Sebastian Baumgarten

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Sebastian Baumgarten (born January 31, 1969 in East Berlin ) is a German director .

Life

Sebastian Baumgarten grew up in East Berlin. His mother was a classical singer, his father a doctor; his grandfather Hans Pischner was the artistic director of the State Opera Unter den Linden for many years . From 1989 he studied opera directing at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy . He assisted Ruth Berghaus , Einar Schleef and Robert Wilson and presented his own work from 1992, including at the Semperoper in Dresden ( The Story of the Soldier by Igor Stravinsky , 1995) and the Royal Copenhagen Opera ( Xerxes by Georg Friedrich Händel , 1996) . In the period that followed, Baumgarten increasingly turned to spoken theater, beginning in 1996 with Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady in Neuss.

This was followed by further directorial work at various theaters , before Baumgarten took up a position as senior director and deputy opera director at the Kassel State Theater in 1999, which he held until 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he was chief director at the Meiningen State Theater . Baumgarten has been heading the directing course at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding since the 2013/14 academic year .

Sebastian Baumgarten lives in Berlin.

Productions (selection)

Sources: The list of productions up to 2012 is based on press reports from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, supplemented - especially with regard to operatic activities - by entries on the Goethe-Institut website and in the Munzinger archive.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Jürgen Berger: Sebastian Baumgarten. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Baumgarten, Sebastian im Munzinger-Archiv , accessed on November 20, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible).
  3. ↑ Sebastian Baumgarten takes over the management of the directing course. University of Music and Theater Munich, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Tollhauspostille after Tolstoy in FAZ of November 27, 2012, page 32
  5. ↑ Die Dreigroschenoper ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Schauspiel Stuttgart, accessed on May 5, 2018
  6. ↑ The Divine Comedy. Der Spiegel, accessed March 4, 2016 .
  7. ^ Christine Wahl: Dresden: Ossorgin "A street in Moscow". In: Das TheaterMagazin , June 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin