Günther Rennert

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Günther Rennert (born April 1, 1911 in Essen , † July 31, 1978 in Salzburg ) was a German opera director and artistic director .

Life

Günther Peter Rennert was the eldest son of the district school councilor Alfred Traugott Rennert (* 1879) and Adelheid Rennert nee. Nettesheim, one of his brothers was the conductor Wolfgang Rennert . Günther Rennert studied law in Munich , Berlin and Halle . For his doctorate in 1934 he wrote the dissertation Compulsory Membership, Its Establishment and Its Termination .

He then studied music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and attended an acting school. 1935-1937 he was assistant director at the Oper Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main , 1938-39 in Wuppertal , 1939/40 in Mainz and 1940-1942 senior director at the opera in Konigsberg , 1942-43 director of the German Opera in Berlin.

After the war ended in 1945, the Bavarian State Opera opened with his production of Fidelio . From 1946 to 1956 he was director of the Hamburg State Opera . From 1959 to 1967 he was senior director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and also staged in Stuttgart and Hamburg, among others . Rennert was director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1967 to 1976 and since 1973 professor of opera dramaturgy at the local music college. He has worked as a guest director in New York , Edinburgh , Salzburg , London , Buenos Aires and Milan , among others . Rennert staged, among other things, Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea at the Vienna State Opera and in San Francisco , translated libretti and published opera work. Productions 1963–73 (1974).

In addition to operas, he also staged plays, including TS Eliot's Der Familientag at the Schlossparktheater in 1950 , 1954 Waiting for Godot with Helmuth Gmelin in the Hamburger Theater im Zimmer , 1957 Galilei's life at the Stuttgart State Theater , 1961 The Mad of Chaillot in Vienna, 1962 The Auditor in Berlin Schillertheater and in 1978 Stella at the Theater in der Josefstadt (with Christian Quadflieg and Marianne Nentwich, among others ). Stella was the last premiere of a Rennert drama production. Prepared in the late spring of 1978, it was not performed until the autumn of the same year, as planned. In the meantime, Rennert had worked on a new production of Der Rosenkavalier (conductor Christoph von Dohnányi ) at the Salzburg Festival , but was already suffering from pain during rehearsals and immediately after the dress rehearsal went to an operation (which was overdue) in the Diakonisches Krankenhaus Salzburg , where he died of a pulmonary embolism a few days after the premiere .

Günther Rennert was buried in the Krailling cemetery near Munich.

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  1. ↑ Karl Böhm's triumphant success in New York . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1965, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Fritz Walden : The "Rosenkavalier" as a musical drama . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 28, 1978, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ A few days after the premiere with “Rosenkavalier”: Günther Rennert died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 1, 1978, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Rennert, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rennert, Günther Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1978
Place of death Salzburg