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Jürgen Flimm grew up in Cologne, where he studied theatre studies, German Studies and sociology. In 1968, he became an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele, then head of the National Theatre Mannheim, and in 1973 head of the Thalia Theater Hamburg. In 1979 he became the director of the Cologne act. In 1985, he returned to the Thalia Theater as an artistic director, which he led for 15 years and made one of Germany's most artistically and economically successful theatre of speech.
With a production by Luigi Nonos "Al gran sole carico d'amore" in Frankfurt in 1978, Jürgen Flimm began work for the Opera. In 1981 Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'hoffmann" followed at the Hamburg State Opera, in 1990 in Amsterdam "Così fan tutte". Here he worked for the first time with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who has since become his most important artistic Partner. In recent years, Jürgen Flimm has staged works by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Gounod, Strawinsky, Cerha and Schreker on the Milan Scala, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Zurich Opera as well as the Vienna and Hamburg Staatsoper. In the summer of 2000 he created a new "Ring"at the Bayreuth Festival. In 2001, Jürgen Flimm staged for the first time at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Verdi's "Otello" together with Daniel Barenboim.
In 1987, the collaboration with the Salzburg festival with Raymond's "The farmer as millionaire"began. It's The Girl from the suburbs", Hofmannsthal's" The Difficult", Monteverdi's" L'incoronazione di Poppea "as well as Purcell's" King Arthur, "Mozart's" Lucio Silla "and Rossini's" Moïse et Pharaon was followed by nestroy's "der".
From autumn 2010 to spring 2018, Jürgen Flimm was the director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. During his time at the Schiller Theater, he was responsible for more than 100 new productions, including works from early opera history to world premieres. "Do you know how to clean sounds? Satiesfactionen "(2010 in the workshop), Handel's " Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno "(2012), Sciarrinos" Macbeth "(2014 at the construction site Unter den Linden), Mozart's" Le nozze di Figaro "(2015), Glucks" Orfeo ed Euridice "(2016, with Daniel Barenboim as conductor) and Sciarrinos" Luci mie traditrici " (2016). In addition, during these years he directed Mozart's " La clemenza di Tito "at the Vienna State Opera, Puccini's" Manon Lescaut "at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and Rossini's" Otello " at the Teatro alla Scala. At the reopening premiere of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden on 3 October 2017, Jürgen Flimm staged the music theatre production " for the moment say: stay!"with Robert Schumann's "scenes from Goethe's Faust" and texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Jürgen Flimm founded and headed the Institute for theatre management at the University of Hamburg together with Prof. Manfred Brauneck and was appointed Professor in 1997 for his academic merits. He is a member of the Academies of the Arts in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt and an honorary Doctor of the University of Hildesheim. He also taught at Harvard University and New York University. His awards include, among others the Grimme prize, the medal for art and science of the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Max Brauer prize of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F. V. s., the Johann Heinrich Voss prize for literature of the city of Otterndorf, the B. Z. Kulturpreis, the great Federal Cross of merit, the order of merit of
From 1999 to 2003, Jürgen Flimm was president of the German stage Association. From 2002 to 2004 he served as director of the Salzburg Festival. Between 2005 and 2008 he was head of the RuhrTriennale and was the director of the Salzburg Festival from 2007 to 2010, before moving to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. His book publications include "Götterdämmerung "("Götterdämmerung") (Propyläen Verlag 2000)," Theatergänger "(Steidl Verlag 2004)," Theaterbilder "(Steidl Verlag 2008)," Das Salzburger Kapitel "(Müry Salzmann Verlag 2010)," die abridged pyramid "(Müry Salzmann Verlag 2010) as well as the documentation "die Staatsoper im Schiller Theater 2010-2017" (Dom Publishers 2017).