Ludger Engels

The director and musician Ludger Engels is internationally known - in addition to his opera and theater productions - for his interdisciplinary projects: Aachen Musicircus on Europeras 1-5 (John Cage), the Albert Camus project 'Terror.Revolte.Glück' (in collaboration with the Ludwig Forum for International Art), Tomorrow maybe, survival in dictatorships. For the Kunstfestspiele in Hannover he created the sound installation Chorus with 400 singers, Stabat Songs Mater (D. Scarlatti / J. Cage), the musictheater Semele Walk in the couture of Vivienne Westwood, which was 2013 invited to open the Sydney Festival in Australia and the Tongyeong Music Festival in Korea. His last works were Intolleranza 1960 (Luigi Nono) together with the Art and Performance Festival NO NO!, Faustin and out / Urfaust (Jelinek / Goethe), Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten), the first German staging of Brokeback Mountain (Charles Wuorinen), Salome (Richard Strauss), Wozzeck (Alban Berg), Tosca (Puccini), Mefistofele (Arrigo Boito) and the worldpremiere of the space-sound-project tempi agigati (Katharina Rosenberger/ Adrian Willaert) with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich showed 2014 his installation Re_Intolleranza. Ludger Engels, deputy director at Theater Aachen until 2013, is leading and mentoring the course of studies for directing at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg.