Peter Lund (Author)
Peter Lund (born December 30, 1965 in Flensburg ) is a German freelance director and author .
Life
Lund graduated from high school in Flensburg. He studied architecture in Berlin and has worked as a freelance director and author since 1985, among others in Braunschweig, Hanover, Darmstadt, Bremen, Hamburg, Basel, Innsbruck and Vienna. In 1985 he founded the Comp & Co group . From 1996 to 2004 he was a board member of the Neukölln Opera in Berlin. Since 2002 he has been a professor in the musical / show course at the Berlin University of the Arts .
In addition to his work as a music theater director, Lund distinguished himself as a writer by attempting to gain new aspects from the musical genre. Especially in the collaboration with the composers Thomas Zaufke and Wolfgang Böhmer , Lund puts contemporary and everyday reality on the stage, sometimes more realistic with The Miracle of Neukölln , Baby Talk , Life without Chris or My Avatar and Me , sometimes more cabaret with Die Krötzkesommen , Letterland and Held Müller . In his children's plays often he uses satirical adaptations of fairy tales or children's books as not Cinderella fits what , Puss alley cat or Maja and co . One of Lund's most successful works is his repeatedly performed children's play Hexe Hillary goes to the opera .
Works
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Productions (selection)
- Die Fledermaus , operetta by Johann Strauss (Premiere July 6th 1987 Ensemble Theater Berlin)
- The Merry Widow , operetta by Franz Lehár (Premiere June 10, 1989, foyer of the Theater des Westens, Berlin)
- 10 girls and no man, after the operetta Die Schöne Galathée by Franz von Suppè (premiere February 12, 1994, Staatstheater Braunschweig )
- La finta giardiniera , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (premiere January 7, 1995, Braunschweig State Theater)
- Così fan tutte , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (premiere February 3, 1996, Braunschweig State Theater)
- Alice, based on the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , music: Hanno Siepmann (Premiere February 25, 1999, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin)
- Hansel and Gretel , children's opera by Engelbert Humperdinck (premiere November 1999, Landestheater Innsbruck )
- Assassins , musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman , (premiere June 12, 2002, Neuköllner Oper)
- Agrippina by Georg Friedrich Händel (Premiere February 24, 2008, Saarbrücken State Theater )
- My Fair Lady Musical by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Premiere July 31, 2008, Admiralspalast , Berlin)
- Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Premiere March 13, 2010, Staatstheater Darmstadt )
- The Tsarevich operetta by Franz Lehár , Bela Jenbach and Heinz Reichert (premiere July 15, 2010, Mörbisch Lake Festival )
- Frau Luna , operetta by Paul Lincke (Premiere: September 22, 2012, Theater Regensburg )
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Premiere October 11, 2014, Theater Osnabrück )
- Axel an der Himmelstür , operetta by Ralph Benatzky (Premiere September 17, 2016, Volksoper Vienna )
- The Circus Princess , operetta by Emmerich Kálmán (premiere February 11, 2017, Graz Opera House )
In 2010, Lund also designed the music evening Ein Herz sucht ein Parking Lot (music: Adam Benzwi , premiere: December 5, 2010, Neuköllner Oper Berlin).
Essays
- Someday Mister Prince Will Come. In: Armin Geraths: Creating the «New Musical»: Harold Prince in Berlin , Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern et al., 2006.
Awards
- 2015 : Award in the category Best Book ( Grimm! )
- 2016 : Award in the Best Book category ( Stella - The blonde ghost from Kurfürstendamm )
- 2016: Award in the category Best Lyrics (Stella - The blonde ghost from Kurfürstendamm)
- 2018 : Award in the category Best Book ( Welcome to Hell )
- 2018: Nomination in the category Best Director (Welcome to Hell)
- 2014 : Nomination for Best Director ( Frau Luna - Volksoper Wien )
- 2018 : Award for best director ( Axel an der Himmelstür - Volksoper Vienna)
Web links
- Peter Lund - personal homepage
- Berlinonline - Interview with Peter Lund on "Buy yourself a child" ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Report from “Welt” about Peter Lund and Thomas Zaufke
- Interview with Peter Lund How does home sound
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Krechbaum: Nur ein Gaukler, Spielball des Glücks In: Drehpunktkultur.at, February 13, 2017.
- ^ The German Musical Theater Prize 2015: The Great Ceremony In: musical1.de, October 27, 2015.
- ↑ German Musical Theater Prize 2016 awarded In: deutschemusicalakademie.de, October 10, 2016.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Big gala for award winners . Article dated June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018.
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| SURNAME | Lund, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |