Ralf Nürnberger
Ralf Nürnberger (born March 23, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German director , set designer and translator .
Life
Nürnberger attended elementary school for 6 years and then secondary school, where he graduated in 1968. He then began an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at Borsig in Berlin. He finished this in 1971. After completing the machine fitter apprenticeship, Ralf Nürnberger started as a stage technician at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin. It was there that he made his decision to become a director.
In 1978 he became assistant director at the Bremen theater with Frank-Patrick Steckel . It was there that his first dramatic productions were created. Among other things, a personal adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast and Snow White .
From 1981 he worked as a freelance drama director at theaters in Wuppertal, Düsseldorf, Kiel, for which he wrote his own adaptation of Michael Ende's novel Momo , Heilbronn, Braunschweig, Berlin, Ulm and Heidelberg.
In 1989 he gradually switched to music theater. His first musical theater production was The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies in Giessen, where he also realized Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko . Further productions from this time on were My Fair Lady , Der Liebestrank and Boccaccio in Innsbruck, The Land of Smiles in Bremen, Ariadne on Naxos in Dortmund, The beautiful Helena and Ottone at the Handel Festival at the State Theater in Karlsruhe . In between these musical theater productions, however, he continued to work in acting. In 1995 his daughter Lea was born.
In 1997 he accepted a permanent position as senior director at the Dresden State Operetta, which he held until 2003. In 1998 he married Renate Gramlich. During his time in Dresden he staged operettas, musicals and game operas there, such as The Barber of Seville and Martha .
He also had various guest productions at Theater Dortmund , where he staged the German premiere of The Silver Tassie by Mark-Anthony Turnage under the title Der Cup , as well as at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, at the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin . He also designed the sets for many of the productions.
Since 2003 he has directed at the Leipzig Opera (2003/2004 the German premiere of the opera Flight by Jonathan Dove and 2004/2005 Die Zauberflöte ), in the musical comedy Leipzig (2003/2004 Martha von Friedrich von Flotow and 2006/2007 Bluebeard by Jacques Offenbach ), at the Chemnitz Opera (2007/2008 Carmen by Georges Bizet and 2008/2009 Il templario by Otto Nicolai ), at the Volkstheater Rostock (2008 the musical Dracula by Karel Svoboda ), as well as with stage design at the Theater St. Gallen ( 2004/2005 Der Vetter aus Dingsda by Eduard Künneke ), at the Theater Dortmund ( Das Land des Smiles , 2005) in Bremerhaven ( Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kálmán , 2010) and at the State Theater Cottbus ( Aida , 2011). Further productions were Im Weiße Rößl (January 2012), Rusalka (May 2012), Der Bettelstudent (opening production of the Mörbisch Seefestspiele in July 2013) and Die Fledermaus at the Saarbrücken State Theater (December 2013).
In 2015 his first novel, Canaletto - his years in Dresden was published. His second novel, Der Altar, was published in 2018 , a novel about the excavation and exhibition history of the Berlin Pergamon Altar .
Web links
- Ralf Nürnberger at Operabase (productions)
- Biography at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nürnberger, Ralf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, set designer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |