Katharina Kost-Tolmein

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Katharina Kost-Tolmein (* 1973 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German dramaturge. She has been the opera director at Theater Lübeck since 2013/14 as part of a board of directors. From 2022 she will be general director at the Münster Theater.

biography

Kost-Tolmein studied piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music and at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and graduated in 1996 with a diploma. She then studied musicology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Her first engagements led her from 1997/98 as an assistant in the opera dramaturgy of the National Theater Mannheim (director Ulrich Schwab ) and in 2002/03 as music dramaturge at the Heidelberg Theater (director Günther Beelitz ). In Heidelberg she worked with the director of the opera Wolf Widder, the director of the dance division Irina Pauls and u. a. the directors Wolfram Mehring and Thomas Schulte-Michels .

In 2005 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on "The tragico fine on Venetian opera stages of the late 18th century" with Silke Leopold at the University of Heidelberg. From 2004 to 2006 she was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation .

In 2005 she went to the Lübeck Theater as a music dramaturge, where she has worked as chief music dramaturge and deputy to the opera director since the 2007/08 season. Between 2007 and 2011, she was in charge of the multi-award-winning production »Der Ring des Nibelungen« as part of the cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional project »Wagner-meets-Mann«, under the musical direction of Roman Brogli-Sacher and directed by Anthony Pilavachi. . In 2007 she was involved in the establishment of the international elite opera studio of the Lübeck Theater and the Lübeck University of Music, funded by the Lübeck Possehl Foundation.

Since 2013/14 she has been the director of the Lübeck Music Theater. During this time she brought u. a. the directors Jochen Biganzoli , Cordula Däuper, Tilman Knabe , Peter Konwitschny , Sandra Leupold , Florian Lutz and Tom Ryser at the Lübeck Theater. In 2014, Sandra Leupold received the DER FAUST directing award for the production “Don Carlo”, which was supervised by Kost-Tolmein in Lübeck. In 2016, Jochen Biganzolis was nominated for the DER FAUST theater prize under Kost-Tolmein's opera direction in Lübeck, “Lady Macbeth von Mzensk”

Kost-Tolmein has been working at Theater Lübeck since 2013 a. a. Cooperation with the Theater an der Wien, the Volksoper Wien, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Oper Halle, the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, the Theater Kiel, the Theater Hagen, the Oper Göteborg and the Fondazione Arena di Verona as well as with Lübeck museums, schools and Colleges. For the first time she regularly played operas from the Baroque and pre-Classical periods at the Lübeck Theater, “reached a wide audience through popular productions such as Bernstein's 'West Side Story'”, and stands for “contemporary and experimental music theater”. Between 2013 and 2020, interdisciplinary productions such as Bernstein's “Mass” or Purcell's “The Fairy Queen” (both: musical director: Andreas Wolf, director: Tom Ryser, stage and costumes: Stefan Rieckhoff , choreography: Lillian Stillwell) attracted special national attention. as well as productions that developed new performative and discursive formats, such as Wagner's "Tannhäuser" (musical direction: Ryusuke Numajiri, director: Florian Lutz, stage: Christoph Ernst (stage designer) , costumes: Mechthild Feuerstein, dramaturgy: Katharina Kost-Tolmein) or Offenbach "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" (musical direction: Ryusuke Numajiri, director: Florian Lutz, stage: Martin Kukulies, costumes: Mechthild Feuerstein, dramaturgy: Katharina Kost-Tolmein), Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mzensk", Schreker's "Der ferne Klang" and Weber's " Freischütz ”(each: musical director: Andreas Wolf, director: Jochen Biganzoli , stage: Wolf Gutjahr , costumes: Katharina Weissenborn (Kos tümbildnerin) , dramaturgy: Francis Hüsers).

In August 2019, Kost-Tolmein announced her departure from the Lübeck Theater at the end of the 2019/20 season.

As part of the cooperation project "I like Africa and Africa likes me - I like Europe and Europe likes me" with the artists' collective Angermayr / Goerge / Somé / Traoré / van Schoor and the Halle Opera, sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation Lübeck on March 6, 2020 the world premiere of “L'Européenne” (concept by Thomas Goerge and Lionel Poutiaire Somé, music by Richard van Schoor, libretto by Thomas Goerge based on motifs from the short film “The Wrong Side” by Lionel Poutiaire Somé).

Kost-Tolmein is married to the lawyer and journalist Oliver Tolmein and has a daughter with him. You live in Hamburg.

Awards

  • 2014: Theater Lübeck awarded the Rudolf Stilcken Prize for Cultural Communication in the category "Continuity and Brand" in the Hamburg metropolitan region for the project "Wagner meets man"
  • 2014: DER FAUST for Sandra Leupold's production "Don Carlo"

Publications

  • Katharina Kost: Art. Nasolini, Sebastiano in: MGG Online, ed. by Laurenz Lütteken, Kassel, Stuttgart, New York 2016ff., first published 2004, published online 2016, https://www.mgg-online.com/mgg/stable/52839
  • Katharina Kost: Articles "Il Don Chisciotte", "I Cinesi", "Amor vincitore", "L'Endimione", "L'Arcadia conservata", in: Silke Leopold, Bärbel Pelker (ed.): Hofoper in Schwetzingen. Music, stage art, architecture, Heidelberg 2004
  • Katharina Kost: The tragico fine on Venetian opera stages of the late 18th century, Diss. Heidelberg 2006, https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/6611/
  • Sidney Smith, Katharina Kost: Theater Lübeck. History, rooms, highlights, people. The 100th season in Martin Dülfer's Art Nouveau building. Ed .: Theater Lübeck. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7950-1288-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ theaterluebeck.de
  2. ^ City of Münster, press release from June 25, 2020
  3. ↑ akademie-musiktheater-heute.de
  4. ↑ schallplattenkritik.de
  5. ↑ professionals.klassik.com
  6. ↑ buhnenverein.de
  7. ↑ szeneluebeck.de
  8. ↑ kn-online.de
  9. ↑ buhnenverein.de
  10. ↑ ln-online.de
  11. ↑ ln-online.de
  12. ↑ nmz.de
  13. ↑ hamburger-feuilleton.de
  14. ↑ die-deutsche-buehne.de
  15. ↑ die-deutsche-buehne.de
  16. ↑ taz.de
  17. ↑ hamburger-feuilleton.de
  18. ↑ kn-online.de
  19. ↑ Detlev Brandenburg: The sung word counts, focus: We have to talk, in: Die deutsche Bühne, December 2019.
  20. ↑ hl-live.de
  21. ↑ ln-online.de
  22. ↑ theaterluebeck.de
  23. ↑ ndr.de
  24. ↑ Kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
personal data
SURNAME Kost-Tolmein, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kost, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein