Kurt Pscherer (3 June 1915 – 13 April 2000) was an Austrian actor and

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 ...

Life and career

Pscherer was born in Beneschau. Before Pscherer came to the

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (''State Theatre at Gärtnerplatz''), commonly called the Gärtnerplatztheater, is an opera house and opera company in Munich. (The "Gärtnerplatz" is an urban square in the borough Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.) ...

as State Director in 1963, he was head director at the Wiesbaden Theater. His appointment to Munich "came as a surprise... without a guest production or rumours about the ministerial decision having preceded". He made a significant contribution to the sustainable profile of the company as Munich's Volksoper: "Kurt Pscherer... From the very beginning, Kurt Pscherer emphasized above all the versatility as the main argument and instrument for the growth of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz to Munich's Komischer Oper profile and character of the house lie in its diversity, today musical, tomorrow great opera, the day after tomorrow classical operetta, were his words to the regular audience in 1966". In 1969, the state director founded the company's own "Gärtnerplatz Ballet". This founding was necessary "in order to be able to optimally guarantee the demanding ballet numbers in the newly established operas by Purcell, Rameau and Handel".Frey/ Deutsches Theaterermuseum 2015, Pscherer, who was the State director of the

until 1983, also directed several

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

films for the

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

. Shortly before the premiere of the musical ''

The King and I ''The King and I'' is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'' (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the childre ...

'' Pscherer died in the Deutsches Theater in Munich due to a heart attack. Pscherer died at age 84.

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* Stefan Frey/Deutsches Theatermuseum München (editors): 150 Jahre Gärtnerplatztheater, Leipzig 2015 * Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (editor): 100 Jahre Theater am Gärtnerplatz München, Munich 1965 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pscherer, Kurt 1915 births 2000 deaths People from Benešov nad Ploučnicí Austrian theatre directors Austrian male film actors Sudeten German people Austrian people of Sudeten-German descent