Heinz Lukas-Kindermann (born 1 June 1939) is a German

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

and intendant.

Life and career

Born in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state d ...

, Lukas-Kindermann is the son of the Austrian theatre scholar . He grew up in Vienna and studied at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

. He was then assistant director of Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the D ...

. Afterwards he became chief director of the opera at the

Stadttheater Bielefeld The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld (Municipal stages Bielefeld) in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a ''Dreisparten Haus'' (three-department house), offering plays, music ( opera, musical theatre), and ballet. The main ...

and later opera director at the Theater Kiel, the

Staatstheater Braunschweig The Staatstheater Braunschweig is a theatre company and opera house in Braunschweig, Germany, presenting and producing music theatre (opera, operetta, musical), Tanztheater, theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences and concerts. The ''Staatstheate ...

, the Staatstheater Nürnberg as well as the Theater Dortmund.''Nabucco'' at Staatstheater Nürnberg
on Online Musik Magazin Lukas-Kindermann also worked at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, the

Wiener Staatsoper The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Si ...

, the Volksoper Wien, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Staatstheater Hannover, the

Berliner Festspiele The Berliner Festspiele ( German for Berlin Festivals) are a series of festivals, art exhibitions, and other cultural events organized all year long by a common organization in Berlin. Events are held at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, a pre- ...

, but also at the

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos The ''Teatro Nacional de São Carlos'' () (''National Theatre of Saint Charles'') is an opera house in Lisbon, Portugal. It was opened on June 30, 1793 by Queen Maria I as a replacement for the Tejo Opera House, which was destroyed in the 1755 ...

in Lisbon, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the

Vlaamse Opera The Vlaamse Opera (Flemish Opera) is an opera company in Belgium directed by Jan Vandenhouwe which operates in two different opera houses in two Flemish cities, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp at Van Ertbornstraat 8 and the Vlaamse Opera Ghent at Schouwb ...

in Antwerp, the Staatsoper Prague. From 1995 to 2004, Lukas-Kindermann was director of the

Theater Trier The Theater Trier is the municipal theatre of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, offering opera and musical, dance and drama. The company dates back to 1802. The current house was completed in 1964, and needs renovation. The director (Intendant) since 2 ...

, where he co-founded among other things the

Antikenfestspiele Antikenfestspiele was a summer theatre and opera festival that ran from 1998 to 2010 in Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the ...

. He directed a production of Korngold's '' Das Wunder der Heliane'' in Brno.

References

External links

Lukas-Kindermann's home page

Posters exhibition
on Fono Forum

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