Prof. Corinna von Rad

Prof. Corinna von Rad was born in 1971 in New York/USA. Studied music theatre direction at the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg. Worked as assistant to Christoph Marthaler in opera and theatre productions at the Salzburg Festival, in Toulouse and Paris. From the beginning she worked both in theatre and opera.
Productions at the Braunschweig Theatre, the Hamburg Kammerspiele and from 1997-2000 own projects with independent groups in the border zone between spoken theatre and musical theatre. From 2000-2004 regular productions at the Neumarkt Theatre in Zurich, the Freiburg Theatre, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Residenztheater Munich. from 2004-2009 staff director at the Frankfurt Theatre for Thomas Brasch’s ”Mercedes“, Sam Shepard’s ”Fool For Love“, Ödön von Horváth’s ”Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung“, Henry Purcell’s und John Dryden’s ”King Arthur“, William Shakespeare’s ”Twelfth Night“ as well as Elfriede Jelinek’s ”Prinzessinnendramen/Der Tod und das Mädchen“. At the same time worked on opera productions at the Aachen Theatre (Georg Friedrich Handel’s ”Agrippina“ and Jacques Offenbach’s ”The Tales of Hoffmann“), at the Meiningen Theatre (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ”Idomeneo“), in the depot of the Berlin State Opera (”Niemals Einschlafen“) and at the National Theatre in Weimar (Richard Ayres' ”The Cricket Recovers“). Since 2007 lecturer in stage directing and acting at the Academy of the Arts Frankfurt. 2008/2009 took over the professorship in stage directing. From the winter semester 2009/10 guest professor for stage directing at the Academy of Music Eisler Berlin.

November 2009