Michael Haensel

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Michael Haensel (born September 21, 1943 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † August 13, 2017 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ) was a German opera director and theater director .

Life

Michael Haensel was born in 1943 as the son of the stage publisher Peter Haensel ( Felix Bloch Erben , Berlin) and the actress Agi Prandhoff in Strasbourg / Alsace.

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1963, he studied acting and directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . He received his first engagement in 1968 as assistant director for opera, operetta and drama at the municipal theaters in Nuremberg, now the State Theater in Nuremberg . From 1967 to 1975 Haensel was assistant director and employee of the famous conductor Herbert von Karajan at the Easter Festival in Salzburg . 1968–1972 Haensel worked as an assistant director and theater manager at the Stadttheater Basel under Werner Düggelin and Friedrich Dürrenmatt . From 1972 to 1974 he directed the stages of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck under the direction of Karl Vibach and was also chief dispatcher and deputy general manager in the artistic field. In 1976, Haensel moved to the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin as Administrative Director and Vice Director , where he also took on a number of productions with Harald Juhnke and Grit Boettcher, among others . From January 1, 1981, Haensel was the operations director of the Cologne Opera and from 1983 also deputy director under the direction of Michael Hampe . During this time he also met his wife, the opera singer Victoria Vergara . 1998–2004 Haensel was president of the community of interests of cities with theater guest performances (INTHEGA).

In August 1991 Michael Haensel took over the Theater im Pfalzbau in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as director until 2003 . In addition to numerous co-productions with leading theaters and opera houses, he staged major operas such as I due Foscari by Verdi and Luisa Miller as well as Halévy's Die Jüdin and expanded Ludwigshafen into a ballet center.

Since 2003 Michael Haensel has worked as a freelance director and staged in the Prinzregenten Theater , a dialect theater in Ludwigshafen; there he had a long friendship with the theater directors Bernhard F. Dropmann and René Weintz .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwigshafen: Ex-Pfalzbauintendant Michael Haensel has died. Die Rheinpfalz , August 15, 2017, accessed on August 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Former President Michael Haensel is dead. Inthega report from August 18, 2017 , accessed on August 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Haensel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH 13th August 2017
Place of death Frankenthal (Palatinate)