Hermann Schneider, stage director
Hermann Schneider was born in 1962 in Cologne. He studied German language and literature, philosophy, music and theatre in Tübingen and Munich and graduated as Magister Artium in these subjects in 1987.
Already during his studies he hospitated and assisted as well in plays as in operas. Being assistant director he worked together with Robert Carsen and Willy Decker besides others.
In 1987 he was engaged at Stadttheater Aachen by the former art director Klaus Schultz. He made his debut as stage director with a production of Hansel und Gretel there in 1990. Since then he worked out about forty opera-productions in Aachen, Darmstadt, Dessau, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Eisenach, London, Lübeck, Rudolstadt, Weimar, Vienna, Würzburg and at Schloßfestspiele Zwingenberg.
Besides the classical repertoire he focuses on contemporary musical-theatre. As well as numerous works from the classical modernity (Hartmann, Ravel, Stravinsky, Weill) he especially staged contemporary works (Cage, Kagel) among them five world-premiers. His production of Franz Hummel’s Beuys at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf was invited to Wiener Festwochen in 1998.
Between 1993 and 1995 Hermann Schneider was scenario editor, stage director and provisional artistic director at Stadttheater Eisenach. From 1996 to 2001 he managed the Studio of Deutsche Oper am Rhein under general artistic director Prof. Tobias Richter.
Hermann Schneider is not only interested in theatre but also in the educational work: from 1990 to 1998 he taught at Musikhochschule Cologne, Department Aachen, later from 1998 to 2001 he was teacher at Robert-Schumann-Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf. He led workshops at Mozarteum Salzburg (summer 2001) and at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria Weber in Dresden (summer 2004). In 2001 he was appointed Professor and Leader of the opera-school at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.
Since the 2004/2005 season Hermann Schneider is general director of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg where he staged Verdi’s Rigoletto, Gounod’s Faust, Wagner’s Tannhäuser and the world-premiere of Letzte Dinge by Gerhard Stäbler amongst others. In drama he staged Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus and Georg Trakl’s Blaubart. For his young theatre-visitors he produced Peter Lund’s Hexe Hillary geht in die Oper.
In 2009/10 he staged Eumeniden, the third part of Aischylo’s Orestie. Further more he co-produced Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte together with Marcus Bosch in Lübeck. In 2011 Hermann Schneider will stage La Cenerentola and Die Erzählung der Magd Zerline in Würzburg and Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Festspiele Heidenheim.
Already during his studies he hospitated and assisted as well in plays as in operas. Being assistant director he worked together with Robert Carsen and Willy Decker besides others.
In 1987 he was engaged at Stadttheater Aachen by the former art director Klaus Schultz. He made his debut as stage director with a production of Hansel und Gretel there in 1990. Since then he worked out about forty opera-productions in Aachen, Darmstadt, Dessau, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Eisenach, London, Lübeck, Rudolstadt, Weimar, Vienna, Würzburg and at Schloßfestspiele Zwingenberg.
Besides the classical repertoire he focuses on contemporary musical-theatre. As well as numerous works from the classical modernity (Hartmann, Ravel, Stravinsky, Weill) he especially staged contemporary works (Cage, Kagel) among them five world-premiers. His production of Franz Hummel’s Beuys at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf was invited to Wiener Festwochen in 1998.
Between 1993 and 1995 Hermann Schneider was scenario editor, stage director and provisional artistic director at Stadttheater Eisenach. From 1996 to 2001 he managed the Studio of Deutsche Oper am Rhein under general artistic director Prof. Tobias Richter.
Hermann Schneider is not only interested in theatre but also in the educational work: from 1990 to 1998 he taught at Musikhochschule Cologne, Department Aachen, later from 1998 to 2001 he was teacher at Robert-Schumann-Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf. He led workshops at Mozarteum Salzburg (summer 2001) and at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria Weber in Dresden (summer 2004). In 2001 he was appointed Professor and Leader of the opera-school at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.
Since the 2004/2005 season Hermann Schneider is general director of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg where he staged Verdi’s Rigoletto, Gounod’s Faust, Wagner’s Tannhäuser and the world-premiere of Letzte Dinge by Gerhard Stäbler amongst others. In drama he staged Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus and Georg Trakl’s Blaubart. For his young theatre-visitors he produced Peter Lund’s Hexe Hillary geht in die Oper.
In 2009/10 he staged Eumeniden, the third part of Aischylo’s Orestie. Further more he co-produced Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte together with Marcus Bosch in Lübeck. In 2011 Hermann Schneider will stage La Cenerentola and Die Erzählung der Magd Zerline in Würzburg and Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Festspiele Heidenheim.
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