Lukas Hemleb

Lukas Hemleb (actually Lukas Hemmleb ) (* 1960 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German director , opera director, set designer and librettist.

Hemleb grew up in Germany as the brother of the documentarist Maria Hemmleb. He is half-brother of the alpine journalist and author Jochen Hemmleb . Lukas Hemleb has lived and worked in France and Asia for many years. Right from the start, he made a name for himself as a director of music theater and drama, but also other forms of theater. First he was assistant director in Berlin with Peter Stein , Klaus Michael Grüber and Luc Bondy , among others , and in Italy with Luca Ronconi . He started working as a director in the mid-1980s at the Strasbourg drama school of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg and at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz . He then worked as a director in Bochum and Essen , but then also with artists from Cameroon and Nigeria .

His theater productions in Paris have been seen at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon , at the Comédie-Française and other theaters in France, but also in Switzerland ( Lausanne ), Belgium ( Antwerp ), Germany (Berlin) and Austria ( Burgtheater and theater an der Wien ). His acting repertoire includes Shakespeare , Molière and contemporary authors as well as dramatizations from poems by Dante to Tsvetaeva . He has also emerged as a librettist for music theater works by the composer Reinhard Febel .

As an opera director and set designer, he worked in Paris, Lyon, Lisbon, Aix-en-Provence, Mannheim, the Schwetzingen Festival , and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . He is particularly interested in rarities from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Hemleb dealt in detail with the Chinese and Japanese culture and worked and works in Taiwan and Japan.

Web links

• Personal homepage of Lukas Hemleb