Erhard Fischer (director)
Martin Erhard Fischer (born November 10, 1922 in Radeberg ; † December 20, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German music theater director .
biography
Erhard Fischer studied with Heinz Arnold in Dresden. He made his directorial debut in Radebeul with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . 1950 to 1960 he worked as an assistant or director at the Dresden State Opera . From 1960 to 1965 he worked under the opera director Joachim Herz as senior director and artistic director of the small house at the Leipzig Opera ; this is where productions by Fidelio , Aida , Tannhäuser and Nabucco were created .
In 1965 he moved to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin as senior director, and from 1969 as "chief director" . Here he was also the director of rarities such as Der goldene Hahn , Die Nase , der Katerina Ismaelova ( Stalinist second version of Lady Macbeth of Mzensk ), The Devils of Loudun , The Sicilian Vespers and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina (with Peter Schreier in the title role). Among the world premieres he staged for the first time were Joe Hill by Alan Bush , Karin Lenz by Günter Kochan and Meister Röckle by Joachim Werzlau .
The engagement of Fischer as chief director of the State Opera by its boss, the harpsichordist Hans Pischner , turned out to be farsighted, as Fischer represented a moderate antithesis to the music theater style of the Komische Oper Berlin , which was influenced by Felsenstein , and yet as a former colleague of directors like Joachim Herz with a skillful directing craft brought both classics and world premieres to success.
Fischer has also made guest appearances as a director in Warsaw , Moscow , Geneva and in various theaters in West Germany, Switzerland and Sweden .
In addition, he was also (successively) a lecturer and later department head at the music academies in Leipzig , Dresden and Berlin .
theatre
- 1960: Bertolt Brecht / Paul Dessau : The Condemnation of Lukullus - Direction with Ruth Berghaus ( Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin )
- 1960: Camillo Walzel / Richard Genée / Franz von Suppè : Boccaccio ( Leipzig City Theater - Kleines Haus Dreiindenstrasse )
- 1960: Isaak Dunajewski : Whales, Love and Sailors (Städtische Theater Leipzig - Kleines Haus Dreiindenstrasse)
- 1961: Karl Haffner / Richard Genée / Johann Strauss (son) : Die Fledermaus ( Leipzig City Theater - Opera House )
- 1961: Klaus Eidam / Wolfram Heicking : The world is round (Städtische Theater Leipzig - Kleinhaus Dreiindenstraße)
- 1963: Henri Meilhac / Ludovic Halévy / Jacques Offenbach : Parisian Life (Leipzig City Theater - Kleines Haus Dreiindenstrasse)
- 1965: Camillo Walzel / Richard Genée / Johann Strauss (son) : One Night in Venice (Leipzig City Theater - Opera House)
- 1965: Henri Meilhac / Ludovic Halévy / Jacques Offenbach: The Bandits (Leipzig City Theater - Kleines Haus Dreiindenstrasse)
- 1966: Giuseppe Verdi : Rigoletto (German State Opera Berlin)
- 1967: Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème (German State Opera Berlin)
- 1968: Antonín Dvořák : Rusalka (German State Opera Berlin)
- 1970: Alan Bush : Joe Hill (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin)
- 1971: Günter Kochan / Erik Neutsch : Karin Lenz (German State Opera Berlin)
- 1973: Dmitri Schostakowitsch : Katarina Ismailowa (German State Opera Berlin)
- 1973: Richard Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier (German State Opera Berlin)
Awards
- Art Prize of the GDR (1971)
- National Prize of the GDR (1973)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1976)
literature
- Dieter Kranz: Berlin theater. 100 performances from three decades , Berlin 1990 - Conversations with Fischer and Werz about Ariadne auf Naxos (pp. 97-100), The Nose (143-47), The Devils of Loudun (241-44), and The Wonderful Shoemaker's Wife by Zimmermann (369-73) and short biography (503).
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SURNAME | Fischer, Erhard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Martin Erhard (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Radeberg |
DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1996 |
Place of death | Berlin |