Johannes Reitmeier

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Johannes Reitmeier (2011)

Johannes Reitmeier (born October 5, 1962 in Kötzting ) is a German author , director and artistic director .

Life

To study theater studies, art history and Bavarian Literature riding Meier went to Munich at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he also two years as a volunteer in the press office of the Bavarian State Opera and as a lecturer in operatic performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich active was. After the master’s examination he worked as a freelance director for several years with productions at the Southeast Bavarian City Theater Landshut – Passau – Straubing, at the Landestheater Coburg , at the Bayreuth Youth Festival Meeting and the Opera Festival in Heidenheim an der Brenz and Zwingenberg . He has also been a director and author at the Lichtenegger Bund Festival in Rimbach since 1986 and at the Bad Kötzting Forest Festival since 1988 . He is also responsible as author and director for the Tirschenreuth dialect passion , which premiered in 1997 . In 2014, his piece, designed in Upper Palatinate dialect, was premiered by Jedermann in Tirschenreuth.

Act as artistic director

In 1996 he took over the management of the Südostbayerisches Städtetheater, where he worked until 2002. Here he staged the musicals Der Mann von La Mancha and Hello, Dolly! as well as the German premieres of the operas Fackeltanz by Bernt Lorentzen and Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio by Giuseppe Verdi . In 2000 he staged the world premieres of his musical Nostradamus and the musical Das Cabinet des Doktor Caligari there .

In 2002 he became director of the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern . He initiated an expansion of the theater pedagogical work with increased youth work, which opened the Pfalztheater to new audiences. With a series of rediscoveries and re-evaluations of operas that were once considered to be degenerate, as well as key works of modernism, the theater was also increasingly noticed nationally. Examples of these productions are Die Feen by Richard Wagner (2005), Flammen by Erwin Schulhoff (2008), Jonny plays on by Ernst Krenek (2008), Der König Kandaules by Alexander Zemlinsky (2009), Das Wunder der Heliane by Erich Wolfgang Korngold ( 2010) or The Portrait of Mieczyslaw Weinberg (German premiere, 2010). Outstanding drama productions were Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (2002), the one-person tragic comedy Die da by Christiane Reiff (2005), Faust I by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (2007) and Hamlet by William Shakespeare (2011). Reitmeier had particular success with younger audiences with musicals and crossover productions such as Nostradamus , Abydos , Ludus Danielis (a rock opera in Latin about the biblical story of Belshazzar based on the medieval mystery play), Christ 0 (based on the novel The Count of Monte Christo ) and Chronicle of the Immortals - Blood Night (based on the novel cycle of the same name by Wolfgang Hohlbein ), which were produced in collaboration with the Kaiserslautern band Vanden Plas and their singer Andy Kuntz . The Pfalztheater consistently managed to occupy over 90% of the space.

In addition to the management of the Pfalztheater, Johannes Reitmeier was also director of the Feuchtwangen Cloister Theater from 2006 to 2008 and continued to work as a guest director in other theaters. In the 2012/2013 season, Reitmeier moved to the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck as the successor to Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender .

Working as an author

Reitmeier wrote “ Keryhof. A farmer's theater according to Karl May ”, a dialect -based play that premiered on June 27, 1992 at the Leuchtenberg Castle in Bad Kötzting . Directed by Christian Höllerer. The piece is based on Karl May's Der Wurzelsepp , part of the colportage novel The Way to Happiness .

Together with Thomas Stammberger , Reitmeier revised the play for the Agnes-Bernauer-Festival in Straubing in 1995 ; For the performances in 2003 and 2007 he revised the joint piece and for 2011 he wrote a new one on his own. In 2003 he created - again together with Thomas Stammberger - a dialect adaptation of Faust for the festival community Kötzting . His musical Nostradamus (together with Roger Boggasch ) dates from 2000 . For the 975th anniversary of the city of Amberg in 2009, Reitmeier created the historical city play Amberg World Theater - The Autumn of the Winter King , which was given as an open-air performance in front of the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf and was performed again in May 2014. In 1997 the Tirschenruther Passion, held in the Upper Palatinate dialect, appeared for the first time . The story of Winsheim's death also dates from this period . In 2014 Der Oberpfälzer Jedermann was published .

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tirschenreuther-passion.de
  2. ↑ welttheater.amberg.de
  3. ↑ Austrian Music Theater Prize: 20 winners were awarded in Salzburg. August 6, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reitmeier, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötzting