Katharina Wagner

Katharina Friederike Wagner ( born May 21, 1978 in Bayreuth ) is a German opera director and - jointly and equally with her ​​half-sister Eva Wagner- Pasquier - artistic director and director of the Bayreuth Festival.

Life

Katharina Wagner is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and his second wife, Gudrun Mack and thus great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and great- great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt. She grew up in Bayreuth, studied Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as assistant director for Harry Kupfer at the Berlin State Opera, and at the Bayreuth Festival ( 1996 Meistersinger, Lohengrin in 1999, Tannhäuser in 2002, Parsifal 2004).

Your debut as a director she presented in 2002 in Würzburg. Here and in later productions - taken by public and press are all very controversial - she sat down considerably from the directing style of her father. At its stresses provocative Meistersinger at Bayreuth in 2007 was accused of her that she had her artistic profile not yet been found and deficits as directed on.

As of 2001, assisted Katharina Wagner her father in the area of ​​festival management and was encouraged by him as a potential successor. It helped to bring new directors such as Christoph Schlingensief to Bayreuth, and increased publicity of the house - which earned her the accusation of populism. In 2007 she made ​​the first samples for journalists only; In 2008 she initiated the remote into the picture and sound of a Festival presentation at the Bayreuth festival space.

After many years in the public partly emotional discussions about the future of the Bayreuth Festival Wolfgang Wagner stated in April 2008 provides, in favor of his two daughters - Catherine and her half-sister Eva Wagner- Pasquier - resign. Then handed both women who had previously never met, a joint application to the Board of Trustees, which by a majority of 22 votes took this on September 1, 2008 ( with 2 abstentions ).

Since the winter semester 2010/11 Katharina Wagner is an honorary professor of directing at the Academy of Music " Hanns Eisler" Berlin.

Honors, Memberships

  • 2007 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bayreuth Easter Festival; Golden Prometheus
  • 2012 Bavarian Culture Prize

Productions

  • Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman. Würzburg ( Mainfrankentheater ) 2002
  • Richard Wagner: Lohengrin. Budapest ( Staatsoper / Erkel Theatre ) 2004
  • Albert Lortzingstraße: The Armourer. Munich ( State Theater on Gaertnerplatz ) 2005
  • Giacomo Puccini ( music) / Giuseppe Adami, Giovacchino Forzano ( libretti ): Il trittico. Berlin ( German Opera ) 2006
  • Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Bayreuth ( Festival Hall ) 2007
  • Richard Wagner: Rienzi. Bremen ( Theatre) 2008
  • Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Teatro Pérez Galdós ) 2009
  • Giacomo Puccini ( music) / Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica ( libretto ): Madama Butterfly. Mainz ( State Theatre ) 2010
  • Eugen D' Albert (Music) / Angel Guimera, Rudolph Lothar ( libretto ): lowlands. Mainz ( State Theatre ) 2011

In planning:

  • Richard Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung in abbreviated form, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon ) 2012; canceled (contract terminated by mutual agreement )
  • Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. Bayreuth ( Festival Hall ) 2015
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