Nikolaus Bachler (General Manager)
Nikolaus Bachler (until 2008, Klaus Bachler ) (* 29. March 1951 in Fohnsdorf , Styria ) is an Austrian theater and opera intendant and actor .
Life
Klaus Bachler first studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . After graduating, he went to the Salzburg State Theater and was engaged on various German theaters. From 1987 to 1990 he was artistic director of the Berlin Schiller Theater and then went to Paris for two years .
In 1992 he returned to Austria and was initially appointed artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen (where, among other things, he initiated the cult piece Alma - A Show Biz ans Ende in his last season ), then in 1996 he became artistic director of the Vienna Volksoper . In 1999 he took over the Vienna Burgtheater from Claus Peymann .
At the beginning of the 2008/2009 season, Klaus Bachler took over the management of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Since then he has been calling himself Nikolaus Bachler again after his birth name .
From July 1, 2020, he will take over the commercial management of the Salzburg Easter Festival and, from 2022, also the overall artistic responsibility for the festival. He succeeds Peter Ruzicka , whose contract expires on June 30, 2020.
Activity at the Burgtheater
The direction Bachler represented a paradigm shift for the Burgtheater to the direction of its predecessor. With Bachler, a cultural manager had become director of the most important stage in Austria, who put the theater event in the foreground, not the controversial director like his predecessor Peymann. For this he hired directors such as Luc Bondy , Andrea Breth and Peter Zadek .
He saw theater as a medium with social responsibility. With the campaign, which started in 2007, for free to the theater! School classes were given the opportunity to attend selected performances free of charge.
The repertoire included modern and classic pieces in different staging styles. The vestibule and casino venues had established themselves as spaces for experimental theater and new approaches.
Klaus Bachler set a thematic focus with the Shakespeare cycle, which ran until 2008 , in which the work and time of Shakespeare and its effects on the present day were examined with modern interpretations of classic Shakespeare plays, readings and lectures.
Other highlights apart from the repertoire were the MTV unplugged concerts by Die Toten Hosen , published on the album Nur zu sucht in 2005, productions by Christoph Schlingensief and the Aktion orgien mysterien theater by Hermann Nitsch , both in 2005.
In April 2014, a certificate from the independent lawyer Karl Newole, commissioned by the magazine NEWS, did not want to rule out the act of infidelity, because Bachler had received his full salary in Vienna in 2009, although he was already the artistic director of the Munich Opera. In 2015, this allegation was found to be void.
Others
As representative of the directors of the Bavarian State Theaters, Bachler is a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . In 2009 he was awarded honorary membership by the Vienna Burgtheater .
See also
Web links
- Nikolaus Bachler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Nikolaus Bachler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Munich! Portrait in Die Zeit
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Haberl: Still cool. A meeting with Nikolaus Bachler , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Nikolaus Bachler curriculum vitae on the pages of the Bavarian State Opera
- ↑ Easter Festival: Bachler officially appointed boss on ORF Salzburg on November 7, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
- ^ Members of the Broadcasting Council. Bayerischer Rundfunk , accessed on May 23, 2014 .
- ↑ Honorary members of the Burgtheater (as of 2010) (accessed on June 26, 2014)
Adolf Ario (1951–1958) | Rudolf Gamsjäger (1959) | Egon Hilbert (1960–1964) | Ulrich Baumgartner (1964–1977) | Gerhard Freund (1978–1979) | Helmut Zilk (1980–1984) | Ursula Pasterk (1984–1991) | Klaus Bachler (1991–1996) | Luc Bondy / Klaus-Peter Kehr / Hortensia Völckers (1997–2001) | Luc Bondy (2002-2013) | Markus Hinterhäuser (2014–2016) | Tomas Zierhofer-Kin (2017–2018) | Christophe Slagmuylder (2019-2024)
Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (1824–1848) | Karl Theodor von Küstner (1848–1851) | Franz von Dingelstedt (1851–1858) | Karl von Perfall (1868–1892) | Ernst von Possart (1893–1906) | Albert von Speidel (1907–1912) | Clemens von Franckenstein (1912–1918) | Viktor Schwanneke (1918) | Karl Zeiss (1919–1924) | Clemens von Franckenstein (1924–1934) | Hans Knappertsbusch (1934–1935) | Oskar Walleck (1935–1938) | Clemens Krauss (1938–1940) | Georg Hartmann (1945–1952) | Rudolf Hartmann (1952–1967) | Günther Rennert (1967–1976) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1976–1977) | August Everding (1977–1982) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1982–1993) | Peter Jonas (1993-2006) | Kent Nagano , Roland Schwab and Ulrike Hessler (2006–2008) | Nikolaus Bachler (since 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachler, Nikolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bachler, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater and opera director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fohnsdorf , Styria |