Lajos Wenzel

Lajos Wenzel (* 1979 ) is the artistic director, author and director .

Life

Wenzel grew up in Lohmar near Cologne . After high school and community service, he completed a photography training, which he successfully completed in 2001. Wenzel then studied at the state-recognized drama school "Theaterwerkstadt Berlin Charlottenburg". In 2004 he made his debut at the National Theater Weimar .

Engagements then took him to the Berliner Ensemble , the Schlosstheater Celle , and the Badische Landesbühne , the Junge Staatstheater des Landes Berlin , the Franconian Theater , the stages of the City of Cologne , the Euro-Studio Landgraf , as well as various independent theater groups in Berlin and among others Cologne.

From 2007 to 2012 Wenzel worked for the Chamber Opera in Cologne as senior director. There he staged the musical My Fair Lady , the operas La Traviata and Der Freischütz , the opera gala Heiterer Musenkuss , the children's play Das kleine Phantom , the operetta Die Fledermaus . As a game director, he led the rehearsals of La Boheme , Don Giovanni , Im Weisse Rössl and The Merry Widow . His production Little Magic Flute after Mozart was nominated for the Cologne Children's and Youth Theater Prize in 2009.

From 2009 to 2011 he directed the children's opera festival at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , where, among other things, he staged his own version of the Little Magic Flute with over 250 participants (children, young people, professional singers and musicians). In 2010 and 2011 he was artistic director of the “Monschau Klassik” festival. On the open-air stage, which can hold up to 1700 spectators, he staged with the Chamber Opera Cologne a. a. the operas Freischütz , La Traviata , and Die Fledermaus .

From 2012 to 2017 Wenzel was deputy. Director of the Young Theater in Bonn , Germany's most popular children's and youth theater, where he staged a. a. the musicals Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss , Sams im Glück , Die Chroniken von Narnia , Pünktchen and Anton (nominated for the German Musical Prize) and the modern dramas Tschick and Supergute Tage (Monica Bleibtreu Audience Prize of the Deutsche Privattheatertage Hamburg). In Contra-Kreis Theater he staged terror of Ferdinand von Schirach , The Messiah , Amadeus , The kidney and the Mousetrap .

Wenzel is the author, director and production manager of the annual Divertissementchen of the Cologne men's choir at the Cologne Opera .

From the 2019/20 season, Lajos Wenzel will be the artistic director of the Rhineland-Palatinate state theater in the Neuwied Palace Theater.

Wenzel lives with his family in Lohmar- Wahlscheid .

Productions (since 2010 - selection)

2020: "Fidelio vom Rhing" Cologne Opera
2019: "The Comedian Harmonists" Chamber Opera Cologne
2019: "Die Mausefalle" Contra-Kreis Theater Bonn
2019: "The Kidney" Contra-Kreis Theater Bonn
2019: "Offenbach" Opera Cologne
2018: "Oskar Schindler's List" Concert Directorate Hanover
2018: "In the White Horse Inn" Neersen Castle Festival
2018: "Lotte in Weimar" Altes Schauspielhaus Stuttgart
2018: "The Revenge of Melaten" Opera Cologne
2017: "Millenium Domum" Bonn Minster
2017: "Amadeus" Contra-Kreis Theater Bonn
2017: "Luther '" Landesbühne Rhineland-Palatinate in the Schlosstheater Neuwied
2017: "Circus Colonia" Opera Cologne
2016: "Terror" Contra-Kreis-Theater, Young Theater Bonn
2016: "Pretty Secret" Opera Cologne
2015: "Super good days - or the strange world of Christopher Boone" Junge Theater Bonn
2015: "The little dragon coconut saves the world" Junge Theater Bonn
2015: "Diva Colonia UA" co-director, Cologne Opera
2014: "Pünktchen and Anton - The Musical" premier at the Young Theater Bonn
2013: "Tschick" Young Theater Bonn
2014: "Der Scheinheilige UA" co-director, Cologne Opera
2013: "The Chronicles of Narnia DEA" Junge Theater Bonn
2013: "The great world theater" City of Lohmar
2013: "Vivat Colonia" world premiere, co-director, Cologne Opera
2012: "Sams im Glück UA", Young Theater Bonn
2012: "The Little Dragon Coconut UA" Young Theater Bonn
2012: "Kölsche Jungfrau, urgently wanted" WP Cologne Opera
2010: "My Fair Lady" Chamber Opera Cologne, German Musical Company
2011: "La Traviata" Hohenloher Kultursommer, Festival Monschau Klassik, Chamber Opera Cologne
2011: "The Little Phantom" Chamber Opera Cologne
2010: "Die Fledermaus" Festival Monschau Klassik, Chamber Opera Cologne
2010: "Der Freischütz" Festival Monschau Klassik, Chamber Opera Cologne
2010: "Die Kölschen Witwe" co-director, Cologne Opera
2010: "The Little Magic Flute (Children's Opera), Chamber Opera Cologne, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden,
2010: "Ronja the robber's daughter" City of Lohmar, Regionale 2010
2010: "The cheerful kiss of the muses" Chamber Opera Cologne

Roles (selection)

2010: “Gieselher” in Die Nibelungen by Moritz Rinke , directed by Kalle Kubik, Schlosstheater Celle
2009: "Christian Buddenbrook" based on Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks , directed by Kalle Kubik, Schlosstheater Celle
2008: “Peter Pan” in the play Peter Pan based on JM Barrie , directed by Peter Lotschak, Schlosstheater Celle
2008: “Tanzmeister” in the play Der Bürger als Edelmann by Jean-Baptiste Molière , directed by Peter Lotschak, Schlosstheater Celle
2008: “Herr Blühmel”, Loriot's dramatic works by Vicco von Bülow , directed by Jan Bodinus, Schlosstheater Celle
2007: "Hutmacher", Alice in Wonderland , musical based on Lewis Carrol, directed by Jan Bodinus, Schlosstheater Celle
2007: "Sägerobert", Threepenny Opera by Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill, directed by Kalle Kubik, Schlosstheater Celle
2007: "Herr Albin", The Magic Mountain based on Thomas Mann, directed by Frank Mathus, Euro-Studio Landgraf
2006: “Magician Kaschnur”, Kalif Storch based on Wilhelm Hauff , directed by Olaf Peters, Badische Landesbühne
2006: "Duke Buckingham", The Three Musketeers based on Alexandre Dumas , directed by Carsten Ramm, Badische Landesbühne
2006: "Alexander Schmorell", The White Rose from Maar / Aelter, directed by Michael Klemm , Fränkisches Theater
2006: "Camper", The One and the Other , directed by Luc Bondy , Berliner Ensemble
2005: "Choir of the Swiss", Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, Weimar National Theater,

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personal data
SURNAME	Wenceslaus, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH	1979