Thomas Reichert

Biography of stage director

Thomas Reichert – freelance stage director

• Studied stage direction at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich
• From 1976: first productions at Schauspiel Frankfurt (Peter Palitzsch)
• Further stages including Bremen, Freiburg, Schiller-Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Vereinigte Bühnen Graz
• 1989: appointed stage director and artistic director at Schauspiel Hannover
• 1993: appointed stage director and artistic director at the Residenztheater, Munich
• 1996: collaboration as dramaturge and actor in Bildbeschreibung by Heiner Müller at the Weimar Art Festival
• Since 2004: regular guest stage director in the Kabinetttheater, Vienna with music theatre productions combining singing, acting and puppets.
• Major co-productions with orchestras, e.g. Mauricio Kagel's KANTRIMIUSIK in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the PHACE Ensemble (2013 ) or ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Parma version) at the Styriarte in Graz and the International Gluck Opera Festival in the Markgrafentheater, Erlangen, with the recreationBAROCK ensemble under conductor Michael Hofstetter (2016 )
• Salzburg Festival (2006 and 2007): at the Salzburg Marionette Theatre, Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne together with The Impresario: with singers, marionettes, an actor, and the Junge Philharmonie Salzburg
• Further productions at the Salzburg Marionette Theatre:
  • 2014: Scenes for Schumann's Papillons
  • 2015: new production of The Magic Flute with the historical figures and stage set from 1952
  • 2017: new production of Rumpelstilskin