German theatre directors
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 and aspects of production.
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Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two.
25 April 2024
Featuring: Laura Bradley, David Barnett, Tom Kuhn
CultureNaturalised citizens of AustriaGerman male dramatists and playwrights, German male poetsGerman literary criticsModernist theatreProtestants in the German ResistanceBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryGerman Marxist writersExilliteratur writersMarxist theoristsGerman theatre directorsGerman opera librettistsGermanyWagner
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, and legacy of the German composer Richard Wagner, mentor of Nietzsche and disciple of Schopenhauer, who changed the face of 19th century opera.
20 June 2002
Featuring: John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett, Michael Tanner
German music critics19th-century German male musiciansLeipzig University alumni19th-century German essayistsGerman male essayistsGerman Romantic composers, German male opera composers, German opera composersGerman theatre directors19th-century German composers, 19th-century classical composersGerman opera librettistsGerman autobiographers19th centuryGermanyMusic