Ludger Engels
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
- 1995: La Cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini, Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
- 1995: The Devil's Pleasure Palace by Franz Schubert, Zwingenberg
- 1996: The Barber of Seville by Giovanni Paisiello, Mainz
- 1997: Luisa Miller from Giuseppe Verdi, Mainz
- 1997: Xerxes by Georg Friedrich Händel, Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
- 1998: Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, Mainz
- 1999: La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Augsburg
- 1999: The Ghost Sonata by Aribert Reimann, Braunschweig
- 2000: Mignon by Ambroise Thomas , Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich
- 2001: The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill, Heidelberg
- 2001: Elektra by Richard Strauss, Lübeck
- 2002: Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel, Lucerne
- 2003: Lucio Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Aachen
- 2003: My heart swims in the blood of Johann Sebastian Bach, Lucerne
- 2004: Leonce and Lena from Christian Henking , Bern
- 2006: Europeras by John Cage, Aachen
- 2007: Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Aachen
- 2008: Nijinsky's diary by Detlev Glanert, Aachen
- 2009: Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi, Augsburg
- 2010: Eugen Onegin by Peter I. Tschaikowski, Aachen
- 2011: Arabella by Richard Strauss, Aachen
- 2012: Superflumina by Salvatore Sciarrino , Aachen
- 2012: Tristan and Isolde from Richard Wagner, Aachen
- 2013: Intolleranza 1960 by Luigi Nono, Augsburg
- 2013: Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, Bern
- 2014: Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wuorinen, Aachen, German premiere
- 2014: Peter Grimes from Benjamin Britten, Bern
- 2015: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Aachen
- 2015: Salome by Richard Strauss, Bern
- 2015: Wozzeck from Alban Berg, Augsburg
- 2016: The Tempest by Thomas Adès , Hungarian State Opera Budapest
- 2016: Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, Freiburg
- 2017: Zaide / Adama. WA Mozart / Chaya Czernowin , new version by Chaya Czernowin and Ludger Engels, Freiburg
- 2017: Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, Aachen
play
- 2005: Anna Karenina from Leo Tolstoy, Aachen
- 2006: End of the line longing from Tennessee Williams, Aachen
- 2008: Oresty ( Agamemnon ) from Aeschylus, Aachen
- 2009: Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Aachen
- 2009: Money and Love by Dennis Kelly , Aachen
- 2012: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Aachen
- 2013: Hedda Gabler from Henrik Ibsen, Aachen
- 2014: Gift from Lot Vekemans , Aachen and Augsburg
- 2014: FaustIn and Out , Urfaust . By Elfriede Jelinek , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Aachen
- 2016: The events of David Greig , Aachen
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
- Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon. 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).
Web links
- Ludger Engels at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Ludger Engels on the website of the Academy for Performing Arts Baden Württemberg
- Ludger Engels article in the WAZ of August 14, 2011, accessed on March 5, 2015
- Ludger Engels on the pages of the Augsburg Theater
- Ludger Engels on the website of Theater Aachen
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ a b c d e f Bavarian State Opera: Engels Ludger. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Ludger Engels . Short biography (Dutch). Accessed August 30, 2020.
- ↑ Article in the WAZ of August 14, 2011, accessed on March 5, 2015 (no longer available online).
- ↑ Ludger Engels (director). In: Concert Theater Bern. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Ludger Engels, director (music theater). In: Theater Aachen. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Ludger Engels at Operabase (productions).
- ↑ Ludger Engels. In: Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Aachener Zeitung: Aachen: Human shadows in video light: "Lucio Silla" in the Aachen theater. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Katharina Rosenberger: Tempi agitati / 2016 - Music of the Centuries. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Engels, Ludger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera and theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg-Meiderich |