Franz Olschowsky

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Franz Olschowsky (born March 25, 1937 ; † August 30, 2012 ) was a German director of music theater .

Life

Franz Olschowsky studied theater studies and directing in Weimar from 1961 to 1963 and then to 1968 in Berlin , with Walter Felsenstein and Götz Friedrich .

Then he was brought in by Harry Kupfer as an assistant at the German National Theater in Weimar .

From there, Olschowsky went to Freiberg as senior director , until he followed the call of the city of Gera in 1972 . Olschowsky worked there for more than 25 years - from 1989 to 1992 as the opera director.

He staged around 100 works of all genres of musical theater, such as the operas Der Rosenkavalier , Der fiegen Holländer , Salome , Jenufa , Macbeth as well as musicals such as Cabaret and Evita and numerous operettas, most recently in 1998 Die chaste Susanne .

Commemorative plaque at the grave of Franz Olschowsky in the historical cemetery in Weimar

Olschowsky has found his final resting place on the cemetery wall of the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abk-info.de
personal data
SURNAME Olschowsky, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of musical theater
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1937
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2012