Matthias Rettner

Matthias Rettner ( born April 9, 1963) is a German cultural managers and theater makers.

Biography

After a classical vocal training, including three years in the master class of Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau at the Berlin University of Arts, he joined in the 1990s primarily as a concert singer, for example, in a duo with pianist Eric Schneider. Together they won a prize at the 1990 International Competition for Song Art in Stuttgart and played a different song programs for broadcasters.

In the late 1990s he turned to more interdisciplinary projects that were not unique to the classic genre. In 1999, he joined the coming of Berlin action theater PAN.OPTIKUM, one led by Sigrun Fritsch and Ralf Buron theater company, with a focus on production in the public sphere.

In the context of PAN.OPTIKUM he developed concepts for repositioning the action theater and gave impetus to the production of the following years. Under his leadership, joined the ensemble at Theater Festival in Santiago de Chile, Teatro a Mil, at the Festival Internacional de Teatro de Caracas, the Festival Internacional de Teatro de Bogota, at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico. With productions for the Ruhr Triennale 2004, " Orpheus ", a production- Gerard Mortier and the German premiere of Romteils of Philip Glass 's opera " The Civil Wars " in September 2004, he continued his model of mixing and penetration of different styles and genres.

Since 2003 he collaborates with the Frankfurt concept artist and designer Peter Zizka and offered the installation by the artist virtual minefield in " The Civil Wars " is a first presentation platform. With the ensemble, he was awarded the 2005 Cultural Prize Baden- Württemberg

Productions

2001 IL CORSO, premiered at Weimar Art Festival; ORPHEUS 2004, premiere at the Ruhr Triennale in the Centennial Hall Bochum; 2004 The Civil Wars, Premiere at the Stadthalle Freiburg, a coproduction with the Theater Freiburg; 2005 ball feel, Premiere in Iserlohn; 2007 Medea: voices, premiered in the Theater Freiburg, co-production with the Theater Freiburg; 2008 Carmina Burana, premiere in the Roman amphitheater Kaiseraugst, co-production with the Theater Basel;

Swell

  • Master Class Fischer Dieskau with Eric Schneider on DVD Classic Archive EMI DVB 3101959
  • Review Orpheus RuhrTriennale 2004 OMM website
  • Musica Sacra Paderborn 2007 CV Matthias Rettner website
  • Theatre PAN.OPTIKUM website
  • Theatre director
  • German
  • Born in 1963
  • Man
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