Staffan Valdemar Holm

Staffan Valdemar Holm (born 1958 in Tomelilla, southern Sweden) is a Swedish theater and opera director. His training as a director, he was from 1984 to 1988 at the State Theatre Academy in Copenhagen. As part of his studies, he worked for several months in 1986 assistant at the Schaubühne place where he " The hairy ape " collaborated, among others, Peter Stein's production.

From 1992 to 1998, Holm director at the theater Malmö, where he opened with a production of Kleist's " family Schroffenstein ". As artistic director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ), which he headed from 2002 to 2008, he took over again stylistic directors from Germany to Stockholm, most recently Michael Thalheimer, with its production of Horváth's " Kasimir and Karoline " Holm adopted by Dramatan.

Holm made ​​his debut in 1996 as an opera director since emerged almost a year an opera work, including 2004-2006 Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

In Germany, he directed so far twice: in 2002 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin 's "Twelfth Night " and 2010 at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus " Tartuffe ". Since August 2011, Holm is director general at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. His contract is initially for six years. On November 28, 2012 Holm announced that he resigned from his position due to a chronic burnout. Interim Chief is the current Managing Director of the Schauspielhaus, Manfred Weber. But Holm wants to stage in Dusseldorf.