Catherine John

Katharina John (born July 9, 1970 in Heidelberg ) is a German dramaturge .

Life

She took on her first engagements in 1994 as an assistant director in drama while still studying at the stages of the state capital of Kiel . From the 1995/96 to 2003 season she was a music theater dramaturge for opera, concert and ballet under the artistic director Kirsten Harms in the permanent ensemble of the Kiel Opera . She then worked in the field of music management for the Berlin agency K&K, Kultur & Kommunikation. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season she moved to the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken for a year before Kirsten Harms hired her as Deputy Chief Dramaturge at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the 2005/06 season . From January 2011 Katharina John was employed as chief dramaturge for all branches, then also as managing director of the music theater and finally opera director at the Augsburg Theater. During this time, two of the company's productions, both productions by the director Lorenzo Fioroni ( Carmen , 2011/12 and Elektra 2012/13), were nominated for the German Theater Prize Der Faust . Cooperation and a. with the conductors Alain Altinoglu , Paolo Carignani , Anne Champert, Dirk Kaftan , Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Peter Marschik, Ulf Schirmer , Pinchas Steinberg and Ulrich Windfuhr , the directors Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson , Markus Bothe, Lorenzo Fioroni, Torsten Fischer, Igor Folwill, Johanna Garpe, Jürgen Gosch (preparation of a new production of Bizet's Carmen for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was no longer possible ), Kirsten Harms, Patrick Kinmonth, Andreas Kriegenburg , Mathias Oldag, Alexander von Pfeil , Christian Pöppelreiter, David Pountney , Janez Samec, Kurt Joseph Schildknecht, Christoph Schlingensief , Joachim Schlömer , Roland Schwab and Philipp Stölzl , as well as the choreographers Christian Spuck , Stephan Thoss , Mario Schröder and Marguerite Donlon.

John's interest is also in initiatives beyond the traditional program. Important special projects included a. the initiation of the interdisciplinary, experimental late-night format Quick & Dirty at the Theater Augsburg, the collaboration with the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg on Meeting Dido , an opera project with students based on Bruno Madernas Satyricon and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ( Musical director: Eberhard Fritzsche, director: Jörg Behr, 2012), the performance of Luigi Nono's string quartet Fragments - Silence, to Diotoma as a concert installation (installation and space: Martin Miotk , Augsburger Philharmoniker, 2012), the interdisciplinary symposium Alexander Zemlinsky and Modernism in spring 2007 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (publication of the symposium report with the same title by Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin), the music theater project Die Bohème at Kottbusser Tor in the Festsaal Kreuzberg in cooperation with the local independent scene (artistic director: Julia Schreiner, 2007) as well as the event series Lieder On Stage , recital with scenic / spatial arrangement on the stage of the Saarland State Theater (musical director: Anne Champert, season 2004/05)

Together with the game association Adversary Circumstances , she conceived an art night at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, in which the essence of art was questioned in dialogue with the visitors and a course of theater, information, installation and discourse (April 4, 2014). In September 2014 it was announced that she will be working as opera director at Theater Trier from summer 2015 . This contract was terminated early in September 2017. At the beginning of the 2017/2018 season, she moved to the Landestheater Linz as dramaturge and production manager of the dance company TANZLIN.Z under the direction of Mei Hong Lin .

Publications (selection)

• Alexander von Zemlinsky and the Modern Age (editor). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-574-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katharina John ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 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. on the website of the Theater Augsburg 
2. ↑ http://www.buehnenverein.de/de/netzwerke-und-projekte/der-faust/der-faust-2012.html
3. ↑ http://www.buehnenverein.de/de/netzwerke-und-projekte/der-faust/der-faust-2013.html
4. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/augsburg/Chefdramaturgin-verlaesst-das-Theater-Augsburg-id25626006.html
5. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/augsburg/Grosse-Oper-um-Rom-id18945836.html
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 6, 2014 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. 
7. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/eine-oper-aus-dem-kiez,10810590,10483590.html
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 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. 
9. ↑ Nicole Prestle: The new careers of former Augsburg. Augsburger Allgemeine , September 13, 2014, accessed October 30, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Landestheater Linz: Katharina John. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .