Dietmar Schwarz (General Manager)

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Dietmar Schwarz

Dietmar Schwarz (* 1957 in Biberach an der Riss ) is a German dramaturge and artistic director .

biography

After graduating from the Wieland-Gymnasium Biberach , Schwarz studied literature and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Sorbonne in Paris . After studying Black worked as a dramaturge at the City Theater of Freiburg , at the Bremen Theater and at the Frankfurt Opera . In 1994 he returned to the Bremen theater as head dramaturge. From 1998 he was opera director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , from where he moved to the Theater Basel in 2006 in the same position . Under his leadership, the Basel Theater was voted Opera House of the Year in 2009 and 2010 .

Since August 1, 2012, Schwarz has been artistic director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , which he opened programmatically with Helmut Lachenmann's “ The Girl with the Sulfur Woods ”. The presentation of contemporary music theater is important to him: Every year there is a world premiere on the program, including Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini's Edward II and Aribert Reimann's L'Invisible .

In addition to the renewal of the classical repertoire by directors such as Christof Loy , Robert Carsen , Christian Spuck and Benedikt von Peter , the French Grand Opéra is a focus of the program: with Vasco Da Gama , Les Huguenots and Le prophète important works by Giacomo Meyerbeer are presented at the Deutsche Oper . Together with General Music Director Donald Runnicles , Dietmar Schwarz follows the presentation of works by Benjamin Britten across all seasons .

The Tischlerei venue, which opened in November 2012, creates a space for experiments with new forms of music theater and world premieres of children's operas as well as for projects in the youth program. In 2015, Schwarz announced an additional prize for the Götz Friedrich Prize : the special prize for the joinery Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Dietmar Schwarz was appointed a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts and is a member of the artistic jury of the Ring Awards , the international competition for directing and stage design in Graz.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Earlier - Today - Tomorrow (PDF; 1.1 MB), in: WG aktuell, school year 2009/10, issue No. 2 / May 2010, p. 7
  2. ↑ Dirk Krampitz: The most important desk of the Deutsche Oper. In: BZ. July 31, 2012, accessed August 1, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Frederik Hanssen: Lachenmanns "Girls with the sulfur woods": Through the sounding universe. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 17, 2012, accessed September 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Music: Scartazzini's opera "Edward II." in Berlin. In: zeit.de. February 20, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Composition commission to Aribert Reimann: L'Invisible. In: evs-musikstiftung.ch. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss