Hans-Joachim Frey

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Hans-Joachim Frey (born June 10, 1965 in Gehrden ) is a German cultural manager who works in Austria, Germany, Russia and Belarus. From 1997 to 2007 he was artistic operations director and opera director (from 2003) at the Semperoper in Dresden and from 2007 to 2010 artistic director at the Bremen Theater . From 2013 to 2017 he worked in the European Capital of Culture in Linz / Austria as Executive Director and Artistic Director of LIVA, where he was a. a. responsible for the Brucknerhaus , the International Bruckner Festival and the Klangwolke . In addition, he was the founder in 2006 and has been the first chairman and overall artistic director of the Semper Opera Ball in Dresden since then. In addition, he is often culturally involved, for example in singing and instrument competitions as well as in cultural science organizations. Frey is the nephew of Armin Mueller-Stahl .

life and career

Youth and education

Frey comes from a family originally from East Prussia . He attended school in Hanover . He received piano lessons and took six years of church organ lessons , which he completed by taking the C organist examination. At the age of eight he joined the Hanover Boys Choir , to which he belonged for ten years. In 1984 he graduated from high school in his hometown. Subsequently, he did his military service .

He then began studying singing at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . At the same time he took a degree in music theater directing with Götz Friedrich . In 1989 he staged in cooperation with the Hamburg State Opera as a study project Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss . During his studies he performed as a singer for operas and concerts. He was also an assistant director in Hamburg and Stockholm and staged five more of his own productions at studio theaters in Rostock and Detmold . As a result, he enrolled in the new university course in cultural management with Hermann Rauhe and Peter Ruzicka .

In 1990 he received the diploma in ( music theater ) directing and in 1993 the diploma as cultural manager.

Early theater work

After completing his studies, Frey worked from 1993 as artistic operations director at the Thuringian State Theater in Eisenach and then from 1995 in the same position at the Bremen Theater .

Time in Dresden

In May 1997 Frey was engaged as artistic director of the Saxon State Opera Dresden at the Semperoper . There he operated an internationalization of singing politics. When the Semperoper had to close in August 2002 as a result of the flooding of the Elbe , he initiated the production Carmen with Harry Kupfer - a version based on Georges Bizet in the VW Transparent Factory on the edge of the Great Garden . The piece was performed there for a month before the 2002/2003 season could be recorded at the headquarters of the State Opera in 2002. In the summer of 2003 Frey was appointed opera director. Under his leadership, the Dresden Opera Ball was reintroduced in early 2006 after a 67-year hiatus on the occasion of the city's 800th anniversary .

In April 2007 he was retired from his position at the Semperoper.

Intendant in Bremen

On August 1, 2007, Frey took over from Klaus Pierwoß, who was in office for 13 years, at Theater Bremen . A process accompanying his term of office should be the repositioning of the theater as a holistic cultural brand beyond the stage. During the artistic directorship of Frey, the Bremen Theater entered into a cooperation with the St. Stephani Cultural Church , which included, among other things, theater sermons on certain plays. In addition, the Bremen Theater Gallery was established in the foyer of the Theater am Goetheplatz , where works of art by GABO , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Anna Thalbach , Christian Ludwig Attersee and Ai Wei Wei were presented. As a highlight, he developed the concept of the Bremen lake stage with a capacity of 2500 spectators on the former site of the AG Weser , where an opera performance could be seen for a week in the summer. There he directed Der Fliegende Holländer (2008), Aida (2009) and Turandot (2010).

At the beginning of his tenure, Frey had announced the production of the musical Marie Antoinette by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay . This was performed from January to May 2009 in the Bremen Musical Theater with funds from the Bremen Theater and voted "Musical of the Year" 2009. The production costs amounted to 5.8 million euros. Instead of the expected 120,000 spectators, only 90,000 attended the performances.

In August 2010, Frey ended his artistic directorship in Bremen, accompanied by critical comments and at his own request.

From 2011 to the end of 2012 he was the sole first managing director of LaValse GmbH Berlin, which he founded .

Artistic director of LIVA in Linz

From January 2013 to November 2017 he was artistic director and board director of the event company LIVA in Linz . He was responsible for the Brucknerhaus , the International Bruckner Festival, the “ Klangwolken ” and the Posthof , and was thus a member of the Ars Electronica Supervisory Board . In 2017, the inspection report of the city of Linz criticized his work. Frey then announced that he did not want to continue his involvement and would instead move to Sochi . He wanted to fulfill his contract by the end of 2017. In November 2017, Frey left his job at LIVA.

Head of the Culture and Festival Center in Sochi, Russia

In 2018 Hans-Joachim Frey became head of the new culture and festival center in Sochi , Russia. The Moscow chamber opera Boris Pokrowski has been invited several times to the Bruckner Festival in Linz. Frey's relations with Russia are based on long-term international contacts with Putin and with the cellist and Putin's confidante Sergei Roldugin .

Gala and events

In 2010 he organized the opera gala for the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg on the occasion of the 150th anniversary. In September 2011, the international singing competition Competizione dell 'Opera took place at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow under Frey's direction. This was the first time that this singing competition was held outside of Germany. This competition took place in 2012 at the Bolshoi Theater in Minsk ( Belarus ). In 2011, a gala organized by Frey to mark the 50th anniversary of the twinning between Dresden and Saint Petersburg was performed under the musical direction of Vladimir Jurowski at the Mikhailovsky Theater . In October 2013 he produced the opening gala of the New Opera House of the Primorye Region in Vladivostok , the third largest opera theater in Russia.

Director

In 2011 he staged Zar und Zimmermann as a Russian premiere at the Moscow Chamber Opera Boris Pokrovsky . In 2012 Frey directed The Flying Dutchman on Lake Baikal in Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk . He staged the same opera at the International Opera Forum at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater Belarus in Minsk. This production received the international cultural award of the Republic of Belarus as the best opera production of the 2013/14 season. In October 2014 he staged Così fan tutte at the State Theater in Ulan-Ude, followed by Tosca in Vladivostok in April 2015, and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Moscow chamber opera Boris Pokrowski in 2016 .

further activities

Frey received various teaching positions in cultural management, for example at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg , the University of the Arts Bremen and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar . In 2011 he was visiting professor at the Seoul Arts College in Korea .

In 2003, Frey and Kajo Schommer founded the International Forum for Culture and Economy in the Villa Tiberius in Dresden, hence also Forum Tiberius . Under Schommer's patronage, Frey carried out the opera ball, which he later organized independently as the patron and director of the Semper Opernball eV .

In 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, in cooperation with the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , he revived the “Anton G. Rubinstein” piano competition, the final concert of which took place in the Semperoper in 2009, as well as the international ones held in 2004 by the Forum Tiberius Composition competition in the Gläserne Manufaktur .

In 2010 Hans-Joachim Frey resigned as board spokesman.

Since 2003 he has continued the international singing competition Competizione dell 'Opera of the Italian opera, which the Dresden Music Festival founded in 2001 and 2002 in cooperation with the Semperoper in Dresden.

  • former member of the artistic advisory board of the Hanover Boys Choir
  • since 2009 member of the board of trustees of the Dresden Kreuzchor
  • since 2005 patron of the Dippoldiswalde music association
  • Member of the Daetz Foundation (see Daetz Center )
  • since 2014 regular and permanent advisor to the general director at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
  • 2018 nominated for the supervisory board of "Creativity, Culture & Events of the City of Linz Holding GmbH" (KKV)

Controversy

According to the judgment of the Federal Court of Justice, Naomi Campbell did not have to be rewarded for appearing at the Semper Opera Ball that lasted only a few minutes in 2015 . The originally agreed fee was 55,930 euros. Hans-Joachim Frey said he had canceled his engagement the day before. Campbell only took the stage for a few minutes to receive the Order of St. George.

The award of the Order of St. George to the Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi as part of the Semper Opera Ball 2020 was followed by fierce public and political criticism. Frey praised as-Sisi as a “peacemaker”, “encourager” and “voice of Africa”. Frey was silent about who specifically made the decision to award the gold medal to as-Sisi “for reasons of state protection”. Ball boss Frey had already confused past winners of the Order of St. George. Russia’s head of state Vladimir Putin received the medal.

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brucknerhaus is preparing a cultural scandal at Salzburger Nachrichten on April 11, 2016
  2. ↑ ORF.at (culture) - Hans-Joachim Frey new Brucknerhaus boss (with excerpts from vita and career, accessed on September 23, 2011)
  3. ↑ Debt from the Frey era now official . In: Weser-Kurier from November 25, 2010.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Richter: Unlucky Intendant - Hans-Joachim Frey fails at the Bremen theater . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 6, 2010.
  5. ↑ Second chance for a failed - Chopin, Mr. Frey . In taz.de
  6. ↑ Brucknerhaus: Is a cultural scandal looming? Salzburger Nachrichten of April 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Frey moves to Russia. nachricht.at Linz from December 14, 2016.
  8. ↑ Brucknerhaus boss Frey leaves Linz for Sochi. Salzburger Nachrichten of October 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ LIVA director Frey goes: Linz was "wonderful". ORF.at
  10. ↑ Hajo Frey is moving to the Black Sea and is building a cultural Olympia ( memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. nachricht.at of October 12, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nachrichten.at
  11. ^ Hajo Frey: My new life in Moscow. Picture dated July 9, 2016.
  12. ↑ Order for Vladimir Putin outraged civil rights activist Berliner Morgenpost of January 16, 2009.
  13. ↑ / Vladimir, Angela and St. George ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saxon newspaper from January 17, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  14. ↑ Dresden Opera Ball: Putin receives medal for the “fight for the good”. the west of January 15, 2009.
  15. ↑ Brucknerhaus: Russian linzerische friendship. The press on May 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ Ariadne on Naxos ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the opera friend from September 1916.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deropernfreund.de
  17. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: FPÖ nominates Frey for Linz supervisory board . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
  18. ↑ No money for a short appearance for Naomi Campbell. In: zeit.de , February 11, 2019.
  19. ↑ mdr.de: Order for Egypt's President - Semperoper distances itself from Semperopernball | MDR.DE. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Why does a dictator get the Semper Opera Ball medal? Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Ducat Order for Dictator - State Chancellery blesses award ceremony! Retrieved January 28, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frey, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and functionary and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Gehrden , Lower Saxony