Oliver Graf (Manager)

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Oliver Graf (born December 6, 1981 in Gifhorn ) is a German cultural manager and former theater actor .

Life

Beginnings and training

Graf grew up in Knesebeck and Vorhop and graduated from high school in Hankensbüttel in 2002 . He completed his community service in a specialist clinic for addiction rehabilitation in the Lüneburg Heath.

Graf studied cultural management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Institute for Cultural Management and Gender Studies ). From 2004 to March 2008 he completed his acting training at the Free Drama School Hamburg.

Acting and directing

Oliver Graf began his theater career as part of his community service as an employee in the dramaturgy and public relations department at the Celle Castle Theater . In 2002 he worked there as an assistant director and also appeared in several roles. During his training he played his first solo roles in the theater. He initially had theater engagements at the Mecklenburg State Theater Parchim (2006/07 season) and at the Hamburg State Opera (from the 2007/08 season until the end of the 2009/10 season). In the 2008/09 season he was engaged at the Schlosstheater Celle.

In the 2009/10 season he played a leading role in the comedy on the old town market in Braunschweig , one of the two journeyman craftsmen, the boiler maker Gustav, in the theater production Das Wirtshaus im Spessart and also took on this role in several guest tours of this production. In the 2009/10 season he could also be seen there in the tabloid comedy Hands Off My Wife at the side of Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and directed the children's and youth theater production Peter Pan .

Cultural management

Graf worked as a freelancer in the artistic operations office of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden ( Semperoper ), assistant to the director and head of the director's offices at the Festival of Young Artists in Bayreuth as well as assistant to the director and consultant for marketing at the Stadttheater Gießen . From 2011 to 2014 he was employed at the Bayreuth Festival as a dispatcher and employee in the artistic management office. From the 2014/15 season he was initially dispatcher and artistic production manager at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , and with the beginning of the 2015/16 season he became a member of the opera management / casting director .

From summer 2017 he was artistic director and deputy director in the artistic field at the Stadttheater Gießen and held a teaching position at the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen .

With the start of the 2020/21 season, Graf will be intendant and managing director at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Hildesheim .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vita City Theater Gießen . Retrieved January 16, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Vita Kulturherbst Jennersdorf . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 27, 2013 ; accessed in 2007 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturkreis.co.at
  3. ↑ Peter Pan as a top achievement - Fantastic journey to Neverland . Theater review by Silja Weißer in: Cellesche Zeitung from November 19, 2008.
  4. ↑ Old robber pistol in a new holster . Theater review in: Echo Online from December 15, 2009.
  5. ↑ Komödie am Altstadtmarkt (PDF; 1.5 MB) Program flyer for the 2009/2010 season.
  6. ^ Oliver Graf Stadttheater Gießen.
  7. ^ Vita Staatstheater Darmstadt . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de
  8. ↑ New management team in Hildesheim. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ New management for TfN Hildesheim from 2020/21 . Nachtkritik.de, September 13, 2018. Accessed August 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Count, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifhorn