Michael Klügl

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Michael Klügl (born April 3, 1954 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German artistic director and musicologist .

life and career

After graduating from high school, Klügl studied piano, composition and violoncello in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory . In 1981 he completed his master's degree in musicology, philosophy, German studies and history in Marburg. With a musicological thesis on Jacques Offenbach , he received his doctorate at the TU Berlin in 1981 .

After working as a dramaturgy and assistant director at the Frankfurt Opera and as musical director at the Landesbühne Esslingen , he was chief dramaturge at the Oberhausen Theater from 1986 . From 1987 he was dramaturge for opera and dance theater at Theater Bremen and from 1989 acting dramaturg and head of public relations. From 1991 he worked at the Hamburg State Opera as an opera dramaturge and from 1994 was deputy opera director at the National Theater Mannheim . From 1998 to 2006 he was artistic director at the Landestheater Linz , from 2006 to 2019 artistic director of the Hanover Opera .

He worked with directors such as Ruth Berghaus , John Dew , Jürgen Gosch and Claus Guth , with composers such as Peter Androsch , Giorgio Battistelli , Moritz Eggert and Wolfgang Rihm and with choreographers such as Johann Kresnik and John Neumeier . From 1982 to 1985 he wrote music and theater reviews for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1987 to 1990 he was a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Bremen and from 1991 to 1994 at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg.

Publications

  • 1989: The Tsarevich. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 3: Works. Henze - Massine. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-492-02413-0 , pp. 457-459.
  • 1993: success numbers. Models of a dramaturgy of the operetta , In: Das Orchester 12/1993, p. 1347
  • 1997: Libretto for Giorgio Battistelli's opera “The Discovery of Slowness”, Bremer Theater 1997
  • 2003: Promenade 39. The Landestheater Linz, 1803 to 2003 . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7017-1365-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Stolzenwald: "I think we had a great time" , ndr.de , July 5, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Klügl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main