Josef Ernst Köpplinger

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Josef Ernst Köpplinger (born July 21, 1964 in Hainburg an der Donau ) is an Austrian director and artistic director of operas, operettas, musicals and drama.

biography

Training and beginnings

After attending primary and secondary school in his hometown of Bruck an der Leitha and upper secondary school in Eisenstadt, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , as well as in New York, London and Paris. In addition to his training as a pianist and actor with additional singing studies in Vienna, he was hired as the youngest director of Marietheres List in 1988 at the Regensburg Municipal Theaters . In the 1988/89 season he was director of the youth theater at the Regensburg Municipal Theaters.

Since 1990 he has been working internationally as a freelance director for operas, operettas, musicals and drama.

Stations

Important stations were the Volkstheater Vienna , the Volksoper Vienna , the music festivals KlangBogen Vienna and Mozart in Schönbrunn , the Chamber Opera Vienna , the Graz Opera House , the Saarbrücken State Theater , the Schwerin State Theater , the Berlin Kammerspiele, the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich, the New National Opera Tokyo , the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Hamburg State Opera , as well as the Vienna Theater in Josefstadt .

Arthur Schnitzler's play Das weite Land was his first directorial work at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 2010 (co-production with the Stadttheater Klagenfurt ). In the 2015/16 season Köpplinger staged Georges Feydeau's Der Gockel there . In the 2017/18 season he staged the Rossini opera Der Barbier von Sevilla at the Staatstheater Nürnberg . In the 2018/19 season he brought Ferdinand Raimund's magic fairy tale Der Bauer als Millionär in a new production onto the stage of the theater in der Josefstadt, using the original score by Joseph Drechsler .

Directorships

From 1999 to 2003, Köpplinger was the artistic director of the Schloss Prugg musical festival in Lower Austria. From 2004 to 2007 Köpplinger was acting director at the Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland.

In 2007, Köpplinger was appointed artistic director of the Klagenfurt City Theater . He held this position from 2007 to 2012. There he initiated the MUT competition for musical entertainment theater in 2010. Köpplinger's artistic directorship also marked the 100th anniversary of the Landestheater Klagenfurt with the premiere of the previously lost Cherubini opera Koukourgi in the 2010/11 season, which was broadcast live by 3sat .

Josef Ernst Köpplinger has been State Director of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich since the 2012/13 season . There, in addition to opera and operetta, he focuses as a premiere theater, e.g. B .: Friedrich Cerha's uncle President . Further world premieres under Köpplinger's artistic directorship were Marc Schubring's musical Hazardous Liaisons (2014/15 season), Johanna Doderer's opera Liliom (with Köpplinger's libretto, 2016/17 season) and the musical Pumuckl by Franz Wittenbrink (2017/18 season). In the 2017/18 season, the first season after the five-year general renovation of the house, which began in October 2017 with a reopening gala, Köpplinger was able to achieve a seat occupancy of 96%.

He is the founder of the St. Gallen Author Days among jury members such as Joshua Sobol , Peter Turrini , Felix Mitterer , Birgit Doll and others. a. Köpplinger has received several awards, including the Bavarian Culture Prize in 2013 .

Productions (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: The wide country . Production details. Archive. Official website of Theater in der Josefstadt . Accessed on January 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "The wide country": Schnitzler - palpable . Performance review. In: Die Presse on May 14, 2010. Retrieved on January 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ Georges Feydeau: The rooster . Production details. Archive. Official website of Theater in der Josefstadt . Accessed on January 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ When Spain becomes Italy . Performance review. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung from May 16, 2018. Retrieved on August 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ Modest modesty . Performance review. In: Wiener Zeitung of December 14, 2018. Retrieved on January 11, 2019.
  6. ^ Josef E. Köpplinger . Vita. Official website of NRW-Bühnen. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ The sleepy narrator . Performance review. In: Der Standard from September 17, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Gärtnerplatz premiere of "Liliom": Opera at the stop . Performance review. In: Münchner Merkur of November 8, 2016. Retrieved on August 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ Music theater review : Tödliche Liebes-Macht-Spiele ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Performance review. In: Die Deutsche Bühne, February 23, 2015. Accessed August 29, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-deutsche-buehne.de
  10. ↑ ... and more: Pumuckl is alive . Performance review. In: Die Deutsche Bühne on April 20, 2018. Retrieved on August 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2017/2018 SEASON: CAPACITY OF 96% . Official website of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 24, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayernwerk.de
personal data
SURNAME Köpplinger, Josef Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera, operetta, musical and drama director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainburg on the Danube