Philipp Kochheim

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Philipp Kochheim (born December 4, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German director , author and set designer .

Life

Philipp Kochheim started playing the piano at the age of 7. As a teenager he attended productions by Peter Zadek , which aroused his interest in the theater. He studied art history in Munich , with minor subjects in modern German literature and theater studies . In the 1992/93 season he attended a performance of Verdi's masked ball and then turned his attention increasingly to music theater. During an internship at the Augsburg Theater , he met John Dew and occasionally accompanied him as an assistant to the Vienna State Opera . In 1995 Kochheim completed his studies with a Magister Artium and then worked for five years as Dew's assistant at the Dortmund Theater .

From 1997 Kochheim became known for his own productions and stage designs , initially during his assistance in Dortmund, where, among other things, he staged Gogol's diary of a madman . In 2001, he directed the world premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür Holocaust - opera Wallenberg at the Dortmund Opera House. He then worked as a freelance director at various companies. In 2003 he staged at the Staatstheater Oldenburg (Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen ; Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore ; Bizet: Carmen ) and at the Heidelberg Theater (Mozart: Così fan tutte ). Kochheim's unsuccessful attempt in the following year to cast two women in the play Warten auf Godot at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord attracted media attention . The S. Fischer Verlag banned the performance according to the instructions of the author Samuel Beckett , who only wanted men in the four roles.

In 2004, artistic director John Dew brought Kochheim to the opera at the Darmstadt State Theater as senior director . However, they had artistic differences and in 2008 Kochheim left the house again. He then worked at the Staatstheater Kassel in 2009, at the Gera Theater in 2010 and at the Chemnitz Theater since 2011 , where he performed Otto Nicolai's opera The Homecoming of the Exile . Since 2009, Kochheim has staged classical theater pieces as well as musicals such as Hair , West Side Story and Evita . The latter was performed in February 2012 at the Regensburg Theater . From March 2013 to August 2017 he was engaged as opera director at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and staged Jenő Hubay's Anna Karenina , Astor Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires , Bernard Herrmanns Sturmhöhe and the musical Ragtime .

Since May 1, 2017, Kochheim has been the artistic director of Den Jyske Opera (Danish National Opera Aarhus).

On January 24, 2018 allegations of “sexual abuse of power” were raised against Kochheim, who had previously rehearsed his musical production Ragtime at the Graz Opera . Even when he was the opera director in Braunschweig , he contacted several actresses on Facebook , sexually harassed them and abused his position as a director .

Kochheim's own pieces include CQD (world premiere in Dortmund 1998 ) and Tschaikowsky (world premiere in Wilhelmshaven 2002 ). He also wrote the libretto for Willy Brandt's opera Kniefall in Warsaw (music: Gerhard Rosenfeld ), which premiered in 1997 under the direction of Dew in Dortmund. He lives in Berlin and Aarhus .

Publications

  • Kneel in Warsaw. Parthas-Verlag, Berlin 1998.
  • CQD. Hartmann and Stauffacher, Cologne 1998.
  • TCHAIKOVSKY. Hartmann and Stauffacher, Cologne 2002.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Zietsch: “Mahagonny” in the middle of us. In: Darmstädter Echo , October 20, 2004. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Erkki-Sven Tüürs Oper Wallenberg ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Edition Peters . Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Ute Schalz-Laurenze: cleaning, ironing, gawking. In: TAZ , June 18, 2003. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Konstanze on a shopping trip: Kochheim stages Mozart's “Entführung” In: FAZ , October 23, 2005. Accessed on November 25, 2012.
  5. ^ "Guardians of the Grail" prevent mixed doubles when "Waiting for Godot". In: Schwäbische Zeitung January 25, 2004. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  6. ↑ Stefan Schickhaus: Darmstadt is an isolated case. ( Memento of May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 29, 2011. Retrieved on November 25, 2012.
  7. ^ Philipp Kochheim ( memento of March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) theater-chemnitz.de, accessed on November 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ Moving "Evita". In: Donaukurier , February 27, 2012. Accessed November 25, 2012.
  9. ^ Philipp Kochheim , Staatstheater Braunschweig, accessed on September 19, 2015.
  10. ^ Den Jyske Opera: press release new director. Den Jyske Opera, October 11, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ By Florian Arnold and Andreas Berger: Did Kochheim flirt too intrusively? ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).
  12. ↑ "I love your legs" | the beaver. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Sexism scandal at the Graz Opera . January 24, 2018 ( oe24.at [accessed January 26, 2018]).
  14. ↑ According to allegations: Grazer Opera boss: "Sexual harassment is intolerable" . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
  15. ^ Allegations of harassment at the Graz Opera - steiermark.ORF.at. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  16. ↑ CQD Come Quick Danger by Philipp Kochheim ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Theaterverlag Hartmann & Stauffacher, accessed on November 25, 2012.
  17. ↑ Otto-Kasten-Preis theaterforschung.de, accessed on November 25, 2012.
  18. ↑ Philipp Kochheim goetz-friedrich-preis.de, accessed on November 25, 2012.
  19. ↑ Personal members ( Memento from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) iti-germany.de, accessed on November 25, 2012.
  20. ↑ winners rolf-mares-preis.de, accessed October 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kochheim, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg