Staffan Valdemar Holm

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Staffan Valdemar Holm (2012)

Staffan Valdemar Holm (* 1958 in Tomelilla , southern Sweden ) is a Swedish theater and opera director . He received his training as a director from 1984 to 1988 at the State Theater Academy in Copenhagen. In 1986, as part of his studies, he worked for several months as an assistant at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , where he worked on Peter Stein's production “The Hairy Monkey”.

From 1992 to 1998 Holm was artistic director at the Malmö Theater, where he opened with a production of Kleist's “Schroffenstein Family” . As director of the Royal Dramatic Theater ( Dramaten ), which he headed from 2002 to 2008, he repeatedly brought style-setting directors from Germany to Stockholm, most recently Michael Thalheimer , with whose staging of Horváth's " Kasimir und Karoline " Holm said goodbye to dramatics.

Holm made his debut as an opera director in 1996, and since then he has produced an opera almost every year, including 2004 to 2006 Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

So far he has staged twice in Germany: in 2002 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin “Was ihr wollt” and in 2010 at the Frankfurt theater “Tartuffe”. Holm has been general manager at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus since August 2011 . His contract is initially for six years. On November 28, 2012, Holm announced that he had resigned due to chronic burnout. The current managing director of the Schauspielhaus, Manfred Weber , becomes interim boss . But Holm wants to continue staging in Düsseldorf.

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  1. ↑ Andreas Wilink: Düsseldorf's Intendant Holm resigns - resignation after one and a half years. In: nachtkritik.de. November 29, 2012, accessed January 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Staffan Valdemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Tomelilla