Günter Lohse

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Günter Lohse (born July 9, 1934 in Delitzsch ; † February 9, 2009 in Leipzig ) was a German opera director .

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Günter Lohse studied German and philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 1953 to 1957 , among others with Hans Mayer and Ernst Bloch . After working as a dramaturge in Nordhausen , an assistant director to Joachim Herz in Leipzig followed in 1959/60 . His first directorial work here was Ero der Schelm by Jakov Gotovac .

1964–1968 he was director, 1968–1975 senior director and from 1976 to 1991 chief director at the Leipzig Opera . The productions of essential repertoire pieces from opera and operetta fall during this period . His production of The Gypsy Baron was still in the repertoire in the 2012/2013 season. But world premieres and premieres also took place under his direction, for example by Fritz Geißler in 1971 The Broken Jug and in 1975 Der Schatten (text Günter Lohse), by Karl Ottomar Treibmann in 1988 Der Idiot , the GDR premiere of Udo Zimmermann's Die Wundersame Schustersfrau but also the GDR premiere of My Fair Lady .

His grave in the Südfriedhof Leipzig

Guest directing engagements have taken him to Warsaw , Bratislava , Sofia , St. Gallen , Klagenfurt (eight times 1970–1981), Heidelberg (1991), Athens (1995) and Ljubljana (2001).

Important works in the last directing years in Leipzig included a. Werther by Jules Massenet , Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers , the wax museum by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the children's opera Help, Help, the Globolinks ! . With the staging of the Leo Fall operetta Madame Pompadour , he said goodbye to his engagement at the Leipzig Opera in 1999.

From 1994 Lohse was a lecturer for drama lessons at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . In 1999 the Leipzig Opera made him an honorary member. He was also an honorary member of the Friends of the Musical Comedy Leipzig.

In 2001 his book I am not a floor door was published with anecdotes from the world of music theater.

Günter Lohse died in 2009 at the age of 74. His grave is on the Leipzig South Cemetery in Department II.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Lohse: I am not a floor door !!! Anecdotal from the world of music theater . xlibri.de 2011, ISBN 978-3980674997

literature

  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 366 .
  • Günter Lohse: There from the start · The opera's chief director remembers . In: Leipziger Blätter Heft 7 (1984), p. 11

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personal data
SURNAME Lohse, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2009
Place of death Leipzig