Claus J. Frankl

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Claus J. Frankl (* 1962 in Bayreuth ) is an actor , director , singer and author living in Berlin and Bayreuth .

Career

First contact with the music theater had Frankl at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, where he was eleven years old in 1973 as a child extra in the opera Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner collaborated on stage. According to his own statement, the work of Richard Wagner has remained the “linchpin” of the theater person Claus J. Frankl to this day.

From 1980 to 1983 Frankl studied at the Folkwang College for Music, Theater, Dance and Speaking in Essen , where he completed a diploma course in musical theater directing. This is where his talent was discovered by Günther Roth . In singing (tenor buffo) Frankl was trained by Manfred Capell at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg (University of Music). Today (2018) he is referred to as a “theater man without a drawer”.

Productions

Frankl created and supervised numerous new productions as a director. These include such diverse musical theater genres as the operas Iphigenie auf Tauris by Christoph Willibald Gluck , Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven or Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor by Otto Nicolai , operettas like Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss or the world premiere of Jupiter's Last Adventure. Rosendorfers Rome Review . Frankl, a former student of the Musisches Gymnasium Bayreuth, had his baroque opera staging debut in the performance of the Handel operas Acis and Galathea at this school in the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth.

Frankl is the author of the German-language stage version of Umberto Eco's medieval novel The Name of the Rose . The world premiere took place in 2000 at the Luisenburg Festival and has so far experienced more than 60 own productions at festivals and in German-speaking theaters as far as Vienna, Brno and South Tyrol (Italy), including at the Bad Hersfeld Festival (resumed in 2014), the Calderon Bamberg Festival , the Heidelberg Castle Festival , at the National Theater Weimar , Ateliertheater Vienna , Berlin Criminal Theater .

In 2018 Frankl staged his "musical psychogram" Friedelind for the first time at the Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth : Eine Wagner!

Stations as an actor

Frankl has performed well over 1000 times as an actor and singer on stage, including at the Bad Hersfeld Festival and Eutin Festival (2014 as "Rabbi" in the musical Anatevka ), at the Landestheater Coburg , Landestheater Detmold , Berlin Metropoltheater , Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and on many other stages.

Cabaret

As an author, actor and singer in one person, Frankl appears at so-called "cabaret" lectures, for example at the Musikalische Berlin-Nostalgie :

  • See, this is Berlin! (also: kissing makes almost no noise )

or at the Heinz Erhardt recitation evening:

  • What a rascal am I again .

author

  • The Name of the Rose , play based on Umberto Eco (world premiere 2000)
  • The Prince and the Beggar , Musical (2016) based on Mark Twain, music by Thomas Erich Killinger
  • Friedelind: A Wagner! A musical psychogram .

DVDs

  • Wahnfried? Madness! Richard Wagner in parodies and anecdotes by Claus J. Frankl. With Nicola Becht, soprano and Helene Frucht, piano.
  • See, this is Berlin! Musical Berlin nostalgia (also as :) The kissing makes almost no noise , by Claus J. Frankl. With Helene Frucht at the piano.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Activities. In: claus-j-frankl.de. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . on claus-j-frankl.de
  2. ↑ CV (* .doc) ( Memento from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on claus-j-frankl.de
  3. ^ S. biographies in the program booklet for Friedelind Wagner : Eine Wagner! ( Roots to the future reloaded . 68th Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth .)
  4. ↑ Review in Neue Musik Zeitung online
  5. ↑ Director. In: www.claus-j-frankl.de. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Claus J. Frankl. In: www.eutiner-festspiele.de. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ S. The Name of the Rose. In: www.claus-j-frankl.de. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  8. ^ "Friedelind: Eine Wagner!" Premiered at the Festival of Young Artists in Bayreuth | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ See program of the 68th Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth 2018 Bag to the future reloaded .
  10. ↑ author. In: www.claus-j-frankl.de. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  11. ↑ World premiere at the 28th Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth, August 12th, 2018. Directed by Claus J. Frankl, musical director by Graham Cox.
personal data
SURNAME Frankl, Claus J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankl, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth