Bernd Feuchtner

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Bernd Feuchtner (* 1949 in Nuremberg ) is a German publicist , opera director and dramaturge . He has been President of the German Shostakovich Society since September 2018. He lives in Berlin .

Life

After graduating from high school in his hometown, he moved to Frankfurt am Main to study sociology , political science and geography at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . During and after his studies he was politically active at the university and in citizens' initiatives, as well as in the Maoist KBW ( Communist League of West Germany ). In 1986 he was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt at IRING FETSCHER Dr. phil. PhD. His book on Dimitri Shostakovich became the standard work on this composer. It showed for the first time the false bottom in his music: the mask of classicism protected Shostakovich from Stalinist persecution. 

From 1986 to 1992 he was a freelance music critic for Hessischer Rundfunk with Bernd Loebe , the Frankfurter Rundschau with Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich and Pflasterstrands with Daniel Cohn-Bendit . In 1992 he became the responsible editor for music and dance at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin under Günther Rühle , in 2004 editor of the specialist magazine Opernwelt . At the same time he wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and others for newspapers and radio stations. 

In 2004 he switched to the theater and became opera director in Heidelberg in cooperation with GMD Cornelius Meister and artistic director Peter Spuhler . Outstanding productions during this time included “ Don Giovanni ”, operas by Vivaldi and the German premiere of the opera “ Goyescas ” by Enrique Granados , directed by Aron Stiehl . In addition, the film opera "Drei Wishes" by Bohuslav Martinů was realized by Holger Müller-Brandes together with the video artist Chris Kondek. Furthermore, " Phaedra " by Hans Werner Henze and "Chief Joseph" by Hans Zender were performed. From 2009 to 2011 he was the opera director and chief dramaturge at the Salzburg State Theater . There he realized the premieres of “Narcissus and Echo” by Jay Schwartz and “The Passion of Jonathan Wade” by Carlisle Floyd . From 2011 to 2014 he was chief dramaturge at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , where he introduced a program line “Political Opera”: “ Wallenberg ” by Erkki-Sven Tüür , which tells of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who during the Nazi era in Hungary 100,000 Jews saved from deportation, “ The Passenger ” by Mieczysław Weinberg , who plays in Auschwitz, “ Doctor Atomic ” by John Adams about the father of the atomic bomb, the world premiere “Wahnfried” by Avner Dorman about Bayreuth as a refuge of racism and anti-Semitism. As artistic director of the International Handel Festival in Karlsruhe , he contrasted the performance of Handel's oratorio “ The Victory of Time and Truth ” with Gerald Barry's “The Victory of Beauty and Deception”: the response of a contemporary composer to Handel's oratorio.

He received lectureships at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in political science , at the Free University of Berlin in theater studies , at the University of Heidelberg in musicology , as well as at the Mozarteum and the University of Salzburg and at the Center for Applied Cultural Studies (ZAK) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

literature

  • Not, cunning and lust - Shostakovich in his century, Wolke-Verlag Hofheim, first published in 2017
  • Dimitri Schostakowitsch - “And art gagged by gross power”. Artistic Identity and State Repression. Frankfurt 1986. Third edition Hofheim / Ts. 2017 
  • Rudolf Barschai, Life in Two Worlds: Moscow's Golden Era and Emigration to the West. Hofheim / Ts. 2015
  • The man on top. Bart De Block slips into his tutu and does pirouettes. In: Friedrich Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft (ed.): Ballett international / tanz aktuell. August 1998, issue 8/9: Dance of the Sexes. Pp. 28-31.
  • Conjectures about music in the GDR. In conversation with Friedrich Goldmann and Kurt Masur. In: NZfM 06, 1990

Foreign language editions

  • Spanish
Shostakóvich - El arte amordazado por la autoridad. Identidad artística yreprión política. Traducción Isabel García Adánez. Turner Música Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-7506-688-7

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personal data
SURNAME Feuchtner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, opera director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg