Götz Friedrich
Götz Friedrich ( * August 4, 1930 in Naumburg, Saxony Province, Prussia, † December 12, 2000 in Berlin) was a German film director and theater director.
Life
Götz Friedrich was at the (then East ) Berlin Komische Oper a pupil and later employee of Walter Felsenstein and there then Director ( chief director ). Already in the 1960s he staged in the West, such as Bremen and 1972 at the Bayreuth Festival ( Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser ). In November 1972 Frederick returned from a stint in Stockholm no longer in the GDR back. He then worked as a director at the Hamburg State Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
From 1981 to 2000 he was general manager and chief director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In addition, he was chief director of the Hamburg State Opera, Artistic Director of the Theatre of the West in Berlin (1984-1993), senior director ( Principal Producer) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and from 1993 Principal Guest Director of the Royal Opera in Stockholm. In 1986, he was the initiator of the Foundation The American Berlin Opera Foundation ( ABOF ), headquartered in New York City.
Since 1973, he taught as a professor of musical theater directing at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg in cooperation with the University of Hamburg. He had founded together with August Everding the program.
Friedrich has worked with many well-known decorators, including Toni Businger Rudolf Heinrich, Reinhart Zimmermann, Ernst Fuchs, Karl -Ernst Herrmann, Wilfried Minks, Josef Svoboda Jan Skalicky, Günther Schneider- Siemssen, Jürgen Rose, Günther Uecker, Andreas Reinhardt, Herbert Wernicke Erich Wonder, Pet stalks, Peter Sykora, Hans Schavernoch and Gottfried Pilz.
Private
In his first marriage Götz Friedrich was 1953-1962 married to the actress Ruth Maria Kubitschek, in this marriage of son Alexander was born. Then Frederick was married to the dancer Sighilt Pahl, which even in 1972, he was allowed to leave together from East Germany to Stockholm with him. From Frederick's third wife, the soprano Karan Armstrong, his son John comes (* 1983).
Frederick's tomb is located in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf, since November 2010 she has been an honorary grave of Berlin.