Ludger Engels

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Ludger Engels (* 1963 in Duisburg-Meiderich ) is a German opera and theater director .

Live and act

Ludger Engels received lessons in violin , flute and piano . He studied German , musicology and music didactics in Dortmund . From 1980 to 1985 he was a choir conductor. Helmuth Rilling , with whom he studied conducting, advised him to turn to the theater.

After an internship at the Dortmund Opera , Engels decided in 1989 to pursue a career as a director. He worked as an assistant director at the Dortmund Opera, in Vienna , Frankfurt am Main and at the United Theaters in Krefeld-Mönchengladbach . In 1995 he made his debut as a director at the Krefeld-Mönchengladbach theaters, where he was also engaged as an evening director, and in the following years worked as a freelance director at stages in Mainz, Munich, Braunschweig, Heidelberg and Bochum.

From 2005 to 2013 he was chief director and deputy artistic director at the Theater Aachen , where, among other things, he staged the German premiere of the opera Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wuorinen . He then alternated seasons at the Staatstheater Augsburg , at the Stadttheater Bern and also repeatedly at the Theater Aachen, staging works of music theater and theater as well as interdisciplinary projects and performances.

Further productions took place at the Stadttheater Bern , the Theater Freiburg , the Hungarian State Opera Budapest, the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz Munich and the State Theater Mainz .

Since 2015 he has been a professor and director of directing at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg .

Productions (selection)

Musical theater

play

Interdisciplinary projects

  • 2014: Re_intolleranza. Installation and live performances, Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich
  • 2016: Tempi Agitati. Performance by Katharina Rosenberger and Ludger Engels, world premiere in Stuttgart and San Diego / USA
  • 2016: Boasted Fire Lost in Smoke. Video installation, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum , Mannheim
  • 2017: Alzheimer's. Music by Xavier Dayer, text by Jürgen Berger, Bern, world premiere
  • 2017: Bajazzo Road Opera. Performance based on Ruggero Leoncavallo by Ludger Engels, Tilman Kanitz and Thomas Mahmoud; Berlin

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Supplementary volume. Part 1. A – F. Page 324. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. December 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-028460-7 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Bavarian State Opera: Engels Ludger. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ludger Engels . Short biography (Dutch). Accessed August 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Article in the WAZ of August 14, 2011, accessed on March 5, 2015 (no longer available online).
  5. ↑ Ludger Engels (director). In: Concert Theater Bern. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ludger Engels, director (music theater). In: Theater Aachen. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ludger Engels at Operabase (productions).
  8. ↑ Ludger Engels. In: Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Aachener Zeitung: Aachen: Human shadows in video light: "Lucio Silla" in the Aachen theater. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Katharina Rosenberger: Tempi agitati / 2016 - Music of the Centuries. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg-Meiderich