Reinhard Schau (8 September 1935 – 9 March 2019) was a German opera director and

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

Life

Born in Ełk, Schau studied opera direction with

Heinz Rückert Heinz Rückert (17 December 1904 – 14 February 1984''Personelles''. In ''Theater der Zeit'' 5/1984, .) was a German opera director. He was one of the co-founders of the Halle Georg Friedrich Handel Renaissance. Life Born in Darmstadt, Rücker ...

at the (1954/55) and with Carl Riha at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in (East-)Berlin (1955–59).''Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006.''

K. G. Saur Verlag K. G. Saur Verlag is a German publisher that specializes in reference information for libraries. The publishing house, founded by Karl Saur, is owned by Walter de Gruyter and is based in Munich. In 1987, K. G. Saur was acquired by Reed Interna ...

, Munich 2006, . Until 1964, he worked as a director at the in

Radebeul Radebeul ( hsb, Radobyle) is a town (''große Kreisstadt'') in the Elbe valley in the district of Meißen (district), Meißen in Saxony, Germany, a suburb of Dresden. It is well known for its viticulture, a museum dedicated to writer Karl May ...

, where he collaborated with the dramaturge

Dieter Härtwig Dieter Härtwig (born 18 July 1934 in Dresden) is a German dramaturge, musicologist and author of numerous writings on Dresden's music history and its personalities. After gaining his Abitur from Kreuzschule, Härtwig studied musicology and Germa ...

. From 1964 to 1969, Schau was opera director at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, then opera director of the Theater Magdeburg until 1977. He staged the premieres of Dieter Nowka's opera ''Die Erbschaft'' (1960), ''Bill Brook'' and ''Old Fritz'' by Rainer Kunad (both 1965), Zimmermann's '' Weiße Rose'' (1968) and ' (1970); the German language premiere of Prokofiev's ''

The Story of a Real Man ''The Story of a Real Man'' (russian: Повесть о настоящем человеке, translit=Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke, link=no) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. It was written from 1 ...

'' (1963) and the first GDR performances of Stravinski's ''

The Rake’s Progress ''The Rake's Progress'' is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings ''A Rake's Progres ...

'' and ''

Dantons Tod ' (German for ''Danton's Death'') is an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto by Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem after Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name. Its first performance took place in Salzburg on 6 August 1947. It was re ...

'' by Gottfried von Einem (1967). In 1977, Schau was offered a position at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...

, where he headed the opera school until 2001. In addition, he held a deputy professorship for scene studies and music theatre. In 1982, he received his doctorate from the Martin Luther University of Halle with a dissertation on singing training in the GDR. Between 1982 and 1988 he published articles in the professional journal '' Theater der Zeit''. Schau initiated the foundation of the " Fördervereins der Musikhochschule Weimar" of the Weimar Academy of Music in 1991, which he subsequently also headed. After his retirement, the university appointed him as its honorary senator. From 2003, he published several books: ''Szenen um

Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Ro ...

'', about the history of the

Schloss Belvedere, Weimar The Baroque palace Schloss Belvedere on the outskirts of Weimar,The more famous Schloss Belvedere is located in Vienna. is a pleasure-house (''Lustschloss'') built for house-parties, built in 1724–1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and Go ...

and in particular the and the

Marie Seebach Marie Seebach (24 February 1829 – 3 August 1897) was a German actress. Biography She was born in Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire as the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach (1798–1863). After appearing first at Nuremberg as Julie in ...

foundation in Weimar. Stau died in Weimar at the age of 83.

Publications

* ''Kinder des Südens. Szenen um Hugo Wolf.'''Kinder des Südens. Szenen um Hugo Wolf.''
on WorldCat Hamburg 2003. * ''Das Weimarer Belvedere. Eine Bildungsstätte zwischen Goethezeit und Gegenwart.'' Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2006. * ''Das Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere in Weimar. Geschichte und Gegenwart.'' Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2010. * ''Die Stiftung der Marie Seebach – Ein Altenheim für Bühnenkünstler. Since 1895 in Weimar.'' Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2015.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schau, Reinhard German opera directors 1935 births 2019 deaths People from Ełk