Kay Kuntze

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Kay Kuntze (born May 11, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German theater director and director.

biography

Kay Kuntze studied mathematics at the Technical University in Berlin and school music at the University of the Arts , later music and theater studies. Then he moved to the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg and studied musical theater directing with Götz Friedrich . He received his diploma “with distinction”. During his studies he received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society.

Then he was assistant director a. a. at the Semperoper Dresden, the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Schwetzingen Festival . Fixed engagements took him as assistant director to the stages of the state capital Kiel, as director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as chief director at the Central Saxon Theater .

Directorship

Berlin

From 2002 to 2012 Kuntze was artistic director of the Berlin Chamber Opera , which under his direction focused on the development of contemporary works of music theater, including many world premieres and German premieres. Despite a strong artistic profile, great national recognition and economic stability, the Berlin Chamber Opera was deprived of the financial basis of its work by the Berlin Senate in 2010. After major protests from the international cultural scene, further funding was granted by the Senate. In 2014 the Berlin Chamber Opera stopped playing.

Altenburg Gera

Kuntze has been general manager and artistic director of the Theater Altenburg Gera since 2011 (until 2018: TPT Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia ), and since 2012 also opera director. After a near bankruptcy in 2010, the theater was stabilized under his leadership.

In 2012 he was commissioned to reduce the size of the orchestra and to handle the drama and puppet theater divisions. Through the conclusion of in-house collective agreements, a renewed financing agreement and internal restructuring, the continued existence of the last producing 5-division theater in Thuringia was secured.

On January 1, 2013, the Thuringian State Ballet was founded under the umbrella of Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia .

For the years 2013 and 2014, Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen has been voted Thuringian Theater of the Year for two years in a row by the culture department of the Thuringian newspaper.

International collaborations and guest performances have been increasingly taking place since 2015. The ensembles have traveled to Burkina Faso, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Austria, Romania and China in recent years.

In the 2016/17 season review of the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne , TPT was able to win the category “Unusually convincing theater work apart from the big theater centers”: “Seldom has there been a winner here with so many votes”, because “in their two venues in Gera and Altenburg Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia Gera / Altenburg deliver ambitious productions in all fields at a consistently high artistic level with a clear commitment to the international ensemble. "

In 2017, Theater und Philharmonie Thuringia was awarded the Federal Theater Prize by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, because the “artistic program is idiosyncratic”: “Instead of just box-office hits, the TPT focuses on the marginal, forgotten and repressed in all areas. With this program, the TPT is resistant to a thinking of restriction and isolation, but not closed. "

In May 2018 the Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia was founded as a joint program to promote young talent by the Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia and the Philharmonie Jena.

After the orchestra academy, Thuringian opera studio (since 2013 together with the Weimar University of Music and Theater and the theaters in Erfurt, Weimar and Nordhausen) and the scholarship for puppet theater directing (since 2017), the Eleven program of the Thuringian State Ballets started a program to promote young talent for the fourth division of Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia.

The music theater division of Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia was the second ensemble in the new federal states to be awarded the Prize of the German Theater Publishers in 2018, because "a program policy that has been consistently implemented over the years and systematically counteracts the increasing narrowing of the repertoire to a supposedly audience-effective title, the theater brought great recognition ”.

After two nominations for the FAUST Prize (2017 and 2019), the Götz Friedrich Young Director Prize was awarded in 2019 for a production at the Altenburg Gera Theater.

After the number of viewers had risen continuously since 2013 (approx. 135,000), the mark of 150,000 viewers was exceeded in 2017, which was also increased in the following years (2019: approx. 156,600).

Director

Kuntze has so far created around 90 productions, mostly in music theater, at home and abroad, e.g. B. at theaters in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Braunschweig, Kiel, Lübeck, Bielefeld, Osnabrück, Schwerin, Cottbus, Gera / Altenburg, Brandenburg, Potsdam; Bern, Linz, Innsbruck, Kaliningrad, Copenhagen, Montpellier, Paris and Tel Aviv as well as for the music festivals in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera and the Eutin Festival.

Productions by Kuntze were nominated in critics' surveys by the opera world and the Deutsche Bühne and were awarded audience prizes.

For his production of Mieczysław Weinberg's “The Passenger” he was nominated for the FAUST Prize 2019 in the “Directed Music Theater” category.

Productions (from 2010)

  • 2010: Richard Strauss: Arabella , Theater Lübeck
  • 2010: Bernd Redmann : Die Hidden (UA), Theater Bremen
  • 2010: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz , Eutin Festival
  • 2010: William Murta: The Birds of Alfred Hitchcock (UA), Theater Bielefeld
  • 2010: Adriana Hölszky : Bremer Freiheit, Berlin Chamber Opera in the Konzerthaus Berlin
  • 2011: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo , Theater Bremen
  • 2011: Ulvaeus, Anderson, Price: Chess, Theater Bielefeld
  • 2011: Georges Bizet: Carmen , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2012: Gaëtano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor , City Theater Bern
  • 2012: Péter Eötvös : Harakiri, Berlin Chamber Opera in the Konzerthaus Berlin
  • 2012: Peter Eötvös: Radames, Berlin Chamber Opera in the Konzerthaus Berlin
  • 2012: Siegfried Matthus: Crown Prince Friedrich , Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera
  • 2012: Ulvaeus, Anderson, Price: Chess, Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
  • 2013: Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2013: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino , Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
  • 2014: Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2014: Per Nørgård : Nuit des Hommes (DEA), Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2014: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute , Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera
  • 2014: Frank Wildhorn: Jekyll & Hyde , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2015: Leoš Janáček: Jenůfa , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2015: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2016: Hans Sommer : Rübezahl and the bagpiper from Neisse , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2016: Terrence McNally: Master Class , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2016: Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman: Tschitti Tschitti Bäng Bäng , Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
  • 2017: Peter Tschaikowsky: Masepa , Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
  • 2018: Frank Wildhorn: Jekyll & Hyde , Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  • 2018: George Enescu: Oedipe , Theater and Philharmonie Thuringia
  • 2018: Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2018: Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmann's Stories , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2019: Mieczyslaw Weinberg: The Passenger , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2019: Kay Kuntze: Beloved Klärchen , Theater and Philharmonic Thuringia
  • 2019: Eduard Künneke: The cousin from Dingsda , Theater Altenburg Gera
  • 2020: Peter Tschaikowski: Eugen Onegin , Theater Altenburg Gera

Teaching

Kuntze teaches in the stage design course at the Technical University of Berlin and in the opera classes at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig and the University of Music Weimar.

Bodies

Kuntze was or is a juror at the international singing competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, the Rheinsberger Opernwerkstatt and the federal singing competition as well as on various awarding boards.

At the Deutsches Bühnenverein he is a member of the directors' group, advisory director in the collective bargaining committee and deputy chairman of the Thuringia regional association. He is also the deputy chairman of the specialist committee of the federal singing competition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Creativity must not be dominated by fear In: Berliner Morgenpost
  2. ↑ 25 years of the Berlin Chamber Opera. In: Opera world
  3. ↑ Death without credit. In: Frankfurter Rundschau
  4. ↑ Of all people? In: Berliner Zeitung
  5. ↑ Last triumph. In: Berliner Morgenpost
  6. ↑ continues ( memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berlin Chamber Opera
  7. ^ Kuntze becomes artistic director in Altenburg / Gera In: Ostthüringer Zeitung
  8. ↑ Intendant Kuntze extends contract. dpa
  9. ↑ Kuntze remains artistic director In: Musik heute
  10. ^ Theater Altenburg / Gera stabilized. In: Focus
  11. ↑ Kuntze warns of deforestation. dpa
  12. ↑ Saved for now. In: Opera world
  13. ^ Founding of the Thuringian State Ballet. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung
  14. ^ Theater Altenburg / Gera is Theater of the Year 2013. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung
  15. ↑ Production of the year 2014 in Altenburg / Gera. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung
  16. ↑ Season review 2016/17. ( Memento from August 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Deutsche Bühne .
  17. ^ Federal theater award for Altenburg / Gera. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung
  18. ↑ Dual Orchestra Academy Thuringia is launched. In: Klassik Magazin
  19. ↑ New Apprentice Program of the State Ballet In: The World
  20. ↑ Prize of German Theater Publishers 2018 goes to Altenburg-Gera In: Leipziger Volkszeitung
  21. ^ Jury statement for the Prize of German Theater Publishers 2018 In: Stiftung VDB
  22. ↑ Mark of 150,000 viewers reached In: Thüringische Landeszeitung
  23. ↑ Record in 2017. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung
  24. ↑ More visitors in Altenburg / Gera In: Klassik.com
  25. ↑ Viewers-Productions-Awards-a successful year In: Leipziger Volkszeitung
  26. ↑ For the love of the theater: Audience favorites of the Altenburg-Gera Theater 2015 have been chosen. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung of June 8, 2015, accessed June 30, 2017
  27. ↑ A touch of Hollywood: Oskar Awards in the Altenburger Landestheater. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 13, 2016, accessed on June 30, 2017
  28. ↑ Gold glitter for the Altenburg theater favorites. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 3, 2018
  29. ↑ Theater associations award the "Oskar" for Altenburg and Gera for the 25th time. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 11, 2019
  30. ↑ Geras Intendant nominated. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung from September 12, 2019
  31. ↑ Arabella. In: Opera Network
  32. ↑ Connectable avant-garde. In: TAZ.
  33. ↑ The Schlingensief of Eutin. In: Hamburger Abendblatt.
  34. ↑ Bird's first performance. In: New Westphalian.
  35. ^ Crimes of lost marriage. In: TAZ.
  36. ↑ Tableaus as symbols. In: The German Stage .
  37. ↑ Celebrated Chess premiere. In: New Westphalian.
  38. ↑ Fatal Corrida of Love. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung.
  39. ↑ Horror romance. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  40. ↑ Two short operas. In: Neue Musikzeitung.
  41. ↑ Allegory of Chess. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung.
  42. ↑ A spark of hope. In: Opera and Dance
  43. ↑ Love in times of war. ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tiroler Tageszeitung.
  44. ↑ A murderous slander. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung.
  45. ↑ Sounds of terror. In: The German Stage .
  46. ↑ On the Papagenomobile. In: Der Tagesspiegel.
  47. ↑ Rapid journey into hell. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung.
  48. ^ Orgy of applause to Jenufa. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung.
  49. ↑ Bizarre tragedy. In: Opera Network.
  50. ↑ Rübezahl. In: The German Stage . Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  51. ↑ Masterful master class. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung
  52. ↑ For the heart, eyes and ears. In: Thuringian General
  53. ↑ In the mills of militarism. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung
  54. ↑ Big cinema on the theater stage. In: Ostsee-Zeitung.
  55. ↑ Fate wins. In: The German Stage
  56. ↑ Perfidious satyr game. In: Neue Musikzeitung
  57. ↑ Intelligent Hoffmann in Gera In: Neue Musikzeitung
  58. ^ Roland H. Dippel: Cruel memories. In: Concerti , March 10, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2019.
  59. ↑ A musical-literary love story In: Leipziger Volkszeitung
  60. ^ "The cousin from Dingsda" celebrates a grandiose premiere in Altenburg. In: Art and Technology
  61. ↑ Framed Desperation In: Art and Technology
personal data
SURNAME Kuntze, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin