Erhard Fischer (director)

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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

Awards

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).
personal data
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