Michael von zur Mühlen
Michael von zur Mühlen (born 1979 in Cologne ) is a German opera and theater director .
Life
Michael von zur Mühlen grew up in Cologne and began studying musicology and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He then completed a degree in music theater directing at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin .
He worked as an assistant for the directors Achim Freyer , Joachim Schlömer , Jean Jourdheuil and Peter Konwitschny . He was a scholarship holder at the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Stuttgart State Opera and staged the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Last Desire based on Oscar Wilde's Salome.
Since 2004 he has been working as a freelance director in opera, drama and contemporary music theater, among others. a. at the Stuttgart State Opera, the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, the Leipzig Opera , the Theater Heidelberg, the State Opera Berlin , the German National Theater Weimar , the German Theater Göttingen, the State Theater Darmstadt, the Theater Augsburg and the Theater of the City of Konstanz .
An important role is played by Bertolt Brecht , whose works Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouse , Life of Galilei , Lehrstück and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny he staged.
Since the beginning of the 2016/17 season he has been chief dramaturge and member of the artistic management at the Halle Opera , responsible for its innovative program and a. In 2019 he was awarded the Federal Theater Prize.
In 2008, his staging of Richard Wagner's Flying Dutchman at the Leipzig Opera developed into a scandal that was discussed intensively in the specialist press. After about an hour, numerous visitors left the hall. On stage were video sequences with dogs biting each other dead, cow carcasses hanging on hooks and lots of blood. Leading actor James Johnson resigned three days after the performance.
According to Christine Lemke-Matwey in Die Zeit , his production of Aida at the Halle Opera shows “what opera can do in the 21st century”.
In 2019 von zur Mühlen held the Bertolt Brecht visiting professorship in the city of Leipzig.
Productions (selection)
- 2918: Aida , Oper Halle
- 2017: The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny , Oper Halle
- 2016: The work of art of the future , Oper Halle
- 2016: The Broken Jug , Theater Konstanz
- 2015: The ridiculous darkness , Theater Augsburg
- 2015: debt. Liberation , Darmstadt State Theater
- 2014: Life of Galilei , DT Göttingen
- 2013: Così fan tutte , Graz / Deutsche Oper Berlin
- 2012: Lehrstück , Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
- 2012: The Magic Mountain , DT Göttingen
- 2011: Robert S , Theater Bonn
- 2011: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses , DNT Weimar
- 2010: Miss Donnithorne's Maggot , Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
- 2010: Infinito nero , State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin
- 2009: Spartaco , Heidelberg Theater
- 2008: The Flying Dutchman , Leipzig Opera
- 2007: La Bohème , Theater Heidelberg
- 2007: Towards the sun , music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district
- 2005: Last desire , Forum Neues Musiktheater of the State Opera Stuttgart
Web links
- Official Website - https://michaelvonzurmuehlen.com/
- Michael von zur Mühlen on the pages of Theater der Zeit
- Michael von zur Mühlen on the sides of the Opera Hall
- Michael von zur Mühlen at Operabase (productions)
- Detailed presentation of the events surrounding the Flying Dutchman on the German stage
- Michael von zur Mühlen - I'm not a scandal director! in T-Arts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trenches of Joy: Hallesche Bühnen are planning a festival . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).
- ↑ Eleven awards with the theater prize of the Federal Minister of State for Culture Grütters announces this year's winners: More attention and appreciation for theater in the regions. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Joachim Lange / Detlef Brandenburg: Heavy seas. (PDF) Die Deutsch Bühne, 2009, accessed on November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Critical appraisal of the "Leipzig Opera Scandal" in the Online Musik Magazin (OMM): Desperation before the shot
- ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey: A wonderful fraud. In: The time . January 24, 2018, accessed July 8, 2020 .
- ^ Bertolt Brecht visiting professorship - CCT Leipzig. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zur Mühlen, Michael von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera and theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |