
- The Bald Singer (Stuttgart 1974)
- Woyzeck (Stuttgart 1976)
- Das Sauspiel, Martin Walser, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 1976 premiere
- Sunday children by Gerlind Reinshagen (Stuttgart 1976), world premiere
- The Entaklemmer by Thaddäus Troll (Stuttgart 1976), world premiere
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stuttgart 1977)
- Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Stuttgart 1978)
- Final (Stuttgart 1978)
- Jenůfa , director Michael Gielen (Frankfurt 1979)
- The soldiers , management Gielen (Frankfurt 1980)
- The Broken Jug (Stuttgart)
- The miraculous shoemaker's wife ( Udo Zimmermann ), Schwetzingen 1982, world premiere
- Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses (Bochum 1980)
- Mother Courage and her children (Bochum 1981)
- Above all peaks is Ruh by Thomas Bernhard (Bochum 1981), world premiere
- Johann Georg Elser by Peter-Paul Zahl (Bochum 1982), world premiere
- A masked ball (Frankfurt a. M. 1982)
- Wolokolamsker Chaussee, Heiner Müller, (Bochum 1983) world premiere
- The weavers (Bochum 1983)
- The imaginary sick person (Bochum 1983)
- The robbers (Bochum 1984)
- The Merchant of Venice , Residenztheater Munich 1984
- We're reaching the river, Russel Davis, (Santa Fe 1984)
- Eugene Onegin (Frankfurt a. M. 1984)
- Nachtwache, Lars Noren, (Bochum 1984) German premiere
- Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (Bochum 1985)
- Stephen Climax, Zender, (Frankfurt 1986 world premiere)
- Stories from the Vienna Woods, Burgtheater 1986
- On the Danube, Achternbusch / Goebbels, Akademietheater 1987 world premiere
- The minor performers, Turrini, Akademietheater 1987 world premiere
- The Temporary Rise of Arturo Ui , Akademietheater Wien (1988)
- Don Giovanni , director of Harnoncourt (Amsterdam 1988)
- Khovanshchina , conductor Abbado (Vienna 1989)
- Faust (Berlin 1990)
- Idomeneo (Hamburg 1990)
- The rats (Berlin 1992)
- The Old Lady's Visit (Berlin 1992/93)
- The Ring of the Nibelung , James Levine (Bayreuth 1994–1998)
- Der Freischütz (Vienna 1995)
- The nose (Shostakovich) (Leipzig Opera 1997)
- Tosca (Frankfurt 1998)
- The Magic Flute , (Frankfurt 1998)
- Manon Lescaut (Frankfurt a. M. 1999)
- Venus and Adonis by Hans Werner Henze Santa Fe 2000
- Lohengrin , Oslo 2001
- Tristan and Isolde , Simon Rattle, Amsterdam 2001
- Khovanshchina , Zurich 2001
- Tristan and Isolde , De Billy, Barcelona 2002
- The girl with the sulfur sticks, Wiener Festwochen 2003
- Aida , Freiburg 2004
- Viva la Mamma , Semperoper Dresden 2004
- Clavigo , Berliner Ensemble 2005
- Peter Grimes , Teatro Municipal Chile 2005
- The wonder theater , Magonny Montepulciano 2006, Henze's 80th birthday
- Figaro's wedding , Munich 2007
- The captain of Köpenick , Reichenau Festival 2007
- Tristan and Isolde with Metzmacher, Amsterdam 2008
- Lohengrin , Dallas 2008 Graeme Jenkins
- Don Giovanni , Magdeburg 2009
- Tosca , Volksoper Vienna 2009
- Love Letters, Schlossparktheater, Berlin 2009
- The merry women of Windsor , Vienna 2010
- Don Giovanni . Oviedeo 2012
- The Merry Wives of Windsor , guest performance in Tokyo 2012
- The pillars of society, Reichenau Festival
- Tosca , Bucharest Opera 2014
- On the 100th birthday of Thaddäus Troll, Berlin and Stuttgart 2014
- Don Giovanni , Pamplona 2015
- John Gabiel Borkmann, Reichenau Festival 2015
- Hermann and Dorothea , Burgtheater Vienna 2016, as a guest performance in the Berliner Ensemble and at the Ruhrfestspiele 2017
Publications
- The man from Pölarölara . Autobiographical splinters. Vienna: Hollitzer 2019. ISBN 978-3-99012-627-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Kirchner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- ↑ Welt Online via Kirchner
- ↑ Theater time: Kirchner biography
- ↑ Oper Frankfurt via Kirchner ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ New Germany on Kirchner's Faust
- ↑ Kirchner disappointed in Barcelona, no vision (Wagneropera.net)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kirchner, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goeppingen |