Theater and opera director Hans Neuenfels died
Created: 02/07/2022, 12:30 p.m
Hans Neuenfels is sitting in the State Opera in the Schillertheater.
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The renowned theater and opera director Hans Neuenfels is dead. He died in Berlin on Sunday evening at the age of 80, as his family announced on Monday through a lawyer.
The director, who was born in Krefeld, began his acting and directing training in Vienna and has been directing there since the mid-1960s.
He worked at the Theater Heidelberg, the Stuttgart State Theater and the Schauspiel Frankfurt, among others.
Berlin - At the end of the 1980s he was director of the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin.
Neuenfels also became known as an opera director with productions of Verdi and Mozart operas in Frankfurt, Berlin, Bayreuth and Vienna.
In 2005 and 2008 he was named Opera Director of the Year, and in 2016 he received the German Theater Prize "Faust" for his life's work.
In addition to his theater work, he made films about poets such as Kleist and Robert Musil.
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Neuenfels was married to the Viennese actress Elisabeth Trissenaar.
The couple lived in Berlin and have a son, cameraman Benedict Neuenfels, who has won the German Camera Award multiple times and the German Film Award in 2019.
A funeral service is to take place in Berlin, as the family lawyer announced.
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