Anouk Nicklisch
Anouk Nicklisch (born December 31, 1958 in Munich , † December 9, 2006 in Cologne ) was a German director of music theater .
Life
She came from a Dresden theater family and grew up in Munich, Basel and Geneva. After school she did her first theater internships in Geneva , where she also worked as a simultaneous interpreter (French-German). Internship in directing with Hans Neugebauer in Geneva and Cologne, as well as working in the Cologne music theater dramaturgy with Claus H. Henneberg, before she began studying music, theater studies and German at the University of Cologne after studying languages in Florence in 1979 .
In 1984/85 she was assistant director (music theater) at the Lucerne City Theater . From 1985 she worked as a freelance production dramaturge, assistant director and co-director in Lucerne, Biel / Solothurn, Bern, Basel , Stuttgart , Frankfurt , the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf), Augsburg , Dortmund , Wuppertal , Koblenz and Mainz . In 1996 she made her debut as a freelance director for music theater with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Koblenz City Theater and occasionally took over costumes and set design in the following years.
Anouk Nicklisch found recognition especially for her productions of operas by Mozart and works from the 17th and 18th centuries: Handel's Alcina (Osnabrück 1996) and Teseo (Klagenfurt 2001), Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice or Traetta's Sofonisba for the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In addition to rarities such as the early version of Beethoven's Fidelio , she has dedicated herself in particular to the Italian repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Puccini's Tosca , Madama Butterfly and Ilertrico .
Her staging of Francesco Cavalli's Giasone for the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (premiere April 2004) was to be arranged for the Frankfurt Opera to take over. That never happened: on December 9, 2006, Anouk Nicklisch died of blood poisoning at the age of 47.
Web links
- Staging and selection of press reviews and photos under
- Report on the Giasone premiere in Frankfurt ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicklisch, Anouk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2006 |
| Place of death | Cologne |