Peter Ebert
Peter Ebert ( April 6, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main - December 25, 2012 ) was a German-British opera director and theater manager .
Life
At the age of 15, Ebert fled to England with his father Carl Ebert , director of the Berlin City Opera .
There he became a producer for the BBC after graduating and then made a name for himself as an opera director in Great Britain and internationally. In 1960 he went to Germany as artistic director at the Düsseldorf Opera, where he stayed until 1964. From 1968 he held the same position at the Augsburg Theater , from 1973/1974 at the Bielefeld Theater and from 1975 to 1978 at the Wiesbaden State Theater . There, according to Des Spiegel , he was disgusted by the ruling CDU after he had problematized the radical decree in a provocative play .
Ebert went to England. There he became director of the Scottish National Opera in Glasgow in 1979.
As artistic director, he staged both plays and operas. His last production was in 1998 in Verdi's Falstaff in Hanover.
His nephew Alex Ebert is the head of the American band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Ebert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Ebert in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Peter Ebert obituary in the personal data section of the magazine Theater der Zeit
- Peter Ebert obituary on telegraph.co.uk, December 20, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ With the hammer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1977 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebert, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British opera director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2012 |