Barbara Mundel

Barbara Mundel (born January 13, 1959 in Hildesheim ) is a German director . She is the designated director of the Münchner Kammerspiele from the 2020/21 season.

Professional background

After graduating from high school, Barbara Mundel studied modern German literature, art history and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the FU Berlin and the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 1997 to 1985 she was an assistant director at the State Theater in Hanover, parallel to her studies, and from 1986 to 1988 at the Bavarian State Theater . Between 1988 and 1993 she staged her first own productions as a dramaturge and director at the Theater Basel . From 1995 to 1999 she worked as a dramaturge in the management team of the Volksbühne Berlin under Frank Castorf .

From 1999 to 2004 she was director of the Lucerne Theater . She was dubbed the “promised, unloved stranger” . An appointment as artistic director of the Cologne Opera from 2005 failed at the last moment; the then Cologne mayor Fritz Schramma asserted financial reasons. Then she was chief dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele under Frank Baumbauer , and since 2006 she has been the artistic director at the Freiburg Theater . Her contract was extended several times, most recently until summer 2017. After that, at the request of the city, she was to curate the celebration of the city's 900th anniversary in 2020, but the concept she submitted failed in the municipal council.

Mundel works as a dramaturge for the international Ruhrtriennale festival . On September 20, 2018 it was announced that she would succeed Matthias Lilienthal as artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele. She will be the first woman in this role at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

literature

• Dominique Spirgi: Barbara Mundel . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1293 f.

Web links

• Barbara Mundel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Barbara Mundel in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Interview in theater and religion with Georg Maria Roers and Barbara Mundel
• Progressive erosion in cultural policy , FDP parliamentary group in the Cologne City Council, report from May 2, 2003
• Axel Brüggemann: Article In: Die Welt , January 4, 2000
• Theater der Zeit http://www.theaterderzeit.de/person/4168/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Mundel - theater manager, director and dramaturge. Retrieved on March 20, 2018 (German). 
2. ↑ Christoph Fellmann: The praised, unloved stranger In: Das Kulturmagazin , monthly magazine for Lucerne and Central Switzerland, May 2004
3. ↑ Mundel raises massive allegations: Cologne gives the designated opera director a pass. Retrieved June 27, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Director Barbara Mundel takes over the office of “curator for the city anniversary” at the request of the mayor's office. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; accessed on May 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Badische Zeitung: Freiburg: 900 years Freiburg: Expensive city anniversary: ​​Mundel criticizes the local council - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on February 14, 2017]).
6. ↑ Barbara Mundel is to become Matthias Lilienthal's successor , Süddeutsche Zeitung online from September 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018
7. ↑ Christine Dössel: Barbara Mundel is the director of the Kammerspiele. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .