Kerstin Maria Pöhler

Kerstin Maria Pöhler (* in Cologne ) is a German director and author.

Life

After graduating from high school, she received her artistic training at the Cologne University of Music (piano) and studied German at the University of Cologne . Her first engagements took her to the Aalto Theater in Essen in 1992 as a director and to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1995 . She worked with conductors and singers such as Zubin Mehta , Ivor Bolton , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Edita Gruberová , Waltraud Meier , José Cura , Franz Grundheber and others. a. together and was assistant to directors such as Dieter Dorn , Peter Mussbach , David Alden , Richard Jones , Harry Kupfer , Pierre Audi , Jonathan Miller, Joachim Herz . She also oversaw world premieres at the Bavarian State Opera, including HJ von Bose Schlachthof 5 , HW Henze Venus and Adonis , M. Trojahn Was ihr wollt and A. Reimann Bernarda Albas Haus .

In 2000, Kerstin Maria Pöhler was awarded together with the set designer Frank Fellmann at the International Competition for Direction and Set Design in Graz, whereupon she was appointed senior director at the Graz Opera House and member of the opera management. In 2001 she received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth for her outstanding artistic achievements . In the seasons 2004 to 2008 Kerstin Maria Pöhler was engaged as artistic director of the music theater at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . Under her aegis, the opera section of the Staatstheater was recognized by the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne for the artistic achievements of the 2005/06 season, also for its commitment to the German premiere or world premiere of contemporary works such as Miss Julie von Boesmans, Titus von Mozart / Trojahn (recitative ), Cosima von Matthus (UA). Kerstin Maria Pöhler has been working as a freelance director and author since 2008. She lives in Cologne.

Artistic activity

Directing work 2001–2004 Austria

As a director, Kerstin Maria Pöhler attracted attention in Austria, especially with the Austrian premieres of Jacobo Peris Euridice at the Vienna Chamber Opera and Nigel Osborne's The Terrible Mouth at the Semper Depot in Vienna. Her productions of Manfred Trojahn's Enrico, Jules Massenets Werther and Igor Stravinky's The Rake's Progress at the Graz Opera House were successful with the press and audiences. In co-production with the Graz Opera, their staging of The Rake's Progress was shown in December 2004 at the Teatro Verdi Trieste.

Directing work 2004–2017 Germany

In Germany in the 2004/05 season, Kerstin Maria Pöhler staged The Makropulos Case by Leoš Janáček and Verdis Macbeth at the Braunschweig State Theater . She was also engaged as a guest director at the State Theater in Nuremberg for the production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly . In the 2005/06 season she staged Hoffmann's stories by Jacques Offenbach and Otello by Giuseppe Verdi at the Braunschweig State Theater . At the National Theater Weimar she worked on Idomeneo for the Mozart year 2006 . In the 2006/07 season she staged La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi and the world premiere of Cosima by Siegfried Matthus at the Braunschweig State Theater . She staged Rimski-Korsakow's Golden Cockerel at Theater Dortmund . In the 2008 season she directed the German premiere of Johann Simon Mayr's Fedra at the Braunschweig State Theater , which was invited to the Audi Culture Days in Ingolstadt.

She realized her autobiographical acting project Trilogy of the Age in the years 2009–2011 with older people. Behind it , the examination of memories of war and their continued effect in the present, was awarded in 2009 by the NRW culture secretariat. The continuation of this period - dream time project , an examination of fulfilled and unfulfilled dreams, premiered in June 2010. In June 2011 the trilogy came to an end with the piece Mit-uns-ins- Feuer.de , an examination of one's own finitude and death.

Since the 2012/13 season, Kerstin Maria Pöhler has been staging regularly at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, such as Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, Peace Day / Metamorphoses by Richard Strauss (nominated for the International Opera Award 2015 London), Tristan and Isolde and Lucia di Lammermoor .

In addition to her directorial work, Kerstin Maria Pöhler works as a librettist , novelist and columnist. In 2005 the chamber opera Der Patient (music by Thomas Barschel) premiered in Regensburg, in November 2011 Die Stadt der Blinden in the setting of Anno Schreier at the Zurich Opera . The 2018/19 season saw the world premiere of the opera Schade that she was a whore (music Anno Schreier), for which she wrote the libretto. Her column Opernzeit appears monthly in the Cologne culture magazine Choices , in which she creates the current reference to the time of operas with the aim of gaining a new audience for music theater.

Publications

2018 Flock of Ptiza . Dance novel. Axel Dielmann-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-86638-221-3 .
2011 one summer long . Novel. Quell Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3981266757

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personal data
SURNAME	Pöhler, Kerstin Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne