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
CultureGerman theatre directorsMarxist theoristsGerman Marxist writersGerman opera librettistsGerman male dramatists and playwrights, German male poetsGerman literary criticsProtestants in the German ResistanceExilliteratur writersBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryModernist theatreNaturalised citizens of AustriaWagner
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 autobiographersGerman theatre directorsGerman opera librettistsGerman Romantic composers, German male opera composers, German opera composers19th-century German male musiciansLeipzig University alumni19th-century German essayists19th-century German composers, 19th-century classical composersGerman male essayistsGerman music critics