Paul Lilac
Paul Flieder (born February 1, 1953 in Vienna ; † July 20, 2010 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian opera director and journalist .
Life
Paul Flieder attended the Bundesrealgymnasium Kandlgasse (BRG VII) in Vienna and began his journalistic career with the Arbeiter-Zeitung . He also remained active as an author throughout his life. In 1981 he was assistant director to Christian Pöppelreiter at the Graz Opera , 1983 dramaturgical assistant to Götz Friedrich at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , 1984–1986 dramaturge at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. In 1987 he received a Walter Felsenstein grant for his work at the Komische Oper Berlin .
Flieder has worked as a freelance director, dramaturge and librettist since 1989 , with work in Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg and Vienna (especially at the Vienna Chamber Opera ). He wrote the libretto for the children's opera Elster and Parzival, performed by the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2003 (music by Paul Hertel ). Cultural policy represented a lilac against the audience provocative director's theater and the institutionalized modernity, such as the "German Theater Association" critical position, though with extreme caution.
In addition to his artistic work, Flieder was still on the road as a reporter, creating TV documentaries from crisis regions and writing relevant reports for leading media such as Die Zeit . His book The Barber of Baghdad - Living, Dying, Believing in Iraq , published in 2009 by the Salzburg Residenz Verlag , was the fruit of a stay of several months on site and paints a gloomy picture of the situation and suffering in the country threatened by chaos, radicalization and potential civil wars of its population. Lilac died of a heart attack in the Bregenz lido. This left a large-scale novel unfinished.
Productions
- Flieder staged the first performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Ulaanbaatar and Tirana on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Culture .
- At the Athens National Opera he was responsible for the first Greek Wagner production, namely Der Fliegende Holländer .
- Directed the world premiere of the Franz Jägerstätter church opera .
literature
- A month in hell . In: Die Zeit , No. 52/2008; Iraq report
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Flieder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Musicaforte website
- Short biography. Residenz Verlag
- Obituary. The standard
- ORF
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Robert Schediwy. Review of Modernity , Vienna-Berlin 2014, p. 123
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lilac, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 2010 |
| Place of death | Bregenz |