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Kay Metzger (born February 5, 1960 in Kiel ) is a German director and artistic director .

Life

Kay Metzger grew up a. a. in Mannheim and Bonn. From 1974 until his Abitur in 1980 he was a boarding school student at the St. Fidelis College of the Capuchins in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse. While studying theater studies in Munich, he met August Everding , whom he a. a. assisted at the Munich Opera Festival and at the “Ring” in Warsaw. In 1994 he staged Wagner's “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” together with Everding at the Meiningen State Theater . As an assistant director Metzger was at the theaters in Bielefeld and Essen, as a senior director a. a. engaged at the Landestheater Coburg. He made his debut as a theater director with Achternbusch's “Ella” in Essen (1987), as an opera director with “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci” at the Kraków Opera (1990).

In 1999 Metzger became director of the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater in Halberstadt and Quedlinburg, and in 2005 he moved to the Landestheater Detmold in the same position . His artistic director's contract was extended until the 2018/2019 season. His productions of the world premiere of Giselher Klebe's last opera “Chlestakows Wiederkehr” (2008) and Richard Wagner's “Ring des Nibelungen” (2006–2009) attracted national attention . Metzger's staging of Christian Dietrich Grabbe's “Die Hermannsschlacht” (2009) was nominated for the FAUST 2009 theater prize in the “Best Directed Drama” category.

Kay Metzger has been chairman of the state stage group and member of the presidium of the German stage association since 2011 , as well as member of the board of the regional association in the center of the German stage association and deputy spokesman for the artistic directors in North Rhine-Westphalia.

For the 2018/2019 season, Kay Metzger moved to the Ulm Theater as artistic director .

Productions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Director Kay Metzger extends his contract. theater: pure. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ DER FAUST nomination in 2009. Website of the German Stage Association. Retrieved February 14, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel