Tobias Kratzer

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Tobias Kratzer (born January 17, 1980 in Landshut ) is a German opera and drama director.

Life

After completing his studies in art history in Munich and Bern, Kratzer studied acting and music theater directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding . He presented his first productions at the Munich Akademietheater ( The Seven Deadly Sins , 2006, The Engagement in St. Domingo , 2008) and in the Munich Reactor Hall ( La traviata , 2006). Here he worked for the first time with his later regular stage partners, the outfitter Rainer Sellmaier and the conductor Martin Wettges .

At the international directing competition "ring.award" in Graz in spring 2008, Kratzer competed against himself in changing disguises under the pseudonyms Ginger Holiday and Nedko Morakov. The ATEF team, consisting of Kratzer, Sellmaier and Wettges, won all awards with its production of Rigoletto in the Graz theater. In his laudation, Peter Konwitschny pointed in particular to the creative handling of the material while at the same time being faithful to the work and the unity of successful musical execution and scenic concept. The international euphoria for the Graz Rigoletto led to invitations to numerous houses, including the Bavarian State Opera ( Così fan tutte , 2009), the Heidelberg Theater ( Die Zauberflöte , 2009), the Wermland Opera in Karlstad, Sweden ( Rigoletto , 2009) , the Schauspielhaus Graz, the Leipzig Opera ( Admeto , 2010) and the Graz Opera ( La sonnambula , 2010).

In the 2010/11 season, Kratzer realized three nationally acclaimed opera productions: Der Rosenkavalier at the Theater Bremen, Anna Bolena at the Lucerne Theater (nomination for the production of the year in the 2011 Opera World Yearbook ) and Telemaco at the Schwetzingen Festival and at the Theater Basel. Tannhäuser at Theater Bremen followed in 2011/12 , a staged version of the St. John Passion at Wermland Opera and the German second performance of Erkki-Sven Tüür's opera Wallenberg at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

In the following seasons, Kratzer was able to establish himself as "one of the greatest directing talents" of his generation. For his staging of the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt he was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2015 in the category "Best Director" and for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST in the category "Best Director Music Theater".

On July 25, 2019, his new production of Tannhäuser with Valery Gergiev at the podium premiered at the Bayreuth Festival. It was praised as a “great success”, “fast-paced, detailed, funny and emotionally gripping”, “colorful dance with wit and double image levels” with excellent personal direction, but which excludes the central theme of the opera - freedom - and therefore “ultimately how a mirror fencing, but with entertainment value “works.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According splitter, Der Rosenkavalier - Theater Bremen
  2. ↑ Opernwelt-Jahrbuch 2011 , p. 120.
  3. ↑ "Dangerous ways home"
  4. ↑ Tobias Kratzer - Vita
  5. ↑ "Young star of the opera. With olle Hans Sachs at a cheap kebab"
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ [2]
  8. ^ [3] Bayreuth Festival, Tannhäuser 2019, accessed on July 28, 2019
  9. ↑ Peter Korfmacher: Bayreuth premiere: Tobias Kratzer's fabulous production of Wagner's "Tannhäuser" , haz.de from July 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ Sabine Lange: Bayreuth 2019 - that was "Tannhäuser" , ndr.de from July 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ Martin Doerry: A calculated impertinence , Spiegel Online from July 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Peter Huth : The tears of laughter came with the clown , welt.de of July 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Christoph Schmitz: Tannhäuser im Kleinbus , Deutschlandfunk from July 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Scratch, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut